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How I prepare my knees for 8 western mountain backpacking trips per year...at age 77
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<blockquote data-quote="Slick8" data-source="post: 2669198" data-attributes="member: 52585"><p>I've been thinking of looking this thread up. I did 36 miles gaining and loosing ~1000 feet per day. It was national forest so virtually no trails with the exception of the odd elk trail. Lots of rocks and dead falls.</p><p></p><p>I killed on the last morning of the hunt, day 5 and made the decision to make the 2 mile trek down a canyon to town vs the 4 mile walk to the truck. It was a nasty canyon full of rocks, bolders and dead falls from the burn. My pack with gear and half a deer was 92 pounds.</p><p></p><p><strong>No knee pain for the entire trip, I was ecstatic regarding my physical fitness except for my cardio. As a flat lander there's nothing that will make it easy but I seemed to struggle on the really steep stuff more than I thought I would. But while not in big mountains we were at 8k and extremely steep and rugged.</strong></p><p></p><p>Since this is LRH I feel compelled to mention I took this deer at 0900 with a 7 saum at 640 yards in a light snow.</p><p></p><p>Not the biggest deer we saw but I believe im taking what the mountain offers and had a GREAT hunt enjoying every minute.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]412387[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]412388[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slick8, post: 2669198, member: 52585"] I've been thinking of looking this thread up. I did 36 miles gaining and loosing ~1000 feet per day. It was national forest so virtually no trails with the exception of the odd elk trail. Lots of rocks and dead falls. I killed on the last morning of the hunt, day 5 and made the decision to make the 2 mile trek down a canyon to town vs the 4 mile walk to the truck. It was a nasty canyon full of rocks, bolders and dead falls from the burn. My pack with gear and half a deer was 92 pounds. [B]No knee pain for the entire trip, I was ecstatic regarding my physical fitness except for my cardio. As a flat lander there's nothing that will make it easy but I seemed to struggle on the really steep stuff more than I thought I would. But while not in big mountains we were at 8k and extremely steep and rugged.[/B] Since this is LRH I feel compelled to mention I took this deer at 0900 with a 7 saum at 640 yards in a light snow. Not the biggest deer we saw but I believe im taking what the mountain offers and had a GREAT hunt enjoying every minute. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_3388.jpg"]412387[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_3381.jpg"]412388[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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