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Friday Apr 22, 2011 #
8 AM
ski-o! 1:28:51 *** 17.79 km (5:00 / km) +345m 4:33 / km
ahr:144 max:162 spiked:17/22c shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)
Corn Snow Cup Long
This is why Tahoe is awesome. A hard freeze last night, so down to Tahoe City for the Blue Long course from the meet in September. Now astute readers may notice that even up here, September is considered a "summer" month, and as such this was actually a summer-o course. But the corn snow was rock solid, and there's still full snow coverage (and 6' of it) everywhere except the creeks.
This was actually really hard. I know where the groomed trails go on the close section of the map, but not the far end, and I didn't bother to overlay them on top of the summer map. And some jeep roads are groomed, others aren't, and most places the groomed trails just go randomly through the woods. Most of the navigation in the summer is by rocks or the three foot scrub vegetation patches, both of which are totally buried right now. Also I didn't have a compass today.
I totally blew it on the route to 4, finally figured it out on the big marsh, and skied back through it. I whiffed on 6 (buried) and 9 (buried), and collapsed a huge snow bridge on the creek to 10. Came up short on 11, thought I was high and past it in the field halfway to 12, so I doubled back but then found something that looked like that trail. Totally whiffed on 17, I found the only rock around there poking up through the snow, but apparently it was the wrong one.
quickroute.
All together, awesomeness.
This is why Tahoe is awesome. A hard freeze last night, so down to Tahoe City for the Blue Long course from the meet in September. Now astute readers may notice that even up here, September is considered a "summer" month, and as such this was actually a summer-o course. But the corn snow was rock solid, and there's still full snow coverage (and 6' of it) everywhere except the creeks.
This was actually really hard. I know where the groomed trails go on the close section of the map, but not the far end, and I didn't bother to overlay them on top of the summer map. And some jeep roads are groomed, others aren't, and most places the groomed trails just go randomly through the woods. Most of the navigation in the summer is by rocks or the three foot scrub vegetation patches, both of which are totally buried right now. Also I didn't have a compass today.
I totally blew it on the route to 4, finally figured it out on the big marsh, and skied back through it. I whiffed on 6 (buried) and 9 (buried), and collapsed a huge snow bridge on the creek to 10. Came up short on 11, thought I was high and past it in the field halfway to 12, so I doubled back but then found something that looked like that trail. Totally whiffed on 17, I found the only rock around there poking up through the snow, but apparently it was the wrong one.
quickroute.
All together, awesomeness.
skate ski 1:23:42 18.98 km (4:25 / km) +384m 4:00 / km
ahr:137 max:155 shoes: 10 atomic red cheetahs
It warmed up and got a little slushy, so I switched to the good skis and went out for a trail loop of some HF10 hotness.