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| Hiking | 10.78 Miles |
4,413 AEG |
| | Hiking | 10.78 Miles | 10 Hrs 25 Mns | | 1.44 mph |
| 4,413 ft AEG | 2 Hrs 56 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | I have been wanting to do this hike for a while, and the weather was good so I decided to go for it.
The first and last 1.5 miles of the hike are on a road and are fairly easy. However, "easy" is not a word that I would use to describe the rest of the hike.
After leaving the road the next mile or so actually wasn't too bad -- the trail was evident in many places and wasn't too bad to follow. We gained some elevation during this stretch and go to a fence at about 4,900 feet. Over then next mile we kept climbing and gained about 800 feet in elevation. The trail was more difficult to follow in this stretch.
The trail leveled out a bit and then we got to my least favorite part of the hike. Over about the next mile we dropped elevation and traversed around a slope; then we had to go up a gully. There was very little evidence of a trail at all during that stretch. Route finding was difficult as there was nothing very intuitive about the route to take.
Once atop the gully I was hoping that the summit wasn't too far away, and that the going would be easier. Unfortunately, neither were true. There were stretches through some relatively small pine trees that were so thick that there was very little visibility. I managed to stumble upon some cairns here and there that helped keep me on track.
I eventually made it to the summit, where the views were really nice. I didn't stay long though because it took so long to get there that I wanted to head back to avoid hiking in the dark.
The going on the way back was about as slow as going up until we got back to the fence. We wound up using headlamps/flashlights for about the last half mile, but by that time we were on the road and route finding was no longer an issue.
Route finding was very difficult on this hike, and the going was much slower than I thought that it would be. I was having issues with my garmin and I was having to take time to recalibrate the compass. Route Scout did great on the ascent, but on the way back somehow the track that I downloaded was not visible and I couldn't figure out how to get it back.
I might do this hike again sometime, but not anytime real soon -- this was not a very efficient mountain to climb.
On the 2nd day of January I may have already done my hardest hike of the year! |
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