Full report with pics can be found HERE
Went up to King's Peak to tackle a double with Scott and Matt. We didn't complete the double due to some bad planning, but I still had a great time out there and it was nice becoming familiar with the route.
We ended up starting at about 10:45 PM on Friday night, going on no sleep... Mistake number 1. We took our time getting to the summit and we all felt the effects of the altitude. Matt got a bad headache and pushed ahead to tackle the summit in order to get back down. I had a little headache and felt some vertigo up near the top... Nothing too serious though. Scott puked his guts out on the way down, about 25 yards below the summit. I hung with him to make sure we got off the mountain safely. He ended up taking a 15 minute nap after we got down, which was capped off by some hallucinations. That's always fun!
Finally we pushed ahead, got Scott running again and slowly made our way down the mountain. It took us longer to get down than it took to get up the mountain. We got to the parking lot and contemplated a second lap, but there just wasn't enough time. We took well over 10 hours for lap 1, which we had hoped would be closer to 7 hours or so. Based on the time, fear of repeat headaches, puke, and hallucinations, and being up for 30 hours straight, we decided to bag it. A good call I think.
I don't ever recall feeling this good after such a demanding run. Probably because I took it really easy. I never really got breathing hard at any point and my feet had zero blisters; something that always plagues me on tough runs like this. Crazy! So now I'm sitting here seriously contemplating getting back out there to attempt the double again. If I can find time I'll try it this weekend or maybe during the week next week. I'm seriously obsessed with King's right now. Can't get it outta my head.
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