3,000 vertical feet, around 3 miles, 1 hour and 45 minutes
This is Aspen Mountain, and me hiking that really steep trail you can see. Also rocky.
No one told me that the first 2/3 of the hike was basically like a stairmaster: straight vertical, on a road, no interesting scenery.
Luckily, the hike got better. More details at this is life in austin & aspen.
Wondering why I wore the Vibrams? Well besides that I like the feeling of shoe between my toes, I’m pretty convinced that running, walking, and hiking barefoot are much better for you than the alternative. With hikes, however, you often have to worry about rocky terrain, so I wore my Five Fingers on this trip thinking I remembered the terrain from my previous short forays as being pretty smooth. It was not. But it was little rocks, not big ones, and it turned out fine.
Other than the blister on the bottom of my foot from getting the Vibrams wet and keeping on hiking.
More on the benefits of barefoot running and notes on pacing in the Evolutionary Correct Guide to Running.
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