What are you doing this weekend??

“The electrical contractor I work for has 10 schools under construction, many of which are due to be completed before the school year begins - crunch time! Soooo, I'm working seven day weeks with no end in sight. I'll have a fair nest egg for something biggish come mid August - mebbe an extended river trip.”

“working. Sigh.”

“Eighty eight kilo ride this am. Hammerfest, haaven't done one like that in a while. Off to Webelos camp for 5 days.”

“Bagged an overnighter Friday night with Mountainrunner, nice hike out early Saturday. Took my wife on a 100 mile motorcycle ride through the countryside to a nice resturaunt for dinner and today, we go to a festival to watch a 5 all girl band that's supposed to be really good, and they're all still in High School.

A little run tonight and it's off to slave away again all week.”

“Marko...sorry to hear about the painting...GOD I HATE PAINTING.

Been working this weekend. Trying to finish the After Action report on the Charleston Trip....trying to get an investigation report finished.

Had a drive to Elberton Georgia to look at a new Pup that needs rescue.

Today will be report completion, then I have to work tonight.”

“working...”

“climbed (top-rope and bouldering) at the rock gym all day yesterday... forearms are shot toady... and ran 10K. today i run... suited up now to head out for an hour, lift weight at gym... gotta nail all the spots that didn't get injured while climbing, and perhaps take a bike ride with the kids.

i swapped all my weekend backpack trips for one big JMT trip in august and now it looks like my jmt trip will be a bust. so you see me posting here a lot more these days as 2007 slips away. if i start a new job in a month or so that will even further kill things until i wrack up some vacation time. so it's weekend warrior stuff for me!”

“i am going insane.”

“Ya I thought I was going to have the day off to recooperate from a hellish week, turns out that my co-worker called in sick on his first day back from vacation, so here I sit till about 0200. Somebody better help me stay awake along about midnight.”

“This morning I went out to go for a nice walk in the mountains. Seemed to be the perfect day for it. When I arrived at the car park and got out I noticed some suspicious, low, clouds rolling in from the west. Each time I looked back over my shoulder the dark clouds became more menacing, moving up towards the pass with an incredible speed. I heard distant thunder. I stoped, trying to figure out what to do: keep on going (a wee little bit of rain won't hurt) or run for cover? Just a minute ago it had been a bright, sunny day, with a fine view across the whole range. Now the swirling forefront of the clouds was just flying by. Instantly the temperature droped a couple of degrees, the wind picked up, first drop of rain, someones baseballcap was flying past me, an elderly couple made a hasty retreat, I heard someone running and was overtaken by a hiker, pulling his panicked little mops dog along, below me a herd of cows started stampeding across the meadow, making a hell of noise with their bells. So cows, dogs, man, baseballcap, everything hurried down the mountain side as fast as they could - and so did I. Ten minutes later I was back at the car, wet like a cat and shivering with cold.
Back home and somewhat disgruntled about my spoiled hike I switched on the tv and stumbled across a documentary about the Eiger, the mountain that took so many climbers life over the decades. Actually Eiger was less than 60 kilometers from where I tried my hike today. After that followed a story about the Air Zermatt rescue team and they airlifted yet another dead climber out of the Matterhorn.

That was my Sunday. Not exactly what I had been hoping for. And tomorrow it's back to work...ugh!
last edited: 7/08/07 10:12:11 AM”

“I'm letting it all hang out and drinking beer! It's way too hot so I'm just hanging out pool side in my bikini today in the shade with my laptop.”

“I liked the cheerful ending, Euro! [sheesh]

(I'm also hoping Cuckoo isn't a Dude, LOL)”

“I'm not a dude, I promise! :P”

“Sorry -- had to ask. We get all kinds around here.”

““Sorry -- had to ask. We get all kinds around here.”

More power to them! :P”

““I liked the cheerful ending, Euro! [sheesh]

Tilt


:-)

Which part of the ending did you like best? That I am back to work tomorrow (which is right now, arrrrgh), or the fact that so many climbers awkwardly tumble down swiss mountains?”

“tilt...I am free this weekend...want to share Fuel costs to Illinois (LOL)?”

“Lets see, Saturday I will celebrating Cameron's 14th Birtday. Sunday...oh yeah Sunday I will be flying to California for our JMT adventure. whoohooo!!!”

