Yo-if you plan to take enough time I think being fit and prepared will be sufficient, you need to be pretty good at maps and route finding (we were swapping notes on finding hikers so lost they didn't' know which side of the continental divide they were on) and the unprepared, you can't go ultra light as the weather can get serious but you want to go as light as possible. If would help if you could plan a few days acclimation and day hiking here first.. Some interesting things about navigation here on the one hand down is west til you cross the divide and each area is bracketed by drainages, on the other mineral deposits make compasses go nuts sometimes and the trials and roads actually on the ground don't match what is on the maps. Its assumed you can do your own cross country route finding and we do have active glaciers which you either need to know how to handle or plan to avoid, ice and snow are found year round. The most popular trials are pretty easy to find but be sure to keep up on really reading maps. So...if you want to plan a few days at my boot camp I will be happy to practice skills in our little bermuda triangle known as pot creek park...
Zoj-its quiet here I guess big protests are not well tolerated and its very cold out. We'll see its weird though hearing all this craziness but being here.
SAR responses, injured climbers, late, lost and unprepared hikers, sometimes from very crazy storms, last labor day heavy snow and wind took down thousands of trees and they had to air drop supplies before they could get people out. Quite a few injured or sick hunters, mostly localish, stuck, injured snowmachiners and snow machines and fat bikers caught in avalanches, next county has the skiers caught in them we have less skiers. There was a tremendous uptick in lost/injured/unprepared hikers this year compared to previous years and a fatal climbing accident in the towers. There are always a few missing motorists who were on dirt roads. Fishing accidents too. Avalanche and fishing are most usually body recovery though. The county goes deep into the winds and the Wyoming range as well as the green river and thousands of miles of dirt roads. The team has specialty teams including avalanche, short haul (heck no), high angle, swift water, ice and diving as well as hike in type. There might be others but that's all I can recall right now. I am sure I will learn more as time goes on.
Workout oh yes I am inspires to increase push ups but had to do it in 3 parts for 21 total 3 each time military then 4 on my incline. @5 mile snowshoe late in the day after all kinds of work on the house.
