"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
06/20/2020 at 22:10 • Filed to: Hiking
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"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
06/20/2020 at 22:10 • Filed to: Hiking | 6
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...And im not quite done yet!
Welcome back to my log of going for a short hike of the 63 mile long Backbone Trail in Malibu, CA. I am doing it in sections, doing most of them round trip. It has been quite the adventure so far. Here is the previous (first installment):
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Day 1 : 11.85 mile downhill bike ride + 16.29 mile hike with 4236ft of elevation gain (overall progress 16.3 miles / 63 = 25%)
Day one of the hike was a big bang to start it off. Due to the unique opportunity of the one trailhead being a direct downhill road all the way to the other trailhead, I was able to handle this section with bike logistics. I parked at the top around 0630 and then biked the 11 miles downhill to the start in about a half hour. La Jolla canyon trailhead, the official western end of the trail, was a bit crowded with early morning runners but it soon emptied out as I went further up. This section was fully clouded in until I began the real ascent about 8 miles in. Here the trail jumped up 3000 feet in the next 6 miles and I did not see a single soul through all of the bushwacking. The last 2 miles were in the crowded Sand Stone Peak area and with it being a Saturday, I had a mask on almost the whole time. I am going to limit the photos for this post but this section really was a standout as I expected.
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Day 2 : 10.17 mile one way hike with 991ft of elevation gain
(overall progress 26.5 / 63 = 42%)
After the long hike the day before, my feet were a bit dead and I was overall quite tired. I was not particularly interested in hiking on day two but pushed through it to make progress. Thankfully I did a car relay and hiked this just one way with a room mate. And it was a much easier section that I had traveled all of it previously. Just a lovely day to enjoy this trail.
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Day 3 : 14.3 mile round trip hike with 2789ft of elevation gain
(overall progress 33.7 / 63 = 53%)
The first two days were Saturday and Sunday so I had to head back to real life the rest of the week, continuing my hike on Friday. This was the first section I would be doing with no logistics, meaning that I would be doing it round trip. So while my hike for the day was a long one, it was just about 7 miles of progress made. The clouds this day were probably my favorite part as well as a couple of jungle-esque stream crossings along the way.
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Day 4 : 18.86 mile round trip hike with 4134ft of elevation gain
(overall progress 43 / 63 = 68%)
While I had planned on continuing Saturday and Sunday on the hike, I ended up injuring myself swimming on Friday evening and took the rest of the week off from hiking. I got in some bike rides and more swimming but hiking was off limits until Saturday as I needed my knee at 100% for this hike. Nearly 19 miles of punishing hiking was only made bearable by the ever-present marine layer for the first 14 miles of the hike. It meant I didnt really get many useful photos in the morning but it was still an amazing hike nonetheless. The sun coming out for the final 5 miles was worth the bit of heat for the beautiful views that I totally missed on the way out. Corral canyon is always a treat to visit and I absolutely need to head back there for the Joshua Tree NP style rock scrambling.
In the distance, the same peaks featured in every day. Now so far away reminding me of the progress I have made.
I have way way way too many damn photos of all of this. Will have to do a photo dump at the end from the whole thing. I tried my best to just keep this to two photos per day to not photobomb this. Looking forward to hiking some of these sections more since I am hauling ass through most of it, not stopping too long to take it in properly. But I can stop and smell the roses another time, ive got miles to cover! One more bonus shot of the sunset out my front door:
If only my body had a reset button, then I would go hike the last 20 mile section in one go tomorrow and just uber back to the car. But I think I will save it for next weekend for a final great day of hiking. Its more like 23 miles and certainly over 4000 feet of gain but its doable with enough food and water.
VincentMalamute-Kim
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/20/2020 at 22:17 |
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Where did you stash the bike on day one?
gettingoldercarguy
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/20/2020 at 22:20 |
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Living the dream. Looks amazing
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> VincentMalamute-Kim
06/20/2020 at 22:30 |
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U-Lock to a tree. Along with both wheels cable locked to the U-Lock. It was also out of sight at the back of the parking lot, away from both the road and the trail head. Would have taken a bit of searching just to find it along with at least some power tools to break the lock. Would have been best off just cutting the tree down I guess, although that might be a bit conspicuous. Either way, that level of security is fine for my $200 bike.
Nom De Plume
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/20/2020 at 22:49 |
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Seems the knee healed up enough to resume hiking. Hope the last 20 miles go well for you.
Poor_Sh
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/20/2020 at 22:52 |
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Holy crap. Most I've done in a day was 16 though it was day 3 on the Long Trail so we were exhausted already. Looks like fun have a great time finishing up!
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VincentMalamute-Kim
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/20/2020 at 23:17 |
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ah! Disposable bike is the best security. Your tires are half the value of the bike!
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> Nom De Plume
06/20/2020 at 23:43 |
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Advantages of being young I suppose!
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> Poor_Sh
06/20/2020 at 23:45 |
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All depends on the weather for sure. And the difficulty of the hike. 16 miles on day one was way harder than the 18 today. And the 14 mile hike before this was probably just as hard due to the warmer weather. I've also done a few 10+ mile mountain bike rides and after work swim sessions in between all of this. So I'm definitely staying active!
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> VincentMalamute-Kim
06/20/2020 at 23:47 |
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Haha yeah front tire was like $70 so once I order a rear one I'm definitely in more money on parts than what I paid for the bike. Probably could have bought a new one at that point but I enjoy the building it up thing and I feel less bad abusing it.
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Nom De Plume
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/21/2020 at 00:00 |
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You keep saying that.
Crowd I hang with would’ve done 25 miles a day and the last 13 miles on third. :P
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VincentMalamute-Kim
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/21/2020 at 00:13 |
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You can buy cheaper car tires!
yeah, I went mtn biking with someone who has an $8000 Trek that weighs almost half of what mine does. It wouldn’t bother me at all if I broke mine but I’d be scared to do some of the trails if mine was $8K.
Even if I had a 23 lb carbon fiber bike, I still wouldn’t be able to keep up with him.
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Nom De Plume
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/21/2020 at 00:23 |
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Don’t allow me to tease you into overdoing it. Take care of your nails and feet.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/21/2020 at 02:03 |
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Awesome!
We’re on our way to Taos for a week - much hiking will be done.
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> VincentMalamute-Kim
06/21/2020 at 10:26 |
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Going uphill is the same battle regardless of cost. That's always the leveling factor. Sure lower weight will help there but it's an effort input for that part. I'm certainly going to be slower going downhill but from an abundance of caution I don't really want to go any faster. The same thing happens with skis too. I've demoed skiis that made me instantly faster but it was dangerously so.
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> Nom De Plume
06/21/2020 at 10:29 |
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Hah I'm not going to overdo it, my over caution knows no bounds. It was funny yesterday at the turn around point of the hike (9.5 miles in) I thought about continuing forward instead of back. I thought hey its only 20 something miles and I'm doing half that anyways. What's another ten and then the whole hike is done? That would have been overdoing it for sure! Thankfully I had some sense and didn't go for it.
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VincentMalamute-Kim
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/21/2020 at 12:20 |
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Going uphill is the same battle regardless of cost.
Thanks, I appreciate additional reasons why I do not need
to drop $8K for a 23lb dual susp mtn bike.