Okay, so Day 2 of Humping the Camel is here.

Also, Midnight Crossroads has the latest installment of "Beyond the Pale," and "Conflation" will go up on Thursday.

Sounds like some of my friends have been having a rough time of it while I was gone. I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply individually, but I'm thinking of you all.

In the meantime, I'm trying to catch up by making back-dated posts about climbing Camel's Hump. The first one is here. The post about the actual climb will be next ( Read more... )

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Sunday morning was a quiet affair, with everyone dragging themselves out of bed at a pretty decent hour, all things considered. fearsclave helped raven_albion and kilted_omalley with breakfast by making yummy sausages cooked in whisky. We had pancakes and there were eggs and bacon and coffee, thanks be to every god in the sky ( Read more... )

This is another backdated post, written Tuesday September 15th, 2009 ( Read more... )

I'm back from my trip!

The weekend went by way too quickly. :)

Thursday I got to meet the lovely sassy_fae and catsarah, who spent the night here with fearsclave, giggling and cuddling the cats, who were all too pleased to get the attention ( Read more... )

I was going to try my hand at granola bars today, thinking I had all the ingredients, and wouldn't that make a great snack for climbing a mountain? Except, looking through my pantry, I have no oats, and I am not sure about using oatmeal as a substitute -I'm worried about texture and consistency, and today doesn't seem right for experimentation. ( Read more... )

Here, mostly unannotated, are a few pictures from Saturday's "jaunt" up the mountain. I have forgotten some of the LJ names associated with various folks, so I shall leave it to those of you in the know to name the who's who of this trip where necessary.

As you can see, there were good times. :)

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Owie. Owie owie ow ow ow ( Read more... )

I am sore beyond words. Also, at work. Also, no sleep for... *counts* 33 hours. Also, drenched (explanation to follow). As such, this post will be in point form.

1- Discount Car Rental = Fail.

The horking big monster they gave me (some sort of Dodge monstrosity with a lot of chrome) is not a "compact." Also, the guy laughed when I told him I was ( Read more... )