This video isn’t mine but it brings back great memories of our Mt. Eolus climb last year. The Catwalk was the part that I anticipated and sort of feared the most but it was an absolute blast.
No new climbs are scheduled at the moment but I will think about that early next year. In the meantime, I’ve managed to deal with a pretty painful problem with a tendon in my left foot and get back in the gym. I’m not sprinting up 100 stories of stairs three times per week right now but I’m putting in a solid hour five days per week. I’ll be adding another 30 minutes of cardio to each workout next week.
Summer road trip with the girlfriend – 9 Days – 4,000 miles through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado. Took the Mazda 3 from 106 degree deserts to hailstorms at nearly 11,000 feet on the Million Dollar Highway. We spent hours cruising at high speed across desert and grassland backroads without seeing another car, building, or person. Driving the new car was so comfortable and so much fun that our first day back we took it out for another 6 hour drive near the Texas Hill Country. I don’t know how but we managed to average about 28mpg through thousands of miles of mountain and high speed driving.
Highlights: Ouray, Durango, Silverton, Albuquerque, Carlsbad Caverns, Fort Davis, White Oaks, Santa Fe, Cloudcroft, Fredericksburg, and too many other small/ghost towns to mention.
An amazing view in beautiful weather. I don’t remember the names of these two. They reached the summit ahead of me and were kind enough to take a few photos for us.
This is me at our camp at 11,000 feet talking to Kevin Martin and Alan Arnette about the weather during Alan’s Sunlight Peak summit attempt. Alan, Robert, Kevin, and Anne had just summitted Mt. Windom and were descending in the rain with hope of crossing over to Sunlight. Alan made it to within 50 feet of the summit before coming down to attempt it early the next morning. The second attempt was successful.
