tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113980604059950634.post3016939551151947146..comments2023-10-17T11:25:35.729-05:00Comments on The Slowest Triathlete: Lessons learned on the hike to the top of the worldperpetual adventurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724821563250542260noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113980604059950634.post-7608683043016072872008-07-23T00:13:00.000-05:002008-07-23T00:13:00.000-05:00The trail we took that got us closest to the mount...The trail we took that got us closest to the mountain, and probably highest was the Burroghs Mountain trail (I think). I'm guessing it was still only around 7000'. We weren't hiking on the glaciers, just residual snow from the record winter they had. Hiking on the glaciers would have been WAY cool though....someday....perpetual adventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724821563250542260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113980604059950634.post-65243922156947910892008-07-21T18:22:00.000-05:002008-07-21T18:22:00.000-05:00Beautiful pictures! I especially like the second o...Beautiful pictures! I especially like the second one. At the moment, I'm finding it hard to remember that snow exists. How far up the mountain did you go? <BR/><BR/>The one and only time I've ever done any hiking on a mountain was when I was studying in Ecuador in grad school. We went up to some insane height (high enough that there were glaciers there) that I don't remember, but considering that Quito started at 9000 feet, it was pretty up there. It was so incredibly hard. I could only go a few steps before I had to sit down. I was so very, very proud of myself when I finished the quarter-mile or whatever it was that we went up. Come to think of it, that probably wasn't very good for me. I certainly couldn't do it again.twiceknithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17988326378341455781noreply@blogger.com