Had a great hike today across six peaks and I don’t know how many kilometers. It took 8 hours, though. I hiked roughly the same course over a month ago, excepting the first two and the last three kms that we covered today (I took different start and end trails), and made it in 5-and-a-half hours. I expected today’s hike to take between 6 and 7 hrs, being that my wife was with me. Unfortunately, she was suffering from quite a bit of knee and ankle pain through the last leg, so we moved along incrementally. She was a real trooper about it, though. But no more extended hikes for her. She’d rather stick to our shorter excursions.

We’re always hungry after a good hike and usually fix ourselves up with sandwhiches or a healthful Korean dish. But today we were absolutely famished. Any calories we burnt off were likely negated by the pizza, cookies and sashimi that we picked up from Costco on the way home. I love the cookies from the Costco bakery, particularly the oatmeal & raisin. And it looks like sirloin steaks for a late dinner. Not typical post-hike fare for us, but I’m not complaining today.