Weight: 24 pound pack
Weather: Clear, 70s at least.
Elevation gain:1,800 feet
Accumulation elevation gain for 2016: 35,544 feet.
Accumulated distance hiked: 269.25 km
Notes:
Rose at 4:30 a.m. Back home about 7 p.m. Rode with Traci Palagi and Kate Stanley. Traci drove. Was able to arrange a ride two days ahead. Rides have been surprisingly easy to schedule, although I heard from no-one on Silver King scramble.
Site: Cowboy Mountain features a snowy slope at Stevens Pass, which is rapidly losing snow as summer approaches. Photos below were shot with a cell phone.
Dehydration: On the trip home my mouth became very dry. I had taken three salt capsules during the hike and drank a 70 ml of water on the way home. I drank more when I got home. Later I had a beer, cheese, crackers and figs. In the early morning hours I almost had a charlie horse. I rose and drank water. But the charlie horse in the back upper portion of my leg. showed up later. I got up, drank more and took a salt tablet. It did not return. I note that I did not stretch after the hike.
Elevation gain:1,800 feet
Accumulation elevation gain for 2016: 35,544 feet.
Accumulated distance hiked: 269.25 km
Notes:
Rose at 4:30 a.m. Back home about 7 p.m. Rode with Traci Palagi and Kate Stanley. Traci drove. Was able to arrange a ride two days ahead. Rides have been surprisingly easy to schedule, although I heard from no-one on Silver King scramble.
Site: Cowboy Mountain features a snowy slope at Stevens Pass, which is rapidly losing snow as summer approaches. Photos below were shot with a cell phone.
Dehydration: On the trip home my mouth became very dry. I had taken three salt capsules during the hike and drank a 70 ml of water on the way home. I drank more when I got home. Later I had a beer, cheese, crackers and figs. In the early morning hours I almost had a charlie horse. I rose and drank water. But the charlie horse in the back upper portion of my leg. showed up later. I got up, drank more and took a salt tablet. It did not return. I note that I did not stretch after the hike.
From below, the mountain seemed quite high and imposing. But we made our way to the top, stopping along the way for discussions on technique for how to use our feet and how to select a route that would avoid obstacles.
The ridge at the top was very narrow in places, and the slope seemed quite steep. Steve Russell, the hike leader, led the glissades and then critiqued them as our group followed his track.
We worked on our skills for walking on snow and on glissading down. After three or four glisssades I was able to improve my skills set and control my rate of descent. Walking up slopes challenged the legs both for stamina and for finessing kick steps. We had a casualty -- a pulled muscle forced one guy out of the group.
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