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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 19, 2012 - 09:09pm PT
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In elevation gain human powered climbing, biking, hiking, or skiing.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 19, 2012 - 09:20pm PT
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Combined up and down? Like Whitney or keeler, etc, in a day? Grand cnyn rim to rim...quadruple dipesea? Silver state 50/50? (aprox 20k'), various ski tours?
If so, yes.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jun 19, 2012 - 09:22pm PT
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yes
anything else you would like to know?
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 19, 2012 - 09:39pm PT
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up and down would be too easy, i suspect. pretty big club.
not sure if i've done 10k vertical in one day, but possibly. if not, maybe a bit less. i'd have to go back and start counting contour lines.
at some point in it becomes a bit silly. 10k at high el is a lot different than doing baker two or three times in one day. 10k of hiking is a lot different than 10k of technical.
lots of folks thought mr was lying in his 14k claim on tahquitz. it can be surprisingly difficult to measure vertical relief, much less elevation gain over an extended distance of rough ground.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 19, 2012 - 09:48pm PT
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Its called gps.
lol
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jun 19, 2012 - 09:51pm PT
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Probably at least a few times hiking/peak bagging (pre gps) never technical.
As far as MR's claims, he did El Camino and lapped us once as we were getting ready to do Coffin Nail.
Wasn't even out of breath.
Even had time to flirt with the princess and chat for a minute.
14K of Tahquitz in a day was certainly within his ability.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 19, 2012 - 09:58pm PT
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tgt-- tahquitz is one of the best places one could go to pile up max vertical tech mileage. compact, high, lots of easy and wirable terrain, moderate elevation. he based his claim on pitch count, though, and most pitches at t aren't vertical.
doesn't bother me too much. maybe it was only 12.1. someone would have to get ueber geek with an inclinometer to get a better approximation. and even then, you couldn't account for all the little up-then-down moments involved in the traversing bits.
one of the reasons the 10k-in-a-day deal is a bit silly.
eventually, this will become one of those stupid records that gets measured in mileage on a calibrated stepper indoors.
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Jun 19, 2012 - 10:08pm PT
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Some really fun ones...Haleakala, Snow Creek on San Jacinto, Telescope Peak, Junipero Serra and Cone Peak in the Santa Lucia Range...all good fun.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2012 - 10:30pm PT
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Talking 10,000 uphill. Done it once mountain biking crow peak 7 times in 24 hours. Trying a hundred mile ride on sat that will have 16,000 if completed. Something like 35 are biking it but I ub nderstand that around 200 are trying to run the course.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jun 19, 2012 - 10:34pm PT
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Did the N Face of San Jacinto (Snow Creek) in about 11 hours once- that was pretty damn close to 10K in a day.
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Onewhowalksonrocks
Mountain climber
portland, Maine
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Jun 19, 2012 - 10:53pm PT
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Left LAX 6:30 am, arrived at camp @ 17000 ft by 4:30pm.
Airplane, car and hike. Had bloody nose, head hurt and couldnt sleep. Did the summit next morning and then went to Mexico City for 2 days.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jun 19, 2012 - 10:59pm PT
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Once, and only once. I was bedridden for three days afterwards. Mos Def not my cup of tea. Much prefer 100' of 5.12 thin crack, ftw.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jun 19, 2012 - 11:02pm PT
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Tour of Two Forests Double. 13,000 I think.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Pebble Wrestling.... Badly lately.
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Jun 19, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
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Not sure why one would want to do that!?
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2012 - 12:04am PT
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There has to be some on here who have done it on mostly 5th class terain.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:11am PT
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Lots I'd say. If a punter like me has done it...
Ok i just bragged on ST where super badass real climbers actually post serious and relevant climbing history..
I will go back in my hole now...
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:27am PT
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Yes.
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nature
climber
CO
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:31am PT
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i think the up and down from babo from where jefe and i started was 7K in one day. it had to be close - he chapped his ball sack pretty bad.
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John M
climber
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:33am PT
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10,000 feet GAIN ? that is a lot of gain. I would like to hear what people did. Not just that they did it.
