Well, I gave it a good shot, but didn’t finish this year at Leadville. As you can see from my splits below, I did very well for the first 50, slowed a little, but stayed ahead of my 2007 pace clear to Halfmoon. I was still way ahead of cutoffs.
August 1, 2008
For my 50th birthday on August 1st, I contemplated what I could do to celebrate this ancient milestone. I figured since I was officially “over the hill,” why not go over some huge hills? I decided to accomplish something probably never accomplished before. I wanted to summit the three highest peaks in Utah and return to the trailhead, all in one day without using a base camp.
The three peaks, located in the Uinta Mountains are:
1- Kings Peak – 13,528
2- South Kings Peak – 13,512
3- Gilbert Peak – 13,442