At the Library
Sitting at Boulder Library. It is Thursday already.
Sunday was travel from Denver to Boulder. Travel assistance provivded generously by Raul , who stays at my brother Tim's house. Looked around Boulder. Found the Flat Irons and some hills. Bought lip balm and hand stuff for the dryness, and some general groceries.
Monday I met two of Raul's friends. The four of us came up with a scheme to place a safety flag on my wheelchair, for added visibility at the switchbacks. I wound up after consultation with locals to try Flagstaff Road on Monday. Started at 4 PM. The heat and general dryness have been well worth considering. The altitude is interesting, it enters perception and must be planned for also. At the top just past 8, at dark. Good steady incline.
Tuesday?? Planning, resting, improvising. Padding made for flag in bag- my new Shogun visibility feature. Inches added to a step surface at house to make entry easier. Went in evening to Lee Hill Road, an hour through town and then an hour of inlcine. Temp was still 90 plus after 3 PM so waited later.
Wednesday----- Jamestown. Not as steep as Monday or Tuesday, but longer. Up over and back down a large hump and then up along canyon roads- enveloping hills, rock, creek, and trees. Temp cooler, carried more water. Raul accompanied and practiced his videocraft. Travel from Boulder to Jamestown was best workout since Newe Hampshire.
Thursday! Loads nibbling at time. Must get alarm clock. Hurting for decent topographic map to plan more hills. Got to get info on Estes Park and west of Colorado Springs. As well, today we start to plan vertical trip for late September, ropes instead of wheels.
Sunday was travel from Denver to Boulder. Travel assistance provivded generously by Raul , who stays at my brother Tim's house. Looked around Boulder. Found the Flat Irons and some hills. Bought lip balm and hand stuff for the dryness, and some general groceries.
Monday I met two of Raul's friends. The four of us came up with a scheme to place a safety flag on my wheelchair, for added visibility at the switchbacks. I wound up after consultation with locals to try Flagstaff Road on Monday. Started at 4 PM. The heat and general dryness have been well worth considering. The altitude is interesting, it enters perception and must be planned for also. At the top just past 8, at dark. Good steady incline.
Tuesday?? Planning, resting, improvising. Padding made for flag in bag- my new Shogun visibility feature. Inches added to a step surface at house to make entry easier. Went in evening to Lee Hill Road, an hour through town and then an hour of inlcine. Temp was still 90 plus after 3 PM so waited later.
Wednesday----- Jamestown. Not as steep as Monday or Tuesday, but longer. Up over and back down a large hump and then up along canyon roads- enveloping hills, rock, creek, and trees. Temp cooler, carried more water. Raul accompanied and practiced his videocraft. Travel from Boulder to Jamestown was best workout since Newe Hampshire.
Thursday! Loads nibbling at time. Must get alarm clock. Hurting for decent topographic map to plan more hills. Got to get info on Estes Park and west of Colorado Springs. As well, today we start to plan vertical trip for late September, ropes instead of wheels.
posted by Sean at 5:29 PM
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We are lucky to have such supportive readers. One reader, Ganesh, happened to catch the 2007 Holden Commodore while doing high altitude testing in the mountains of Colorado.
What an active blog! Sometimes blog surfing lands you at a cool place like this one. I will be back. By the way, check out my household credit card related site. It is about household credit card.
rock on, Sean.
for contact w/Glenn, fellow alumni.
will be in your area soon, I think...
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"Sean on rocks," I'd say.
Anyway, with regard to the nagging question of Pike's (or, Pikes', or Pikes) right to a personal apostrophe, my position is that Pike used an apostrophe regularly when living, but much later some Yale historian/beatnik was probably trying to be cute and dubbed the (Pike's) mountain without; and it stuck. This was also most likely linked to drinking fruit-fly-filled glasses of Wild Turkey at Jack's Grill. I've never contracted a possessive bearing an outward-bound apostrophe before so couldn't resist the "'s's" volley.
However, research/history supports my line of thought with this little tidbit:
"President Jefferson dispatched Zebulon Montgomery Pike to determine the Louisiana Purchase's southwestern borders. Pike set out to climb the peak on November 24, 1806, from the Pueblo area, but was forced back by a blizzard." Obviously, it was Pike's peak for a little while at least.
Otherwise, I'm thinking it'll be Estes Park by sundown 9/7/05. What's yours?
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