Ear Mountain wrote:Hey Pete,
The red line in your photo does not go to Heavy Runner. That ridge is sometimes called Reynolds Ridge. It's a nice walk out there but it's not Heavy Runner.
In your photo Heavy Runner is tucked behind Mount Reynolds.
The photo below was taken on a climb to the true summit of Dragon's Tail. Getting farther out on the Dragon's Tail ridge allows one to see the summit of Heavy Runner peaking out from behind Reynolds. Hope you had a good day.
ROFLAMO!!!!!!!!!
Oh lordy Ralph..I found that out this morning. Did I ever
I made some other mistakes as well. I was all screwed up trying to correlate Passmore's route with--
what was in front of me.
Humiliating as it will be I will talk about my mistakes when I do the hiking report.
I met 4 people out there on that spur ridge, 3 of whom were park employees, one of which is a firefighter for the park on her 1/21 days off.
They pointed out they way they were going to get to the saddle on Heavy Runner...and I watched them go the whole way.
This is not a hike I can do now, maybe never.
I'm not fit enough, and don't have the legs to negotiate that scree run they used.
It's very steep and I would have to come back that way and go up it. Heaver Runner just has too much "up and down" for me.
I video'd them for part of that scree run down.
So I hiked out that spur ridge. It has some very different looks at familiar places.
You can see the general area where the fire began. Around 10-11AM it was smoldering/smoking in multiple places that I could see.
I have some pics and video of what I could see from out there. It's not great though.
The bad news is the wind was, and still is--BLOWING. The wind really picked up on the way back to the Reynolds-DT saddle.
That made some of the traverse a bit trickier for me.
There are a couple short stretches where the "goat trail" gets kinda skinny and rock outcroppings sticking out don't help things.
The geezer had to exercise caution in foot placement. Gusty wind doesn't help much and falling isn't really an option.
All in all a good day. I made some bad mistakes but I recovered. No harm no foul.
I got some really GOOD goat video, 10 minutes plus, of a ewe with her kid, and one I called "sis" or "auntie"
Since I believe the second ewe was the sister of the ewe with the baby.
Momma did get my
undivided attention at one point as you'll see in the video.
Bottom line is this in my opinion:
"Goats, especially
dominate females and males,
go where they want to go. And if they want to go where you are standing, you best move."
I'll see if I can get the goat video up asap.
Lots of minutes of "goats just being goats", munching in this tiny meadow on the trail.
later
I need a shower and food.
Thanks AGAIN Ralph for pointing out my error.
I made some other errors like not getting peak names right all the time
Feel free to correct me.
pete