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Lincoln Loop

A ride on bikes in the mountains. mostly road

time to fly south

V0 in my gym

Well, that was actually really hard. this ridge doesn’t contain much to any technical climbing. 85% of it is on just awful rock so very slow going with little stretches of running in between. fasted on 2.5L of water for the first 15 hours until getting to a water source down in NY creek which was really fun! I actually brought enough calories for once so that was a huge bonus! Buuut I ate all the good stuff too early on and left myself with a waffle, pro bar and gels for the late hours of the night which brought me very close to yakking. never got the chance to really warm up all day with consistent cloud coverage swarming the sun until sunset. got really cold coming down into Lincoln creek and had some campers at site 4 offer me a seat by the fire and some hand warmers for my dainty little glove liners. ended up being a life saver for the last stretch of ridge back to my car. wind was ripping from the south so it was a constant reminder of how cold I could be while moving my sluggish, exhausted body to the finish line. got really spooked by a mountain lion that snuck my flank going up the last 700ft toward mountain boy ridge. kept my light hammering into their eyes (headlamp died precisely when i got to my car) at full brightness and yelled with the last bit of strength I had in me to keep their curiosity at bay. started just after the sun rose behind Elbert and 2 hours before the same cycle began again on the next day

high points tagged along the way:
Peak 12829
Peak 13049
Mountain Boy Peak
Grizzly Peak
Garfield Peak
Red Mountain
Peak 13457
Peak 13100
Booby Prize
Prize Benchmark
Ruby Peak A
Ruby Peak B
Anderson Peak
Petroleum Peak
Tellurium Peak
West Tellurium Peak
Peak 12716
Peak 12714
Difficult Benchmark
New York Peak
Green Mountain
Independence Mountain
Peak 12736

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3FT glow

Lincoln Loop

A ride on bikes in the mountains. mostly road

time to fly south

V0 in my gym

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