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| Owner | MITOC Gallery Administrator |
| Creation Date | 2005-02-21 10:44:38 UTC-0500 |
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New Page 1 Bondcliff "Hiker-on-a-Cliff" Winter Photo-op Trip Participants: Bilal Zia, Christiaan Adams, Lidiya V, Eric Gilbertson, Matthew Gilbertson, Kevin Neville, Mike Oltmans (Saturday, Feb 19 2005): The plan was to post-hole up Osceola in some freshly fallen/falling snow. It turned out (while driving up the Kanc) that the forecasters were wrong (as usual) and the sun was out with no clouds in sight. After brief consultation, we decided to change plans and hike up to Bondcliff instead of Osceola - the major attraction being the "hiker-on-a-cliff" photo opportunity. Some hikers were kept in the dark about the actual distance involved and were not too happy when they realized that our 8 mile stroll up osceola had just been transformed into a 20-mile post-holing trek up bondcliff! The first 4.4 miles of amazing elevation gain (600 feet!!) went mighty fast, and we were at the summit by late-afternoon - yeah, we were kinda lazy starting out at 10:30 from the parking lot. As expected, views were great and everybody got to have their picture taken on the cliff. On the return trip, three renegade hikers decided to run down the mountain instead of walking and managed to put a good hour--hour-and-a-half between the two groups (the real motivation was that two of the renegades had to get to the common man by 7, and they made it by 7:15). |