10,000 feet of elevation gain and loss is easy.
Just gain.
Not so much.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:51am PT
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No 10K days, but like everyone else who's climbed in BC's Coast Range, my 4,000 foot days are easily equivalent to your 10,000 foot days.
So there.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:51am PT
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2 miles up in a day. More or less. Well, just less, but not by a lot.
That's 1 helluva day, I think.
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:53am PT
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Didn't Will Gadd do 25,000 vertical feet doing laps in a day for charity at Ouray Ice Festival one year.
Or are you only counting what humans have done?
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skywalker
climber
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:53am PT
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Diamond car to car a few times. Not that big a deal in my early 20's.
S...
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:29am PT
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Snow Creek --North Face of Mt San Jacinto, SoCal.
Yeah, it's a good hard hike. I did it in 1991. Took me from 1:00 AM to 9:00 PM in a push. I had totally inadequate gear which made it an epic.
If the land managers would wake up, this route would be more popular than Mt Whitney. More people should be allowed to do this.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jun 20, 2012 - 02:21am PT
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"More people should be allowed to do this."
If people want to do something badly enough, they'll do it. The reason there isn't a conga line on Snow Creek is primarily because it's 9500'+ of work, and most of So Cal would rather ride the lifts at Mtn High and go snowboarding.
I'm good with that. Snow Creek is a special place that is best appreciated by those who are willing to do the work.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Jun 20, 2012 - 04:23am PT
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One day Mt Rainier ascents from White River… like Liberty Ridge, Willis Wall, Winthrop or Emmons Glacier routes… comprise a 11,400 feet altitude gain.
The climb/hike routes from Paradise are about 9,000, Mowich Lake 9,400 and West Road 11,500.
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JMC
climber
the swamp
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Jun 20, 2012 - 06:14am PT
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Ascent el. is the only value worth considering.
Maybe a half dozen?
My biggest day was the first 24 hours of AC100 with 20K feet of gain. The last 10 miles are flat but I was wasted by then. Sub-24 on that bitch is a skeleton that will remain in my closet. Ken Hamada is a f*k!ng animal for putting this race on!
Pikes Peak marathon is ~8K of gain, fell asleep and rolled a car after that one. Whitney is mild in comparison at 6k ft from Portal to Summit. If you yo-yo Whitney, Keeler & Russel, that should get you into the 10k zone. East Butt/East Face yoyo will barely be 7500'
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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Jun 20, 2012 - 08:26am PT
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Mt. Rainier
Happy Henry's Hunting Ground > Success Cleaver > Summit > Disappointment Cleaver > Paradise
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sjellison
Mountain climber
Range of Light
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Jun 20, 2012 - 08:51am PT
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I think doing Williamson from the Onion TH is pretty darn close. Especially with the huge descent halfway up the ascent hike.
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Bad Climber
climber
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Jun 20, 2012 - 09:16am PT
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Hmmm....I've come close--sort of--a couple of times.
My best:
1) Shasta in a day from road's end.
2) Inyo Peak from Manzanar Reward Rd. base, across from the old relocation camp. That one was about 8,700 ft. of gain, as I recall. We did it in Jan. one year, starting with and ending with headlamps--ouch!
3) Did Whitney reg. east face in a day, like many others, although we missed the correct approach trail and took the FIRST ravine and so ended up having to drop back to the proper approach trail, so that added at least a few hundred feet to the day's total. Finished that minor epic well after dark, too. Leading the climb in hiking boots and a 9 mm rope left an impression on me....
BAd
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jun 20, 2012 - 10:28am PT
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About 9k with heavy gear.
Rainier.... Tahoma Glacier.
Full Packs from West Side road to a tick under 10k in a single 10 hour push. We were actually pissing cloudy red. Liquified quad muscles I figured.
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Mic
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jun 20, 2012 - 10:54am PT
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By the way, I like the questions that mike m is always posing.
I've never done 10,000 gain in one day, although close. I think the biggest I've done is the north ridge of Mt. Tom, which was 8 or 9 thousand.
