Bagged Peak 9

Yesterday was a great day for a trek up Peak 9. I wrote a trip report and you can find it right here.

Attack on Mt Massive!

Attack on Mt Massive!

You don't really attack a mountain, you have to sneak up on them.  Last weekend it was Mt Massives turn, read all about it in the trip report:

1st landing since 1992

1st landing since 1992
Originally uploaded by scoutwonderworld

This is the first Porter landing since 1992 at the airstrip.

Quick trip to the Korner

I put some crazy gu stuff in my bike tires last night, Stans it is called.  This was prompted by a 25 mile ride on Friday where I suffered TWO flat tires.  The marketing website has a video where the guy rips into the tubes with a knife, right, we shall see.



I threw down a quick trip to Farmers Korner to check it out, what an awesome day for a quick ride.  I managed to destroy my Garmins ability to upload, I must of just used it all up, that's going to cost some money.  I had to map this one manually....

Blogging from Google Docs

Ah wow, this is awesome.  Last weekend I struggled SO hard to get a blog entry together with a bunch of photos.  Using the Mac editor in blogger.com is just crap.  So I downloaded a tool for the Mac that synced with blogger.com really well, except for photos.  I had to connect to an FTP server to get the photos up and honestly it was a real pain, it pretty much ruined my dinner with complaints of "I thought the Mac was supposed to be easy...AAARRRGGG".

Now, Google Docs  has saved me twice today. The first was finally getting around to installing Google Gears so that I can manage documents offline, cool, that saved me an Office license fee.  Now I have discovered that I can create a full document with photos and then instantly post it.  Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, and here is a photo to prove it.  Thank you Google, I wish I could afford your stock.

See that there, the Royal Yak Farm, where I landed.  Couldn't do that again if I tried.

In The Press

My 15 minutes of fame came and went, awesome. I pulled together the top links of my exploit(s).

Channel Five coverage of the FOG!

My local in Breck, the Summit Daily

My hometown paper, article #1 - before the jump

Grantham Journal, article #2 - After the jump

Peak 8 Summit

There are layoffs at work, 9% of folks will be looking for a new job next week.  Ah, you know, take a look around, look at this wonderful state we are in.  I thought I would save a few bucks today and just head up the side of a mountain, doesn't cost a penny, just sweat.

We set off up 4 o'clock only to be greeted by big and mean snow blows, boy are those things noisy!

Above Vista Haus there is a steep pitch, it has turned me around on skins more than once, but if you just stick at it then it is all downhill, well, sort of.

We made the T-Bar warming hut in decent time, and at this point I dropped the suggestion that “we might as well push on to the summit, eh?”.

We had some great views up there, Copper Mountain was just a spit away. I found out why Lake Chutes is called as such, turns out there are lakes at the bottom of them.

We trekked back via the 6 Chair warming hut. Someone was nice enough to leave it open for us to enjoy our sandwiches.

On a side note, I feel like a walking science gathering tool these days. I have a Garmin GPS to gather all waypoint data, a Digital camera and a SPOT GPS Beacon. All perform vital functions.

The Gamin GPS allows me to upload to MotionBased a review the work I did, without that I can’t justify calories. We covered 7 miles and had an altitude gain of 3,215ft. Apparently the wind was 35mph, I can tell you it pushed 50mph on the ridge! I need a new gadget to measure wind speed...dammit....well, really it is kind of fun, a walking weather station.

Peak 8 Summit | Day Hike | Breckenridge, Summit, Colorado, United States | MotionBased Dashboard

The camera takes photos of course, and when merged with the GPS the Flickr website shows us on a map where they came from:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9802602@N06/map?&fLat=39.4677&fLon=-106.0975&zl=3&map_type=hyb&order_by=recent

And then the SPOT, well that tell folks every 10 minutes where we are, and in an emergency I can call for 911!

Find Simon

One more photo to wrap it all up.