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50 Thousand Miles… 50 Countries… 5 Continents… 5 Years… round the world by bike :a slideshow “After 27,000 miles of cycling, 43 countries, 32 months, 4 continents, 3 bicycles, 2 ocean crossings and way too many flat tires and banana sandwiches, Alastair Humphreys, a 27 year old Englishman, is passing through Seattle…” Come and enjoy the adventures and the photos from this epic journey. FREE entry! bring your friends, family and any rich philanthropists you may know… Wed 19th May. 7pm 911 Media Arts 117 N Yale Ave next door to ‘Feathered Friends’ For more information: roundtheworldbybike@hotmail.com Donations appreciated for: Hope and Homes for Children http://www.roundtheworldbybike.com roundtheworldbybike@hotmail.com Five Years Round the World. On a Bicycle. Please forward my website to anyone who may be interested... CAN YOU HELP....? Publicity and PR Sponsorship: equipment, etc. Contact addresses around the world where I can stay. Venues where I could give a talk- schools, after dinners, Rotary etc. Thanks! Please send cheques to: Hope and Homes for Children East Clyffe Salisbury Wiltshire SP3 4LZ United Kingdom or donate on line at: http://www.hopeandhomes.org

I agree! Big City Dick had such raw talent with his instruments. I guess after 2011 - - I can take on my plans of mastering a guitar... In the meantime, I want to go see the show on Dick later this month at the Egyptian. As for the spot about Around-n-Over, the Evening Magazine team captured footage in the classroom, while rowing, cycling, training, and in interviews, not to mention the stills. With all that, they probably had a good three hours worth of material. I was wondering how they were going to distill them into the short 4-5 minutes. They even added footage of Göran to the final cut! I was happy with the professinal work that they did, and grateful. I think the piece conveyed the message well with the least amount of words. A lot more could be said, but I would not add anything to the work that they did... Thank you for your post, Klenke. Erden.

I like it. The message is universal and something that I can take home! Thanks, Erden.

Hi - please keep an eye on the King5's Evening Magazine program. This Monday the 10th at 7:00 pm, Evening Magazine will have a story on Around-n-Over and my journey up to Denali to climb it with my friends in 2003. The same story should be rebroadcast in the Northwest Backroads program at a later date. I do not have the schedule for that. My hope is to obtain a licensed copy of the story to include in our promotional DVD which is in the works as we speak. If possible, I will also try to provide the same as streaming media under our media coverage page. Then everyone else can see the same program. Best, Erden. Showtimes Synopsis

Yes, thank you - you are right!!! It is too late, working on a new web site does that to me... Erden.

OK - before you claim booty, let me tell you the story: A friend climbed Mt. Hood last weekend and on Friday his team was hit by winds from 70 to 90mph. The base camp was blown off the mountain. In this calamity, he lost 1,800 worth of climbing gear. The anchors held but the tent ripped off and took flight while they were on the summit. He has already put the word out to the Guide services. Stuff will be more than likely in the Zig Zag Glacier area, and he mentioned a reward. Please contact: johnsonc@shoup.navy.mil

Items listed below are on sale by Gerard Kropp, the estate administrator for Göran. Four items are at Second Ascent on consignment: *** x-Country racing bicycle: a very light weight aluminum frame cross country racing bike with titanium spokes, and very light fork and suspension system. A good set up made by Crescent a European brand on sale for $1,000. *** Two person portaledge: one with a fly, it is in new condition, practically unused. Auguille is the maker, on sale for $399. *** Two haul bags: also made by Auguille, one large, one medium size (I think with shoulder straps), priced for $99 and $79 respectively. For these three items, please have people contact Second Ascent directly: http://www.secondascent.com, 206-545-8810. I have in my possession *** a dry suit, *** a neoprene wet suit and *** a Mountain Hardware Space Station Tent. The tent is a monster that sells for $4,500 new, and it has been used only modestly. There is some dirt on the skirt where it makes contact with the ground and the rest is in pristine condition. See: Tent on MH Site. Your price $3,000, plus shipping. As for the suits, I do not have them in front of me right now. They are Helly Hansen, unused and the size should be either medium or large. Trying to contact H/H for the MSRP and to set a price for these. I will post a follow up to this thread. PM me please if you are interested in any of these items... Thanks, Erden.

A memo that I received from AMGA says that: I say join the AMGA and get the goodies... Erden.