Now being in Boulder, I'm taking advantage of proximity to bike to the trailhead. This year I did Mt. Audubon by first biking about 5000 feet up to Brainard Lake. Last weekend I did South Arapahoe, but I cheated by using the bus.
That Ulta-Trail Monte Blanc that ThomasKeefer mention sounds crazy.
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Tony Puppo
climber
Bishop
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Jun 20, 2012 - 11:01am PT
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Road bike from Bishop to end of pavement, which BITD was Parchers Camp. Then hike up Agassiz. Not quite 10,000'. Biked White mountain, that was over 10 k.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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Jun 20, 2012 - 11:04am PT
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Also did a trail-ultra back in the 1990s, all over 10,000 feet, with a total of 12,000 feet elevation gain and loss.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:10pm PT
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The closest I came was about 8,000ft riding a Schwinn Varsity from Golden to the top of Mt Evans when I was 16. I should get an extra 2,000 ft just for hauling that beast up there, weighs almost twice what todays lightweights weigh and the lowest gear had me standing almost 80% of the time.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:47pm PT
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Me? Over 60,000' in a day.
Of course that was up & down.
Jets can do that for ya.
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brawa
climber
SAN
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:48pm PT
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Cactus to Clouds on San Jacinto ~10.5K, pretty popular and a fun hike. Though the part from the tram to summit is pretty mind-numbing after the steep first half.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:58pm PT
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This little old lady has done the 9,000' gain for Rainier a bunch of times. The biggest 24 hours (ok, maybe it was 26 hours)was about 13,000'+. I climbed St. Helens via the Worm Flow route, 5,500'. A rescue call came in that early evening. I went out on the rescue, reclimbed 2,400' and assisted with the carry-out. I agreed to retrieve the gear that the party left behind the following day. I went out very early, marked the gear stash, and continued up to the rim, 5,500'. It was a gorgeous day, and the mountain was still putting on its steam and lava display. I came back down, retrieving the left behind gear.
Thankfully, the two long ascents were light. Otherwise, .....
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icaro
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:25pm PT
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if you live in southern california and want to do a 10000+ ft elevation gain hike, you should do Baldy (via ski hut trail), San Gorgonio (via Vivian Creek), and then San Jacinto (via tram trail, or C2C if you're an animal). It's a super fun day, and is about 11,000 ft of gain... unless you do C2C on San Jacinto, then you're looking at 19,000+ ft of total gain. I've only done it twice, but it is totally awesome!!!
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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:50pm PT
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I've had a couple of big days.
1. Charlotte Dome C2C from the east side. Up the the pass, drop down, do the climb, back up through the pass, then back down. I would guess that was close to 10,000' throughout the 22hr push, but I'm not sure.
2. Cactus to Clouds is about 10,000'. Others have mentioned it. I was WRECKED!
3. I did around 8000-9000' at Tahquitz this last Spring, if you include the hike up. The vast majority of that was climbing and we did 15 multipitch routes in 17 hours: TRIP REPORT
Josh
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Jun 20, 2012 - 03:25pm PT
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During Sierra Challenge 2010 I did about 65,000 feet of ELEVATION GAIN over 10 straight days. Did all 10 challenge peaks and also got 7 bonus peaks. Came in 3rd by the total number of peaks over 10 days. It was my first year hiking/scrambling so I felt like a total wreck after this one! That proved to me that I am in OK shape, so moved on to climbing because it is more fun, has more variety, and more challenging as well.
http://snwburd.com/bob/challenge/2010/
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 20, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
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ctc is over 10k?
i guess i had forgotten how low palm springs was
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Jun 21, 2012 - 12:37pm PT
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No, but 8,000' in a day. Mt. Williamson via George creek
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Mic
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jun 21, 2012 - 02:35pm PT
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Any 10,000 feet of gain in one day is going to be a challenge, but I think there is something particularly appealing when the gain is done exclusively on a single ascent, rather than as part of the approach or as multiple laps up something.
