Petey came up with an interesting run to do over the long weekend. We met up and were joined by Dave Lapierre and Scott Spence for a 5 mile loop up and over Straightback Mountain. I’d only been up this 1,890’ peak once before as part of a Belknap range traverse. The deer flies were pretty intense, but just at the start. We started out downhill on the Old Stage Road then turned uphill onto the Precipice path. We turned onto the West Precipice path and then the climbing began in full force. There was a solid ½ mile of trail that was very steep and involved scrambling among the boulders. After the tiny waterfalls it moderated but was still steep and even had a little exposure in spots.
Scott and I pulled ahead as we got into a good conversation. We stopped at the junction with the Belknap Range trail and waited for the others to catch up. The BRT was a nice run of nearly a mile over to Straightback. The views on top were excellent. We headed down via the Straightback mountain trail and the Blueberry Pasture trail. I liked the Blueberry trail which was more like a dirt road than a trail. The 2.6 miles up took us 55:44 and the 2.4 down took us 31:31 for a total of 1:27:15
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