Happy New Year! I am pretty happy to be about to be out in the mountains moving around. Today was probably pushing my luck (in terms of mileage and vertical) but I went for it anyways. I went up Providence Canyon from the usual church (1 mile of road before hitting the trail). I went up 1 mile on the trail before putting on the microspikes. The snow was still pretty squishy but once I crossed the bridge (mile 2 of the trail) I joined the road and followed the snowmobile trails up the canyon. That made the footing bettter. Up I went until I hit the Welches Flat Jeep trail junction then turned for home. It was a beautiful morning once I cleared the yucky valley inversion. T-2:08 (11:38) 3000' vert (made it to 7920')
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