The options for getting 10,000 on a single mountain are also more limited. I never would have thought of San Jacinto, but I guess that does it. Some peaks starting from the Owens Valley would be close, but many of those would involve some canyon approach. Doing one of the ridges on White Mountain would have you starting around 5000 feet, so it would still fall short of 10,000. Of all places, you might find it in Hawaii. Mauna Kea is over 13,000 and you could start at the beach, although because of its volcano shape, there would be a long gradual ascent at first. Then you get into questions about where does the mountain stop and surrounding land begin.
Where else could you get 10,000 feet of continuous ascent on one mountain?
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Jun 21, 2012 - 03:27pm PT
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Whitney in a day
is about 5500 ft of gain.
NE ridge of Williamson from Owens Valley is close to 10K maybe bc of all the up and downs.
It is quite fun to do a loop of Split, Prater, Bolton Brown, and Birch and back to Owens Valley in a day. I remember seeing some sh#t attacking me on the hike out after 5 hours of no water. Bushwhack on the way out is annoying though.
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Jun 21, 2012 - 03:46pm PT
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For single peak upward efforts:
Haleakala from sea to summit is just a hair over 10K, if I recall right. Although I think the trailhead cuts you short by about 500'. I remember going back down the last 500' once I hit the road just to be sure, It's really a spectacular hike. Through tons of cool changes in terrain - from jungle to moonscape.
Telescope Peak in Death Valley is another very satisfying route. Start out near badwater at about -250 and end at just over 11K ft. It's really cool to walk up to treeline. Tasty pine nuts along the way. Got stymied on the summit ridge by a weird fall blizzard with more lightening than you can shake a stick at. Love my photos of horizontal snow in Death Valley. Wish I had one of me wide-eyed with the thunder clapping before the lightening flash.
San Jacinto via Snow Creek starting out near the highway takes you from 1,200' to 10,800' and surely there's an additional 400' of up and down along the way. Never quite did it in a day as I invariably slept in, was alone and did it the fall with no snow...thus some amzing steep bushwhacking...truly up there as some of the best bush navigation to be had.
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Mitch Underhill
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Jun 21, 2012 - 11:06pm PT
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My friend Brian and I hiked 14 peaks around the Tahoe Basin a 23.5 hour push once. From east to west: Jobs, Jobs Sister, Freel...rode bikes to Fallen Leaf Lake...Tallac, Peak 9376, Dick's, Jack's, Price, Peak 9967, Agassiz, Pyramid, Angora, Echo, Flagpole. The unnamed peaks are questionable since they were more like high points on the ridge. None the less, it was a BIG day with well over 10,000 feet of gain in 40+ miles. Good times:)
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
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Jun 22, 2012 - 08:18am PT
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I have done 13,500 ft. of gain in 27 hours when I did Black Kaweah and Red Kaweah in one push.
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JerryA
Mountain climber
Sacramento,CA
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Jun 22, 2012 - 11:56am PT
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The 8,200 feet from the summit of Spanish Mountain down to the Kings River is the deepest canyon in North America .Has anyone ascended or descended that ?
The view from nearby Tehipite Dome to the river is fantastic too.
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
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Jun 22, 2012 - 12:09pm PT
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The 8,200 feet from the summit of Spanish Mountain down to the Kings River is the deepest canyon in North America .Has anyone ascended or descended that ?
The view from nearby Tehipite Dome to the river is fantastic too.
This is a seriously cool place, I would have liked to descend down to the canyon when I was out there exploring the place on a 3 day trip, doing harrington and exploring the gorge of despair area, but forest fires got in our way. Makes me want to go back there.
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Jun 22, 2012 - 12:28pm PT
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Biked White mountain, that was over 10 k.
That was another 8k day for me. Laws to the Barcroft lab on a mountain bike
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jun 22, 2012 - 12:41pm PT
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I just did a topo check. We did 10,130' total gain in a day on Rainier on the Tahoma glacier side.
I've often wanted to bike from the Pacific to Rainier, climb it, and bike back (with all gear in tow). Kinda like a Kropp-lite....
