 Mount
Baldy
- Canadian Rockies
Here is another
summit for which I had no photos so I had to go back and repeat the
scramble.
This mountain is very
accessible from Calgary by way of the Kananaskis Highway. The trail
head is just a short 10 minute drive from the trans-Canada highway
so don't hesitate to check this one out.
Just one note though.
Be careful of where you park. Some vehicles are parked near a rock
wall that is popular with sport climbers. The trailhead parking is
at the bottom of the hill just beyond the small rocky pass the
highway goes through.
What is a subdural hematoma on a thigh?
That translates
to OUCH MY LEG!!!
Go at a pace that is
comfortable and not let your competitive spirit get you into
trouble. Just ignore others if they comment on your speed. They can
just wait!
On another trip to
this mountain one individual decided the steep trail was way way out
of her league after just 5 minutes of climbing. There is no doubt that going
up a mountain, any mountain, is a lot of work for the legs. Soft
legs will burn quickly.
However if you want
to loose weight scrambling is far superior to just about anything.
You'll firm up so fast it'll make your head spin. I lost 35 lbs or
more in just one month of scrambling with an average of one scramble
every three days. One pound of fat is 4000 kcal. That multiplies out
to 140000 kcal or about 560 cliff bars. I'll have to double check
the math but I think that is correct.
Hello
After that month, I
was addicted. I started to like the way I felt and wanted more. Then
I became a vegetarian. Then I started to feel weird. I was having
flashes of adrenalin when I would think about certain things. It's
like I was hyper-sensitized. That didn't last long though, only a
week or two. I don't know what happened to me and I still remember
that time. Thinking about it is strange. It was like another world.
I should devote a
page to conditioning some time but for now I will include a short
list of things you can do to build strong legs and stamina.
- ride a mountain
bike hard for 3days x 20k = 60k per week. Half the weeks (26)
would equal 1560k/year.
- start with small
mountain
scrambles and work your way up slowly at first to larger goals.
- get sufficient
protein and perhaps take a joint supplements like
calcium/magnesium, glucosamine
sulfate, Methyl Sulfonyl Methane (MSM) and Devils Claw. And don't
drink booze, it's a proven joint destroyer, your knees already
have a mountainous burden, don't compound it.
- let your legs
recuperate, don't be to quick to go back. Re-hydrate and eat
carbohydrates to aid in
muscle recuperation. It takes several years of training to get
where it's totally comfortable to do these peaks. Low carb diets
are all the rage, primarily because of their popularity with
marketers.
- ladies take it
easy if you have knee problems. Cycle and weight train first.
- go to the gym and
do your squats and other leg strengthening exercises with the help of a trainer.
- descend carefully. Don't run down
for any more that a few hundred meters until your legs are use to
it. This usually requires a few recuperations until you are ready
to try running all the way down a short mountain like
Prairie Mountain.
I hope that helps.
The photos on this
page are from a trip that did not see me make it to the summit,
however the photos are sufficient to construct a fake page I
believe.
 t is foolish to tear one's hair
in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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