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Yesterday I felt good enough to do an easy bench/squat/bis circuit.

The boy and the bride got my stomach flu bug. We did not leave for our Javelina trip today as planned. I hiked our normal 700vert PT hike with my full hunting pack and got the truck loaded. We will launch south early tomorrow morning. I’m excited to field test our new toy… a RRS tripod.
 

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Today was pretty much a $hit show. Brought my skis to the trailhead expecting maybe due to the higher temps and bright sunshine, skis might not be the best choice. Figured I'd find out quickly and could easily dump the skis for snowshoes. Well I'm gliding nicely, despite it being uphill. After a little after a mile I decided to do the longer loop as the snow was good.

Well after a quarter mile or so, I started sticking. Scraped off the stuck snow and continued on. It gradually got worse and worse. Hindsight being 20:20, I should have turned around then, but didn't. I clipped out of my skis and threw them over my shoulder and posted holed in a skinny ski track (obviously made earlier in the day when it wasn't as warm (or sunny). I got to the spot where I was looking forward to, the start of a gradual downhill for almost three miles. Thoroughly cleaned my skis of stuck snow and donned them thinking I now had it made. Wrong. I stuck just as bad, maybe even worse if that's possible. Clipped out (and almost threw my skis) and started postholing again—should note that Tiny Elvis weighing only 10 lbs, didn't posthole at all :)

I got the next junction with a little more than a mile to go and tried again. Voila I was actually gliding again and had decent snow back to the truck. 4 miles of skiing and 4 miles of postholing.

Won't make that mistake again.

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