Muffy: one thing to add to the above suggestions - I have all my runners set up such that the biners face the same way. So if you held one biner on its spine on the table at home, the other biner as well should be on its spine - not on its gate. Then take these to the cliff and apply all the above advice. Try to picture this: If you are climbing at a sideways angle, you would want to clip the bolts from the side toward which you are rising. If you are climbing up and toward the right, you would clip from the right, the gates would face the left. You would clip the rope to the bottom biner left to right, from the rock and out. So if you layed the rope on the runner after you clipped the bottom biner, your rope would be on top of the runner, covering the webbing, and the top biner. As you advance and pull the rope, the runners below will rotate and the biner on teh bolt will have its gate down and away from the bolt. The biner on the rope will have its spine against the rock, not risking the inadvertent nudge on the gate from the rock. That's how I create consistency in my system... Does this help? Erden.

Jon is thinking like me: Just make the hard drive from the old a slave drive on the new one. Copy stuff over to the new hard drive. Before you remove/pitch the slave (old) drive, if you have confidential stuff on it: delete the partition on the slave drive, create a new partition to cover the entire drive, format, and copy junk stuff over to it until you run out of space, e.g. multiple copies of mp3 songs over and over... You can then delete all of that and pitch it. I just did that to an old computer of mine today, cleaning its hard drive after retrieving the data. It had 166Mhz engine to it, not enough horsepower... not even for testing applications across a network. Erden.

There is an outfit in Leavenworth where I received my WFR certification: Rescue Specialists Erden.

Just when I thought I figured out everything, Hans throws a Blix into my plans I have been following her progress for a while now. Her web site is: Raphaela Le Gouvello and she deserves a toast As for the wind is aid, or sails are aid discussion, a windsurfer would wear a chest harness to hang all day, day after day in such a crossing; that's like the leashless argument for ice climbing. Now, hanging off a windsurf sail my friend, is aid in a fun sorta way Erden.

Yes, I have my fears. and I do worry about those whom I may leave behind. The psyche is not any different than that of a climber on a remote place like Baffin Island testing his will to achieve. I do worry about the isolation and being away from home and civilization on long stretches. The experience will be akin to solitary confinement at times tho I will have access to email and forecasts via satelite phone. As for the boat, it will be a self righting, self bailing boat that is specifically designed for the task. It will look something like:

Well, I may have a presentation at the Seattle Mountaineers, too, come to think of it We have not set the date and time yet. Erden.

"Difficult we will do immediately, impossible will take longer..." Remember, Lambone, that my dream was to circumnavigate the world by human power. I added the six summits in tribute. The seventh summit does not fit my dream and it is out of the way. This, however, does not mean that I will not climb Vinson one of these days. How I will climb it, time will show... Erden.

The difficult parts? Nobody told me there would be any I think the most difficult part was the start. Deciding and then gathering the courage to say that this is what I want to do was very difficult. I had talked about this nutty circumnavigation idea since 1997, and now was time for action. I think the length of time it took to actually get on the road reflects the difficulties that I faced. That I had to size up the challenge, that I had to let go of the life in the city, that I had to maintain a forward looking attitude go without saying. These apply to the rest of this life journey as well... All the rest fall into the problem solving category, to be handled as we go. Erden.

Hi guys; I am posting this as an announcement for the upcoming presentation that I will make. The presentations will be about an hour long, and will be followed by a half hour Q&A session. I will show fewer slides than at the rope up, after all those of you guys at the rope up got the special preview If you were not there, or if you have friends in mind who would be interested in seeing these, please do pass on the word. Erden. Upcoming Presentations: Wednesday, October 29th 7 PM The North Face Store, Seattle, WA Thursday, October 30th 7 PM REI Flagship Store, Seattle, WA On February 1st, Erden Eruç left Seattle on his bicycle towing a trailer loaded with his climbing gear to reach the summit of Denali (Mt. McKinley) in Alaska. With him was all that he needed to survive the winter conditions on the Alaska Highway. On May 1, he met his friends; together they walked in 67 miles to Kahiltna Base Camp over glaciers, and then climbed the mountain. With two other teammates Erden stood on the summit on May 29th, the highest point in North America. The return trip lasted until August 24th – roundtrip odometer reading was 5,546 miles. It had been a trip that set the stage for the rest of Erden’s life journey to reach the highest summits on six different continents while circumnavigating the world by human power. For more information on the journey and the non-profit Around-n-Over that Erden started to produce news and educational content about the journey and to share its know-how for future human powered, self propelled challenges of similar nature, please go to: Around-n-Over

