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Congratulations, that is really impressive. Definitely type 2 fun, I hate crossing swift water.



mike r

I put your pics in my post so I could look like a badass too!

me too; in my mind the most dangerous component of these treks- last year we got stopped in our tracks on a large river, we ended up with 104 miles when we got out and didn't even finish!

@cwh2- nice, but need to photoshop yourself in!

4 miles on the trails with Tiny Elvis; he was chomping at the bit to get back on the trails and I've found active recovery generally works well for me- feet are a still a little sore, but everything else is falling into place

5 miles on the trails w/ Tiny E- recovery coming along nicely

The old guys let me tag along on a day hike yesterday, the lofty goal was to summit Mt. Logan from the backside. About 1/3 of the way up we hit snow and then it became a bit more work. Snowshoes didn't help and we ended up 600' below the top. We found an open spot on a ridge and ate lunch before turning back. Only 5.25 miles to where we turned back but 4000' elev gain and a lot of trudging.

Nice!

8 miles and ~ 2000' gain for Tiny Elvis and I; thought we might have got some good heat training in as well, but when I got back to the truck it said 70 degrees

60+ miles in Hell's Canyon, awesome

ETA: the new pack carried really well, and the Duplex did great. We got caught in a couple big storms, one quite windy and POUNDING rain, so it got tested. Saw lots of cool critters. Did not see another human for 5 straight days except when we were down on the River Trail and there were a couple hikers on the Idaho side, and of course jet boats. Speaking of the Idaho side the Seven Devils got absolutely hammered several times by storms that we dodged. This is during one of them. One of the prettiest things I've seen. That segment of rainbow was incredibly bright. Looked like an alien energy beam, like the ground should've been boiling where it hit. It got shorter and shorter then snuffed out as the sun went down behind us. So cool.

Body held up fine as did Cyn's. The loop we did was basically Freezeout TH > High Trail (aka Bench Trail, not to be confused with the rim trail) at Saddle Ck > Temperance Ck at Wisenor > Temperance Ranch > River Tail > Saddle Creek to get back up and out. Crazy amounts of vertical. We split the climb out into two days.

I'd assume your version of "Hell's Canyon" is a bathhouse filled with purple headed Kenyan's.

LMAO

"FEEL THE BURN JEFF!!! FEEL THE BURN!!!"

warden,

Have you applied to do the ridge run down there in Bozeman? I applied a couple times but was rejected.

Bucket list stuff for sure.

pics



I've run the Ridge three times, last time was 2017. If it's not the toughest 20 mile race in the US, it's easily in the top 5. It's probably time I put in again I'm pretty sure if you put in successive years, you'll get picked by year three (if you don't draw the first two years). Definitely a neat race running on the knife spine of the Bridgers.

Two more days and I can start working out again. Can’t wait. Great info and motivation on here.

Mike, scroll up, I added a pic and some route info. I'll put up a few more later maybe.

This was on the way down from Wisenor Place. If anyone reading this is contemplating doing this segment PM me for some really crucial info we found our out the hard way. I can save you considerable pain.

Steep country. Lol

FaceTime when you do this.. so I can be part of it thanks bro..

Your FaceTime is spent in a gas and sip glory hole stall...😜😎

Wtf kind of gas station you going to in oregon you ph ucking weirdo?

And you went straight ph ucking homo.. never go full homo..

If 1/2 a dick suck is okay for you,,,,then you go girl...Don’t FaceTime Flave. He’ll puke on his new carpet and the wife will have to clean it up. 😂😎