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goofball
Joined: 17 Dec 2005
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Location: city of sin, sweet child of mine
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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this year i will not be denied !
in '04 i went to the wind rivers. after dropping jr at the airport i dropped my transmission. 3 day delay. ok. un-fun, but 3 days out of 2 weeks... got in the winds and boots de-soled on day 3. limped out day 4. said dirty words and canyoned near home.
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in '05 went to holy cross wilderness for 5 days. heading towards zion for week 2 and... a flat east of grand junction and a blown gasket that emptied my oil pan every 100 miles. then the transmisson starts acting up. remainder of "vacation" spent in albuquerque buying a new car. :frustrated: :frustrated:
this year i shall break the curse and WILL have an enjoyable, non-mechanically-deterred vacation ! in the wind rivers.
plus various and sundry other adventures of the canyoning nature throughout the year as opportunities arise.
yea verily ! |
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stefan
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: somewhere
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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tatwood wrote: How sad is that!
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Those guys were just pathetic.
i know....it's really my only story like that, though, fortunately.
tatwood wrote:
Do you have any pics of your trip stefan?
yes...i even have a sequence of 24 vertically oriented photographs which connect very nicely into a full panorama from the peak.
but since this was almost 10 years ago, i haven't digitized them. |
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tatwood
Joined: 29 Jan 2006
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Location: Midvale, UT
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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stefan wrote: tatwood wrote: How sad is that!
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Those guys were just pathetic.
i know....it's really my only story like that, though, fortunately.
tatwood wrote:
Do you have any pics of your trip stefan?
yes...i even have a sequence of 24 vertically oriented photographs which connect very nicely into a full panorama from the peak.
but since this was almost 10 years ago, i haven't digitized them.
If you ever get around to digitizing them, you'll have to put them up on here. I'm sure it looks cool. |
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Dean Myerson
Joined: 19 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:46 am Post subject: |
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I haven't been up there since a number of times in the 80's, when I lived in Calif. Glad I did the various routes (trail, mountaineers and east face) back then. No cell phones either.
And I do want to emphasize how broad that summit is. It's kind of like a chunk of rolling prairie raised up high. That doesn't mean it's nice having 900 people up there. :eek2:
Is the old stone building still up there? I hard that they were going to remove it.
It will be colder in Sept, but the chance for a storm is still pretty low.
Dean |
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stefan
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: somewhere
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:56 am Post subject: |
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Dean Myerson wrote:
Is the old stone building still up there? I hard that they were going to remove it.
Apparently it still is, as i quickly found this link to a photoTR from last summer.
http://tinyurl.com/gw7rg |
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jimflint1
Joined: 17 Jul 2005
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Location: Middle-of-Nowhere
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Camping with my wife at Great Basin Nat. Park
Scout camping a few places--our week camp will be at Potter's Ponds near Fairview.
I will be hiking, somewhere, sometime, but I haven't planned any of them yet. |
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