7.01.2007

20070703 Wild River Valley

The tentative plan is for MadDog, the MPM and me to tramp around in the wilds. MadDog set the tone with:

"...a reasonable day out (in terms of hours) anywhere from 4-8. effort-wise/strenous i'd like something medium-to-well done. problem is i have no f'in idea how the knee will be...daily pain is triggered by shit that is 100% found in hiking, so i should be a lot of fun :-)"
Great. That sounds like a death march. I've never hiked in the Evans Notch/Wild River area so after trying out a number of loops the only route I came up with that was:
  • less than 18 and more than 10miles
  • minimizes the amount of downhill pounding
  • has runnable sections (pure guesswork)
is a 16mi round-trip from the Wild River campground, out to North/South Baldface and back - traversing the the Meader Ridge both ways (see map at right - green bullseyes mark route). I can't imagine it's rugged than the Presis and it looks like the only steep section is just north of Ragged Jacket. I haven't measured total elevation gain yet. I'm waiting for other suggestions from MadDog or the MPM.

Posted by muthaz at 9:37 AM

5 comments:

  1. puppetmasterJuly 1, 2007 at 5:19 PM

    I am looking in to getting a campsite for me a fido. I am also trying to stave off the "you're going to make yourself sick" attack from the wife - Owls Head Fri, Blue Hills double traverse on Sunday and then a 10-20mile hike on Tues... what's the problem?

    Anyway, I will keep you posted with what I can manage.

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  2. muthazJuly 1, 2007 at 5:39 PM

    How'd the blue hills go? You are indeed a crazy bastard. That would be way too much for me. I could've done a long bike ride today, but I like two days min between *big* hiking events. You guys are certainly hardcore.

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  3. Tim FinocchioJuly 1, 2007 at 6:45 PM

    MZ....tough day in the blue hills...it took a total of 4 hours we stopped a couple of times on the small hills to fuel up on food and hydrate we also stopped twice a total of 10-12 minutes (MPM what you think?) at the Blue Hills Headquarters getting water. Saturday I did nothing quads were a little sore but I laid around all day when I could and had my legs elevated with a message machine.

    The thing I took out of today was mentally I could keep pushing myself when having a sub par day...

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  4. Tim FinocchioJuly 2, 2007 at 5:18 PM

    Does anyone have interest in doing the Pemi Monday the 16th? So that means I would sleep in the parking lot Sunday night wake up in the morning Monday...hike all fucking day Monday and then try to drive home Monday...

    tmail

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  5. muthazJuly 2, 2007 at 8:28 PM

    The pemi's not that hard. The trick is trot lightly and to not push so hard you have to stop.

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