christening my fresh white evo SLs with some mud

easy hour, crispy mud

night vision

sold our beloved ‘02 tacoma tonight! 🥲

this bird’s feeling ready to fly south 🕊️

so much to share about this day! death valley is incomparable! this lowest to highest route passes through FOUR ecosystems, starting on the edge of the badwater basin salt flats, and rises all the way up through junipers and pinion, to bristlecone! primarily off-trail, it was a full-value day. bit thrown off by odd warning signs about the potability of the one spring we’d hoped to fill water at... thought we’d maybe even turn around at the top of the first ridge. it was an endless upward march to telescope, who seemingly loomed not too far ahead the entire day. from the summit, looking back down to the desert floor looks like a nearly impossible distance. absolutely wretched, tongue-chewing thirst just about the whole day. I think that’s just how this route and region go. this landscape doesn’t give you much, and you wrestle with it the whole time. emerging 11h32m later, I was stoked to set a new women’s FKT. and guzzle a bottle of apple cider i’d been dreaming about the entire day. anyone who loves ultra length off-trail adventures needs to go do this route!!! 

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Abby Hall

from -190 feet below sea level to 11,050 feet: telescope peak from shorty’s well

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christening my fresh white evo SLs with some mud

easy hour, crispy mud

night vision

sold our beloved ‘02 tacoma tonight! 🥲

this bird’s feeling ready to fly south 🕊️

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