Tready yog

Ride- Base - 1 hour

Stanislaus

Many many gnats

SHR bail

TLDR: thunder & lightning don’t go well with a high route.
Especially multiple days of it. 
HUGE thanks to Chris Smallcomb for the weather updates when we were out there! 

We knew we were going to be dealing with days of storms but we started anyway…
Because this is the time we had off to do it & we wanted to at least try and see what we could do with the good weather windows we had. 
They weren’t long 🙆🏼‍♀️ 

Friday: in the tent by 2.30 with storms through the evening. This was fine bc we started from the OV th at 3 am and had gotten in our miles hiking to roads end + the first 3k of the initial SHR climb. 

Saturday: started at 4.15 am. 
In the tent due to storms from 12-3. 
Got just past Marion Lake for a 20 mile day with 5 passes, which we were happy about, but we still ended behind schedule. Had the worst night of thunderstorms either of us have experienced. Literally hours of lightning and thunder. 

Sunday: woke up at 3 again, started at 4. We knew from Chris that we were going to have am showers and tstorms by 11. We got over frozen lakes pass without weather but got rained on coming down. By the time we hit the JMT we had settled in on two options. 

1. Continue up Mather pass and stay on the JMT for the day or longer based on weather. 
2. Bail out of Taboose
We bailed because we wanted to do the SHR not the JMT. Even if we stayed on the JMT we still had storms to deal with through at least Wednesday, with no guarantee of if or when weather would allow us to hop back on the SHR. So we’d be doing a route we didn’t intend, nor wanted to do and still deal with storms. 

With all that - it was still hard to pull the plug. Michael has wanted to do this route for so long. We prepped a lot for it this year and we were ready! At no point were we like - oh no, we aren’t ready for this. Just not enough storm free time in the day to move in the high country. Big bummer. But also out of our control. 

So next year it is! 
This time we’ll take more time off to accommodate being able to pick a good weather window. 
We still got to see so many insanely beautiful things 🤩
Thanks Coach Rob Pickels for getting me ready for such an epic outing! Onto the next 💁‍♀️

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