I always do a Turkey burn on Black Friday, it’s much safer
than shopping. This time I joined up
with a meet up group. We met at the
trailhead at 8:30. They all took off
really fast and I knew I could not keep up.
I was sweating and my left calf was cramping up, it was not fun. Then I decided to hell with it, and just hiked
at my normal pace. One other hiker
slowed down and hiked with me. It rained
and snowed most of the day. I wore
snowshoes for about the last half mile up and about 3/4ths of a mile back
down. We took the short route up and
down.
The faster hikers were waiting at the trail head. I guess they don’t mind hiking fast and then
waiting for slowpokes, so I might hike with them again.
We went to Hoodsport Coffee and ate dog treats. I had a small drip coffee. So I bought something on buy nothing day but
at least I bought it from a small local business.
It rained about 1.5 inches on us according to a local weather map. My top got wet under my freshly treated rain coat. Either the coat is bad or I sweated a lot. My bottom half stayed pretty dry. My hair was wet in spite of my wearing a hood all day. I forgot to bring my water bottle or put my snow baskets on my poles. I also put my GPS batteries in backwards and did not have time to fix them because I felt pressured to go. I was not actually pressrued to go, I just felt pressured. I was just nervous about hiking with people.
Marcus was coming down as we were going up and he kindly gave me his water bottle. The water coming off Mount Rose tasted so good today!
As usual on Mount Rose there were no mushrooms other than little brown mushrooms.
As usual on Mount Rose there were no mushrooms other than little brown mushrooms.
It sounds like no one died shopping this year, that’s a good
thing.
GPS says:
5.2 miles with 3,400 feet elevation gain 3.5 hours up 2 hours down
One way 4.18
kilometers (2.5 miles) with 1036 meters gain (3,400 feet)
Seattle area rain map http://www.atmos.washington.edu/SPU/?product=pcp6c&tz=utc§ion=prod&domain=d0&zoom=Z1&NEXRAD=ATX&start=201002010000&stnid=KSEA&end=201003312359&type=obs
Faster hikers take off
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