“I went the the wye with NGB, my daughter and her friend on Sunday, after that we went up on Sparks Lane in Cades Cove and picked/ate blackberries.

I stopped by the snack bar at the campground to get them a burger and ran into Ewker and Woodzie.

Never know who will show up in my neighborhood.”

“Hey chili, tell Nurse Goodbody I'm glad I met her! She seemed very cool. I wish I wasn't such a loser and went to bed at 7:00 that night, lol. That headache never went away...so nappy time turned into nighty-night time, haha.”

“Yeah, and I noticed ENS didn't waste any time hitting the sack either.”

“Funny guy!! ;-) I guess he didn't want to have too much fun w/out me, heehee. For seriously, I had the worst headache ever. Poor me!”

“when did chili and the ENS's meet? I gotta get out more.”

“I met lyra in Washington, DC in 2002, I met ENS in PA last October.”

“Ahh, I thought this was a recent get together she was referring too.

Are bears bad right now? I wish I could sneak the kids up there but even if I could I've been hearing about lots of bear activity. That would scare me off of a backcountry trip with the little ones.”

“Hey Lyra, I was glad to meet you as well. Those headaches can be a #&%!$ to get rid of!! You and ENS are very cute together. I thought I was going to fall over when he said you were married 4 days after getting engaged. That's the best way!! I hope to get to hike with you both someday.”

“So they were in the Smokies this weekend?”

“No we met them last weekend in WV

I just met them..Chili had alreay met them previously.
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“Gotcha. I'm slow today.”

“Yeah I hope I get to hike with you, too! :-)

ENS told me about that yummy shrimp stuff you made, Chili...bummer I missed it, it sounded really good!”

“Chili was the chef extraodinaire that night!”

“I'll be at a wedding at a winery/estate outside of Verona, Italy. Neener, neener, neeeeeee-ner!!






Don't forget to email me yer plans, lyra/ENS!!
last edited: 7/09/07 10:50:48 AM”

“we will keep you in the know”

“oh and this weekend, I fly to Seattle, minus Lyra :( to head over to Rainier for my big climb!”

“This coming weekend for me I predict, PAIN. I'll be trying to cover 38 miles with over 15,000' of gain over two days. Knees don't fail me now.”

“Awesome, Bowlder! We almost have all our plans, I shall email you soon.
:-)”

“I'm debating what to do this coming weekend. It'll partly depend on my potential climbing partner(s).”

“I will not likely be in touch (unless there's a good internet cafe somewhere) from this Tuesday through the 27th, so don't panic if I don't reply right away....”

“Chili, I was as surprised as you were. I turned around and Bam there you were...lol
Hope you and the clan enjoyed lunch. We headed up and out the Rich Mountain Rd. I never knew that road got so much traffic”

“Oh that's too bad, Bowlder...sorry you have to go to Italy! hahaha.”

“I have a hike listed for the Black Forest area of PA. It is gonna be an easy one. Ya'll come.”

“It was shrimp creole, lyra. If I make it back to Masten, I will whip up another pot of it.”

“Yeah, Ewker, Rich Mtn Rd used to be a little known gem. Now it's a major freeway.

Parsons Branch was supposed to open back up this summer, but I haven't been up there to check in the last month.”

“we drove up that way Sat evening and it is still closed..did get to see a bear right by the road, also saw one on Rich Mountain rd. hopefully the pics come out ok”

“...ooooouuugh, I need a weekend, I so badly need a weekend. I am sooo tired.
And I just discovered that I have dark, blueish rings under my eyes. I look horrible. Probably I suffered subcutaneous bleeding under my eyes after the office chocolate stash fell on my head yesterday.”

“I'm finally getting out this weekend and all of next week. First trip since early July.”

“Working. Oh and working too. And then I'll work some. I can't wait for this home improvement #&%!$ to be DONE!

You all enjoy your trails.”

“Cleaning up all the water that has fallen from the sky. Looks like we get a breat over the next week or so.

Finally I can seal the foundation of my house. Gotta dig it all out again first though.”

“My daughters getting married next weekend,I`m sure I`ll have no trouble finding things to do and get ready for !!!


Me thinks perhaps this weekend will not be my own .........(big grin)”

“day hike Sat, Sun. going on a group photo shoot. It will be the first time I have tried taking pics of jellyfish, fish,etc in an aquarium”