Training Log Archive: biggins

Dayhike with Carol up Matterhorn Peak in northern Yosemite, from Twin Lakes. A mile or two up a real trail, then a bit up a pretty good use trail, then another mile or two up some non-existant use trail to Horse Creek Pass. Up the ridgeline and a short dodgy 4th class bit to the top. Then back down off the summit block to the top of the East Couloir. I don't know if the phrase "hey carol you wanna go on an adventure?" was ever explicitly spoken, but it was perhaps implied. In my defense it looked like easy loose scree all the way down to the [flattish] glacier, until we got halfway down and found the steep icy snowy part. Carol was quite a good sport and figured out the whole ice axe / crampon thing on the spot very well given the crappy location we decided to do it. Then down some more loose scree and onto the easier main glacier.

Got down off that and while taking off the crampons, learned why you're always supposed to leave a filter on the front of your camera lens. While picking it up the strap got caught on rock edge and pulled it out of my hands, so the camera fell about two feet lens-first onto a pointy rock, bounced a couple times and clattered down into a hole. Camera is [mostly] fine, lens is fine, filter is trashed. Though even with how destroyed that looks, I left it on the lens for the rest of the day and took pictures through it, and you can barely notice it (just the dark spot in the sky here). Likely because the T2i has a 1.6-crop sensor, so its not using the outside of the lens anyway (where the big glass chunk is missing). Anyway, oops.

Then down the slope from the glacier trying to get back onto the main valley floor, which was a long ways down and full of cliffs and trees and bushes. Only got stuck and had to backtrack up once, but as we got closer to the bottom both the veggies and the mosquitos got thicker. Easy splash across Horse Creek and then the long slog back down the trail. Got back to the car just before dark, 12h rt. photos.

C • Fantastic adventure! 1

Long run around the lower TD trail loop. I tried this once before just after I moved up here, but it got dark and started snowing and I got pretty lost. It went a little better this time.

setting out controls

Truckee Summer Series Race #1. Woot. Six of us tonight, with Carol, Jonis and I around 20 minutes, and the other three around 50... Everyone had a good time anyway. map.

Donner Lake. Finished up (sortof) ghettocad paint mode for area symbols. Its awesome. I think I can say I'll never use ocad drawing mode for vegetation again.

C • Paint mode 5

Hill workout. New attendence record: 5 people!

Donner Lake. Probably should finish some parts of this before Wednesday's race.

Score-o, 90 minutes. quickroute. Small course, so it looked pretty easy to clean it all in 90 minutes. Joseph, Dennis, and I did basically the same route (clockwise), with a couple swapped on the western side. No big mistakes, just climbed a little high before 113 at the end. Good times. Yay climb.