{"id":76450,"date":"2011-12-23T01:38:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T06:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/76450\/tour-djoko-bridal-veil-falls-lake-serene-edition\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T01:38:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T06:38:58","slug":"tour-djoko-bridal-veil-falls-lake-serene-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/76450\/tour-djoko-bridal-veil-falls-lake-serene-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the Tour d’Joko: Bridal Veil Falls & Lake Serene Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

My leg muscles feel like jello.\u00a0 My feet ache like they\u2019ve trampled upon by a herd of wild llamas. My knees are like those a 93 year old career ditch-digger.\u00a0 Yes, I hurt.\u00a0 See, I hiked 9 miles today.\u00a0 That number may not sound like a tremendously long distance, even for a 41 year-old pack-a-day smoker who could stand to lose 50 pounds or so.\u00a0 Healthy adults can walk 20 to 25 miles a day.\u00a0 Ah, but here\u2019s the thing, my walk also included a 2500 foot elevation rise, the equivalent of walking up the stairs of two Empire State Buildings.\u00a0 And back down.\u00a0 And it was covered in rocks, ice and stream beds.<\/font><\/p>\n

It was Hell. Most difficult hike I\u2019ve ever been on.<\/font><\/p>\n

And I am so glad I made the trip.<\/p>\n

My first Tour d\u2019Joko trip since getting my car back\u2026<\/p>\n

I walked nine miles.\u00a0 You can watch a nine minute video.<\/p>\n

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Some notes on the video and my day:<\/font><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 I find out there really isn\u2019t such a thing as \u201cbear repellant spray\u201d.\u00a0 Well, maybe there is, but they don\u2019t sell it at Fred Meyer, and they sell everything at Fred Meyer.<\/font><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 I\u2019ve become a hesitant, scared driver. As you may know, I\u2019ve just gotten back on the road after a 20 month absence, and driving a car is not like riding a bicycle! Perhaps it\u2019s because of what happened in March 2010, but I\u2019ve been experiencing some mini panic attacks since I started driving again.\u00a0 I\u2019m hesitant.\u00a0 Timid.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure I totally annoyed the people behind me as I puttered along at 50 mph on the 55 mph one-lane highway that lead to the trail head this morning.<\/p>\n

3. Harry Connick Jr plays the piano at the end of the video.<\/p>\n

\"\"4.\u00a0 The white, fluffy, frost stuff.\u00a0 The sentient frost-life that I murdered\u2026 Since I\u2019ve been home, I\u2019ve done some research on the internet and discovered that what I was seeing was very rare \u201cfrost flowers\u201d.\u00a0 This is frost that is created when freezing cold air actually draws the moisture out of plant life in a steady flow that creates these flowery patterns. The exact type I was looking at is also called \u201cFrost beards\u201d.. that link is to the Wikipedia entry.\u00a0 It was not that Frost Beards develop on newly fallen branches (a poor branch that has lost its strength, yet has lots of moisture still in its sap has it ripped out of by the brutal thermal forces of the otherwise innocuous sounding \u201cfrost flowers\u201d\u2026sounds like branch rape to me), it\u2018s that the bark actually gets ripped off the foliage in the process of creating this kind of frost.\u00a0\u00a0 Never seen anything like it in my life.\u00a0 I have no idea why it is so rare.\u00a0 I hope to see it again.<\/p>\n

5. As I note at the end of the video, it was the hardest hike of my life.\u00a0 Perhaps this explains why, once I got to the top, I started speaking to the mountain and the lake as if they were puppy dogs.<\/p>\n

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My leg muscles feel like jello.\u00a0 My feet ache like they\u2019ve trampled upon by a herd of wild llamas. My knees are like those a 93 year old career ditch-digger.\u00a0 Yes, I hurt.\u00a0 See, I hiked 9 miles today.\u00a0 That number may not sound like a tremendously long distance, even for a 41 year-old pack-a-day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,44,17,10,8,837],"tags":[4656,4658,81,4657],"class_list":["post-76450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-holidays","category-home","category-life","category-music","category-nature-2","tag-bridal-veil-falls","tag-cascade-mountains","tag-joko","tag-lake-serene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}