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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:03 am
by Bob Burd
I took the Girl Scouts on a patented death march last Sunday. Over three miles, nearly 300ft of gain, with a visit to the non-native white fallow deer. No rain, no snow, no sun for that matter. Utterly brutal affair.
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I like this thread. :)

PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:24 am
by Saintgrizzly
Bob Burd wrote:I took the Girl Scouts on a patented death march last Sunday.


Where did they bury the survivors? :wink:


Seriously, though....

Lolli wrote:Suffering all that beauty brings a whole new perspective to hiking.


What a great way to say it!

PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:12 pm
by cp0915
I recently hiked up a very small mountain near Laughlin, Nevada. It required less than a mile roundtrip, about 400 feet of elevation gain, and the views from the top were not extraordinary. I conducted the ascent at a very ordinary pace. The primary satisfaction I got was the knowledge that I returned safely. May I live another day to hike up yet another minor peak.

Great thread! :D

PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:16 pm
by The Chief
I woke up this morning.... I wasn't dead.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:03 am
by MarthaP
We hiked up to the moraine past Mitchell Lake on Tuesday, admiring the shadows of Mt Toll, Arapahoe, and Little Paiute. Post-holing snow part of the way. RMNP led us up past Nymph and Dream lake to Emerald lake and under the northern shadow of Hallett's. Egads, the spires up there are magnificent.

And all in less than 4 km. Life's a bitch and then you get to be me. :lol:

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:52 am
by MoapaPk
MarthaP wrote:...up past Nymph and Dream lake to Emerald lake and under the northern shadow of Hallett's. Egads, the spires up there are magnificent.

And all in less than 4 km. Life's a bitch and then you get to be me. :lol:


Ah Hallett. I was last there 38 years ago, before Lolli was born.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:14 am
by MarthaP
MoapaPk wrote:
MarthaP wrote:...up past Nymph and Dream lake to Emerald lake and under the northern shadow of Hallett's. Egads, the spires up there are magnificent.

And all in less than 4 km. Life's a bitch and then you get to be me. :lol:


Ah Hallett. I was last there 38 years ago, before Lolli was born.


:lol: :lol: :lol: You must have also been related to the gal who carded her at the convenience store. :lol:

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:29 am
by lisae
Last weekend I drove down the coast to hike the Headlands Trail at Andrew Molera State Park. The trail is about a quarter of a mile, 100 feet of elevation gain. At the top, you get wonderful coastal views!

Walking back to my car, through the tent camp, I saw about 20 squirrels in a meadow. They were feasting on something, although I am not sure what on. Anyway, I have never seen so many squirrels at one time.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:22 am
by Day Hiker
Today was a shorter walk, but yesterday, I went for a 4-mile barefoot walk around the neighborhood with DayHikerJr. About 3 miles was me carrying him, but the rest was him roaring like a dinosaur, running behind me, chasing me. He gets that from the Jurassic Park scene where the t-rex chases the Jeep.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:16 pm
by armorfoot
I took my 5 month old corgi and 17 year old sheltie on a walk with my wife. 2 miles round trip. Maybe 10 feet of elevation gain. The sunny weather was too much to bear. The sheltie doesn't move that fast since he has a brain tumor turning his nose bridge into a volcanic feature. He still had fun.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:59 pm
by cp0915
MoapaPk wrote:
MarthaP wrote:...up past Nymph and Dream lake to Emerald lake and under the northern shadow of Hallett's. Egads, the spires up there are magnificent.

And all in less than 4 km. Life's a bitch and then you get to be me. :lol:


Ah Hallett. I was last there 38 years ago, before Lolli was born.


Ah, yes Hallett. I climbed a wonderful route on Hallett's north face a couple summers ago. Fantastic route!

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:30 pm
by MarthaP
Would love to see that photo, DMT. Were you on the Great Dihedral? We were looking at a couloir on the north side starting from the lake and up through the first notch on the east side of the third buttress. Looks completely doable now! Is that the Northcutt-Carter? It's not the Chimney. Also checked out a couple of hikes up through Tyndall Gorge with a ski-out starting at the glacier. So much to do...oh, wait, this is the anti-spray thread. :oops:

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:10 pm
by Augie Medina
Los Angeles basin, Oct. 16, 2009. It is very warm today and there must be a mild Santa Ana condition because the San Gabriel Mountains sparkle in clarity with a purple hue. As a day dream, I went for a hike on my favorite trail up there and had a spirit-lifting outing. Alas, in reality, those mountains are off limits right now and much of the terrain is charred from the big August-September fire. At least I have memories as a way to participate in the spirit of this thread.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:18 pm
by Andinistaloco
I put antibiotic ointment on the worst of my injuries from the previous day and biked about a mile down the road to get lunch.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:32 pm
by cp0915
I'm not sure if this belongs here, or in the Obsessed thread. But here goes...

A couple years back, I got on this kick to climb every named summit in the county where I live. This is no trivial task, as the county is sprawling, much of it remote and difficult to access, and these peaks number in the hundreds.

About two months (and 60 peaks) into this project of mine, I found myself driving 30 miles one afternoon after work to bag one of the peaks on the list. Fortunately, good dirt roads allowed me to drive across the open desert to within 1/4 mile of the base of the thing. I then walked 20 feet of uphill to stand on the highpoint. This damn named peak had a whopping 20 feet of prominence. Then and there I lost all interest in my project.

Clearly I didn't learn any lessons though. I'm still trying to tick off every peak that can be seen from the town I live in. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. Ridiculous.