Van Vleck - Eldorado National Forest 22.- 23. 1. 2011

I can't miss any opportunity to go to mountains in the winter, so when Kim from Mountaineering Meetup reserved hut in Eldorado National Forest and organized it as a meetup I was in! 9 of us met at the trailhead on Saturday morning, 5 took snowshoes, 4 skis and we took off. Somehow we managed to get lost - we followed blue diamonds, but apparently all the trails in the area were marked with blue diamonds, so not much help. Luckily with help of modern technology we found our way to the hut. For dinner was nice fish stew, broccoli, and as a dessert apple pie. It the morning we cleaned up and after two and half hours, this time without getting lost we were back at our cars.
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Nemohu nechat ujít žádnou příležitost jít do hor v zimě, takže když Kim z Moutaineering Meetup zarezervovala chatu v Eldoradu národním lese a zorganizovala to jako "Meetup" hned jsem se prihlasila! 9 se nás potkalo na zacatku cesty v sobotu ráno, 5 vzalo sněžnice, 4 lyze a vyrazili jsme. Nějak se nám podařilo se ztratit - sledovali jsme modré znacky, ale zřejmě všechny tratě v oblasti byly označeny modre, takže zadny div. Naštěstí s pomocí moderní technologie jsme našli cestu k chatě. Na večeři byla ryba, brokolice a jako dezert jablečný koláč. Ráno jsme uklidili a po dvou a půl hodinach, tentokrát bez bloudění jsme byli zpátky u aut.
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Yosemite in winter 15. - 16.1. 2011

Yosemite is one of my favorite places in the world and in the winter it is even more magical. I managed to persuade Petra, Miro and Jeanne to come with me for cross country skiing from Badger pass. The first day we went to Dewey point, about 3.5 miles from Badger pass. The second day Jeanne exchange skis for snowshoes and Petra, Miro and I went for about 7 mile loop on skis. Great weekend!
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Yosemite patri k mých nejoblíbenějším místum na světě a v zimě jsou ještě uzasnejsi. Podařilo se mi přesvědčit Petru, Mira a Jeanne, aby se mnou jeli na běžecky. První den jsme šli k Dewey point, asi 3,5 mil od Badger pass. Druhý den Jeanne výměnila lyže za sněžnice a Petra, Miro a já jsme jeli asi 7 milovy okruh na lyžích. Skvělý víkend!
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Patagonia 18.12. 2010 - 2.1.2011

Couple years ago I read in news that Czech guy accidentally put on fire national park in Chile - Torres del Paine, when I saw photos from this park I knew I would like to visit it. This Christmas break I found two other people, Miles and Grant, who thought visiting Patagonia would be great idea and we took off! We flew to Punta Arenas and from here we took bus to Porto Natales and then national park Torres del Paine. We backpack around big circle, which is about 80 miles. It is recommended to hike it in 10 days, we did it in 6 days without any problems. Then we took bus over the border to Argentina to El Calafate. We had small accident, two wheels fell off, but luckily bus has a lot of wheels so it stayed upwards, we just had to wait for another bus and we arrived to El Calafate around 2 am. The next morning we took bus to El Chalten, small and very young town, entrance to Los Glaciares national park. We resupply and took off to the park for three days to see Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre. The weather was great, sunny and relatively warm. The only downside was that these destinations were possible to reach by day hike and we were meeting too many people. Otherwise perfect! Last day in El Chalten we just did day hike to a peak from where should be great views to the mountains, unfortunately it was cloudy, so no great views, but still nice day.
Journey home took three days! From El Chalten by bus to El Calafate, there we took plane to Buenos Aires. We expected big party city for New Year's Eve, but we learned that NYE is more family oriented celebration and we were just lucky to find some buffet for dinner. The next day we flew to Miami, with little bit adventure when we didn't know that Buenos Aires has two airports and we were of course on the wrong one. Then to Dalas, where we stayed over night in hotel and then finally San Francisco!
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Torres del Paine
Mo 20.12.10 - Hotel Las Torres - Segon - 7.5 m
Tu 21.12.10 - Segon - Dickson - Los Perros - 17.5 m
We 22.12.10 - Los Perros - Paso - Los Guardas - 12.5 m
Th 23.12.10 - Guardas - Paine Grande - Italiano - 12.8 m
Fr 24.12.10 - Italiano - Britanico - Los Cuernos - 10.3 m
Sa 25.12.10 - Los Cuernos - Torres - 15.6 m
Su 26.16.10 - Torres - Hotel Las Torres - 3.1 m


