Commentaires sur : Running in Sierra Nevada

Par : Akuna

Akuna — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:53:02 +0000

Salut Jphi,

J’ai utilise cette balise l’an dernier pour la transpyreneenne avec des potes (je faisais les photos). Elle était plutôt pas mal pourtant.
http://record-hrp.over-blog.com/

Au fait, superbes photos ;-), et supersite

Par : Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:31:00 +0000

Un seul mot : magnifique !!!

j'ai parcouru de mon côté les recoins de la High Sierra (au nord de Tulomne meadows et en dehors du Yosemite National Park) et c'est tout simplement majestueux, sauvage, etc...

Par : Ben

Ben — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:30:00 +0000

Ca a l’air bien sympa…

Par : Ted

Ted — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:19:00 +0000

I’ll let you know when we head out…. I’m going to push myself… I don’t want to take it too easy because the way I look at it…. The more time I spend out there the more I have to keep my nutrition under control. It’s probably going to be sometime late mid to late July

Par : jphi

jphi — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:48:00 +0000

I made the 37miles in a bit more than 10h but with many many stops (more 200 pictures), lot of "contemplation" breaks, deep snow, strong river crossing (one of them took 30min to find a safe way so strong was the stream), and fog on the back way making guidance painfull... But you're right, for a 75miles distance it's not the same thing, and you'll probably do it in 30h. I don't know the track beyond Kaweah Pass, but the first part has an elevation gain of 2000m (6000ft).
So I understand you intend to run by night ?
In full autonomy I mean carry your food and water (I heard it's not recommended to fix stream water with chemical treatment because of resistent bacteria but I don't know)...
I would love do that, but without food supplies... what a challenge!
Keep me advised !

Par : Ted

Ted — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:07:00 +0000

We’ll the guys went last year… in the « uphill » direction… West to East… and the took 30 hours…. mostly hiking… »fast packing »….

I don’t there is any way I could do that in 15 hours…. I ran 75 miles of sea level trails with practically zero climbing in 14hours… haha

You have to go over trail crest… which is 13,000 ft… and with water crossings …. and and all the other passes… I can’t think of them off hand… I’d hope to do it around 24-26 hours…. with altitude and climbing it would slow me down considerably!

Par : jphi

jphi — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:46:00 +0000

Hi Ted,

I'm from France.
72 miles by run.. I think you need 15h with a few stops because the way is a quite technical (at least you won't have snow...). Without watching any view, no picture, etc... in full autonomy I mean with a 15lb bag at least.. What do you intend ? Exciting project !!!

Par : Ted

Ted — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:11:00 +0000

Hey Jphi… Where are you from?
A couple friends went from Crescent Meadow.. all the way to Mount Whitney portal…. the entire 72 miles of the High Sierra Trail…. I’m probably going to do it this year sometime in Late July or early Aug….. Except we’re going to run from MW Portal to Crescent Meadow…. the « easy » way…

Par : chris

chris — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:22:00 +0000

I always wantde to go ther.. nice shots!