LongSlowBurn
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Washington State, USA
Posts: 119
from
Washington State, USA
Posts: 119
"My most important classes in college were Kung Fu, Judo, and Beginning Gym Tumbling: those are the classes that taught me how to fly through the air and land on my head without dying."
Saturday through Sunday - July 6th through 14th, 2024
Vacation!
Crater Lake is... technically exactly what it says on the label, but that rim in the distance is around 6 miles (9.6 km) away. The crater in question was, about 7700 years ago, a 14,000 foot (4,300 meter) volcanic mountain. Over a couple of hundred years, volcanic activity started to pick up, with small-ish eruptions here and there, but then things went big. An eruption started at about the half-way mark on the mountainside, then a ring around the mountain unzipped and blew straight up into the sky. Rock and ash that moved away from the upward force of the volcano came down in pyroclastic flows, killing everything in a 30 mile (50 km) radius and completely filling in glacial and river cut valleys around the countryside, which rivers and streams had to spend nearly 8000 years carving back out.
It's been a while, but I seem to recall seeing a layer of ash from this eruption uncovered about 300 miles (480 km) away about 10 years ago. Twelve cubic kilometers of rock simply went everywhere. The entire magma chamber beneath the mountain emptied in a caldera eruption over the course of a week or two before things got worse. As with the chamber empty and the eruption running its course, the parts of the mountain that were now in the sky decided to come straight down. The remains of the mountain collapsed into the chamber and left a massive hole in the ground where a mountain peak used to stand. Over the next few hundred years, follow-up smaller eruptions went off and slowly melted the bottom of the crater into solid rock. Rain and snowfall did the rest, creating the lake you see above.
Makes for good hiking and camping, though!
I'd planned on a workout program that would work with my vacation, but that didn't exactly work. ...Work. Anyway, things were mostly okay until Tuesday came along and I tripped over a boulder. Result: multiple scrapes on my right ankle, multiple scrapes and bruises on my right knee, a scrape on my left wrist, and I jammed my right wrist. I also took said boulder straight to the intestines...
but fortunately, I came away bruiseless and without internal injuries. But, the jammed wrist made it difficult to impossible to continue the push up challenge. I got plenty of walking in, but none of the Part 2 sections of 60 Days of Walking. I did sneak in a few Better Core Challenges, but it wasn't steady. As a result, I settled for my hiking (combined 16 miles and around 7 hours of time) and getting eaten alive by mosquitos.
Monday through Wednesday - July 15th - 17th, 2024
New plan! I'm switching out walking for punching things! Also, the push up challenge is out. It's the 17th and my wrist still hurts. But I should be able to catch up on Better Core Challenge.
Fireheart Program. Days 1, 2, and 3. Completed at Level 3 on Day 1 and 2, and at Level 1 on Day 3. The 17th is just dragging on. I really gotta get to bed...
Better Core Challenge. Days 10 through 15. Side Bridges and Balance Swings. Complete. I'm doing two days at a time until I catch up. Three more days of this and I should be good.
Okay, bed time. I was going to do dinner, but I just want sleep. Night!
Vacation!
Crater Lake is... technically exactly what it says on the label, but that rim in the distance is around 6 miles (9.6 km) away. The crater in question was, about 7700 years ago, a 14,000 foot (4,300 meter) volcanic mountain. Over a couple of hundred years, volcanic activity started to pick up, with small-ish eruptions here and there, but then things went big. An eruption started at about the half-way mark on the mountainside, then a ring around the mountain unzipped and blew straight up into the sky. Rock and ash that moved away from the upward force of the volcano came down in pyroclastic flows, killing everything in a 30 mile (50 km) radius and completely filling in glacial and river cut valleys around the countryside, which rivers and streams had to spend nearly 8000 years carving back out.
It's been a while, but I seem to recall seeing a layer of ash from this eruption uncovered about 300 miles (480 km) away about 10 years ago. Twelve cubic kilometers of rock simply went everywhere. The entire magma chamber beneath the mountain emptied in a caldera eruption over the course of a week or two before things got worse. As with the chamber empty and the eruption running its course, the parts of the mountain that were now in the sky decided to come straight down. The remains of the mountain collapsed into the chamber and left a massive hole in the ground where a mountain peak used to stand. Over the next few hundred years, follow-up smaller eruptions went off and slowly melted the bottom of the crater into solid rock. Rain and snowfall did the rest, creating the lake you see above.
Makes for good hiking and camping, though!
I'd planned on a workout program that would work with my vacation, but that didn't exactly work. ...Work. Anyway, things were mostly okay until Tuesday came along and I tripped over a boulder. Result: multiple scrapes on my right ankle, multiple scrapes and bruises on my right knee, a scrape on my left wrist, and I jammed my right wrist. I also took said boulder straight to the intestines...
but fortunately, I came away bruiseless and without internal injuries. But, the jammed wrist made it difficult to impossible to continue the push up challenge. I got plenty of walking in, but none of the Part 2 sections of 60 Days of Walking. I did sneak in a few Better Core Challenges, but it wasn't steady. As a result, I settled for my hiking (combined 16 miles and around 7 hours of time) and getting eaten alive by mosquitos.
Monday through Wednesday - July 15th - 17th, 2024
New plan! I'm switching out walking for punching things! Also, the push up challenge is out. It's the 17th and my wrist still hurts. But I should be able to catch up on Better Core Challenge.
Fireheart Program. Days 1, 2, and 3. Completed at Level 3 on Day 1 and 2, and at Level 1 on Day 3. The 17th is just dragging on. I really gotta get to bed...
Better Core Challenge. Days 10 through 15. Side Bridges and Balance Swings. Complete. I'm doing two days at a time until I catch up. Three more days of this and I should be good.
Okay, bed time. I was going to do dinner, but I just want sleep. Night!
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