From the dirt pullout on Baseline, road up to Gregory TH, Amph, Saddle Rock, Greenman, Green; down the same.
Started at 7:12 am. Day 20 of the streak was a chore as we got a big storm overnight. Got a late start after shoveling at home for about 30 minutes. For the most part, the snow was a few inches below my knee. In a few sections, it was only mid-shin deep. Then there were also a few sections where it was a few inches above my knee and a few sections where it was up to my crotch.
On the descent, the snow was still too deep to do hardly any running. I saw Tony K's footsteps heading up the 1st Access trail and on the Saddle Rock shortcut. I took a pretty good fall down the steep rock steps just above the Saddle Rock spring. Smacked my shin on one of the steps and bled pretty good. But I wouldn't discover the more concerning issue until I got to work and pulled off my socks to shower. Two of my toes were mostly numb. As I showered, they went from numb to very purple to tingly to just mildly numb. Fortunately, the thawing was not painful. Hopefully, this wasn't bad enough for any long-term issues.
0:00 - dirt pullout
2:28 - Gregory TH
14:49 - Amph/Saddle Rock
40:00 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
1:20:09 - Green summit
1:20:47 - started down
2:05:08 - Gregory TH
2:07ish - dirt pullout
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How many Greens are you gunning for?
ReplyDeleteNICE. Yeah, figured those were your tracks this morning Homie, we should've met up and tag-teamed the trail breaking. The NE ridge was epic, lotsa ballsack deep snow up there (probably just because it's so steep in spots). That was maybe the first time I've been on Green where the snow was too deep to really even do any running on the way DOWN. Pretty sure I was following your blood trail for a short bit on Saddle Rock, figured you'd just stabbed yourself with a Microspike. God I love this shit! So psyched we're getting some legit snow this winter!
ReplyDeleteAround the start of December, I looked at how many Greens I had for the year and made it a stretch goal to get to 100. I'm currently sitting at 88. I don't know if I'll hit 100, nor do I care that much, as I'm hoping to get up some 14ers before the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteI had no plans for a streak, but after 5 or 6 days, the streak motivated me to keep getting out. It may end tomorrow. Or maybe not.
Tony, I knew if you were around that you'd be out there living it up this morning. Part of me was hoping for you to catch me and give me a bit of a break, but part of me was also really enjoying the hard work.
ReplyDeleteI looked back a few times coming down Saddle Rock as I felt like I was bleeding pretty good, but I never saw anything. Didn't realize how bad it was until I got in the car and touched my blood-soaked pants.