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derekpetrie wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:05 pmSkiing
Complete AIARE 1 (Feb 25-27)
Do first backcountry tour (Spring)
Resort ski 40+ days and 400k+ vert (5 days and 33k so far)
Commit to uphill laps 2x week from Jan - Apr
Night ski Steamboat with the family
Running
Finish one marathon and one 50k race
Run 1600+ miles in total during 2022
Hiking
Double my 14er summits from 14 to 28
Sneffels
Halo Ridge
Kelso Ridge
Spend a week in shoulder season backpacking around Moab
Well… skiing goals scratched for this year. Took a stupid fall at Copper just before the new year and went home from Summit Co with new hardware. Hoping to be cleared to ski mid March, so may be able to sneak in AIARE 1 and night skiing.
At least I had an excellent surgeon and no soft tissue tears. Able to stay on top of my cardio regimen!
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derekpetrie wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:05 pmSkiing
Complete AIARE 1 (Feb 25-27)
Do first backcountry tour (Spring)
Resort ski 40+ days and 400k+ vert (5 days and 33k so far)
Commit to uphill laps 2x week from Jan - Apr
Night ski Steamboat with the family
Running
Finish one marathon and one 50k race
Run 1600+ miles in total during 2022
Hiking
Double my 14er summits from 14 to 28
Sneffels
Halo Ridge
Kelso Ridge
Spend a week in shoulder season backpacking around Moab
Well… skiing goals scratched for this year. Took a stupid fall at Copper just before the new year and went home from Summit Co with new hardware. Hoping to be cleared to ski mid March, so may be able to sneak in AIARE 1 and night skiing.
At least I had an excellent surgeon and no soft tissue tears. Able to stay on top of my cardio regimen!
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Ouch! Speedy recovery to you. Sounds like you have a great attitude!
Somehow the first month of 2022 is already in the books. How are you doing on your goals? Ahead or behind, please post, or feel free to set some 2022 goals if you haven't yet. Here's what I've got; pretty good start for me even though it's been busy at work and reasonably snowy:
ekalina wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:34 pm
-1000 miles running and hiking (combined) 105/1000
-Run the Bolder Boulder (10K) Going to sign up soon; race is in May
-At least one backpacking trip 0/1
-15+ new ranked summits 2/15
-5+ new summits in Boulder and/or Larimer Counties 1/5
-3+ new Lost Creek Wilderness summits 0/3
-At least one day with 3+ summits 0/1
-Complete the CMC’s Alpine Climbing School Signed up, starts in March
-Rock climb outside or in the gym on a roughly weekly basis Hitting the gym 2–3 times per week. No outdoors though lately.
ekalina wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:58 pm
-3+ new Lost Creek Wilderness summits 0/3
please don't hesitate to reach out when you make a move on any of these! this year they're low-hanging fruit compared to making some progress on 14ers, but i've been meaning to tackle McCurdy, finish the Alphabetizer, and hit Kenosha (maybe take a machete to the willows on the way up Shawnee )
“To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.” – Mary Davis
ekalina wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:58 pm
-3+ new Lost Creek Wilderness summits 0/3
please don't hesitate to reach out when you make a move on any of these! this year they're low-hanging fruit compared to making some progress on 14ers, but i've been meaning to tackle McCurdy, finish the Alphabetizer, and hit Kenosha (maybe take a machete to the willows on the way up Shawnee )
Thanks! McCurdy is on my short list so I'll let you know if I commit to that one. Last year I did the Alphabetizer+Kenosha one day and then the No Payne-Shawnee-Platte Peak traverse the next from a camp in Craig Park. The bushwhack from No Payne to Shawnee was hellacious, but the rest was pretty trivial. If you head up Shawnee from the Craig Park trail, it didn't look as bad. Really beautiful area. Let me know if you want to compare notes/GPX tracks.
Dang. You're really going to try this? It sounds nearly impossible to me, but if you pull it off, much respect
Even a R2R in one day on this route would be really impressive.
One of my climbing partners just did this in November 2021 and he is also a member on here. Not something I would ever want to do, but Eli crushed it. Here is his Strava from the R2R2R.
That's on the Kaibab Trail. Impressive, but lots of people do that. zootloipz is proposing doing it on the North and South Bass Trails which would be much, much harder. That route usually takes more than twice as long as the Kaibab. There is no bridge over the river there either so people doing it have to carry packraft (and a life jacket) to do legally. Doing the R2R2R on the Kaibab is not in the same league.
