January 4, 2013 Skiing to Big Meadows

Title: January 4, 2013 Skiing to Big Meadows

Trail head: Big Meadows Winter Parking Lot

Hike Info:

Trail: Big Meadows Road

Destination: Big Meadows Warming Station

Actual Destination: Big Meadows Summer Tailhead

Distance: 7.4 miles

Travel Time: 3:17 (2.25mph)

Moving Time: 2:51 (2.60mph)

Elevation Rise: 639'

Maximum Elevation: 7,817'

Falls: 2 by Gary

Calories Burned: 2,883

Average Heart Rate: 143

High Heart Rate: 162

Description:
Sherri is sick, or at least getting over a sickness. So Steven and I took off cross-country skiing to one of our old stand-by places: Big Meadows, close to Grant Grove. It is a fine, beautiful day, unlike when we took my brother and Andrea up there a couple of years ago.

Being the first ski of the season, we, or should I say, I am, a bit wobbly. Anyway, we enjoy ourselves as we go along the ski tracks. A bit up, a bit down, with two real downs for me, but no face plants. We get to the Big Meadow warming hut. Today it is not needed, but it is a good place to sit down for a few minutes, and that is what we do. We have a Clif bar and then continue on.



We decide to continue on up the road for another mile to the Weaver Lake trailhead. Getting a bit hungry, we turn around and back we come. Nothing very spectacular. But just a plain old good day of skiing.