11.5 miles of hiking • 5000' elevation gain •
Messed up and went the easier way via Starvation Creek trail up to the Mt. Defiance microwave installation. I went down Mt. Defiance trail thinking it was the easier on the knees route, guess I better read my trail descriptions first before leaving the house again. Fun hike in deep snow after the 4k' level and put snow shoes on soon thereafter, no views though, thought today was suppose to be the best day of the 3 day weekend! HAHAHAH, pfff . . . .
Barely took any pictures, but had fun with my GPS cross cutting trails in the snow and got a decent workout with the snow shoes strapped on for most of the hiking.
Knee pretty much ok, put knee brace on towards the end of this hike, this could be where my knee started wigging out on a regular basis as I wasn't using my hinged knee brace on any other hikes in 2011 up to this point.
Comments
Eric Peterson
May 29, 2011
Nice, my brain felt like a hotpocket then, really got a neat feeling walking by those and was too tired to find a different place to eat.
Chris
May 29, 2011
Mt. Defiance Microwave Installation - aka Mt. Hotpocket.