First day off in 22 days!

Phew!

Let me just say, it was an incredible roll with Northern Colorado. I'm exhausted and psyched to have 2 paid days off, but super busy trying to do a bunch of stuff before we leave for Seattle. I ended up working on both the Tin Cup fire (considered out now) and the Rombo fire (I don't even think it is considered contained at all) right outside Darby and Sula, Montana. The Rombo fire started at 3,500 when we found out we were moving; 4,700 acres when we started; and almost 22,000 when we left and it blew up, heading straight for the town of Connor.

My digital camera is officially dead, so the only photos I have until everybody posts theirs is from my cell phone.

Lots to do! Will update more when I get a chance.

From Tin Cup and R...

From Spring 2007 -...

FIRE FIRE FIRE!

WOOO!!

I'm on deck to  head out with the Northern Colorado Type 2 (#2) handcrew any day/hour/minute!! Hopefully MONTANA but shit is burning in Idaho, Oregon, MICHIGAN even (15,000 acres, 61 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie..... YEAHHH FIRE FIRE FIRE!

Ok gotta jet, just thought I'd share. Oh, here's a link to see if/where I end up going:

http://coftc.chicodev.com/location-report.php

From there, the first category is Fort Collins Dispatch Center Resources; I'll be with Northern Colorado #2. Daily it will be updated if we are sent out, and where we are.

More miles, higher elevations

I added up my hiking miles (dog walks and other little ones don't count) and I was ashamed, not even 100 miles this year. WEAK! So I did Chapin, Chiquita and Ypsilon peaks last Friday. Too late to do an official trail log, but I know I did more than the 7.6 miles that newspaper article says, since I took a drastically different way back to the trailhead. Though, it does have an excellent map! Oh, this hike was wear the park ranger Jeff Christensen died in 2005, fell off of Chiquita and was found at the bottom. There's a very interesting report of the incident here. Very sobering to look over the steep sides of one of the coolest mountains in the park (Ypsilon), in thick fog with blowing wind, and realize that yeah, those things do happen.

From Chapin, Chiqu...

Here's photos of the parkie softball team, the Cougars. Good photos of Tim and his huge beard.

Tim is camping out with his crew on Longs Peak for the week, back for the weekends, for the next month. Maybe I'll try to do Longs some Friday and surprise him. We've been having so much fun lately, even did a pub crawl with a bunch of people on Saturday from 2 pm - midnight (10 bars!)... yeah, I'm still sick so I didn't get too crazy, but it was still a blast! Things are good. :)

Definitely bedtime. Have a lot of good books to read right now! Oh,I took Logan for his first real jog ever, since his shoulder is holding strong. He did pretty well... probably better than I did, haha! Hopefully get some new photos of him soon! Oh, and lots and lots of rain and thunderstorms - monsoon season! But it still won't scare the tourists away. Damn.