Afternoon Run

pretending to be a road runner with steven

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Morning Run

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Some fun scrambling, some chossy bullshit

3a start with a goal of hitting the saddle around 6:30. Slightly slower than expected due to the difficulty of spotting cairns in a giant boulder field in the dark. 

Goat encounters:
- Right as we were about to start the real scrambling, a goat yeeted a bowling ball-sized rock down the face we were about to begin climbing. Definitely a bit sobering, but did prime us to be very goat-aware for the rest of the day.
- Had to wait out a goat family (2 adults, 2 very small kids) when coming down the ledge traverse. They were really keeping their eyes on us but eventually made their way off the path.

Realized on the way down that we'd had the iconic "Maroon Bells over the lake" view on the way up, but had no idea since it was pitch black. 

Very fun day - felt like a difficulty level-up as well (both in routefinding and scrambling on occasionally crappy rock), but felt pretty comfortable/confident all day. Feel very fortunate to get to do cool things like this with friends. 

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