Tom Pipkin

See Also [Andy Dainsberg's Article]

Nuthouse to the Foothills behind Carpinteria
Sunday, 3/4/12
about 11 or 12 miles (not sure which spine Tom Landed on)

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by Pipkin_Tom » Posted Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:52 am

It was a hike-fly-and umm….hike some more.
I had been feeling crappy the last month or so from a poor diet so I started a 10 day juicing to help detox the body from all the junk I had been eating. I was feeling great so I called Andy for a run up the Nuthouse. The hike was especially brutal. Hiking the Nuthouse after a week of nothing but juice from raw fruits and veggies was a really bad idea. At one point, Andy even offered to switch packs. I refused but that was very cool of him to offer.

I launched first, left low and had a fairly easy climb out at spine one. Topped out at the Pyramid with 4700’ and headed west. Andy found a thermal over bump 2 that took him to 6k. I took the low road to the front of White Ledge and soon climbed out to 5700’. I could have stepped back to the back ridge with Andy but had I not found the lift he was in I was looking at an epic land out. The mid points at Divide and Noon peak had always worked in the past and the bailout was flushing out to Carpinteria, a much more conservative route. After 15 minutes of working West Divide, the best I could get was 3500’ so I went with plan B and flushed out to Carp.
Pulled a horrible glide and missed clearing the last foothill by 50’. Packed up and looked, but to no avail for a relaunch. Still out of gas, the short 1 hour walk was tough. On the trail, I heard a faint hissing and damn near stepped on a stealthy rattlesnake. Out at 3p, Faoro kindly picked me up on Gobenador rd..
Not all the connections were easy but as always, Andy kicked butt. Nice job!

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