Edit: A single day R2R2R on the Bass has been tried several times, but completed only once. It was done by Peter Bakwin in 16:15. Even Buzz Burrell was unable to complete it. (Edit: out of date; see below).
By contrast the R2R2R on the Kaibab has been done in 5:55:20, which is also impressive.
I would be shooting for sub 20, hopefully less but would expect as much as far as provisions and mental stamina required.
Ideally crossing the river at first and last light.
I've done a single day r2r2r on the kaibab trails twice now, so this goal is the evolution. Also, just a bonus as long as I am feeling healthy and injury free as it will be at the end of a long year of fun outdoors.
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IG @roughlysomewhere
one step at a time // you are exactly where you need to be in this moment
150 new ranked summits over 13000 feet - 5 so far, and off track, but it’s winter, and I have big plans for May-September plus a training plan I’ve been following!
365k human powered vert - 35,000 so far and feeling really good about pushing 500k or more this year.
1000 miles on foot - 132 miles so far and definitely gonna push way past this one
Fitness stuff:
- Ran my first (trail) half marathon already
- did a little less than 1000 vert in 26 minutes yesterday on my local hill and definitely gonna keep shaving down the time
- 10k time is still slow but shrinking slowly
- resting heart rate is lower than ever sitting at around 48 bpm
Gonna be a fantastic year! First one totally dedicated to this whole 13er thing! (Other than school and work lol)
ekalina wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:58 pm
-3+ new Lost Creek Wilderness summits 0/3
please don't hesitate to reach out when you make a move on any of these! this year they're low-hanging fruit compared to making some progress on 14ers, but i've been meaning to tackle McCurdy, finish the Alphabetizer, and hit Kenosha (maybe take a machete to the willows on the way up Shawnee )
Thanks! McCurdy is on my short list so I'll let you know if I commit to that one. Last year I did the Alphabetizer+Kenosha one day and then the No Payne-Shawnee-Platte Peak traverse the next from a camp in Craig Park. The bushwhack from No Payne to Shawnee was hellacious, but the rest was pretty trivial. If you head up Shawnee from the Craig Park trail, it didn't look as bad. Really beautiful area. Let me know if you want to compare notes/GPX tracks.
i actually ran into Mike (HikerBox) on my most recent attempt of Shawnee- Archer and i tried twice from the Ben Tyler trailhead and on our last attempt i speculated we needed to go further south to gain the west ridge instead of the (i like your word choice) hellacious bushwhack through the willows on the north-ish side... but machete is probably coming with me either way- i've got a bone to pick with that scrub. if you have a GPX from the Craig Park trail i would be super curious to see how you popped up! it connects with BT around 11,100 and i've always wondered what's over there
“To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.” – Mary Davis
dr_j wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 8:36 pm
This will probably change, given the never ending pandemic waves:
Centennials, hopefully 10 or so.
14er repeats with friends. Gonna do them all again.
Couple more Cascade peaks, e.g. Adams, Shasta.
Aim for 100 K vertical over the course of the year, and / or 400 miles hiking. ~3000 vertical so far, 10 miles. See, I retired.
Mont Blanc
Orizaba
EBC
Ausangate trek
Ski 30 days or more One day so far. I retired.
Travel to the Gulf region since I’ve never been
Mayan world Might go over upcoming holiday weekend, but let's see.
Ethiopia
Stay healthy
Stay sane
Stay employed
Find that rad dude to make my life whole Aaargh. Being part of that 5 % sucks.
stephakett wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 9:23 am
i actually ran into Mike (HikerBox) on my most recent attempt of Shawnee- Archer and i tried twice from the Ben Tyler trailhead and on our last attempt i speculated we needed to go further south to gain the west ridge instead of the (i like your word choice) hellacious bushwhack through the willows on the north-ish side... but machete is probably coming with me either way- i've got a bone to pick with that scrub. if you have a GPX from the Craig Park trail i would be super curious to see how you popped up! it connects with BT around 11,100 and i've always wondered what's over there
Yeah climbing Platte and Shawnee via Ben Tyler seems like it could work. I would recommend ascending the entirety of Ben Tyler and then heading east on Craig Park for a few hundred yards before turning off trail towards Platte. I came down that way and the forest was mostly open and enjoyable – no willows (all of those seem to be south of the Craig Park trail, or down along the Ben Tyler trail like you said). Here's my GPX: https://www.strava.com/activities/5487437913