Eric Peterson went hiking July 2, 2011 11 miles 5,000 feet gained
Almost made it in time to join Mayhem, CascadeHiker and Justin for at least a single Defiance attempt for me while they were going for the DDD, triple D. I wanted to do double Defiance at least but my knee just wasn't up for it. Those 3 guys were already gone walking along the freeway part of the 'trail' that gets you to Defiance as I was pulling in, flashed my brights but I took another 15 minutes or so before my boots were on and all set, so they were too far ahead. Good thing really, as I was really slowing down by the time I got up to Defiance to eat something. Did get to meet them and say hello around the 4k' level past Warren Lake. Turns out I went Starvation Ridge first as I think it might be the harder of the 2 so I wanted to knock it off first and they and they went Defiance way. This was the earliest hike for me, woke up around 2:30, left the house about 3:15 and was on the trail around 4:30...
Edit, they also went Starvation Ridge way, but were too far ahead of me.
Knee - had ACE wrap with knee sleeve but I was done for at any rate, bit tingy towards the end and the wrap was cutting into my tendons something fierce as well...