Distance
1.8 mi to summit
5.5 mi total
Elevation
950 ft start
2,539 ft max
Vertical
2,025 ft gain
Time
47 min to summit
2 hr 5 min total
Another Tam summit the day after a huge amount of rainfall as I jump back in to this laughably competitive virtual event Max Vert October. While the leader just crossed 300,000 vert (?), I just crossed 30,000 ft vert, by far the most I’ve ever done in a month, but that puts me in 70th place! May try to make it to 50,000 by Halloween, but that’d be a comical ramp up in these final days of the month. Do I have it in me? Or the bigger question is why am I doing this??
davidensley
My parents have a sign in their home: You are not in the mountains; the mountains are in you.
davidensley
Turns out that is a quote from John Muir, co-founder of the Sierra Club, its first president until his death in 1914, and often called "The Father of Our National Park System.”