My knee is more or less healed, so I went hiking a couple days ago on that really sunny Sunday. It was just Granite / Tusk, but it felt great to be back on trails after several months. Here's a silly giant pic that shows part of the route I took--the funnest part.
I climbed Granite via the 'winter ridge,' then moved halfway down the w. ridge and just did a glissade to the valley floor before trudging back up the other side of the bowl and out toward Olalie Lake to pick up the main trail and close the short loop.
if you let this load full rez, you can see pretty much the entire snowtrack from the Granite shack hahaha
weeeeee! very friendly snow.
these doods came up the standard 'summer' ridge--pretty light snowpack this year.
So, now that I know I can hike again, it's time to start sweating off the accumulated holiday booze-fat!
Yeah, a while ago when I was crossing a creek in the Comonwealth basin, I stepped on some mossy rock and did the splits. A couple of things were immediately obvious
1. A Nureyev I am not.
2. Something snapped internally--hamstring, cartilage, gristle, whatever--some vital sinew or other that helps in walking.
I was on my back for a couple days, but it slowly got better. Now I can do pretty much everything I could do before...full power restored! I spoze I should have gone to the doctor, but you know what they're like: "Here, take these powerful, addictive opiates every few hours and refrain from all activity involving pleasure for the next several years...you should be fine. Here's a large bill."
If I have more symptoms later, maybe I'll go and at least have the imaging done so I know what got broke...heh.
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I climbed Granite via the 'winter ridge,' then moved halfway down the w. ridge and just did a glissade to the valley floor before trudging back up the other side of the bowl and out toward Olalie Lake to pick up the main trail and close the short loop.
A couple of things were immediately obvious
1. A Nureyev I am not.
2. Something snapped internally--hamstring, cartilage, gristle, whatever--some vital sinew or other that helps in walking.
I was on my back for a couple days, but it slowly got better. Now I can do pretty much everything I could do before...full power restored! 
I spoze I should have gone to the doctor, but you know what they're like: "Here, take these powerful, addictive opiates every few hours and refrain from all activity involving pleasure for the next several years...you should be fine. Here's a large bill." 
If I have more symptoms later, maybe I'll go and at least have the imaging done so I know what got broke...heh.