Apr 30 2006
Hagg Lake Hike
We tried a little TOOO hard this week. We went with my folks, Ray & Carrie, Drew & Kelly down to Hagg Lake. They went fishing and we went hiking. The trail is just over 15 miles around the lake. We ended up hiking 9.7 miles, for 20240 steps, at 2.9 mph, burning 1475 calories. The trail was awesome. In some parts it was a little annoying because we had to hike on the road over bridges, but the majority was crazy thick woods and very rustic trails. Parts of the trail were 1 foot wide and we had to hike heal/toe while dodging low hanging branches. Once we got to the 9.7 mile mark we eventually called over walkie-talkie to get a pickup on the other side of the lake from where they were. We had some fruit and hit the road. We’re both sore today but it’s well worth it. Next week we’re going to shoot for another 4-5 mile hike not something as big as this week. Honestly it’s not even the distance that’s killing us, it’s the challenge of the elevation changes of the hikes we did this week and last week. UP AND DOWN UP AND DOWN, my legs are killing me. Thanks to the boots though, my feet feel fine.