Před několika lety jsem četla ve zprávách, že nekdo z Cech omylem zapálil národní park v Chile - Torres del Paine, když jsem viděla fotografie z tohoto parku věděla jsem, že bych ho chtěla jednou navštívit. O vánoční dovolene jsem našela další dva lidi, Milese a Granta, kdo si take mysleli, ze navsteva Patagonie bude skvělý nápad a tak jsme vyrazili! Letěli jsme do Punta Arenas a odtud jsme jeli autobusem do Porto Natales a pak národního parku Torres del Paine. Sli jsme kolem velkého okruhu, což je asi 128 km. Tento vylet se doporučuje udelat za 10 dnů, my jsme to usli za 6 dní a to bez jakýchkoliv problémů. Pak jsme jeli autobusem přes hranici do Argentiny do El Calafate. Po ceste jsme měli malou nehodu, odpadli nam dvě kola, ale naštěstí autobus má spoustu kol, takže jsme se neprevratili, jen jsme museli čekat na další autobus a dorazili jsme do El Calafate kolem 2 hodin ráno. Druhý den ráno jsme jeli autobusem do El Chalten, malého a noveho městečka, vstupu do Los Glaciares národního parku. Nakoupili jsme jidlo a vyrazili do parku na tři dny k Fitz Roy a Cerro Torre. Počasí bylo skvělé, slunečno a relativně teplo. Jediná nevýhoda byla, že tyto mist bylo možné dosáhnout jen jako jednodenni výlet a my jsme tak potkavli příliš mnoho lidí. Jinak to bylo perfektní! Poslední den v El Chalten jsme si vysli na misto, kde by měl být krásný výhled na hory, ale bohužel to bylo oblačno, takže jsme moc nevideli, ale stále to byl pěkný den.
Cesta domů trvala tři dny! Z El Chalten jsme jeli autobusem do El Calafate, odtud jsme leteli do Buenos Aires. Očekávali jsme bujare veseli na Silvestra, ale dozvěděli jsme se, že Silvestr je více rodinne orientovaný a meli jsme jen štěstí, že jsme nasli nějaký bufet na večeři. Další den jsme odletěli do Miami, s trochou dobrodružství, když jsme nevěděli, že v Buenos Aires má dvě letiště a my jsme byli samozřejmě na tom špatnem. Pak do Dalasu, kde jsme zůstali přes noc v hotelu a pak konečně do San Franciska!
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Torres del Paine
Po 20.12.10 - Hotel Las Torres - Segon - 12 km
Tu 21.12.10 - Segon - Dickson - Los Perros - 28 km
My 22.12.10 - Los Perros - Paso - Los Guardas - 20 km
Čt 23.12.10 - Guardas - Paine Grande - Italiano - 20.6 m
Fr 24.12.10 - Italiano - Britanico - Los Cuernos - 16.5 km
Sa 25.12.10 - Los Cuernos - Torres - 25 km
Su 26.16.10 - Torres - Hotel Las Torres - 5 km

Czech Christmas dinner 12.12.2010

It has become tradition that I host Czech Christmas dinner every year. This year it is second time before actual Christmas, since December 24 I should be in Patagonia :) As usually I made fish soup, fried carp, potato salad and baked a lot of Czech Christmas cookies - this year 10 kinds! Petra brought cookies that she made and Daniela fried chicken, so we had plenty of food! After dinner we opened presents and watch Czech movie. The only downside of this evening was, that we had to go to work the next day, so we couldn't keep talking forever :)
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Už je to tradicí, že každým rokem poradam Českou vánoční večeři. Tento rok je to podruhé před skutečnými Vánocemi, 24. prosince bych totiz měla být v Patagonii:) Jako obvykle jsem uvarila rybí polévku, smaženeho kapra, bramborový salát a napekla spoustu českeho vánočního cukroví - letos 10 druhů! Petra přinesla cukrovi, které ona dělala a Daniela smažené kuře, takže jsme měli dostatek jídla! Po večeři jsme otevřeli dárky a sledovali český film - Divka na kosteti. Jediná nevýhoda tohoto večera bylo, že jsme museli jit druhý den do práce, takže jsme si nemohli povidat donekonecna :)
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Grand Canyon - Rim to Rim to Rim

