Another day...

Still recovering from some sort of gluteal muscle pull. Elliptical for 60 minutes today.

This year, I spent a week in the Adirondacks, ice climbing on all but 1 day where we practiced rescue skills. We spent a lot of time on hauling systems. The best part of skills days is learning about techniques that allow you to do things you didn't know you could. The worst part is not getting many opportunities to practice the skills. About a month after getting back, I had a chance to practice my hauling systems, when the tractor with the front end loader stopped running. I still had to pull the 500 pound post driver into a tree to remount it on the large tractor, but now I needed another way to get it there.

This is the 6:1 hauling system I rigged up, running it through a locking carabiner, which is slung to a branch about 25 feet up in the tree. Worked great. I felt great that I could rig it up without referring to notes.

Oh, and we drove about 15 posts a few days later.