Training Log Archive: dbakker

Ride In from the Carcross Highway to the trapper's cabin. Normally part of the hike, but I got some local info (thanks Caelen and Colin) that it was worth riding this part (including walking a ~350m long hill in the middle). Took a brief wrong turn before correcting.


Using the new bike rack.

Hiking Mount Lorne part 2. Nice circular hike route. Gonna really feel this one tomorrow. Lots of scrambling on all fours and figuring out routes along skinny rocky ridges with drops on both sides. Groups ahead and behind me made me feel a little more comfortable knowing that someone would know my body would be down there if I fell off. Hamstring briefly cramped up when extending a leg down to the next ledge while I was hanging mostly from my hands which was a bit scary, but there it was a pretty wide part of the ridge and was fine.


Looking from the sub summit up to the top along the second (of three) scramble ridges.


Looking north-west down at Whitehorse and Grey Mountain.


Any idea why this species of spruce (?) have their pinecones extending up from the branch instead of down which is typical for other spruces (and firs - which this might be instead)?

C • Beautiful! 1

Riding Back Out - and seriously missing full suspension as my legs were dead tired and there lots of roots on this almost non-stop downhill.

Sights from today's (very buggy) mapping day at Golden Horn:

C • X's 4

Event: RESCHEDULED North American Orienteering Championship
 

Won the Let's Talk Orienteering two generation orienteering families trivia quiz! Definitely a lot of educated guessing, but the system seemed to very strongly reward a quick answer. Excellent presentation too - unfortunate that more people did not attend.

Started the fieldwork on Golden Horn today - blackflies are out in force. I prefer mosquitoes.

C • Nice job on the Let's Talk ... 2

Moved out to McLean's today, so am now a bike commuter again (a little less than 5 minutes to the closest part of the map).

Preliminary set of contours drafted, along with a few other obvious features, so fieldwork starts tomorrow!

Exploratory run with Forest checking out a potential expansion of the Golden Horn map. Not worth mapping it turns out. Nice contours, but too green to be mapped up here.

C • Green 2