[at-l] Something from Skeeter to make us jealous...

[m_factor at hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

Don't know why this ended up in my junk email but just found it today.  I 
got it a few days ago.  Sorry about the delay, everyone...  -MF
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Hi Mara!

Could you do me a favor and post this to the at-l?


Latest and only news from the Sierras... Dave and I are having a blast on 
the High Sierra Route!. We're now on R+R in Mamouth doing all the town stuff 
before heading out tomorrow. The first 60 miles of the route from Kings 
Canyon to Bishop is just a little rough. Based on the amount of food we're 
able to carry we determined that we needed to make ten miles a day. Somehow 
it never registered how rough those ten miles could be. 10 or 12 hours to 
cover the miles we needed to in a day. Climbing trailless 12,000 foot passes 
on large talus, 700 foot elevation gain in 0.3 miles on Frozen Lake Pass, 
descending from the passes by skiing down scree slopes, hopping more talus, 
glissading snowfields, and walking down granite ramps to reach the valley 
bottoms.
Yesterday we walked the Mamouth Crest... the closest I've ever been to that 
kind of walking was the 10 Mile Range in Colorado. Awesome views towards the 
Minarets in Yosemite, views changing around every corner....walking on top 
of the world. Stunning!

In short the HSR is awesome, rough, stunning, rough, beautiful, rough... the 
roughest hiking I've ever done, and really the most (fill in superlative 
here)!

skeeter



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