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| Hiking | 4.70 Miles |
4,728 AEG |
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| no partners | | | Original plan was get off work 7:30 drive to Antero camp at 11 pm sleep a couple hours and do it in the dark and then drive to Yale. Getting off work around 10 pm changed this plan. Slept at the quarters 3 hours and drove to Denny creek trailhead no 4x4 or camping necessary. Yesterday forecast changed from rain 10 am and tstorms at noon to storms 2 pm. Until I got out late I figured I had time to do both since Antero is basically a walk on a 4x4 trail. I hoped for 5 hours of sleep, but got all the way to getting ready for bed when I figured out I had the work truck and hangar Keys oops! Needless to say 3 am came quick. Drove 3.5 to trailhead and started up the trail. Passed 15 plus on the way to summit one guy was descending as I was finishing. Got a coffee break for 30 on the summit and trail ran the descent passing him about 2/3rds of the way to the bottom. Did take a fall and skinned my hand. Even had to deactivate my watch which wanted to tattle on me to my wife. At least the fall detection works! It took 3+42 total not including the time on the summit. I sweated my brains out because of the rain yesterday and nearly 100% humidity below the treeline. I had to pull a jacket and gloves out 3/4 way to summit which was being intermittently obscured by clouds and still had to find a wind break for coffee. Couldn’t see anything then it cleared up for a few and then became obscured. Started running into quite a few people on way down as all the people I saw earlier had kind of grouped together. Nice views glad I got to do this and beat the weather. The avalanche trail approach looks interesting as well as I caught a view driving out. Felt pretty good today for working 96 hours the last week and 3 hours of sleep even got home before kids got off school! |
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