Saturday, July 1st:
Oh man, what a day! Friday I effectively spent the day at the gym, getting there early to do some cardio before an Iyengar yoga class, then coming back for a CoreFit workout later in the afternoon. Subway in between as well as a lazy, time-killing stroll through downtown. Helped my aunt scan a few documents and hung out at her office for the rest of the day.
Today E and I decided that we would try to hike Mt. Jumbo despite the cloud cover and just see how high we could get. The trail starts off just feet from someone's house on a street on Douglas Island and doesn't waste any time getting steep. We made it into and through the first patch of woods, about a mile up, before we came out into a meadow and some serious drizzle. It felt good at the time but posed a serious hypothermia risk if we'd continued up so we decided to hike back down and start over with a new trail. Ended up at Auk Nu, a 3 mile trail with a steady incline and a cabin at the end. :-) Oh, and lots of boardwalk. Lots, and lots of boardwalk. Through the swampy meadows with their shrunken and strange trees, and the woods with the mud and roots it went, springy and dangerously slippery. After a small eternity we made it to the cabin (note of advice: never trust time estimates from a speed walker) and discovered a group of hungover teenagers and a small liquor store's worth of alcohol. They were friendly enough and we didn't stay too long. The bugs were bad and getting worse the longer we sat for lunch. We left the kids to their bear paradise of open food, wrappers, and general carelessness. The view coming back down was spectacular, the whole Juneau valley was visible, but my camera was out of juice and I'm sorry I don't have any pictures.
So that was 8 miles there. After dinner at Hot Bite (yum! fresh fish and chips is incredible!) we headed out to the Nickelodeon theatre to see An Inconvenient Truth....oh man. Al Gore is my hero. Go see that movie if you have to mortgage your house for the ticket price. Ran into some friends of E's, Blair and Jim, who promptly invited us over to dinner on Sunday. :-) Turns out we were all headed over to Only Fools Run at Midnight charity race, Jim was running and E and I were going to do the 1 mile walk with friends. The walk was a blast, people linked together in costume as centipedes and competed for prizes...one group went as a sled dog team pulling a sled and another was the entire 50 states!
Oh man, what a day! Friday I effectively spent the day at the gym, getting there early to do some cardio before an Iyengar yoga class, then coming back for a CoreFit workout later in the afternoon. Subway in between as well as a lazy, time-killing stroll through downtown. Helped my aunt scan a few documents and hung out at her office for the rest of the day.
Today E and I decided that we would try to hike Mt. Jumbo despite the cloud cover and just see how high we could get. The trail starts off just feet from someone's house on a street on Douglas Island and doesn't waste any time getting steep. We made it into and through the first patch of woods, about a mile up, before we came out into a meadow and some serious drizzle. It felt good at the time but posed a serious hypothermia risk if we'd continued up so we decided to hike back down and start over with a new trail. Ended up at Auk Nu, a 3 mile trail with a steady incline and a cabin at the end. :-) Oh, and lots of boardwalk. Lots, and lots of boardwalk. Through the swampy meadows with their shrunken and strange trees, and the woods with the mud and roots it went, springy and dangerously slippery. After a small eternity we made it to the cabin (note of advice: never trust time estimates from a speed walker) and discovered a group of hungover teenagers and a small liquor store's worth of alcohol. They were friendly enough and we didn't stay too long. The bugs were bad and getting worse the longer we sat for lunch. We left the kids to their bear paradise of open food, wrappers, and general carelessness. The view coming back down was spectacular, the whole Juneau valley was visible, but my camera was out of juice and I'm sorry I don't have any pictures.
So that was 8 miles there. After dinner at Hot Bite (yum! fresh fish and chips is incredible!) we headed out to the Nickelodeon theatre to see An Inconvenient Truth....oh man. Al Gore is my hero. Go see that movie if you have to mortgage your house for the ticket price. Ran into some friends of E's, Blair and Jim, who promptly invited us over to dinner on Sunday. :-) Turns out we were all headed over to Only Fools Run at Midnight charity race, Jim was running and E and I were going to do the 1 mile walk with friends. The walk was a blast, people linked together in costume as centipedes and competed for prizes...one group went as a sled dog team pulling a sled and another was the entire 50 states!
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