Rabbit, Villager and Rick Kent sighting, 31-Jan-2009
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:18 pm
Joined Ze and his group to hike Rabbit and Villager yesterday. I originally intended to only hike to Villager but somehow got talked into going all way to Rabbit again. Now I remember why I didn't want to go. What a brutal hike. The main difficulty is the terrain, which is incredibly rocky. Other than that, it was a nice day with clear skies and very clear views. There was only a slight breeze and the temps were mostly mild.
We started at 5:15am and finished just a little before 7pm. I few of us camped near the trailhead the night before. It was pretty cool to sleep under the stars with just a tarp and a sleeping bag, although I kept having visions of coyotes surrounding us, ready to pounce. None of us got any meaningful sleep.
About 90 minutes into the hike, we stopped for a rest and out nowhere came a solo hiker moving pretty fast. He stopped to say hello and said he was headed to Rabbit. It's pretty rare to see a solo hiker dayhiking to Rabbit of all places, so some of us theorized it was Rick Kent. But we weren't sure, so for the rest of hike we kept thinking of ways to verify if was him (i.e. is he running the trail? Is he taking a lot of pictures? Is he eating brazil nuts?). We didn't see him again until after returning from Rabbit and turns out it was Rick Kent and he went to Rosa Point before moving on to Villager and Rabbit.
I'm not sure whether it was just a coincidence or he was sneaking up on us like with Kevin's group, but it made for some interesting conversation that day. Most of the people in our group didn't know who he was, but when we explained the kind of hikes he does, they refered to him as "crazy hiker dude."
We started at 5:15am and finished just a little before 7pm. I few of us camped near the trailhead the night before. It was pretty cool to sleep under the stars with just a tarp and a sleeping bag, although I kept having visions of coyotes surrounding us, ready to pounce. None of us got any meaningful sleep.
About 90 minutes into the hike, we stopped for a rest and out nowhere came a solo hiker moving pretty fast. He stopped to say hello and said he was headed to Rabbit. It's pretty rare to see a solo hiker dayhiking to Rabbit of all places, so some of us theorized it was Rick Kent. But we weren't sure, so for the rest of hike we kept thinking of ways to verify if was him (i.e. is he running the trail? Is he taking a lot of pictures? Is he eating brazil nuts?). We didn't see him again until after returning from Rabbit and turns out it was Rick Kent and he went to Rosa Point before moving on to Villager and Rabbit.
I'm not sure whether it was just a coincidence or he was sneaking up on us like with Kevin's group, but it made for some interesting conversation that day. Most of the people in our group didn't know who he was, but when we explained the kind of hikes he does, they refered to him as "crazy hiker dude."
