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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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