this afternoon I'm headed for the Bob Marshall to scout a possible off trail route that would let me avoid a couple of potentially hazardous river crossings; it's going to be really steep and really snowy- we'll see oh and the Forest Service said the road was snowed in 5 miles before the trailhead, that's going to make a really long day into a really long day!
let's see- headed out Friday evening for the Bob, had to walk 5 miles of the road to get to the trailhead due to snow, hiked another 4 miles by headlamp to the mouth of the drainage we'd be heading up in the morning; got up early and headed up to a ridge we wanted to scout out- was on snowshoes almost the entire day, didn't make it back to the truck until almost 8 pm (11 pm home)- we covered about 22 miles (about 13 on snowshoes) w/ a ton of ascent, taking it easy today
Had a rough time with allergies/sinus this year. Exercise tapers off for me during turkey season but I’m still out hiking for them damn birds. Finally got back to it with a 5.3 mile run/hike in the steeps yesterday. Pretty sore today so I took today and hopefully get on the road bike tomorrow.
not a giant surprise, but between the stomach bug, losing 10 lbs and not lifting a lot in the last two weeks- not the most stellar display fo strength for me