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Posted by Luke
on August 27, 2009, 9:37:35
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My brother and I along with a friend summited San G on Tuesday. My brother had done it before but had camped at High Creek. We decided to go for it in one day. Hit the trail at 7:00 (an hour later than we wanted too) and Summited by 3:00. I have a sore hipflexor that was making it hard to move quick.
The weird part is all three of us started to have horrible knee pain between High Creek and Halfway, by the time we got to Vivian, we were at a crawling pace maybe .5MPH if we were lucky. I know its a hard hike, I'm not in the best of shape but I play Ice Hockey every week and skate practice as well, I ride my bike often and my friend plays soccer. Non of us are overweight. We were miserable coming down, I've never seen anything like it. We saw people jogging up and down, but we felt like we were gonna die! Anyone else ever had that horrible knee pain? Its been 3 days and I still can't walk down my stairs.