3/17/22
Hiking
Mount Lincoln & Lafayette
19&20/67
8.6 miles (125.1 total hiked)
4,075’ elevation gain (44,407’ total gained)
Aww yeah, hit up my all time favorite hike in some pretty stellar spring conditions. Been meaning to do this one in the snow and couldn’t have asked for a better day. One of those trips where my hiking partner and I were prepared for weather that never came. Never even bothered to put on my rain jacket above tree line, it was just absolutely beautiful out. Mid to high 30s all day, with wind gusts dropping it down to the 20s which helped cool me off since I sweat like a pig.
Wanted to get out to this in January of February this year for some true winter conditions, but between having covid, scheduling issues, and the conditions being way too rough when I could get out (-20 and 2’ of snowfall anyone) I had to delay a bit.
The way up is an incredible trail that intersects a waterfall at several points, I have a good photo of one of the falls but I tried my best instagram influencer pose as a joke in front of it so I’m going to spare anyone here that.
@wanna_be This is the hike you were looking into doing up here this winter iirc. Had I done this in January I’d have had a puffy and outer shell on, wind pants, fleece buff, mittens, goggles, and snowshoes on. We got it done in just over 5 hours, but I’d expect at least 8 in true winter conditions as navigating the ridge line becomes much less clear cut. Awesome stuff.
This took place of Thursday deadlifts, which I intend to catch up on this weekend.
Also going to continue logging these as I scratch them off the list of 67. Clearly I didn’t get them all done last year, but that goal was more to force me back out into the mountains than anything, so I’ll keep on keepin’ on.
3/18/22
Moving
Transported a gun safe from my bosses house to my basement yesterday. Wound up taking a decent amount of time after work between rigging up a trailer, getting the dolly, and all that admin stuff.
Had two friends helping my cause, but we got a handful of good lifting reps in on a 700lb safe. Went smooth despite none of us being particularly large fellas, just used some strategy to get it into place. By the time this was all done it was close to 9pm so I decided to call the day there and I’ll catch up on my lifting days this weekend.
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