South Boulder Creek trail

From the Bobolink TH, South Boulder Creek trail south to Marshall Road; back the same.

Started at 6:02 pm. After registering for the PPM today, time to get off the couch. This nice, flat run should be perfect training for that race. Ran this reasonably hard. Not very fast, though.

0:00 - Bobolink TH
27:55 - Marshall Rd
53:48 - Bobolink TH

StreakNavyA

Pyramid attempt

Photos

Started from the T Lazy 7 Ranch around 4:30 am. Skied up the Maroon Lake Rd, on up past Crater Lake, and a few hundred feet up the West Face of Pyramid. Stashed the skis and worked our way up to the NW Ridge. On up the ridge on easy terrain. At the bottom of the "loose gully", we went off route and followed cairns traversing south across the face. Bailed on that after crossing several gullies (we reached the third ridge along this traverse) and returned back to the "loose gully". Headed up this, exited right via the crux wall, worked our way up a bit further, and finally made the call to bail at around 13700-13800' at around 4:30 pm. The remaining climb to the summit would've taken us at least an hour, probably longer, and would've had us possibly descending difficult terrain in the dark.

Around 22 miles.

Suunto watch log data:

Log 1: 6140 up (+12), 880 down (-13), 0 laps, 12:00
Log 2: 160 up (+9), 5640 down (-29), 1 lap, 4:35
Total: 6300 up, 6520 down, 16:35

(didn't "spring forward" on my watch for DST overnight, so times below are an hour behind)

3:39 am, 8260 - started
3:40, 8260
3:50, 8310
4:00, 8360
4:10, 8380
4:20, 8450
4:30, 8520
4:40, 8580
4:50, 8640
5:00, 8730
5:10, 8780
5:20, 8880
5:30, 8970
5:40, 9040
5:50, 9140
6:00, 9260
6:10, 9370
6:20, 9490
6:25, 9540 - took a break at the bus turnaround at Maroon Lake
6:30, 9540
6:40, 9540 - skiing again
6:50, 9500
7:00, 9600
7:10, 9750
7:20, 9880
7:30, 10000
7:40, 10050
7:47, 10080 - high on ridge before dropping to Crater Lake
7:50, 10020
8:00, 9980
8:10, 10030
8:20, 10120
8:30, 10140
8:40, 10190
8:50, 10170
9:00, 10390
9:10, 10530
9:16, 10580 - stopped to stash skis, change boots, don crampons
9:20, 10570
9:30, 10580
9:32, 10580 - hiking again
9:40, 10700
9:50, 10850
10:00, 10950
10:10, 11110
10:20, 11230
10:30, 11330
10:40, 11510
10:50, 11640
11:00, 11800
11:10, 11980
11:20, 12050
11:30, 12120
11:40, 12190
11:50, 12320
12:00 pm, 12440
12:10, 12580
12:20, 12600
12:30, 12740
12:40, 12900
12:50, 13020
1:00, 13120 - started traversing off route across the face, rather than up the "loose gully", at about this time
1:10, 13150
1:20, 13150
1:30, 13170
1:40, 13190
1:50, 13190
2:00, 13170
2:10, 13150
2:20, 13120 - back at the bottom of the "loose gully", starting up it
2:30, 13230
2:40, 13300
2:50, 13370
3:00, 13440
3:10, 13510
3:20, 13580
3:29, 13640 - high point - turned around
3:30, 13630
3:38, 13520 - end of first log

3:38, 13520 - start of second log
3:40, 13490
3:50, 13380
3:56, 13380 - rapping the crux wall at the top of the "loose gully"
4:00, 13300
4:10, 13100
4:20, 12940
4:30, 12620
4:40, 12340
4:50, 12120
5:00, 11640
5:10, 11350
5:20, 11030
5:29, 10500 - back at the skis
5:30, 10510
5:40, 10510
5:50, 10500
5:51, 10510 - starting ski down
6:00, 10160
6:10, 10040
6:20, 9890
6:30, 9960
6:40, 9900
6:50, 9700
7:00, 9440
7:10, 9390
7:15, 9370 - stopped to remove skins once back on the road below Maroon Lake
7:20, 9360
7:21, 9370 - skiing down
7:30, 9010
7:40, 8600
7:50, 8380
8:00, 8180
8:10, 8070
8:12, 8040 - finished

Meadowlark & Mayhoffer-Singletree

From home, down Bristol, Andrew, cut through to the bike path, to the Coalton TH, new Meadowlark Trail north to old town Superior, then Mayhoffer-Singletree over to Coal Creek Dr and on to 66th; back on Mayhoffer-Singletree and the start of Meadowlark, cut off by Key Bank over to McCaslin, bike paths, short jump onto McCaslin, Christensen, Andrew, Bristol, home.

Started at 4:23 pm. Finally got out to check out the new Meadowlark and Mayhoffer-Singletree section.

0:00 - home
5:23 - Coalton TH
29:10 - TH in old town
35:18 - Coal Creek Dr
51:25 - 66th - turned back
1:07:30 - Coal Creek Dr
1:13:14 - TH in old town
1:29:14 - home

StreakNavyA

Pikes

With an excellent weather forecast, I had to take the day off and get out on my 40th birthday.

Started at 7:09 am. Carried a pretty decent pack (down jacket, bivy sack, wind pants, other winter gear, etc, in my 30L BD Speed pack). Would've been nice to go lighter but didn't want to do that solo on a weekday. Don't think I jogged any of the W's. Jogged on and off up to Barr Camp. Managed to jog some beyond Barr up to A Frame. Conditions were excellent. Very little snow. Didn't use Microspikes on the ascent. Above tree line, headed straight up toward the summit, managing to avoid any postholing. Pretty windy above treeline and on the summit.

Came down to A Frame alright, but was pretty much fried after that. Put Microspikes on at A Frame. Did manage to run probably a decent amount, but I was also walking a fair bit. Stopped at Barr Camp to chat with Neal T, who I'd finished right behind at Hardrock last year. Wore Microspikes a ways below Barr but eventually removed them (around Bob's Road?). Again, was just wasted coming down, but still managed to run a good portion, I think, but walked on and off as well.

0:00:00 - Barr Trail TH
1:48:31 - Barr Camp
2:46:46 - A Frame
3:56:06 - Pikes summit (highest rocks in the middle)
4:07:59 - leaving the summit
5:20:29 - stopped at Barr Camp
5:32:02 - leaving Barr Camp
6:49:56 - Barr Trail TH

StreakNavyA - first run in these since Hardrock!