Hi guys - when you gathered the tarp and the table on Sunday morning where we did the slide show, did you find my laser pointer? I had it with me last, it was in my pocket and cannot find it now I think the drizzle and the big fire added character to the whole ambiance. Thank you Beck for your efforts to put it together Erden.

from: Around-n-Over dispatches "The next morning, I had a run in with an RV driver just south of the Meziadin Junction whom I reported to the RCMP. I was pushing the rig up a short steep step with no shoulder, really leaning into it. My left foot was extended in the lane, the bike was on the white line. There was a double yellow line in the middle meaning no passing. Normally when I hear vehicles approach in such situations with no shoulder, I put on the breaks and straighten up to let them pass. 18-wheelers especially appreciate that gesture. So this huge RV trailer pulled by a truck snuck up on me and sped past me so fast that I had no time to adjust. I felt the wheel of the trailer nudge my left pinkie toe, with the side of the trailer coming within inches of my flesh and bone. These trailers are of obscene sizes, as wide as 18-wheelers, certainly wider than the trucks that pull them, typically a Dodge RAM with a diesel engine. I screamed after him giving him the finger in his rear view mirror, cursing in the open because they always got away with it... This time, there was justice. When I topped the hill, on the other side I saw construction on a small bridge and a flagger had stopped the traffic. There it was, a giant prey, ensnared in the sticky web of construction and I was going to swoop on his tail - "I got me one!" I thought to myself and sped down the other side for the kill. I parked my bike next to the driver and let him have it. I called him the a-word, the one the first syllable of which is synonymous with donkey, yelling: "you almost ran me over back there, a-word!" He was incredulous. "You were supposed to be on the white line," he said. He knew exactly what he had done, he had done it on purpose, and by God, he was not going to change lanes and he was going to drive just the same at the risk of running me over, because in his mind, I was supposed to be on the white line and I was not, and I did not belong on the same road with him. Well, a volcano erupted in me. I now know the meaning of "being hopping mad." I was shaking with the adrenaline, yelling in this man's face from about three feet away, with a finger pointed right at his forehead, like the Hollywood stereotype of a drill sergeant. Every sentence was punctuated with the a-word coming out with such an emphasis that it almost sounded like a sneeze. The abbreviated version of my monologue with this numnut was: "It is not where I was supposed to be, it is where I was that matters. You have no right to run me off the road. I had the lane. You had to either stop or to change lanes." Then when he had had enough of the a-word, this fool brandished a knife on me, a curved rusty looking item about 4 inches in length, undoing his seat buckle at the same time in a bluff. I don't know whether he thought that he would stab me, or maybe that he would slice my throat or something... This man was 65 years old, certainly not in shape, he had no business with a knife. Instead of defusing my anger with a "back off, sorry, I did not realize that I was that close, I should be more careful," he was taking the wrong approach. "Is that a knife you are pulling on me, a-word," I yelled and pulled out my bear spray and yelled at him that I would spray him if he stepped out of the vehicle - he did not. I waved the flagger over telling him that he had pulled a knife on me. The flagger invited me to the head of the line of vehicles, and told me to talk to the construction site supervisor. My parting shot at the driver was a wish that he had an accident on the way home, "curse on you," I yelled padded with the f-word. The supervisor asked me if I wanted to report this incident to the RCMP. I went back to note the license plate number of this truck and the number off the trailer. My cell phone did not work, so I accepted to use the supervisor's phone mounted in the truck. I was told to wait for the two RCMP members to arrive from Stewart and when they did an hour later, I told the story complete with the foul language that I had used on the man. I told them that RV's coming close and not changing lanes happened routinely on the road. A majority of the RV's did not change lanes, almost testing their driving expertise to see how close they could get to me. These guys speeded through gravel kicking up rocks that clinked in their wheel wells, the same clinking off my sunglasses, my helmet and my knuckles leaving me sore. An uncomfortable number of them were driving past me pulling trailers whose step ladders under the side door would be left unfolded, aiming to slice me in two like a blade attached to the axle of a Roman war chariot. They drove their trucks in the center of the lane, but the trailers hanged wider on the sides. Some of them had these mirrors that extended even further to see around the trailers to the back. All of these were in the hands of amateur drivers with no special additional training to pull a trailer that size. The professional 18-wheeler drivers knew what they were pulling, and they gave me all the room that I needed. The RV's did not... An unregulated industry (???) tolerated for the sake of the dollars that they pump into the tourism industry that seems to be the only action around here besides "resource extraction..." Of course, there were also RV's that changed lanes, that slowed down on dusty or gravel sections, that slowed down to my pace to talk to me while I pedaled, and that shared their stories with me as well. In the grand scheme of things, it takes one to ruin my day, and this numnut almost ruined my trip, if not my life. The RCMP officer told me that he had a friend who was a sheriff in the same town where this truck was registered, and that he would be able to get the story on this driver. He said: "we get all kinds on these roads, there are cyclists, there are skateboarders, and the drivers need to slow down and remember that they are on a vacation." He added that the surrounding detachments were notified, and that if they did not get this driver before Prince George, they would get him at the border into US. When the officers left heading in the same direction as that RV, I continued talking with the flagger who said: "These guys think that they can get away with anything, this is Canada..." I smiled. I had not been able to use my cell phone, nor had seen any RCMP patrols on the roads. Speeding was routine with no enforcement. All vehicles were dirty in the rear with illegible license plates that sped away too fast. They all DID get away with it. But now that they were called in, the RCMP was going to tend to this particular case and that is what mattered at this time. I continued on south later that day, my riding time being shortened by the delay to report the incident."