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Jun 22, 2012 - 12:42pm PT
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when i hung out with the HPS (hundred peaks section of the local sierra club), i participated in a much-vaunted doo of all five san gabriel peaks over 9,000 feet--that would be pine, dawson and baldy, then a car shuttle for throop and baden-powell. started early, came down in near-dark. it was wonderful to have done it, wouldn't want to do it again. adding up all the gain would probably come close to your figure here.
those in l.a. who really want to train for this go to iron mountain where the trail starts at around 2,000 down in the san gabriel river canyon and ends above 8,000. do two laps in a day and you get 12,000 feet. beware, i knew an SPSer (sierra peaks section, known for "death marches") whose joints were shot at age 60.
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AndyG
climber
San Diego, CA
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Jun 22, 2012 - 01:01pm PT
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I did Snow Creek on San Jacinto in 2005 and we figured that was 9500 ft of gain. Not quite 10,000. But Cactus to Clouds should be greater than 10k as I understand it.
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landcruiserbob
Trad climber
BIG ISLAND or Vail ; just following the sun.......
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Jun 22, 2012 - 01:02pm PT
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-32k on a bike lots of big days in the Rockies & the Big Island.
-24to 25k running/hiking 6 -14'ers in a day.
-4-5k climbing
I enjoyed the slow & easy days more.....
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NML81
Trad climber
N Lake Tahoe
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Jun 22, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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3 full laps on Mt. Tallac got me just under 10K. My hardcore skiing friends get 10k regularly in a day.
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jeff_m
Social climber
700' up
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Jun 22, 2012 - 02:24pm PT
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The lower West Ridge of White Mountain (from the aqueduct road below the radio towers, not the Jeffrey Mine Road start) is just over 10k' of gain total and pretty much all trail-less. I did a late spring hike a few years ago (with a nice storm greeting me at the top) in 15.5 hours c2c---and then did Lone Pine Peak the next morning as a cool down, 'cuz I'm mental.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jun 22, 2012 - 02:36pm PT
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John M.,
The Ride to Kaiser has way more than 10,000 feet of total gain, but the net gain is only about 9,000 feet. I've never done the "official" way (i.e. up Tollhouse Grade, and down to Big Creek and back up to Huntington from Shaver), but doing it the "easy way" (i.e. going up the 4-lane and staying on Highway 168 between Shaver and Huntington) still got me around 10,000 feet of total gain in 1979. I also rode from Fresno to the Valley at a rather easy pace one September day that year, but the total gain on that ride was "only" about 8,000 feet, and the elevation never exceeded about 6,000 feet. Kaiser is a very different animal.
John
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AlanDoak
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Long's Peak Triathalon: Bike from Boulder (5300') to trailhead, hike, and climb the Diamond to the summit at 14,259', hike/bike back. With rollers, it ends up being just over 10k.
Kokopelli's trail: self supported mountain bike from Fruita to Moab, 12.5k in a day.
Huascaran Sur (6768m) from the refuge (4650m). Only 7k feet, but still an ass-kicker.
Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim: I haven't done it, but the quintessential 10k day.
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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thread title should be
have you had to many 10,000 foot days and now need knee cartilage replacement therapy.
+1
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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There are certainly plenty of places to do it on a road or mt bike in the Wasatch. I think the biggest I've done was about 12000 on a single ride.
Several suffering souls have done 7 canyons on road bikes in a day, which equates to roughly 140 miles and 16500 ft of climbing with no repetition.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Yes, several on backcountry skis. Twice at Roger's Pass, B.C and a couple in the Middle Fork Flathead, which aint no easy task, contending with alder and tree wells down low. At these locations 4 good runs were required to get above 10K.
Let's not forget though, Greg Hill, the Canadian who managed a huge 27,000 at Roger's Pass in a day and also climbed two million vertical feet in 2011.
Arne
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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yeah, greg probably gets that every day he goes out. :)
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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most of my 10,000 foot days have been horizontal...
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Yes, many with skiing. Most skiing days I aim for 10 or above. I wear a little atimeter. However with the Epic Pass I have now it automatically calculates for you. That is all resort skiing. Back country, not so much. Running and hiking, only a few times in one day.
