Joe Mills Mtn, Mt Wuh

After Mia's feis at the Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival, I headed up to Bear Lake for a run and a couple of peaks.

Jogged/hiked up to the camp site just south of Joe Mills. Through the camp site and followed a faint trail up toward Joe Mills and shortly topped out. Took a few pics and started the bushwhack over to Wuh. Some of the going was relatively easy, some of it not so much. Seemed to take forever to finally reach the summit of Wuh. Dropped down directly from the summit of Wuh back toward the trail. Eventually picked up an old trail that trended a bit further north than I needed to go, but it was worth sticking with this reasonably decent trail. Worked my way back to the trail and boogied back down to Bear Lake.

2180 up (+22), 2200 down (-32), 3 laps, 3:07

2:44 pm, 9130 - started from Bear Lake TH
3:37, 10630 - Joe Mills
3:47, 10620 - started down
4:13, 9900 - low (Round Pond)
4:41, 10310 - Wuh
4:52, 10320 - started down
5:05, 9850 - low
5:27, 10060 - high, back on the trail
5:50, 9110 - finished

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Green

From Gregory TH, Amph, Saddle Rock, Greenman, Green; down the same.

Started at 3:07 pm. My laziness has continued. Haven't been motivated to get up and out the door in the mornings before work. Started out easy on this since it'd been a while. Was pretty much just hiking the ascent, but the legs felt spry much of the way up, so on a few occasions, I got the urge to run hard, curiously up some of the steeper sections that I rarely run. This was fun, but my lungs protested each time, so it didn't take long to revert to a more moderate hiking pace. Good to get back out on Green.

0:00 - Gregory TH
9:16 - Amph/Saddle Rock
24:50 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
44:10 - Green summit
1:01:43 - started down
1:26:12 - Gregory TH

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Green

From Gregory TH, Amph, Saddle Rock, Greenman, Green; down Greenman, Northeast Ridge, Saddle Rock, Amph.

Started at 6:28 pm. After reading Scott Elliott's description of "four-step", "three-step", and "two-step" breathing, played around with this a bit on this run. Didn't do any "four-step" breathing. Did some "three-step" breathing early on, but eventually got working harder. Did a fair bit of "two-step" breathing. This actually kept me running much more of the ascent than I usually do. Pretty sure I was going "easier"/slower while running than when I'm hiking all out up some of this stuff. But interesting to see what happened when I aligned my breathing cadence and foot cadence - surprised myself to be running sections that I normally don't. When I'd switch to hiking, I found it more difficult to align the breathing. I'm sure it can work, but the slower cadence of the hike threw me off. Anyway, interesting to play with this. Of course, I think dropping 15 pounds would be much more effective in getting me up this hill faster than changing my breathing technique.

0:00 - Gregory TH
8:33 - Amph/Saddle Rock
23:20 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
41:46 - Green summit
45:52 - started down
1:09:46 - Gregory TH

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Green

From Gregory TH, Amph, Saddle Rock, Greenman, Green; down the same.

Started at 4:54 pm. Hiked most of this. Did run from Saddle Rock/Greenman to the spring, then some of the final switchbacks. Still worked pretty hard on the ascent, despite not running much. Ran the descent pretty hard, though. Well, some parts. Started out easy, but then picked it up. Took it a bit easier on the "flats." Amph pretty hard. Fun descent. Hadn't worked that hard on a descent in quite a while.

0:00 - Gregory TH
10:05 - Amph/Saddle Rock
27:19 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
46:51 - Green summit
56:41 - started down
1:20:06 - Gregory TH

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South Boulder

From South Mesa TH, Mesa, Towhee, Shadow, South Boulder; down the same.

Started at 12:38 pm. Ran all but the steep hill on the road on the approach to Shadow Canyon. That had me pretty worked. Decided to back off on the effort entering the canyon, but I couldn't have done much more even if I'd wanted to. Have definitely lost some fitness and gained some weight.

Ran into Steph E, Kari F, Fred E, and Terri P on the summit, who'd come up from the west after trail work in the morning at Walker. Chatted with them, then jogged down to the saddle with them. Coming down Shadow, I stopped frequently to clear lots of loose rocks from the trail.

0:00 - South Mesa TH
15:54 - Towhee/Shadow
24:56 - Shadow/"Bridge"
57:23 - top of Shadow
1:04:22 - South Boulder
1:10:34 - started down
1:58:19 - South Mesa TH

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Green

From Chautauqua, Baseline, Amph, Saddle Rock, Greenman, Green; down Greenman, Northeast Ridge, off trail down to 1st/2nd Flatiron trail, Chautauqua.

Started at 6:15 pm.

0:00 - Chautauqua
5:36 - Baseline/Amph
14:37 - Amph/Saddle Rock
31:44 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
51:58 - Green summit
1:06:38 - started down
1:40:56 - Chautauqua

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Green

From Gregory TH, Amph, Saddle Rock, Greenman, Green; down Greenman, Ranger, old trail, Gregory.

Started at 4:07 pm. With Jeff V and George Z. With these guys leading the way, this was pretty much an all-out effort for me. Thought for sure I'd be under 40 given the amount of suffering involved, but clearly I've lost a bit of fitness (and gained a bit of weight) over the last four lazy weeks.

0:00 - Gregory TH
7:33 - Amph/Saddle Rock
22:31 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
41:22 - Green summit
45:50 - started down
1:17:29 - Gregory TH

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