Sunday, July 01, 2007San Gorgonio: 11,502 ft. Barefoot Up Huarache Down
Me, Larry and Jeff: Summit of San Gorgonio
Headstand on the Summit
One Hemp and One Leather Huarache with 6mm Vibram
Coming down in huaraches
What a great climb. Barefoot runner Larry Miquelon of Moreno Valley, CA invited me to climb Mt. San Gorgonio, the highest peak in Southern California, with him and his son Jeff. He had recently purchased some huarache kits and was eager to test them on a real mountain run.
Spent the night Friday, got up early Saturday and headed for the South Fork Trail. On the way to the trail, we ran into Angeles Crest 100 veteran Angel Perez running along the highway and said hello.
From parking lot to summit is 11.6 miles. Larry and I went up barefoot. Barefooting is much easier than it seems when going up, even steep rocky trails. We both summitted barefoot. It took 4 hours to make it to the top.
Coming down we switched into huaraches. As you can imagine, we got interesting comments and questions both ways.
BFT
PS. Read about my barefoot climbs of Mt. Whitney, tallest mountain USA (except Alaska) click here.
Mt. San Gorgonio, tallest peak in Southern California, 11.502 ft. (3,505 meters)
Spent the night Friday, got up early Saturday and headed for the South Fork Trail. On the way to the trail, we ran into Angeles Crest 100 veteran Angel Perez running along the highway and said hello.
From parking lot to summit is 11.6 miles. Larry and I went up barefoot. Barefooting is much easier than it seems when going up, even steep rocky trails. We both summitted barefoot. It took 4 hours to make it to the top.
Coming down we switched into huaraches. As you can imagine, we got interesting comments and questions both ways.
BFT
PS. Read about my barefoot climbs of Mt. Whitney, tallest mountain USA (except Alaska) click here.
Mt. San Gorgonio, tallest peak in Southern California, 11.502 ft. (3,505 meters)Labels: barefoot running, huaraches
posted by Barefoot Ted at Sunday, July 01, 2007
3 Comments:
Wow. Looks like a nice test for your feet. Good job and looking forward to testing my own pair of Huaraches soon.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Hi Ted,
That sounded like marvellous fun! I climbed a small peak called Cnicht in Wales on Christmas day 2005, barefoot, in the snow, with my family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnicht
Was for me a quick up and down affair, but for the children, a long, epic adventure with their crazy uncle! We don't really have any high mountains in the British Isles....
Nearest ones are the Alps.
Yanni.
Barefoot runner since December 2004
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
That makes lots of sence, comming down rocky hills I try to kind of do tiny jumps down from rock to rock rather then just fall(runningbarefoot type of falling! not actual falling) but that can be dangerous since the rocks could be so loose.. It's so scary to just run down steep rocky areas at times. Looked like some good fun:)
Don't have many big open mountains like that around here. All smaller and covered with trees which is nice too, I should get farther away from my house more.
Such nice pics!
There was no snow up here on christmas ironically and I got to go on a barefoot walk with my parents, put some raindeer bells on the dog and we walked around at 1:00am. Was cold but fun!
Tring to think of ways to get my dog pulling again, he's like you're dog Ted, if he sees something he's gone haha. If he sees gum on the ground he stops and eats it...
Then good luck getting him to go strait again.
Josh
Thursday, July 05, 2007
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