In Nov 2022 Abby and Cordis attempt to complete the grueling ~130 mile L2H in under 53 hours.
that's a hell of a sidetrip! i have so many questions. how did you decide to do it? did you team up with anyone? did you cache water?
It was honestly kind of on a lark. I was (very) late season sobo, and had been planning to go over whitney to resupply in Lone Pine, and had considered H2L as a side trip, but not very seriously. As I was coming down from whitney we got a big snow, so I was considering staying in town for a day or two to see if it would melt like previous snows had.
A friend of mine texted me in town saying that they were leaving Vegas for Death Valley (on foot, because they were doing a coast to coast walk) and wanted to know where I was at in my thru. It was so perfect that I just had to go for it. I downloaded the gps track onto my phone and cached my snow gear at the gear store in lone pine and went for it.
I didn't cache water, I carried 2 gallons of gatorade out of lone pine in addition to my 2L bladder and 2x 1L plastic bottles, refilled in Pannamint Springs. I did find a water cache but I had carried enough that I only grabbed like a liter from it.
So I did it solo, but I did meet my friend in furnace creek after we had missed each other in badwater basin proper.
That is awesome! So you carried 12 liters total? How was hiking in Death Valley? Which route was your friend taking? And how did your SOBO PCT thru go?
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@lemmy.world
Overnight backcountry backpacking/hiking in the spirit of taking less and doing more. Ask yourself: do I really need that?
Rules:
- Be decent.
- Stay on topic.
Resources:
go to feed...
woof, was looking at the elevation profile on L2H (click the red line and click "Profile") and realized the first 14 miles from Badwater to Telescope Ridge in Death Valley NP are a deal breaker as I don’t reasonably think I can do 10k elevation gain in a day… did several thousand feet less on my biggest day on the PCT which I was in shape for and took a nap and I was still exhausted the next day. love the area and it feels… slightly uncomfortable to realize I’d be out of my league.
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