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Posted - 11/24/2010 : 12:25 PM
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Andorra
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Posted - 11/24/2010 : 12:55 PM
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no kidding. It's been a brutal fall. I was sick, then work didn't give me a free day for about a month, then the weather was awful again... I think I get to go see my mountains next week. I hope so. I miss them.
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Andorra
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Posted - 01/03/2011 : 1:20 PM
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Year-End Totals
Total Travel (including everything)
94 days, 597.7km, 24 039m gain
Total Foot-travel
69 days, 553.8km, 23 443m gain
Total Hiking
58 days, 474.3km, 20 953m gain
- Hiking for Fun
38 days, 342.4km, 16 431m gain
average day - 9km, 432m
- Hiking for Work
20 days, 131.9km, 4 522m gain
average day - 6.6km, 226m
Total Snowshoeing
11 days, 79.5km, 2490m gain
- Snowshoeing for Fun
3 days, 33km, 1335m gain
average day - 11km, 445m
- Snowshoeing for Work
8 days, 46.5km, 1155m gain
average day - 5.8km, 144m
Total Skiing (XC Only)
5 days, 26.4km, 300m gain
- XC Skiing for Fun
2 days, 20km, 250m gain
- XC Skiing for Work
3 days, 8.4km, 75m gain
Total Rock Climbing
10 days, 221m gain
- Climbing for Fun
5 days, 164m gain
- Climbing for Work
5 days, 57m gain
Total Ice Climbing
1 day, 50m gain
Total Mountain Biking
2 days, 30km, 350m gain
- Mountain Biking for Fun
1 day, 24km, 250m gain
- Mountain Biking for Work
1 day, 6km, 100m gain
Total Paddling (for work)
1 day, ~1km flatwater canoeing
Bag Nights
8 nights backpacking (all overnights or basecamp)
12 nights car-camping
Year in Review:
Longest hike - Porcupine Ridge (16km)
Most elevation gain - Panorama Ridge (1000m)
Month with the most mountain-days - July (15)
Month with the least mountain-days - November (1)
Accomplishments
-Number of hiking days is far more than in any previous year. by about 50%. (interestingly, 2009 had about half again as many as 2008. I'm on a good roll here numbers-wise)
-A month with half the days spent in the mountains. To be fair, that wouldn't have happened without including work, but it's still excellent.
-Working through the weather. Again, this is work's fault. I remain somewhat fairweather when it comes to my own trips (and that caused some of this year's patheticness), but work forced me to go snowshowing and skiing in -28, hiking and camping in ceaseless rain, and carry some heavy loads. It's good practice.
-Stats-keeping. I started this up randomly in March of this year as I thought it could be interesting, and i didn't have a records set up on my website. I didn't have any particular plans for it, but I like having the details in one spot, and looking at the numbers gives me some things to shoot for next year.
Failures
-short trips. An average of 10km and <500m gain is terrible for personal hiking days. My longest was 16km and 1000m gain. I consider that about the base for a good day of hiking.. I also didn't get to any of the bigger days I had hoped to do. This sucks.
-poor fitness. Caused by and cause of the above. I spent the majority of the year in not the shape I need to be in to do the trips I want to do. Need to get out more in the city, and stop contracting lung-destroying viruses.
-no climbing. I hoped to get out more often for climbing and mountain biking this year. I failed miserably in both. The biking doesn't really matter, but I barely climbed at all this year, and that really sucks. Largely the fault of disorganisation. Working on that.
-no multiday backpacking. I'm okay with this one though. It wasn't a priority of mine this year.
-utter website failure. It hasn't been updated in forever, and that's brutal. I've fallen about a year behind. I have some time off coming up, and I hope to get some stuff up there again. |
Edited by - Rachelo on 01/03/2011 1:30 PM |
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