Mats Roing
New member
Cast:
Ferrisjrf (Jason)
Unfrozen Caveman (UFC)
Sasquatch (Rob)
Mats Roing (Mats)
After a delayed start we were off a little after 7am from Lincoln Woods. Jason and UFC had a pressie traverse in their legs from the previous day so they were doing something unbelievable
Jason took off into the horizon and Rob and I soon followed suit chasing the vanishing point. We looked back after 10 minutes and couldn't see UFC......we never saw him again the rest of the loop. Wasn't sure if that was the right thing to do but we had some discussions about it before we started what to do if we hiked in different paces. Shortly before the Bondcliff Trail Rob and I caught up with Jason. Took the left turn 51 minutes after leaving the parking lot....about 11 min/mile so pretty descent start. What we didn't know was that UFC had a great bull moose encounter at the Osseo Trail cut-off.
Up towards Bondcliff I took off and then I stopped at the creek crossing at 3,000' to refill water and eat some. Rob caught up with me then and we continued over Bondcliff towards Bond. We saw Jason behind us on our way up Bond so we waited on the windy summit until he arrive before continuing. The clock showed we had been about 3 hrs on the trail and we were off toward Guyot and South Twin. No snow on Twinway until we saw some ice patches on the way up South Twin. Spent some time on the summit which we had to ourselves which was a bit odd on a sunny Sunday. I had started to feel a bit of cramps in my legs going up South Twin also so at Galehead Hut I asked for some salt which seemed to help out. I just should have taken more of it with me. Always learning
Beautiful day so far and I took off ahead of Rob and Jason since I thought I might need more time to deal with leg cramps......and I soon found myself standing in a down hill section with cramps.....drank some salt water and other water and then was able to move reasonably well. Rob and Jason caught up with me shortly before the steep section up to Garfield campsite. Stopped and rehydrated by the spring. Drank the rest of my salt water bottle and I kept without cramps up Garfield and all the way up Lafayette. At Skokumchuck Trail intersection Farmer caught up with us and said he hiked with UFC the last portion up to Garfield so we figured he can't be too far behind us! After Lafayette farmer bounced off into the horizon aiming at breaking 9 hrs A strong man he is (Yoda voice).....
At this point we saw rainclouds to the south and it looked like just a matter of time before we would get drenched so we hurried down hoping to get into the woods before the rain started. On Lincoln it started to sprinkle a bit then not much at all so we considered ourselves lucky punks
We ran a good portion between Little Haystack and Liberty but on the uphill my legs started to feel crampy so I Rob and Jason took off ahead. They graciously waited on the summit for me and off we were to peak nr 8 for the day.....same thing on the uphill.....Rob and Jason headed up ahead of me.........always a great feeling to head up the last peak.....5.5 miles left now.....took it easy on the lightly wet stairs and then the beautiful trail made it easy to head down....when we were almost at the Lincoln Woods trail Rob started to run and took off.......for some reason a big bull mosse had decided to lay claim on the trail so there he stood when Rob saw him 20 feet away...... Jason and I caught up and the moose slowly moved to the left until we felt comfortable to pass him. It must have been the same moose UFC saw earlier in the morning since almost at the same spot!
Then we walked the remaining 1.4 miles back to LW talking about moose and every other conceivable and inceivable subject we came up with. 12hrs31min after we started we came back to the parking lot again.....still smiling.....We took off since we knew UFC knows what he is doing out in the woods. He actually wasn't too far behind and came 1/2 hr later but we didn't know until later. Subway in Lincoln got some more business from the three of us and UFC later went to the Common man for celebration.
A great time in the woods we had......and the giant bull moose encounter will remain in memory a long time
UFC and Jason bagged a lot of peaks over the two days and I doubt there are many who pulled off a back-to-back Pressie Traverse and Pemi-loop. Hats off to them!
Ferrisjrf (Jason)
Unfrozen Caveman (UFC)
Sasquatch (Rob)
Mats Roing (Mats)
After a delayed start we were off a little after 7am from Lincoln Woods. Jason and UFC had a pressie traverse in their legs from the previous day so they were doing something unbelievable
Jason took off into the horizon and Rob and I soon followed suit chasing the vanishing point. We looked back after 10 minutes and couldn't see UFC......we never saw him again the rest of the loop. Wasn't sure if that was the right thing to do but we had some discussions about it before we started what to do if we hiked in different paces. Shortly before the Bondcliff Trail Rob and I caught up with Jason. Took the left turn 51 minutes after leaving the parking lot....about 11 min/mile so pretty descent start. What we didn't know was that UFC had a great bull moose encounter at the Osseo Trail cut-off. Up towards Bondcliff I took off and then I stopped at the creek crossing at 3,000' to refill water and eat some. Rob caught up with me then and we continued over Bondcliff towards Bond. We saw Jason behind us on our way up Bond so we waited on the windy summit until he arrive before continuing. The clock showed we had been about 3 hrs on the trail and we were off toward Guyot and South Twin. No snow on Twinway until we saw some ice patches on the way up South Twin. Spent some time on the summit which we had to ourselves which was a bit odd on a sunny Sunday. I had started to feel a bit of cramps in my legs going up South Twin also so at Galehead Hut I asked for some salt which seemed to help out. I just should have taken more of it with me. Always learning
Beautiful day so far and I took off ahead of Rob and Jason since I thought I might need more time to deal with leg cramps......and I soon found myself standing in a down hill section with cramps.....drank some salt water and other water and then was able to move reasonably well. Rob and Jason caught up with me shortly before the steep section up to Garfield campsite. Stopped and rehydrated by the spring. Drank the rest of my salt water bottle and I kept without cramps up Garfield and all the way up Lafayette. At Skokumchuck Trail intersection Farmer caught up with us and said he hiked with UFC the last portion up to Garfield so we figured he can't be too far behind us! After Lafayette farmer bounced off into the horizon aiming at breaking 9 hrs
A strong man he is (Yoda voice).....At this point we saw rainclouds to the south and it looked like just a matter of time before we would get drenched so we hurried down hoping to get into the woods before the rain started. On Lincoln it started to sprinkle a bit then not much at all so we considered ourselves lucky punks
We ran a good portion between Little Haystack and Liberty but on the uphill my legs started to feel crampy so I Rob and Jason took off ahead. They graciously waited on the summit for me and off we were to peak nr 8 for the day.....same thing on the uphill.....Rob and Jason headed up ahead of me.........always a great feeling to head up the last peak.....5.5 miles left now.....took it easy on the lightly wet stairs and then the beautiful trail made it easy to head down....when we were almost at the Lincoln Woods trail Rob started to run and took off.......for some reason a big bull mosse had decided to lay claim on the trail so there he stood when Rob saw him 20 feet away...... Jason and I caught up and the moose slowly moved to the left until we felt comfortable to pass him. It must have been the same moose UFC saw earlier in the morning since almost at the same spot!
Then we walked the remaining 1.4 miles back to LW talking about moose and every other conceivable and inceivable subject we came up with. 12hrs31min after we started we came back to the parking lot again.....still smiling.....We took off since we knew UFC knows what he is doing out in the woods. He actually wasn't too far behind and came 1/2 hr later but we didn't know until later. Subway in Lincoln got some more business from the three of us and UFC later went to the Common man for celebration.
A great time in the woods we had......and the giant bull moose encounter will remain in memory a long time
UFC and Jason bagged a lot of peaks over the two days and I doubt there are many who pulled off a back-to-back Pressie Traverse and Pemi-loop. Hats off to them!
