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oh silly Pa... she was trying to give you a kiss! She LOVES you! ;)

Hey! I KNEW I should have shouted out an aligator eggs! Good to 'almost' meet you on the trail. Geneva can sound kind of fierce, and she did have her fur in a fin, but the wagging tail sort of gives her away for being the softie that she really is. What a great day to be in the mountains...

I managed somehow to get Mad Townie to agree to go for a hike! We decided on Mt Moriah so Geneva could put one more paw print on her map of the 48 for winter. :rolleyes: It was a beautiful day to go for a hike, and I had never been on the Carter Moriah Trail from that end before. It was a...

I would have to guess that whoever made the numerous and VERY deep postholes on the Carter Moriah Trail was really wishing they had snowshoes. Seriously, it looked as though they had a very long and very painful hike out.

Donna was invited! Actually, we were gong there mainly for her. Meri 'needed' it for winter too, but I didn't even know that til we met in the parking lot.

you know Pa, I think Meri and I were just having such a fun time, the hand over hand climbing, and the potential 'sliding to our ultimate death' just had no effect on us. We had lots of fun, lots of laughs and not a lot of actual busting through spruce walls. It really was a fun day! :)

Meri, Geneva and I managed to get ourselves to the canister of Vose Spur without much effort on a beautiful day. Ok, maybe a little bit of effort after the talus field with the steep section of one foot forward and 4 slides back. ;) We went in via Sawyer River Road, Signal Ridge Trail and...

Have any of you been out kayaking around the San Juan Islands? I would like to get out there and do a 4 day trip, but have not done any ocean kayaking except playing around near the shore off some protected beaches in Acadia. I may go with a tour group, just because the logistics seem...

Article in National Geographic on Andrew Skurka and his 176 day ski/hike/paddle. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/alaska-trek/koeppel-text This kid likes to suffer...

Geneva is my dog, I've never met Bookah. I have a mummy bag, and she is about 35#s. I made another bag that zips onto mine for her, haven't tested it out in the wild yet, but I think it will work okay. I think she gets scared of all the little beasties in the woods that could hurt her, so she...

Geneva sounds like Bookah. She is off trail and does 3xs the distance I do from running ahead and back, counting all the people on the trail and making sure we are all there. Last weekend she was breaking trail in front of me! and on occasion I saw her off trail 'swimming' in the snow...

Great photo, but where is her snazzy new suit?

Only had a few hours to get out and enjoy the day outside so opted to try for the Great Hill Fire Tower. We took Chinook Trail to the Betty Steele Loop Trail to the Peg King Spur Trail to Hemmenway Road and back down Chinook Trail. We broke trail the entire way except for about 1/2 mile that...

Oh, forgot, if it is a reverse zipper, or a waterproof zipper the pulls will be different also. May need to go to an REI or and EMS or similar place if it is one of those. They should carry extra pulls for sale. The pulls are made in 'reverse' for those types of coil zippers.

If it is a YKK or a Talon or an Ideal brand zipper it will say on the back of the pull what size it is. There are generally 3 types of zipper pulls for 3 types of zipper tape. Vislon zippers have individually moulded plastic teeth. Coil zippers have a continuous coil of nylon. Metal zips have...

WOW! great site, thanks for the link. Gotta get some work done, but lookls like I will be searching that site for lots of good info for my trip! Thanks! :) Keep the info coming. I'll probably hike with the sister for a day or 2, then hike on my own for a few days, then hike with her again...

I want to go and visit my sister in June, and want to do some hiking with her while I am visiting. She lives in Colorado Springs. I've never been out there :o, so any advice or suggestions for places to hike? She doesn't hike, at all. But she has graciously said she would go, if it gets me...

That burger looks sick. But then again, I prefer to 'eat' my food and not wear it! :o

Seriously, if I had been in a 3'x3'x6' snow cave for 7 days, or for 7 minutes for that matter, all I would want would be wide open space! Toss in the 100mph+ winds and super low temps, and an earthquake for good measure... Wow, what an adventure!

Wow, what an adventure to be reading about from a nice warm house... I hope he doesn't have to wait too long at base camp for a flight back to a shower and a steak and King Crab Leg dinner! :)