32nd Birthday Hike--26 miles, 11 hours, lots of tripping
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 25.46 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,911 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 3,714 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,674 ft
- TrailRank
- 20
- Min elevation
- 2,419 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Coordinates
- 161
- Uploaded
- March 1, 2019
- Recorded
- March 2019
near Black Mountain, North Carolina (United States)
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Accompanying video: https://bit.ly/2SAsI9W
This was a lovely 26-mile hike I did for my 32nd birthday (I know, I know. I should have done 32 miles). It took about 11 hours and 60,000 steps. I started at my house, walked through Montreat and up the old hunting road, connected to the Blue Ridge Parkway where I walked about 10 miles, and then turned off and did some bushwacking.
Some challenges during the hike: fallen trees, rusty barbed wire in the ground catching my shoelaces, OLD shoes and a lazy training regimen.
Some of the pluses: beautiful views, Parkway closed off to cars because of wintery conditions and having my laptop in my backpack so I could keep my phone alive.
In order to make the above map, I went onto Google Maps and traced my route...manually. Lot more work than having some sort of GPS tracking device and uploading that file to WikiLoc. But that's a sign of frugality and dedication.
This was a lovely 26-mile hike I did for my 32nd birthday (I know, I know. I should have done 32 miles). It took about 11 hours and 60,000 steps. I started at my house, walked through Montreat and up the old hunting road, connected to the Blue Ridge Parkway where I walked about 10 miles, and then turned off and did some bushwacking.
Some challenges during the hike: fallen trees, rusty barbed wire in the ground catching my shoelaces, OLD shoes and a lazy training regimen.
Some of the pluses: beautiful views, Parkway closed off to cars because of wintery conditions and having my laptop in my backpack so I could keep my phone alive.
In order to make the above map, I went onto Google Maps and traced my route...manually. Lot more work than having some sort of GPS tracking device and uploading that file to WikiLoc. But that's a sign of frugality and dedication.
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