Last night, I attended the Traverse of the Picketts slideshow that Wayne and his partners presented. Wayne had concieved of the idea a while back, they later visited sections of the range on different occasions for reconnaissance. The slide show was the summary of the enchainment of all summits in the southern Picketts, the perfect example of the transition of a dream that one day turns into a project, then a plan to be executed - a dream come true. The summit shots of the climbers had them counting each by their fingers - later they ran out of fingers in the count Wayne and his partners, the stars of the night, were willing to share the spotlight with me, to turn the occasion into a fundraiser for Around-n-Over by holding a raffle. The prizes in the raffle were three "Walking the Fence" t-shirts of theirs. We successfully raised $123 for the non-profit, and I am humbled by the generosity of the audience, and of the graciousness of Wayne and his team. This is a public "thank you" to them for all that it is worth. Erden.

Passion People Speaker Series Photographer Phil Borges Wednesday, February 5th The next speaker in the Passion People Speaker Series (Wednesday, February 5th) will be Phil Borges, one of my all time favorite photographers (who changed careers to photography at age 45). If you could let anyone you think might be interested know, it would be mucho appreciated. There is more information at: Curt Rosengren's site Anyone who would like to come can pre-register at: Registration In the meantime, check out more about Phil at: http://www.philborges.com http://www.bridgesweb.org

Maybe Alex and iceguy can post updates here while I am on the road, below is how. I do not have the laptop and satellite phone option on the trip to Denali. On the boat I plan to... On the Denali trip, I will be carrying a regular cell phone, and 710 KIRO will do live interviews along the way. There may be other radio venues for the same. We are exploring TV and cable options. Once we have confirmation on these, we will make it public on the Around-n-Over web site. I will email my journal and stories from an internet cafe in towns where I may find one and that will be on our web site. For all who are interested in receiving updates and notices of new content as we post it on our site, and of information to keep you in the know: please subscribe yourself and pass the word on to your friends, potential sponsors, potential partners... HOW We will achieve this by sending out mailing only to those who have asked to join our mailing list. To agree to receive future e-mails, please subscribe by sending us a memo - subscribe@around-n-over.org?subject=SUBSCRIBE (composes memo to subscribe@around-n-over.org with subject: SUBSCRIBE -- hit send). I will detail this on the web site as well - to be removed from our mailing list in the future: remove@around-n-over.org?subject=REMOVE (composes memo to remove@around-n-over.org with subject: REMOVE -- hit send) Thank you for all the interest. Erden.

There is so much to do, it is not funny. It is great that I am getting so much qualified help. It is a humbling experience. I would not be able to get started without it. The postcard to mom, I have to send by myself, though Erden.

Do not go there unless you can stomach gross stuff... http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/media/posters/posterimages/hand.jpg

We will have to get together one day and talk about this, I am sure that there are many life journeys to be had out there! You are a good man, Cpt. We can do better than that, and have you become part of the journey. Come to Seattle REI on Feb 1 to send me off on my journey. Come shake my hand and wish me luck. Look me in the eye and tell me that you will undertake just one such journey in your life some day. (Tentative) plan is that I would be in front of the REI from 9:00 am until 9:30 am at which time the wheels would start rolling. I will confirm this with a follow up posting. Erden.