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Month: July 2007

  • CDT Mapping Hike: Pettingell Divide to Berthoud Pass

    It’s a pretty cold and windy night on the divide, but the morning brings ridge hiking as sweet as it comes. Shortly after this picture Jeremy and Bob startle a mountain goat that flies across the rocky terrain below us. Another tough climb takes us to Stanley Mountain. We try to find camping before Berthoud…

  • CDT Mapping Hike: Bakerville to Pettingell Divide

    Our newly formed team follows the plan to eat, drive to Berthoud Pass to leave a food cache, then continue to our starting point at the Bakerville exit on I-70. Jeremy and I will each collect a GPS track, Jeremy will take notes and waypoints, I’ll take photos and video. The trail is easy for…

  • My version

    (Congratulate me if I successfully make this post–it’ll be my first foray into the blogosphere….) On Sunday, 7/29 I drove Dylan to the trailhead he wanted to start out at around 9am. No, you don’t get a link to a map, a gps coordinate, or even specific information about what trailhead it was. It was…

  • CDT Mapping Pre-hike: Beaver Reservoir to Monarch Lake

    I’ve volunteered for the BACKPACKER Magazine CDT Mapping project as a team leader, and my first task is to meet my two team members at Monarch Lake. I figure it’s about 16 miles of hiking, but Sawtooth Mountain looks very tempting, and the trail is quite wiggly on the west side. The elevation profile ends…

  • Book: The Wizard of the Crow / Ngugi Wa’Thiong’O

    I haven’t enjoyed a big fiction read like this in a long time. The dictator of the African nation of Aburiria seems to be a composite of his peers in the real world, Mobutu being the most recognizable to me. It’s a social and political tale that is chock full of strange metaphors and blatant…

  • Rain and lost phone

    We drive eagerly to Piz Badille, new climbing shoes in our packs, but it’s raining. Optimistically, we wade across the South St. Vrain, but it only rains harder and we have to turn back. In the end we settle for a nice hike and car camping near Beaver Reservoir. Somewhere my cellphone falls out of…

  • Vedauwoo – Nautilus

    Doug meets us on a fine morning at the Nautilus, then proceeds to dive back into climbing with a solid lead of Stand and Deliver 5.10a. He and Ann then follow me up Ted’s Trot 5.7, just as thrilling for me the second time. Rain showers send us scurrying off the rock to sit and…

  • Vedauwoo – Jurassic Park / Lichen Lung

    It’s hot, we have errands to run, and we’re not moving so fast. But we make it to Vedauwoo eventually and find Mark and Kate in a similar state at the ever-name-changing area Jurassic Park. Despite our laziness we enjoy a few routes: First Iteration 5.9+ There’s some hard slab climbing here if you try…

  • Notre BAT

    We take the next step on our quest to become hermit crabs: more portable housing. Ann’s mom and my dad join us to pick up the new (used) Lance 810 camper. The most nerve-wracking part, backing the truck up under it, goes without a hitch on the first try. We all celebrate with a yummy…

  • Book: The Solace of Open Spaces / Gretel Ehrlich

    This was a nice book to pluck off my dad’s shelf for our backpack trip. (Too bad I didn’t remember to pluck a plastic bag for it out of the kitchen drawer – it’s a little thicker than it used to be now). The landscapes of Wyoming, my birth state, are brought to visceral life,…