Why We Train
A training hike into the Hyndman Basin
with Rhonda, Michelle and Troy Sorensen
After cancelling last summer due to a broken foot and surgery, I started training at the gym and on the bike. I am a little behind on my training hikes this spring due to a bike race I signed up for. However we are training now for a 12 day hike in the Alps from Chamonix, France to Zermatt, Switzerland on the Walker's Haute Route.
Four couples will be traveling together, averaging 10K of distance and more than 1000m of elevation gain each day.
In preparation we have have been taking day hikes in the foothills of Boise. But this weekend we took a pulse on our readiness by taking a 12 mile hike, climbing nearly 3,800' into the Pioneer mountains to a basin surrounded by Hyndman Pk, Old Hyndman, and Cobb Pk.
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The grandeur of creation with great friends is why we train.
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| Hiking up Hyndman Creek in the Pioneer Mountains, central Idaho. Cobb PK in the background |
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| Best Friends, Rhonda and Michelle |
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Looking back towards Sun Valley and the remains of the moon.
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| I wasn't feeling the love at this point. Lack of sleep, stress, last week's heel blister not healed, all added up to a sluggish first three miles. However, a short rest, some food, water and vitamin I and I started to get a bounce back in my steps. |
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| Hyndman Creek cascading down |
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| Best friends again taking a break of one of the benches we had to climb. |
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| taking a lunch break in the basin with Hyndman PK, 12,009' |
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| RonJon |
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| they look so fragile to survive in such a harsh environment |
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Our group working our way to the saddle between Hyndman and Old Hyndman and the divide between Hyndman Creek and Wildhorse Creek.
Rhonda, Michelle, Troy, Jon |
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| The last pull to the pass, 10,780' |
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| Michelle with Old Hyndman in the background |
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| Wildhorse Creek Basin: Why we train |
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| Hyndman PK, 12,009' I will return to finish it. |
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| Troy scoping out a future adventure |
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| Always giving encouragement |
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| navigating the sun cups |
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| scree is not her favorite |
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| but this is what training will do |
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| Our route back down |
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| Snow Spiders |
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| God's garden |
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| back to our lunch spot |
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| working the knees |
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| practicing our foot work |
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| Dynamic leg work in action |
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| Recovery |
