{"id":1980,"date":"2018-05-13T18:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T23:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T23:11:30","slug":"getting-some-climbing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Getting some climbing in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last two days, I’ve given the dogs a break since they seemed spent.\u00a0 I’ve still gone out and climbed a lot to make sure I’m acclimatized for the Jemez race this weekend.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I went back to the same trail and climbed to the saddle in 1:22, which I thought was good until I looked on Strava and saw the record was 50 minutes…<\/p>\n

I had hoped to pick my way up the east ridge of Mt Yale, but as you can see it was snow covered.\u00a0 I then turned East to the unnamed mountain and started to climb.\u00a0 However, once I cleared tree line the cold winds were miserable so I just decided to run down.\u00a0 I made it in 44 minutes which makes the 50 minute record even more impressive.<\/p>\n

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Today I drove to St Elmo, which is an old mining town.\u00a0 The drive was beautiful and the town is mainly summer homes and a general store.\u00a0 I was looking for the Popular Gulch trail which is part of the race I’m running in August.\u00a0 I found the trailhead and started up 1,000ft of switchbacks along a creek.\u00a0 Once I reached the top, the trail flattened a bit and opened into a beautiful mountain valley.\u00a0 I hiked through the valley and started switching up the northeast face and again encountered deep snow around 11,600ft.\u00a0 Once again I turned back and ran down the trail.\u00a0 My reward was a calorie rich ice cream cone from the general store.<\/p>\n

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I was almost at the town when I came across this little guy looking for sunshine.\u00a0 The road I was following doesn’t have a lot of traffic, but I shewed him away to keep him safe.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow is Yoga in the morning and a trail run on the east side of the river in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

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The last two days, I’ve given the dogs a break since they seemed spent.\u00a0 I’ve still gone out and climbed a lot to make sure I’m acclimatized for the Jemez race this weekend. Yesterday, I went back to the same trail and climbed to the saddle in 1:22, which I thought was good until I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}