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| What is your favorite run ever ? (Read 362 times) |
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posted: 1/1/2008 at 12:12 AM
modified: 1/1/2008 at 12:20 AM |
My All-time Favorite run is through the Russian Gulch State Park in California. There is an Amazing waterfall there, tall trees and my run would always end on the beach. I would go early on a Sunday morning and never see another person. Russian Gulch is not far from Fort Bragg and Mendocino, California.
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posted: 1/1/2008 at 12:41 AM |
I hit this on a summer trip a couple years ago, it's a 7 mi trail at a bit over 6000' elevation around Paulina Lake at Newberry National Volcanic Monument in central Oregon. It kicked my booty, complete with a hard fall and cuts on my knee and shoulder, but I had a good run all the same (and there are wild hot springs in the area to soothe your aches):
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/newberrynvm/trails/3955-paulinalakeshore.shtml
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posted: 1/1/2008 at 4:11 AM |
My favorite run ever was at Emerald Isle North Carolina, I could not wait til morning to go out and run on the beach and look at all of the treasures the waves had provided. Beautiful scenery ! I hope to go back someday..... |
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posted: 1/1/2008 at 5:29 AM |
I had a great run through Virginia out of Yorktown. Ran 10 miles through all sorts of Civil War history, over little bridges. Stopped at every historical notation! Beautiful!
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posted: 1/1/2008 at 7:16 AM |
The Four Pass Loop near Aspen, CO is pretty high on my list, possibly my favorite. It's 28-ish miles over 4 major passes over 12,000'. Stunning scenery, especially when the wildflowers are in bloom.
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posted: 1/2/2008 at 1:11 AM |
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posted: 1/2/2008 at 9:29 PM
modified: 1/2/2008 at 9:38 PM |
| Quote from Mtnchk1 on 1/2/2008 at 1:32 AM: I'm a newbie, therefore still very open to suggestions! Like Chris's looks really kewl & sorta close to home....will have to look for that (unless I can get more specific directions!) this summer
My friend Charles backpacked it with his wife, he's got a map of the route here:
http://www.swarpa.net/~danforth/wj/4pass.html
My Trip Report:
http://www.chrisgerber.com/outdoors/trip-reports/aspen-4-pass-loop-20070728.cgi
The start of the run is at the Maroon Lake Trailhead, just west of Aspen, CO (driving south out of Aspen, follow the signs for Maroon Lake at, I think, the first roundabout outside of town, just after crossing the river). Be sure to get to the start early because they close to road to private vehicles in the summer and the shuttle buses may not be running when you finish. The road is closed from 9am to 5pm so if you rode the bus, you would have to complete the loop in 7-ish hours or less to catch the last shuttle out (to avoid an additional 10 miles on the road). I've slept in my car at the trailhead without being hassled.
It's a pretty long run (28-ish miles, 9000' of gain, high altitude) so it takes a long time to complete the loop. I'm a middle-of-the-pack ultrarunner and it took me just under 9 hours. Peter Bakwin and Darcy Africa (both world class mountain runners) were the fastest in our group, and completed it in 6:45 that day. Our slowest guys took about 10-11 hours to complete it.
Also: This is a really hard run to bail out of... you're pretty much committed to the entire loop once you reach the Fravert Basin. The only bailout points on the west side would put you a long long way from your car on the wrong side of the Elk Range. Hiking out to Marble through Lead King Basin would not be trivial at all (10-15 miles to get to the nearest town, you'd then have to walk or hitchike 10 miles or so from Marble out to Hwy 133, then hitchhike Hwy 133 back to Carbondale, then catch the Roaring Fork Transit bus or hitchhike back to Aspen, then get the 10 miles back to your car).
Enjoy, it's a lot of fun!
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