For our low intensity week I decided to do a short backpacking trip in the High Uintas. With most of the team busy just Ben and I headed out Tuesday afternoon to the West Fork Whiterocks trailhead. Knowing we would be starting out late our first day was a quick 5 mile hike to Queant lake. The next morning we started out on a 17 mile loop that would take us up over the North Pole Pass, down to Fox Lake, and then back over the Fox-Queant Pass. For most of the hike it was raining, but not very cold so it was actually kind of nice. That night my mistake of not drinking and eating nearly enough on the hike and walking oddly due to two large heel blisters caught up with me, I felt ill and my lower legs ached badly. It was all worth is though when I woke up the next morning to a crystal clear sun rise over the misty lake.
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| Up at the North Pole Pass |
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| Waking up to a beautiful misty lake. |
At the end of the week we got the opportunity to jump into the skate roller ski hill climb race of the nordic combined Springer Tournee. The race started at the bottom of Olympic Parkway and went to the top of the ski jumps. Looking forward to the hill climb, which I usually really enjoy, I was slightly disappointed when just 5 minutes in I was way over red-line and decided to take it as an easy ski the rest of the way. I was clearly not fully recovered from the dehydration and malnutrition of the hike.
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| Karsten, Tyler and I (in red shorts) trying to chase down some NoCo guys. |
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