How many hikes did you do this Winter?

Lets try to keep this free of peakbagging. Just tell us how many hikes you did this winter. A hike is whatever you decide it is.

Tom Rankin said:

Lets try to keep this free of peakbagging. Just tell us how many hikes you did this winter. A hike is whatever you decide it is.

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Ok, it's happening again! Option '5' ( > 20 ) has disappeared!

I had this happen before, but I can not edit the Poll part of the post. Oh well...

How many weekends were there this winter?

Jay

Jay H said:

How many weekends were there this winter?

Jay

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13?

Doesn't seem like a lot. I guess if you go out and do two things each weekend, then it's 26, which sounds much better

I didn't see an option for >80... I hit the trails 'most every day, though it's usually running as opposed to walking...

Except for two weekends "urban hiking" in NYC, I think almost every weekend when the weather cooperated. I do know that my snowshoes had a much easier winter than I did !

Dave

Stinkyfeet said:

I didn't see an option for >80... I hit the trails 'most every day, though it's usually running as opposed to walking...

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I'm with Stinky on that one! Peaks bagged - zero... trails run on - a plethora.

1 hike up Liberty here, too much snowboarding!

Enough to feel like I was out there, but no so much that my family forgot who I was.

24 hikes for me during calendar winter, my most ever. Only once did I not summit successfully, including bushwhacks.

Hey Artex... where did you find trails in Maine that weren't too snowy to run on?? When I wasn't hiking, I spent the rest of the winter running on roads and I'm dying to get to some trails that aren't too icy or muddy.

I was wearing a backpack but most of my hikes were approaches for ice climbs. Only two 4K peaks this winter, but I probably got out about 14 times. Sometimes I think winter is too short!

albee said:

Hey Artex... where did you find trails in Maine that weren't too snowy to run on?? When I wasn't hiking, I spent the rest of the winter running on roads and I'm dying to get to some trails that aren't too icy or muddy.

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Maybe, snowshoe running? I have a pair tapered in the back specifically for trail running. They are great. I can't go nearly as far with them as I can running on the roads. I kept my eye open for snowshoe races this winter, but it didn't work out with the amount of snow we got in southern NH and my hiking schedule. No real worries. I'd take hiking over running any day.

I got in 2. One in December, one in March. Plantar Fascitis sucks!

My work keeps me pretty busy (6 days a week, 60-80 hours/week) through February, but then February was too darn cold to do much outdoors, so I didn't get out as much as I'd hoped.

Probably about 6-10 legitimate hikes, though, plus about as many little local forays, including a very fortunate weather window traversing Franconia Ridge, a summit of Mount Moosilauke, and some 'winter' hiking along the Long Trail during the epic thaw in early January.

albee said:

Hey Artex... where did you find trails in Maine that weren't too snowy to run on?? When I wasn't hiking, I spent the rest of the winter running on roads and I'm dying to get to some trails that aren't too icy or muddy.

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Oh, they were icy and snowy alright, at least after early-mid January when winter kicked in. The snowmobiles pack down the trails in the woods behind my house, and I run on those most often. Very muddy now though!

I'd guess around 25 hikes. Most stayed below treeline due to wind. Most involved downhill bushwacking.

Happy Trails

Days hike Winter

Hi Tom.

Decembre: 21-22-23-24-25-27 = 6
Janvier: 4-5-6-7-11-12-13-14-19-21-22-26 = 12
Février: 2-3-9-10-11-23-24-25-26 = 9
Mars: 2-3-9-10-11-16-18-19 = 8

Total between 21 december and 21 Marsh: 35 jours and 90 Hight Peaks!!!

Under my usual average...... ,

Pinpin Junior.

SteveHiker said:

I got in 2. One in December, one in March. Plantar Fascitis sucks!

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So does patello-femoral syndrome. I only got out once to Greeley Ponds, which turned out to be too much

Tim

a big 2, tecumseh and Lincoln Woods. Which is a 200% improvement over the last few years when it was 0.

Huh. Only 12. Seemed like more.

Pretty good mileage, though.