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30 miles to nowhere?- Rattlesnake,Baden Powell, Iron, Baldy

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:28 am
by Cy Kaicener
This is an attempt by Rick Kent to do Rattlesnake, Baden Powell, Iron and Baldy in one day from Heaton Flats at the San Gabriel River (elevation 1500 feet) :shock: This epic took him 31 hours with over 10,000 feet of gain. Now I know why he usually hikes solo. He took 327 pictures :)
http://sangabrielmnts.myfreeforum.org/3 ... t1599.html

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:46 am
by FIGHT ON
is father time tapping on Rick's shoulder or is this loop simply impossible?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:52 am
by magikwalt
Twice I have hiked portions of hikes he has posted. Neither time was I able to even get close the the speed he achives. On the 2nd one I looked at the route planned to go from 1 peak to the next and declined to continue. This guy can walk up walls.

I enjoy just reading the TR he posts. I am constantly amazed at the where, what and when of his talent. Hard work has turned him into a complete mountaineering machine.

If father time is catching up to Rick then father time is a hiking son of a gun.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:26 pm
by FIGHT ON
magikwalt wrote:If father time is catching up to Rick then father time is a hiking son of a gun.
:D Maybe father time got too tired chasing him and is playing tag team with mother nature. soaking the chaparral with that drizzle worked this time.