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My in-laws, several of their friends and I climbed Mokelumne Peak this Saturday. (You want to feel physically inadequate? Hike with a bunch of really, really athletic 40-50 year olds.)
It's about a 16 miles round-trip. You hike down into the Tanglefoot Canyon, ascend, and you then climb up the mountain. And then there's a 300-foot pile of boulders that greets you at the top.
Overall, it's about a 3,800 feet change in elevation. Not bad for a Midwestern flat-lander like myself.
The weather was warm, so we didn't have to fight through much snow. The trail is a little rough in some areas, especially climbing out of the canyon. I don't think anyone has really been doing much maintenance with the trails lately. And, if the roster at the top of the peak is correct, we were the first people up at the top of the mountain in 2012.
I tried using my new MotoActv GPS to track the hike, but I didn't have much luck. I either kept hitting the pause button or the workout automatically paused -- I'm not sure what happened. At the end of the hike, it said that we had only gone about 10 miles. (I tend to side more with my father in-law's Garmin data. Every website that I've looked at says the hike is about 16 miles.) The heart rate monitor seemed to work fine, so I think I'll give the MotoActv another chance before I give a full review. I'll take it on a shorter run and see how it works.
Overall, not a bad little hike! I'm getting spoiled living out here in the mountains.
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