Training Log Archive: biggins

From Onion Valley (north of Whitney, south of Mammoth) up to Kearsarge Pass (we crossed the ridgeline just at the right edge of the picture, photo from tuesday) and down the other side. Solid snow cover, snowshoes almost all the way, with some crampons to get over the pass. Broken clouds, except when we had to do the dicey exposed traverse up to the pass (with full packs), then it was a raging whiteout.

mmm smog. getting pretty burned out, I think tomorrow is a day off to rest for the madness this weekend.

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The traffic lights were awful this morning. There is a stretch along the beach with about 10 lights in a row (every block), and I literally hit them all. One would turn from red to green at exactly the same time as the next one would start to turn yellow. They were too well aligned to be random, so somebody must have timed them this way. Also hit just about every other light on the entire ride.

Down at the beach. Felt totally uncoordinated this morning, I thought I was just really tired or something, until about halfway through I figured out that I had the skis on the wrong feet. The weight difference of having the brake on the right vs left foot isn't really that much, but I guess its enough to toally trash the technique I'm used to.

so much for the nice warm mornings

Temescal Canyon. Ran up the canyon floor to the end, the up to the ridgeline, then took the ridge trail up to the Palisades trailhead, then turned around and went all the way back down and off the end of the ridge trail. Pretty slow since it was all either steep climb or steep decent, but then again I wasn't trying too hard either. Probably the clearest day I've ever seen here. You could actually see terrain features out on Catalina, where normally its only a gray blob (on the few days you can see it at all).