Mt. St. Helens - 8300ft

Mt St Helens is my next big hike. 

The route begins at Climber's Bivouac, located at the end of Forest Road 830, south of the volcano. At 3,700 feet elevation, Climber's Bivouac has the highest vehicle access on Mount St. Helens.
Start on Ptarmigan Trail #216A which climbs 1,100 feet in 2 1/4 miles to timberline at 4,800 feet elevation.
Above timberline, the route generally follows Monitor Ridge, climbing steeply through blocky lava flows and loose pumice and ash. From timberline the route is marked with large wooden posts to about 7,000 feet elevation. The upper 1,300 feet of the route is unmarked and covered with loose, rock, pumice and ash.

Right about where the arrow points to NEW SUMMIT 8365 is about where we will come over the edge of the rim from Monitor Trail.  If all goes as planned.

As usual, I plan on taking pictures and video.  I expect it will take a full 12 hours to do and plan on starting early.

Tentative date is August 14th provided I secure the required hiking permits in February.

Training has already begun.  THIS IS A BIG ONE!

Short summer

We are at the end of summer already.  I'm currently updating my Photo website....kind of have to...since they are changing their system and in a couple months they will MAKE everyone change over, so I'm trying to get that done. 

We're planning Logan's 3rd bday party. 

And I also have a couple trips coming up, California which is always fun...and DC, which is always fun too. 

That leaves me with Dallas and my travels are over for the year! 

Football pool is getting underway here at the end of the month. 

YES FOOTBALL!!! 

Thats it for now....

I noticed I haven't been here in quite awhile....haha

Still searching...time goes on...

Been awhile since my last post.  What have I been up to?  Hmmm....

I've been training for my next big hike in the fall.  I think we have selected our next peak to conquer.  More to come on this as we finalize the plans.  Looks like early August for this hike...hopefully.  Gym time has been increased.  I'm up to 2.5 hours each day and I'm lucky if I hit 5 or 6 days a week doing it.  I'm not getting any younger. 

I have a lot of travel coming up.  We'll see where it takes me.

Life goes on.

All. Done

Sox boards

All done

Sox boards

Almost...

Sox boards

Doing the black

White is done

The white is painted

And more work done

More work done

Starting some whitesox boards

Speaking to the Motorcycle gods...

A harley is in my near future...







Something like this Road King...






My motorcyle safety class has been scheduled for July...

Looking forward to it!

45 and Counting...

Does anybody read this? I don't think so...

What am I doing...this blog has been about my projects and how I spend my time. I rarely mention how or what I feel about anything.

Life isn't getting any easier...

Long time....no post....

I have been busy trust me...

The new pc is up and running just fine...much quicker...makes photoshopping so much faster.

Just shot my little guys 18 month pictures...


He is quite a little stinker.

And, I have been training pretty actively since January. 1.5-2 hours as many days as I can...in January I think I hit 22-31 days, less in February cause I was sick most of the month but March is hitting it pretty hard. I'm going to get to 200 lbs before the big hike this summer. I have quite a regiment going.

And my travel for work is now starting and it will be a busy year for travel. WOOHOO

PC Build is back on...

I got some giftcards for christmas, so I have a couple more parts to get and then I will build my new home system.

I got the IPHONE for xmas...pretty cool device.

2011 Xmas tree

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Putting up the big tree

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How about some peach cobbler

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North dome just ahead