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Flower near a ridge along a hiking trail above Sunrise |
Distance: Maybe 1.5-2 miles
Weight: 15 pounds
Accumulated distance for 2016: 354.171 km -- today's distance not added
Accumulated elevation gain: 53,778--today's gain not added.
Notes: This was more exploratory than a serious hike. The phone's altimeter was balky and bouncy when GPS figures were noted. Pressure readings seemed more consistent, but not necessarily reliable. Map My Hike readings showed an elevations from 6,351 to 6,715, slightly under 400 feet of gain. Of note is that. while Map My Hike's statistics seem highly unreliable, it still was able to record and store the hike data from this remote location, and produce a credible map that provided names for the positions depicted, to wit:
The hiking took place at a Sunrise viewpoint as well as the actual Sunrise visitor station (this being the basis for the Map My Hike illustration), and the figures for elevation gain and distance are understated. Most important is the effect of elevation. At more than 6,000 feet I was short of breath and somewhat lethargic.
Getting to Rainier took a couple hours, but not an unreasonable length of time for a challenging hike. It makes sense to return, camp, and get serious hiking in for conditioning. Two other photos follow:
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A clump of flowers beside a saddle overlooking a scarp valley |
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Sunrise lake, below the Sunrise lookout |
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