Garfield anf Franconia Ridges - July 4

[giggy]

Garfield and Franconia Ridges - July 4

The Tecumseh Mountaineering Academy (MEB,ARM & Myself) did a last minute (literally decided at 5am that day!!) hike up Garfield and down falling waters trail-

I needed a mellow/moderate day out one last time before heading out west and this fit the bill perfect. Thanks to meb and arm for coming - as always, a fun day - I could do this ridge 1000 times and still love it.

this is just a place for them to share their pics - I think they got some good ones.

We did find a dumbell near mt lincoln. that was odd. met a good few thru hikers doing the AT - nice to chat with them. but not many people out - must have been boozing at BBQ's - which is equally fun.

fun day with good company as always. bugs were out..

 

[skiguy]

We did find a dumbell near mt lincoln. that was odd.

I heard that Artex was doing arm curls on his one day Pemi/Franc traverse on July 1st.What a whimp leaving that thing up there twenty some odd miles into his run.
Sounds like a great day!

 

[sleeping bear]

We did find a dumbell near mt lincoln. that was odd.

Have you added this to the "what have you found in the woods" thread yet??

I think that's pretty funny. "why the hell am I still carrying this dumbell!??"

Pack it in pack it out- Did you guys carry it out??

 

[Jay H]

For awhile, I thought you ran into the guy that you posted wearing jeans on the Hogsback climbing Mt Hood..

Not sure what you meant by Dumbbell, the literal sense or not!

Jay

 

[giggy]

Pack it in pack it out- Did you guys carry it out??

no way. I didn't pack it in

Arm did a quick workout with it though.

 

[DougPaul]

ten-pound dumbbell on Lincoln ... trail-running isn't tough enough, some folks need to lift weights while they're up there ?

I have heard of people carrying weight for training, or just to be macho. (I heard of one guy who claimed to never hike with less than 70lbs...)

If I wanted to carry weight for training, I'd carry extra water--easy to dump with minimal damage. I suppose one could carry rocks, but only if they matched the local rocks...

Doug

 

[MEB]

Yeah...that was really wierd to find that dumbell up there...maybe someone was training and just got too tired of carrying all that weight around or maybe they had a friend who was playing a mean joke on them and put it in their pack when they were not looking

Overall a really great hike and great company. This was my first time on the section between Garfield and Lafayette and I was expecting it to be a lot tougher than it was. Never knew there was a pond right along the trail either. Thankfully the weather man were wrong again and we did not get any t-storms, at least where we were.

Anyone heading up that way beware that the bugs are out in full force so bring deet or a good fly swatter! I had one on my ankle that was the size of a small humming bird....I think it might have been a deer fly.

Here are some more pictures from our hike.

www.community.webshots.com/user/mbaross

 

[kmac]

Nice pics arm MEB I can't seem to log on to your pic site
Looks like you guys had the perfect day for hiking the ridgeline!
kmac

 

[MEB]

ok...try this link....

http://community.webshots.com/user/mbaross-date

-MEB