This year I plan to participate in the 2011 Sierra Challenge. Basically 10 days of long day hikes to mostly obscure peaks with between 15 and 25 miles of hiking and 4,000 to 6,000+ feet of elevation gain. Sounds great eh? Unfortunately about 2/3 of the way through a hike up to the top of Wheeler Peak on Tuesday I started feeling lousy. By that evening I was pretty miserable with a general weak feeling and everything from the neck up being very unhappy. I went to bed by 8 and didn't get up until 7:30 the next morning except to drink water and go to the bathroom (breathing through my mouth made me very dehydrated). I feel better today, but this isn't how I would like to feel a few days before 10 grueling days are about to start.
Some more info on the Sierra Challenge can be found here:
http://www.snwburd.com/bob/challenge/2011/
with a summitpost page here that might have updates once things start.
http://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/2011-sierra-challenge-aug-12-21-t58180.html
I will take my spot tracker with me, so you might be able to track my daily progress here:
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0Dc9Uh3Nfi5gSoXCZcVqStstGq6beNZ8X
I'll try to update things from time to time, but I might just curl up and go to sleep after every day rather than get online and update things.
here is my spot track page for Wheeler Peak
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view/?trip_id=271694
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