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Sunday, July 17, 2005
Colin Goes Over the Mountain to See What He Can See
It was iffy but the gruesome threesome headed out around 9:30 to climb the trail to the Harding Ice Fields. This left me a day all to myself. Of course mine was not quite as exciting as theirs, some sewing, baking, cooking and cleaning, reading and dog sitting since I was in charge of the dogs. Zaphod decided he was going for a walk and he was taking not one ball but two with him. I tried to get one from him but that was not happening.
Shortly after 8:00 Ed’s truck rolled in with the weary hikers.......mainly Colin. I knew I had a problem when they drove right up to our trailer and Colin didn’t get out. He was totally exhausted and very stiff and sore......go figure......55 year old man..... doing an 8 mile hike........ when all he ever does is walks????? I was quite proud of him. He manage to get some pretty amazing pictures of the ice fields and some animals so I guess it was worth listening to him whine the rest of the night.
Headline “Colin claims championship for most weight carried to Harding Icefields On July 18th”
Well I completed a once in a lifetime hike (I call it mountain climb). The reason I’m calling it once in a lifetime is I am “never!!!!!” doing it again. The trip was about 14KM return and over 3000 Feet up (felt like straight up). I figure I carried about 290 lbs (I like to round it up to 300 lbs) to the top including my pack and me minus about 10 litres of sweat and water I did not have to carry down. On the way up over about 5 hours (minus the 5 minute breaks Frances gave me although she claims they were 10 minutes) I was passed by many young kids and a few old kids but no fat old stupid kids like me. The way I figure it it was like Frances carrying Frances on her back with her pack and my pack on her back. No wonder she was running up the hill like a goat. Ed was more like an old Billy Goat on Speed (looks like one too, check the pictures)
Anyhow enough of the fat people Olympics. The scenery and the animals were outstanding but you can see that in the pictures when I get around to uploading them
Shortly after 8:00 Ed’s truck rolled in with the weary hikers.......mainly Colin. I knew I had a problem when they drove right up to our trailer and Colin didn’t get out. He was totally exhausted and very stiff and sore......go figure......55 year old man..... doing an 8 mile hike........ when all he ever does is walks????? I was quite proud of him. He manage to get some pretty amazing pictures of the ice fields and some animals so I guess it was worth listening to him whine the rest of the night.
Headline “Colin claims championship for most weight carried to Harding Icefields On July 18th”
Well I completed a once in a lifetime hike (I call it mountain climb). The reason I’m calling it once in a lifetime is I am “never!!!!!” doing it again. The trip was about 14KM return and over 3000 Feet up (felt like straight up). I figure I carried about 290 lbs (I like to round it up to 300 lbs) to the top including my pack and me minus about 10 litres of sweat and water I did not have to carry down. On the way up over about 5 hours (minus the 5 minute breaks Frances gave me although she claims they were 10 minutes) I was passed by many young kids and a few old kids but no fat old stupid kids like me. The way I figure it it was like Frances carrying Frances on her back with her pack and my pack on her back. No wonder she was running up the hill like a goat. Ed was more like an old Billy Goat on Speed (looks like one too, check the pictures)
Anyhow enough of the fat people Olympics. The scenery and the animals were outstanding but you can see that in the pictures when I get around to uploading them