I don't even know how to start to write about this crazy adventure! I visited Grand Canyon twice before - once from North rim, once from South rim, this time I saw both rims in 24 hours! It is about 14 miles from North rim to the river and they say you shouldn't even try to do it down and up in one day, it is about 9.5 miles from South rim and they discourage you from doing it in one day, well I did both in 17.5 hours! :)
We (Juergen and I) left on Wednesday afternoon and drove to Grand Canyon, with the time change in Arizona we arrived around 4 am (3 am California time), so obviously we didn't get much sleep on the way. Before we got ready to start our run/hike it was about 4.20 California time (I will write about Ca time since I didn't change the time on my watch), still dark. We started to run down, slowly, it was really cold, but clear night, there was snowstorm the day before, so we needed crampons for the beginning of the trail. I made beginner's mistake with my camel-bag which froze and I didn't have easy access to my water, but I tried to drink as much I could and eat often. I found on one website that is good to eat about 100 calories per hour and I tried to follow this advice (I ate about 2300 calories total). After about 5.5 miles we put away our headlamps and started to enjoy the beautiful views around us! At 6.50 we arrived to the Colorado river, first part behind us and it supposed to be the easiest one! But from the downhill running we started to feel our calves. Running on the canyon floor was beautiful! Moving between the rocks with views to the snowy north rim was just amazing. We run/hiked about 8 miles before it started to get steep again. Last 2-3 miles before the trailhead was covered by snow so it made movement very difficult, but we made it in 8.5 hours! 23.5 miles behind us, and 23.5 miles in front of us! It was 1 pm (2 pm local time) and we were down with water (almost no water on North rim trail). We started to run downhill, I was little bit without energy - my camel bag froze again and I didn't eat enough, but when we stopped at Roaring Springs to get more water and eat I got my energy back and I practically run next 6 miles without stopping! We got to the Colorado river at 5.20 pm - 13 hours after we left. It was already dark and we had ahead of us the last part of our adventure - about 9.5 miles uphill! To get to Indian Garden campground wasn't that bad yet, but the last 4,5 miles to the top was one of the most difficult in my life. I was out of energy, sick of all the energy bars and gels, but still going step by step to the top. Made it at 9.50 pm - 17.5 hours after we left!
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Ani nevim jak mam zacit psat o tomto silenem vylete! Navstivila jsem Grand canyon uz dvakrat predtim - jednou ze severni strany, jednou z jizni, tentokrat jsem videla obe dve strany behem 24 hodin! Je to asi 22.4 km ze severniho okraje k rece a rika se, ze by se clovek nemel ani pokuset sejit dolu a zpet nahoru behem jednoho dne, a je to 15.2 km z jizniho okraje a lide jsou odrazovani od vyletu k rece a zpet behem jednoho dne, dobre tak ja jsem zvladla oboji behem 17.5 hodin! :)
Juergen a ja jsme vyrazili ve stredu odpoledne a jeli do Grand Canyonu, v Arizone je uz jine casove pasmo a tak jsme prijeli ve 4 rano (3 rano Kalifornskeho casu), tak jsme samozrejme toho ani moc nenaspali. Nez jsme se nachystali k behu/ture tak bylo asi 4.20 Kalifornskeho casu (budu psat v Kalifornskem case protoze jsem si nezmenila cas na mych hodinkach), bylo stale tma. Zacali jsme pomalu bezet dolu, byla velka zima, ale jasno, prehnala se tudy ale den predtim snehova bourka a tak jsme potrebovali zakladni macky na zacatek cesty. Udelala jsem zacatecnickou chybu s mym batohem s pitnym systemem, ktery zamrzl a tak jsem nemela jednoduchy pristup k me vode, ale snazila jsem se pit a jist jak jen to slo. Na jedne webove strance jsem nasla, ze je dobre jist asi 100 kalorii v hodine a tak jsem se pokousela ridit se touto radou (celkove jsem snedla asi 2300 kalorii). Po asi 9 km jsme odlozili baterky a zacali si uzivat nadhernych vyhledu na kanon kolem nas. v 6.50 jsme dorazili ke rece Colorado, prvni cast byla zanami a to mela byt ta nejjednodussi. Ale z toho vseho behani z kopce nas zacali bolet lytka. Beh po dni kanonu byl nadherny! Propletani se mezi skalami s vyhledem na zasnezeny severni okraj bylo uzasne! Bezali/sli jsme asi 13 km nez jsme zacali prudce stoupat. Posledni 3- 5 km bylo pod snehem a tak nam to stezovalo pohyb, ale zvladli jsme to za 8.5 hodin! 37.6 km za nami a 37.6 km pred nami! Byla 1 hodina odpoledne (2 hodiny mistniho casu) a my jsme meli malo vody (na ceste na severni okraj neni skoro zadna voda). Zacali jsme opet zbyhat dolu, mela jsem malo energie, moje voda opet zamrzla a nejedla jsem jak jsem mela, ale kdyz jsme se zastavili u Roaring Springs a nabrali vodu a ja si zajedla, opet jsem ozila a vpodstate jsem nasledujicich skoro 10 km bezela bez zastaveni! K rece Colorado jsme se dostali opet v 17.20 - 13 hodin po zacatku behu. Uz bylo zase tma a my jsme meli pred sebou posledni cast naseho dobrodruzstvi - asi 15 km dokopce! K kempu v Indian Garden to jeste slo, ale poslednich 7 km na okraj bylo jednech z nejtezsich v mem zivote. Byla jsem bez enerigie, specialni gely a energeticke tycinky jsem uz nemohla ani videt, ale stale jsem sla krok za krokem az na vrchol. Dosla jsem v 21.50 - 17.5 hodin pote co jsme vyrazili!
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Utah 2. - 10. 10. 2010