Susan
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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first thought was no, but 7500 -> 10,000 times four would do it
so probably yes
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ClimbingOn
Trad climber
NY
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I've done it at least twice on foot that I know of, and both around 15 hours. Possibly a few other times, but two that I know of for sure. 10,000 gain is a lot, and you definitely feel it after.
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Nohea
Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
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Biked....mtn and road by the ocean up the road to the summit of Haleakala 10k+ but its the ride down that's fun. Done that too many times to count.
Aloha,
Will
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Crackslayer
Trad climber
Eldo
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I've never done a full 10k climbing. The most I have done is 7.5k in the flattys. It was like 10 features or something like that. I've been meaning to go back up there sans partners and do it by myself but I have been too busy lately. The flatirons are the best for getting tons of climbing because you can climb so fast and if you know where you are going you can do really good link ups. I think it is possible to do 10k climbing easy in a day.
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The Lisa
Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
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Only on foot, running and hiking. The running occasions were during 50-mile races so those were some long steep hills!
There are some excellent long hikes to be done in the White Mtns of New Hampshire with plenty of elevation gain.
I have yet to ski (skin up) that amount though, that would be quite exhausting!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Did about 11k of gain/11k of loss in 16 hours doing grand canyon Rim to rim to rim... as far as fastest did San Jacinto 4:30 C2C, 2:30 up which is what, 2k gain an hour?
SPRAYSPRAYSPRAY!!!
One day Mt Rainier ascents from White River… like Liberty Ridge, Willis Wall, Winthrop or Emmons Glacier routes… comprise a 11,400 feet altitude gain.
this to me is way more impressive. Good job Jennie!
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rurprider
Trad climber
Mt. Rubidoux
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poc........I did that trail in 5 hours 13 minutes, car to car.
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steve shea
climber
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From the Rond Pointe Cafe to the summit of Mt Blanc about 13,000' hike up, from Dornan's to the summit of the Grand about 7,000' up, from the summit of Rendezvous Mt. to the parking lot 4,139'. You can rack up 20,000' easily in two hours at JHMR, 40,000' a day, cake. Kahiltna Base to the Iglooplex lots of vert.
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Descended 10,000 in a day on Kilimanjaro in 2001. My previous one day descent pr was on Williamson.
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ddriver
Trad climber
SLC, UT
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One day Mt Rainier ascents from White River… like Liberty Ridge, Willis Wall, Winthrop or Emmons Glacier routes… comprise a 11,400 feet altitude gain.
Have done this also, but thought it was just barely 10K. Max ski touring is about 7500'. I don't think riding lifts counts in this category, you have to shoot for 100K in descent to be doing something.
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steve shea
climber
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I think sub 5 min laps at JHMR staying on the same box all day is doing something IMHO. But you do use the tram. More difficult for me than any altitude gain was a 30mi nonstop speedhike from Cho Oyu bc to Tingri in Tibet. All between 15,000' and 16,000' just to catch a truck ride to the Nepali border.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Mar 11, 2013 - 11:46am PT
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Buea to the summit of Mt Cameroon is over 10K of gain (~10.4?), straight up. That was a fun day. I did that before the '99-'00 eruptions. Not sure how much of the top blew off.
I've probably had some ski tours that came close to 10K of up. Up and down? Tons of times.
Some folks are putting up some big numbers here:http://www.tahoevertical.com/
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2013 - 11:12pm PT
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Got in another one today rode Crow Peak 7 times for 10,500ft to raise about $500 bucks for the Vets Club at the college I work at.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Jun 20, 2013 - 07:55am PT
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Biggest self propelled days for me was on a bike doing the Death Ride in Alpine Co. CA:
Did the Death Ride maybe 4 or 5 times over the years then we went up and did the RAMROD (Ride Around Mt. Rainer in One Day) which I thought was harder. Blue bird day on that one, absolutely stunningly beautiful with Mt. Rainer on your left the entire day:
Don't think I've climbed or skied toured 10,000 ft. in a day? I suppose the closest was Shasta on skis car to car which I think is about 8,000 ft. Anyway hats off to all you hard men and women, 10,000 ft or more in a day is HUGE! At 60 years + now that train has left the station for me.
Charlie D.
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