Skeezix

No, it's poetry, not peyote.

Grizzly bear?

Read the text narrative on the Zorbing website. How annoying.

Rexroth was one of the original backcountry rangers in the N. Cascades. He took a pony and a bucksaw and cleared the trail between Marblemount and Stehekin, traveling alone. Carryied only hardtack, pemmican, and his revolutionary thoughts over Cascade Pass. You can read about it in his book.

D....8 Bingo!

That's a great book. I devoured it when my wife gave it to me. May be time for a first re-read.

Frank Shultz is bipolar.

Dug razor clams x 2 days.

My heart goes out to you and your family.

This one I don't get. I'm sure you had a miserable time ...but there's a trail to near the base! I found this approach to be pleasant. This is a brutal hump. I ran into NOLS up there one time myself. Another time I carried a pack in there only to arrive at the top and have my boss call me on the radio and tell me that a helo was on the way to pick me up to go to a rescue effort on Triumph. Perfect Impasse In the late 80's somebody built a semi-permanent camp alongside a creek that drains into Baker River. This person cut a primitive trail from Baker River to Blum Lakes. We removed the camp and erased the firering ...the trail is probably deteriorated. My least favs: Ascent - Noisy Creek to Bacon Peak (Don't ask). Descent - Either groping to the Emmons after climbing into a raging storm at the top of Liberty Ridge, or bushwacking out Flat Creek after getting buried by a September storm on the Ptarmigan near LeConte Peak.

FTA

Yikes.

I don't think Glide is good for flossing your teeth. It glides over the plaque and fails to rub it off. THREAD DRIFT!

Not to take away from an otherwise excellent article, but there was one error: Pilot Tony Reece was flying under contract to the US Park Service --not the US Forest Service. Remarkable and fortunate that the firefighter team member knew to carry Miller UP to the ridge. Many folks' instinct would be to go down. But Tony needs ridges to have a clear approach. I've seen him land in remarkable places. He once picked me and a fellow up off a ledge on the face below the NE Ridge of Triumph. When I went to step into the chopper, I saw Tony staring up at the wall. Following his gaze, I saw the rotor blade tips missing the wall by inches. He is a highly skilled pilot. He regularly coils his long steel cable in the back of a pickup truck from the air. He has performed hundreds of rescues, dumped thousands of buckets of water, and shuttled too many slingloads of cedar blocks and trail crew gear to count. When he says the helo is an extension of his body, he's not kidding. Here's to Tony Reece:

I just pulled out a couple canuck 20s and they've got the queen on them. And the $5 bill's got Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He was a PM, but by his title he was knighted by the queen. Thread drift!

Not that I know of.

Drool.

I remember when people did ski ballet. It's been twenty years, but I remember.

There used to be a training program on the Boston Marathon website. I ran a marathon in 1980. It was 84 degrees in Richmond, Virginia. Then I decided 10k was a better distance to run. But you're young. Go for it.

Thanks a lot! Good to talk to another otter fan!

It'd be worth it to spend the night up in the hut.

Dub Side of the Moon. Reggae inversion of classic Floyd.

I'll go.

Saturday took the family to Oly to hit Costco. Drove out to Boston harbor to show my fam where I lived back in the early eighties. At Boston Harbor Marina saw the Swirl tied up at the end of the dock. Alden-designed flush-deck 40 schooner that I sailed around the San Juans on in '82. Sunday I played with my new chainsaw. Limbed a fir I'm in the process of deconstructing. Now I need a chipper.

So, the goal is to get the weight of the envelope up over an ounce before I send it back? Can do!