 Topic Name: Kokopelli route and rules?
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Reply #20 on: October 31, 2013, 01:40:50 PM
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Matt Schiff
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« Reply #20 on: October 31, 2013, 01:40:50 PM » |
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Dan, I'm leaving from Moab so our paths should cross for sure
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Topic Name: Kokopelli route and rules?
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Reply #21 on: October 31, 2013, 01:46:32 PM
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DanHickstein
Location: Boulder, CO
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« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2013, 01:46:32 PM » |
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Great! I look forward to running into you out there.
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Topic Name: Kokopelli route and rules?
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Reply #22 on: November 01, 2013, 03:47:30 PM
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Joliver
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« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2013, 03:47:30 PM » |
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Good luck, Dan and Matt! Enjoy! Should be a blast!
Jerry
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Topic Name: Kokopelli route and rules?
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Reply #23 on: November 02, 2013, 10:36:53 PM
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Topic Name: Kokopelli route and rules?
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Reply #24 on: November 03, 2013, 06:03:43 AM
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Done
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« Reply #24 on: November 03, 2013, 06:03:43 AM » |
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Wow, Matt, that's awesome. 2 minutes shy of the record! Nice work!
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"Done"
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Topic Name: Kokopelli route and rules?
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Reply #25 on: November 03, 2013, 07:30:56 AM
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DanHickstein
Location: Boulder, CO
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« Reply #25 on: November 03, 2013, 07:30:56 AM » |
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You missed the record by two mins??? Omg! You should not have stopped for two minutes to say hi to me! If there had not been 6" of snow on ~2 miles of two-track before La Sal Mountain Road, you would have nabbed the record for sure!
I started at the Loma trailhead at 7:37 on Friday night, rode through some sub-freezing temps, picked up some delicious water/burrito drops (thanks to the girlfriend!), and ended up in Moab sometime right around 5:30, so about 22 hours. I probably could have gone a little faster, but UPS–LPS-Porcupine was too much to resist, even after 130 miles of riding.
Awesome trail! Not too much sand this time of year, and only a little bit of horrible mud in the La Sals. I saw lots of elk and heard many coyotes during the night. It's a very cool place to be.
Again, Nice job Matt!
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Topic Name: Kokopelli route and rules?
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Reply #26 on: November 04, 2013, 10:28:09 AM
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Matt Schiff
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« Reply #26 on: November 04, 2013, 10:28:09 AM » |
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Dan, riding through all that cold must have been miserable. There was a bit of an inversion so at 5000-7000 ft was certainly the coldest, but I was climbing most of that time and still freezing.
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Topic Name: Kokopelli route and rules?
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Reply #27 on: November 05, 2013, 08:05:38 PM
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DanHickstein
Location: Boulder, CO
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« Reply #27 on: November 05, 2013, 08:05:38 PM » |
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I was surprised about riding in the cold: it was really not that bad. No wind, and I think that it was maybe 25 at the coldest. I never rode in more than a fleece, and I brought a lot of different glove options, so the hands were comfortable. By the time I started climbing above 6k, the sun was up. So, in general, conditions were really good. The mud right before UPS was pretty bad, but only for a mile.
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