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.
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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.
Beautiful photos by the way...I like the second one of the green terain! Yikes TIM has the biggest beard I have ever seen on someone our age...is that the going trend up there in the mountains...its like a guy with his sports car fettish. Must be beards up there! the bigger the more manly-er! haha!
ReplyDeleteYeah so you guys have a monsoon season too up there? I thought only AZ and MX had ones..nice to know its in other areas! They had on CNN last week some hikers that died while hiking up in Tucson AZ and a storm flew up and flooded and they got washed off the mountain of something? Kevin told me, so Im not sure exactly what happed but that a few died. Well you be careful up there! Bring a floatable device in case! hahah
MISS YOU! I was at lake Michigan this week and thought of you! I also went on waverunners for a day and remembered when we did that at your cousins house! It was great...I want one now!