maggot down?

[alpinepronghorn]

Damn. 27, eh? I'm going to have to step it up. My best is 35, but that was before the bros showed up

Yeah, Rork's the man, he did my MCL. I don't notice a thing except for the big nasty scar, but that's my own fault (sliced myself to the bone with a ski edge.) Don't let the bow ties throw you, you're in good hands.

(And Suit, the best time I've heard rumors of is Tiff at TM in 25. I'm sure guys like Romeo and Rob from SS can lay down sub 20's...)

[stump832]

had an MRI - torn meniscus, but seems like it could be repaired. we'll know more tomorrow @ 3pm, when i go under.

sorry about the injury, but hey - at least you had a great season. good luck with the surgery, dude.

[Humble]

had an MRI - torn meniscus, but seems like it could be repaired. we'll know more tomorrow @ 3pm, when i go under.

thanks for the good vibes!

best wishes + prayers

[grizzle6]

Good luck with the recovery. This will finally give you some time to organize your nudy collection. Sweet.

[upallnight]

Thanks for all the well-wishes. Got out of surgery a little while ago, and I am psyched!

The doc was able to repair the meniscus arthroscopically and flip the tissue back into position -- it had flipped out of place and was causing pretty severe pain over the last 18h and preventing me from moving my knee at all. That alone helped reduce the pain a tremendous amount.

Now, I'm absolutely psyched that there was enough tissue in good shape to do a repair. I'm told I will recover 100% with minimal long-term issues. I won't konw the target recovery period until Monday, but I am psyched and ready to work as hard as necessary (and reasonably, of course) to be back in the mountains ASAP.

Who knows? With this year's snowpack, I may still be able to get to the high peaks for a descent, and I should be able to get out for some climbs.

P.S. I'm sure my time on Glory was an aberration, because most often I'm in the mid-30s. I think it was just a rare combination of feeling good, some luck, and steps that were firm and perfectly supportable (and knowing which ones to avoid because I'd stepped/sunk in them earlier).

On a powder day, things would be totally different.

Don't the "big" (=fast) guys (Romeo, et. al.) do up to 6,000 vertical an hour? Wow. Staggering.

[upallnight]

Damn. 27, eh? I'm going to have to step it up. My best is 35, but that was before the bros showed up

...

(And Suit, the best time I've heard rumors of is Tiff at TM in 25. I'm sure guys like Romeo and Rob from SS can lay down sub 20's...)

Yeah, I'm sure sub-20s is possible.

For whatever it's worth, I hiked it with pack, shovel (metal), probe, beacon, 1st aid kit, extra layers, water, food, headlamp, digicam, gps.... so I wasn't going bare-bones.

APH: The new setup probably saves you, what, at least 7-10 pounds? Awesome! Did you do that full-moon hike?

[SherpaStyle]

Glad surgery went well! Yeh, 27 is pretty rediculous. Nice work. I bumped my personal best down to 36 today. That seems pretty slow compared to sub 30s. Now I only need to get rid of 13 more minutes according to The Suit...

[upallnight]

I'm not normally timing it, but I'm happy with anything under 40 day-in, day-out.

How was the snow?

[Plakespear]

Hey- it could have been a lot worse- at least you didn't break yyour tibial plateau hours before planning on leaving on a 2 week cross country road/ski trip (what kind of idiot does something like that?)

[rideit]

Rork rebuilt me better than before. I blew out my ACL/MCL and PCL, all three at once. I had a rough recovery, but now that knee is in better shape than the 'good' one!
Best glory time, 34 minutes, full gear, full pack.
Sub thirty sounds....painful.
I remember sprint racing the flatter section to the summit just for shits and giggles...my buddy Chris and I ran to the cave at about the same time, there were twenty people or so milling about. We put on our race faces, and Chris got all serious, looked at his watch all serious like, and said..."I got twenty-two and eighteen...what did you get?"
I couldn't keep a straight face...

[The Sneak]

OK I've migrated here.

My first post is to tell you to heal fast!

[upallnight]

Hey- it could have been a lot worse- at least you didn't break yyour tibial plateau hours before planning on leaving on a 2 week cross country road/ski trip (what kind of idiot does something like that?)

Hey... That is a rough break...These things never seem to come at a convenient time, though, right? Sometimes it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry.

Ugh...Sending some healing vibes your way.

[upallnight]

Rork rebuilt me better than before. I blew out my ACL/MCL and PCL, all three at once. I had a rough recovery, but now that knee is in better shape than the 'good' one!

That's awesome to hear! I am already so psyched. I'm feeling pretty good, though I feel most bad for my little puppy who is cooped up inside b/c I can't give her a proper walk.

Can't wait for my Monday visit w/ Rork and get the full prognosis. I think I'm going to be back quick...and maybe even get to make a turn or two (in June?? )

We put on our race faces, and Chris got all serious, looked at his watch all serious like, and said..."I got twenty-two and eighteen...what did you get?"
I couldn't keep a straight face...

That's awesome! Earlier this year, I was hiking the Headwall to get to Granite from the top of the Gondi late in the day (right @ 2p, just before they closed it). I passed a guy; as he stepped aside, I made a casual comment like, "This hike's always a workout, huh?"

His reply? "Yeah...this is the 13th time I've done it today."

I laughed & did some quick math in my head and realized that even if this guy was blazing (15 min 1st Gondi ride + 10 min/hike + 2 min at the top + 5 min down + 2 min @ the bottom...+ 12 more Gondi rides > 5h) -- which he clearly wasn't at that point -- it would have been impossible to ski top-to-bottom & ride the Gondi up 13 times between 9a & 2p.

Turned out he was hiking up and skiing the same boot track line back down to the base of the hike (a little odd considering there was great pow all over had he gone just another minute further).

I still wonder if that was an honest 13....but the bigger question to me was if you are going to bother to do 13 hikes @ 3-400' vert per hike, why not go somewhere interesting???

The real reason it made me laugh is that whenever I'm being passed by someone (and it seems like around here there is *always* somebody who will blow by you -- always humbling esp when feeling like you're on your best day), I have an urge to say, "Yeah, 5th time's a killer, huh?"

...just to screw around...

I don't race anyone else, but I often like to take a look at the time to see how I'm doing. I realized that I can't tell just by how I feel -- I have plenty of times where I "feel fast" but am very slow...or other days when I feel like I'm absolutely dragging, but my time is OK.

It's all about the fun of it; the timing's just a minor distraction.

[SherpaStyle]

How was the snow?

Not too great. I didn't get up there until late (7pm), so the top was refrozen, the middle 20 turns were creamy and the bottom was soupy due to 4 days w/o a freeze. Didnt make it out today...I was dissuaded by the am rain and had a pretty intense game of Truck Tetris going that took most of the morning. 7 pairs of skis, 4 pairs of boots, 2 bikes, a couple tents, sleeping bags and a lot of misc gear. Yep, its a good thing I got the HD.

I lost my watch awhile ago, so I hadn't been timing myself. I've found that I move a lot faster when I have something to gauge my progress on.

Good Luck with rehab, UAN.