We don't give a damn how they do it OUTSIDE.

Likely, you can see this from Sarah's house. Certainly, she'll get the house and the pick-up. Todd will have to settle for the man-cave, motorhome, and the super cub.
 
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We’ll, you know, if you haven’t got a tan by now, something’s wrong, right?
I’m ready for Fall and cooler weather.
 
I hiked up this trail today. I was not a pretty day. It was gray and windy. Like fucking winter at the top. I was very happy to have a nice hard shell jacket in my pack for the last 1000' vertical.

Thanks for the interesting link.

3,622' of vertical in 8½ miles is nothing to sneeze at.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that you were well prepared for contingencies.

 

Thanks for the interesting link.

3,622' of vertical in miles is nothing to sneeze at.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that you were well prepared for contingencies.


https://66.media.tumblr.com/c062406cda74a4a6788431a62afd2586/tumblr_pylt23Gpw61s1fzkeo1_540.jpg

The only photo of the trip. That little round top is Nearpoint and there are people on top. My phone camera did not have the resolution to pick them up, but I could see them from the spot I stopped to have a drink of water and put my sweater on. Then, the phone battery died on the way up. That'll teach me to put in in an outside pocket of my daypack.

BTW, it's an out and back trail, so the vertical is done in 4 1/4 miles.
 
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"It looked out of place, speeding past misty green mountains of the western Aleutian Island, a cross between a speedboat and an industrial fishing barge. With alarming speed, it lurched from the shore onto the beach, kicking up dark swirls of sand and sea spray. Its cargo trickled down of a ramp: Humvees, U.S. Marines, a compact green bulldozer. Everything you would need in an invasion."

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"It looked out of place, speeding past misty green mountains of the western Aleutian Island, a cross between a speedboat and an industrial fishing barge. With alarming speed, it lurched from the shore onto the beach, kicking up dark swirls of sand and sea spray. Its cargo trickled down of a ramp: Humvees, U.S. Marines, a compact green bulldozer. Everything you would need in an invasion."

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Used to watch them being tested on the bayous in New Orleans East.

Awesome. Loud!
 
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