Long day, 21 hours, 16,000 vertical, 40 miles, A LOT of wind, a lot of moon. Been looking at this for a while, we thought about bailing a few times due to wind and darkness, glad we didn't. Day started with a 3:30 wake up. We ate some cold Little Caesar's pizza as we shuttled cars and then it was on. 3 hours, in my nose turned white. 5 hours in, my skin clip broke. About 20 miles in, the winds died down a bit. If they wouldn't have eased up, we would have had a horrible time. 21 hours in, we walked for a mile, barefoot, on I-80.
Skiing by Kennecott was the best part, walking for 2 hours in ski boots was the worst. Andy posted a pretty thorough report
here. Here are a few more of Andy's pics, I didn't bring a camera
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| Towards the first peak of the day. |
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| Long way to go. |
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| Not sure the names of these peaks, before the Butterfields |
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| Kennecott |
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| The end/the moon. |
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| I ate a lot of junk |
sounds epic. i'm guessing juicy oozers are a step up from gushers? - warren
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