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To: floralamiss; T-Bone Texan
Thank you! It was a brutal hike, but I'm glad I accomplished it (though I would NEVER do it again).

It took about 7.5 hours to get to the top and we took very few breaks. We stayed at the snowy summit (in mid-July, mind you) for about an hour and cracked open a can of beer to celebrate. My favorite part was being surrounded by all the gray-crowned rosy-finches that live up in this high elevation. They almost eat out of your hand!

It took only 5.5 hours hours to get down and we were moving fast. Total hike was 22 miles round trip, with an ascent of 6,000 ft on those first 11 miles.

Glad I did it but I'll never do it again. That item on my bucket list is now checked. (Funny thing is, before I went, it was never on my bucket list!)

117 posted on 09/26/2016 6:29:19 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

Now that you are an old hand at this, you should try Mt. Tyndall, about 30 miles to the north. It is way harder overall.

25 mile round trip!


127 posted on 09/26/2016 8:16:17 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Flycatcher
Total hike was 22 miles round trip, with an ascent of 6,000 ft on those first 11 miles.

Sounds like a rim-to-rim in the Grand Canyon; only inverted!

(And a bit less oxygen; too!)

142 posted on 09/26/2016 12:58:52 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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