Hey guys... just figured you all would like this TR... Alan and I went out yesterday for 23+ miles and 10,000 feet of gain on a route that was too spectacular for words!
Enjoy!
http://michael-hodges.com/blog/?p=267
Smudge
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Flattop - Longs + 5 others!
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 04:24 PM
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 04:33 PM
Freaks. 
(I'm just jealous)
(I'm just jealous)
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 04:36 PM
Most impressive. And let's see, that's…
*counts on fingers*
One, two, three, four, five, six… seven. Seven summits more than I've achieved in my lifetime.
*counts on fingers*
One, two, three, four, five, six… seven. Seven summits more than I've achieved in my lifetime.
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 05:03 PM
All in one day???!!!
Amazing! Those were awesome pictures of your adventure too.
B-Jay
Amazing! Those were awesome pictures of your adventure too.
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 05:06 PM
Just a nice little stroll in the park for you two, huh?
(I'm tired just from reading it!)
(I'm tired just from reading it!)
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 05:14 PM
Conga line!!!
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 05:30 PM
All I can say is wow. Wow.
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 05:34 PM
wow!
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 06:26 PM
Unbe-freaking-lievable! And I bet this little sentence: "Consequently, we flirted with some very dangerous and challenging terrain." could make a two hour adventure movie within itself. I am very impressed. To me you and Al are like those Chinese acrobats who can turn their bodies into pretzels -- it defies imagination and reality.
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 06:29 PM
John, on 28 July 2010 - 05:34 PM, said:
wow!
holy cow!
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 06:48 PM
Good job ! 
I was wondering why you left out Chiefs Head and Pagoda but you explained that well. McHenry's Notch is pretty "stimulating".
It almost was A Walk in The Park
I was wondering why you left out Chiefs Head and Pagoda but you explained that well. McHenry's Notch is pretty "stimulating".
It almost was A Walk in The Park
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 07:00 PM
You guys are amazing that is a whole weeks hiking vacation, plus more for most of us.
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 07:01 PM
That was quite a day in the park!
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 08:00 PM
Swimswithtrout - we have plans to do the entire circumnavigation..., but since we don't do the technical stuff well have to descend from chiefs head into glacier gorge, then re climb pagoda, head over to longs, then add storm and half mountain. And this is from flattop, not the shorter route up thatchtop... The quickest know complete circumnavigation of our route was by , I believe, Jim Disney at just under 24 hours, but he also did all of the technical stuff on Pagoda and keyhole ridge... we wont touch that stuff - I dont like the idea of peeing in my running shorts!
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 08:07 PM
smudge, on 28 July 2010 - 08:00 PM, said:
I dont like the idea of peeing in my running shorts!
Oh thank goodness!
Bill
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