What a Day One, Bob: 6500 vf with 30 pounds on your back - I'll bet your legs were rebelling! Seems like you're getting your money's worth from the new backpacking gear you bought last year. I'm guessing your twenty-some-odd year 10K' average is down to well below 7 days now. I'm surprised you even took rock shoes for the summit block, rather than doing the whole thing in approach shoes . . .
I was reading the SummitPost TR on your two
Denali expedition climbs 20 years ago just before I read this TR, and was struck by the fact that your reporting style is still the same: ho-hum, no big deal, just the facts, ma'am. But I guess when you've knocked off many, many hundreds of 10K'-plus peaks, it's just another day at the office. What an office, though!
Have fun on the upcoming trip. Hoping you get that SPS Mountaineer's Peak list whittled down a bit more.
