A leisurely Presidential Traverse. 6 am to 8 pm, with a couple hours of stopping along the way. Lots of up and down.
Route. Wore light hikers, or trail running shoes. The scrambling over big sharp scree hurt the bottoms of my feet after a while, but I did not get any blisters. By the end, the soles of my feet were so exquisitely sensitive that there was a real difference in pain level between a nice flat rock (bad), and packed dirt (better). Good HTFeetU training, and some nice distance, 6 weeks out from the Laurentian. No FDFs, so the hat gear stayed in the pack. Really great weather for it: cool & partly sunny.
The six guys I hiked with, with sign for...
...the Six Husbands Trail.
Started with six guys. One got sick and peeled off at the Six Husbands trail sign. Another took a shortcut back from Mount Washington. Two ended up skirting some peaks. Dave and particularly Chuck were much stronger than me on the uphills, but I had a bit more oomph on the final long descent. After all, it would have been only halfway through a rogaine...