Global Peak - 12/11/12

 Super Tuesday hikes never seem to disappoint ... especially when Richard Natale is in the driver's seat. Is there anywhere this man won't venture into? Richard, Jerry Th. and Laszlo offer the photos from the hike today. Jerry sends the GPS track that did some bouncing within the deep sandstone scrambling. (Corrections were made on the maps.) And, our wonderfully poetic Mike OC wrote the comments below. He calls it Global Peak by the Numbers.

14 Tuesday hikers

 3 distaff trekkers

 1 new member

10 first-timers to Global Peak

 2 persons in dungarees (never wear jeans on a scramble)

38 degrees Fahrenheit beginning of hike

51 degrees Fahrenheit end of hike

508 photos shot by Kay Komuro

 7 hiking poles abandoned upon reaching the sandstone

11             shoelace reties by the author

56 appendages in contact with the sandstone at any given time (4x14)

 2 nasty downclimbs

 2 nasty upclimbs

 3 precarious sections

 3 blood-shedders

3.5 hours on the trail

4.25 miles hiked

2100 vertical feet accumulated

 0 whines

13 pats on the back for Richard Natale

14 smiles at the end of the hike

 0 reasons not to go back to Global Peak