The first week in October had our school district furlough week, and it would be shame not to use this free time for a trip. My friend Zdenek needed holiday too, so we went for a road trip to Utah. I drove through Utah about 7 years ago and I felt that it would be nice to go back and spend more time hiking in the parks. We started with Antelope canyon, then drove to Monument Valley, Arches, Capitol Reef and finished in Zion.
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Prvni tyden v rijnu mela nase skola tyden neplaceneho volna a tak by byla velka skoda toto volno nevyuzit k nejakemu vyletu. Kamarad Zdenek potreboval dovolenou taky a tak jsme jeli na vylet do Utahu. Projizdela jsem Utahem asi pred 7 lety, ale citila jsem, ze by bylo dobre se vratit zpet a stravit vice casu prochazenim parku. Zacali jsme v Antelope Canyon, pak jeli do Monument Valley, Arches, Capitol Reef a nakonec skoncili v Zionu.
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Hoover wilderness 4. - 6. 9. 2010

This long Labor day weekend I was supposed to go to Minaret Lakes for backpacking, but everybody who was going with me canceled, so I ended up going with Pavel and Carolina to Hover wilderness just for short backpacking trip. The first day we walked 6 miles to Summit lake, the second day we did about 14 miles day hike to McCabe lake which is actually in Yosemite NP, and the last day we hiked back.
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Tento prodlouzeny vikend jsem mela jet na Minaret Lakes backpackovat, ale vsichni kdo meli jet se mnou ucast zrusili. Tak jsem nakonec jela s Pavlem a Carolinou do Hoover wilderness na kratky vylet. Prvni den jsme sli 9.6 km k Summit lake, druhy den jsme udelali asi 22 km denni vylet k McCabe jezeru, ktere je vlastne v Yosemite NP, a posledni den jsme sesli zpet.
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