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Why hike a mountain?
- Thread starter Kento
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Thanks!
That's really cool your wife is hiking part of the PCT. I'm envious! What section is she doing?
She's done a few different sections, but this time it's Bishop to Kearsarge Pass.
Nice! That area is so beautiful. My wife and I hiked Kearsarge Pass last year. I would love to do that hike again one day. Good timing for your wife too as a lot of the snow melted. I follow a couple PCT blogs/vlogs (the Restless Kiwi lady is next-level hardcore) and the snow was really deep, even in early summer. A lot of people were forced to flip-flop for safety reasons.
Hope she has a great time!
Great hike and report Kento! Peak bagging is cool and it's great that it's so close to the big smoggy basin. Reminds me of Norman Clyde, dude was a peak bagging stud in the Sierras back in the day. A few years ago we did Kearsarge then down to the PCT/Muir Trail, then southbound over Forester (13,200' ballbuster) Pass, then over another pass to Lake South America where my grandson caught his first golden trout. We're stocked to have such great mountains for us to play in.
damn Kento, way to hammer!
PPK if you make it to Daly City then by all means get into SF and the first several rounds are on me
PPK if you make it to Daly City then by all means get into SF and the first several rounds are on me
That zone is where I've been trying to plan a route and trip but would like to take more time than just a few nights. Crossed the GTW and dropped into the Kern Valley at Volcano Falls, on to Kern Lakes and then to the forks 2 years ago and it was pretty dreamy.
Thanks! It is amazing to have this kind of terrain right in my backyard. Granted I left home at 3:15 AM but it took just a little over an hour to get to the trailhead. To which I spent almost half an hour screwing around with equipment. The hike slayed me but I like to think that was part because I was operating on 0 sleep.
Those mountain lakes are beautiful and what a great place to catch your first fish!
Why? The views of course. Next time I wanna see a photo of the mountain shadow taken from the top at exact sunrise...or sunset. Check out what these shadows look like in the last vid I just posted on the Distant Shores thread.
Nice hike Kento.....getting 'um done.
Nice hike Kento.....getting 'um done.
That's some strong hiking. Don't know if you hit the Sierra, but the southern range is only 4 hrs from SoCal.
There are a bunch of east side passes in the 6k range: Shepherd, Taboose, Sawmill. Shepherd puts you right in upper Kern, Sawmill into Wood lakes, and Taboose in the upper basin under Mather.
Whitney is also 6k, and combined 12k gain/loss if done as a day hike. Same with Langley and some other non-technical 14k peaks.
You'd like the big passes because they're not only pretty empty (for obvious reasons), but they also give you sense of accomplishment.
There are a bunch of east side passes in the 6k range: Shepherd, Taboose, Sawmill. Shepherd puts you right in upper Kern, Sawmill into Wood lakes, and Taboose in the upper basin under Mather.
Whitney is also 6k, and combined 12k gain/loss if done as a day hike. Same with Langley and some other non-technical 14k peaks.
You'd like the big passes because they're not only pretty empty (for obvious reasons), but they also give you sense of accomplishment.
Now that it is 48 hrs after that monster of a hike, how are the 'small, downhill muscles'?
No matter how in shape I pretend to get before I do any decent hiking, I have found it very difficult to prepare my legs for the downhill aspect.
After something like what Kento did, I think I would have trouble walking down a flight of stairs without grimacing the following day..
No matter how in shape I pretend to get before I do any decent hiking, I have found it very difficult to prepare my legs for the downhill aspect.
After something like what Kento did, I think I would have trouble walking down a flight of stairs without grimacing the following day..
If you have some spare time, we'd love to visit with you. Pretty decent burrito a short walk from our home...our treat.
Thanks! While I did complete that hike, I was about halfway up Baldy when I did a brutally honest self-assessment that I need to be in better shape to hike Whitney, Big Iron, and other high elevation hikes. Part of that though was that I had almost zero exercise the previous two weeks while I was nursing a couple battered toes back to health. That being said, though, it felt really good to push myself to the utter extent of my abilities and achieve my goal.
I researched that hike pretty extensively but even so, I did the cardinal double-whammy of sins where I overestimated my current condition and underestimated how difficult that first leg of the hike was. I am still relatively new to the hiking game, really only getting into the longer treks over the last year. Although it is absolutely not a race (well, maybe against the sun), it stung a little to get quickly passed up by several people, most of who were in their 50s and 60s. Obviously WAY more experienced hikers but it was humbling to realize that I was on a trail that separated the men from the boys and that I was a young teen, relatively. But I was successful and didn't hurt or kill myself and that's what counts. All part of gaining experience and this was a huge accomplishment that is really starting to sink in now and I'm pretty stocked. I've done a lot since hiking my first pass and summit last summer, which was Mono Pass and Mt. Starr via Mosquito Flats. The addiction hit hard from there and I definitely want to get back to the Sierras next year.
Oh those muscles are thrashed!
Going up and down stairs is tough, although better today. Even getting up off the toilet had my quads screaming at me.
The toughest part was that to try to nudge myself to sleep the night before the hike, I took some melatonin. Had exact opposite effect and wired me to point I couldn't sleep. Was like a bad mushroom trip where I had pretty crazy hallucinations/daydreams and my mind refused to go to sleep. Chalked that up to anxiety/excitement. Took another dosage last night to ensure I got a good night's sleep and same deal. 0 minutes of sleep even though I was exhausted. After ripping that Vitafusion company a new asshole this morning, called in sick to work, and took some good ol fashioned NyQuil and slept for a solid 6 hours just now. Needed it!
The positive thing to take away is that I still completed my goal despite these self-imposed handicaps!