Cannon with Sherpa John after work

[hikerfast]

If you think you are in shape, just go hiking with a college kid. Last night I ran a road race. Tonight I had all I could do to keep up with this guy. We blasted up the ski slopes in 54 minutes to the top. Gorgeous day, rained on us a little bit. Little snow higher up. GREAT VIEWS all around. We parked by the tramway and headed up one of those suicidal slopes you can see from 93 callled the avalanche. I figured this would definitely test my fear of heights. definite calf workout going up. We went on upper cannon trail, got stuck on the top of the stone wall on the left, had some fun crawling down that on my butt getting back to the ski slope. Just stayed steep all the way to the top, lot of water running down from snowmelt. He climbed the tower while I cowered down below. The way down was blasting down the same way we came up. When we came to the top of that suicidal avalance trail looking down, I thought I was going to have to slide down on my butt, or start screaming for my mother. I was not enjoying staring straight down 800 feet or whatever it was, we cut off some dirt road to the right and went down a mellower way. Funny, I wasn't expecting any trouble on the way down that slope, I didn't have any on the way up. Maybe the looking down part doesn't help. On the way down we noticed a board on the ground with nails sticking out. We turned it over and it said 'no hiking on trails'. oops. We put the sign upright. Guess we won't be going up that way again. Anyways, what a thing to do after work. I hope for more of these. I got to lose about 25 pounds, this road race last night and hiking with Sherpa John makes me ambitious. Next time I will post the night before or earlier in the day that I am heading up. When I'm working I have to kind of play it by ear, didn't know if I was going to be able to leave work on time today. Well my calves are officially sore. I hope John likes this post. He took a bunch of pictures and will no doubt add to this post, and put the pictures up. Time for some lagavulin.

 

[Waumbek]

On the way down we noticed a board on the ground with nails sticking out. We turned it over and it said 'no hiking on trails'. oops. We put the sign upright. Guess we won't be going up that way again.

Yep, they don't like it when you do that anywhere on Cannon. If you hike Cannon ski trails again, a word to the wise, don't announce in advance to the www and maybe not afterwards either Did you see Mama Bear and the two cubs who are living on the ski trails this spring?

 

[hikerfast]

no, but other people coming down said they saw them on paulie's folly, one slope over. We heard them in the woods but did not see them.

 

[Sherpa John]

Had a blast Hikerfast! Thanks again.
57 Minutes up... 34 down.. now thats FAST!

God I hate cannon... thank god for sunsets. Here are the pics: http://homepage.mac.com/gr8stnface/Hike4ks/PhotoAlbum25.html

 

[hikerfast]

great picture of me. i look like some twisted beast. get a new camera! how much to buy that pic back from you? laffs. great hike john..

 

[Dr. Dasypodidae]

Hiker John, Maybe you did not know that hiking Cannon's ski trails is illegal, but from an earlier thread Sherpa John certainly did. You two are not doing the hiking community any good by announcing to the world your contempt for rules. Please be more discrete in the future, as suggested by Waumbek.

 

[Sherpa John]

Agreed and thank you Doc... honestly.. we did not know if it was illegal or not and we didn;t see any signs around until after our hike. Next time we'll know better and stick to the hiker specific trails. Sorry if we have caused you or anyone else in the community any trouble.

SJ