{"id":2030,"date":"2018-05-26T20:42:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2018-05-26T20:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T01:42:27","slug":"2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"A busy week in BV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracy had to go home on Monday to meet her friend in Austin.\u00a0 The dogs and I were so sad to see her go.\u00a0 However, it was a very busy week.\u00a0 We took it easy on Monday and Tuesday with just yoga and walks to the dog park.\u00a0 On Wednesday, the dogs and I headed to a different spot on the Colorado Trail.\u00a0 The section has a big climb on to a ridge that gives a great view of the valley.\u00a0 On the way to the ridge, you pass through beautiful Aspen forests.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, I tried to get across Laws Pass again, but this time from the North.\u00a0 I had to drive up a tough dirt road to a trailhead, that will be an aid station in the race I’m doing in August.\u00a0 The trail was incredible, but I started to hit snow around 11,200ft.\u00a0 I tried to go around it, but ended up getting lost (I found the trail eventually) but I stumbled across this moss covered stream.\u00a0 It was breath-taking.<\/p>\n

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I post holed for a long while and finally threw in the towel about 500 vertical feet below the pass.\u00a0 The picture below shows the depth of snow on the trail when I turned around.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, I went to yoga for the 3rd this week and then decided to run(ended up being a hike) up Midland Hill.\u00a0 The hill is the high point on the East side of the river.\u00a0 It was harder than I thought; the climb was over 1,700ft to reach the top.\u00a0 The view of BV was incredible.<\/p>\n

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Today, I decided to try the East ridge of Mt Yale again.\u00a0 I was hoping the snow was melted enough for me to climb the whole ridge to the summit.\u00a0 The climb was much more challenging than I expected.\u00a0 There were many pitches and a few of them Class 3.\u00a0 Lots of scree and big boulders to work across.\u00a0 \u00a0There isn’t much of a trail, so I needed to pick a safe route up the spine in the left part of the picture below.\u00a0 Fortunately, most of the snow was melted so there were only a few detours.<\/p>\n

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I met a guy from Denver at the start of the spine climb.\u00a0 We soon passed a mom and son that needed a little route guidance.<\/p>\n

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My poles were a hindrance except for the snow fields so I packed them away for most of the climb.<\/p>\n

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We finally made it to the top at 14,199 ft.\u00a0 There were a few other people there, but they’d come up the easier route from the South.\u00a0 We climbed about 5,500 ft in total to get there.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow, I’ll take the dogs back to the Colorado Trail for a short hike.\u00a0 On Monday, I think I’ll give Mt Princeton a shot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tracy had to go home on Monday to meet her friend in Austin.\u00a0 The dogs and I were so sad to see her go.\u00a0 However, it was a very busy week.\u00a0 We took it easy on Monday and Tuesday with just yoga and walks to the dog park.\u00a0 On Wednesday, the dogs and I headed […]<\/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-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","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=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}