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The final four miles of the normally easy climb to the Kelbaker Road summit at the power lines have never been so challenging

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01368-powerlines.jpg I look across the tracks and beyond the handful of houses that are Kelso toward Cornfield Spring, my destinationThumbnailsKelbaker Road summit at 3700 feet elevation; I'm there, finally!I look across the tracks and beyond the handful of houses that are Kelso toward Cornfield Spring, my destinationThumbnailsKelbaker Road summit at 3700 feet elevation; I'm there, finally!I look across the tracks and beyond the handful of houses that are Kelso toward Cornfield Spring, my destinationThumbnailsKelbaker Road summit at 3700 feet elevation; I'm there, finally!I look across the tracks and beyond the handful of houses that are Kelso toward Cornfield Spring, my destinationThumbnailsKelbaker Road summit at 3700 feet elevation; I'm there, finally!I look across the tracks and beyond the handful of houses that are Kelso toward Cornfield Spring, my destinationThumbnailsKelbaker Road summit at 3700 feet elevation; I'm there, finally!

I'm almost there. The summit of 3700 feet is just past the power lines. I'm still overheating, but it's slightly cooler up here at this elevation. I'm powered more by adrenalin than by real energy at this point, but at least my heat exhaustion isn't getting any worse.