Posted in Fitness, Hiking on September 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
PICTURES
Mount Whitney is the highest point in the contiguous United States, elevation 14,505 feet (4,421 meters). It is located at the boundary between California’s Inyo and Tulare counties. The western slope of the mountain lies within Sequoia National Park.
The climb to Mt. Whitney began about six months ago when I started training (or rather I focused [...]
Posted in Hiking on September 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On Friday I climbed my first 14,000 ft hike. I climbed White Mountain Peak, located outside of Bishop, California. I went to sleep near 11:00 pm and got three hours of sleep, the alarm went off at 2:00am and I was on the road at 3:00 with a full tank of gas. I drove four [...]
Posted in Hiking on September 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I planned a hike last Saturday in the San Gabriel’s, but my hip flared up, so I rescheduled to make the hike the following Friday (August 31, 2007). See Pictures.
I left the house at 5:00 and was on the Manzanita trail at 6:10 am and it was warm for early morning, but the whole hike [...]
Posted in Fitness, Hiking on August 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This morning I set out at 5:00am and starting walking. I walked for 22 miles. this is the longest I have ever walked. I picked it, because it is the distance of the hike of Mt Whitney. I got a (some) blisters on the first half on my heals. They were nothing compared to the [...]
Posted in Hiking, Mt Whitney on August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Talking to my friend Danny Rossmango he has picked up the permits to climb Mt. Whitney for our hike on September 20th. That is about five weeks away.
My training is coming alone, it has been 17-18 weeks (-30 lbs). I have done more the half dozen hikes and walk work (30-40 miles, a week). I [...]
Posted in Fitness, Hiking on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I hiked with Michael Sbihli from church and his friend Jon. We drove down to Upland leaving our house at 5:30am to make it on the trail at 7:30. At about 2.5 miles on the trail we met a wonderful young married couple that they were from Greg Laurie’s church and come to find out, the wife had [...]
Posted in Hiking on July 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I set out to Hike Mt Antonio on Saturday. I had to drive down the 14 freeway to the 210 freeway and exit in Upland. This makes for a long day. I did this hike on my own, but there were hundreds of people on the trail. It was a warm day (90 degrees) but [...]
Posted in Fitness, Hiking on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s hike was the hardest to date. I was blessed to not have to do it alone. I mentioned at our Care Group at church that I was hiking, two lovely young ladies (in their 20’s) said they loved to hike, so we got a group together. The group was large, so I did not [...]
Posted in Hiking on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I was hiking on Sunday, I took my eyes off the trail to get out the way of up coming hikers. When I did that, I tripped over a rock and fell on my right knee. I got up quickly to show that I was not really hurt and got back on task to [...]
Posted in Hiking on June 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had not planned to climb this one until June 26th, but I learned that the Angeles Crest Highway from the Wrightwood side is closed at Vincent Gulch Divide when on my way today’s hike.
Highlights:
Panoramic views from summit, unusual limber pine forest
Near: Wrightwood, CA
Scenery: Very pretty
Distance: 8 miles round trip
Elevation Gain: 2800 ft
Hike Time: 3.5 hours
Difficulty: [...]
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