Tags: Technology, toys
If you like acoustic/folk/rock you need to check out Brandi Carlile – http://www.brandicarlile.com/ or http://myspace.com/brandicarlileband
She’s a combination of Patsy Cline, Lucinda Williams, and Melissa Etheridge. Interesting combination in and of itself, but the pairing doesn’t do Brandi justice.
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I don’t get all this hype about the iPhone either.. My Cingular 8525 does everything the iPhone does and it has a slide out keyboard. Maddox puts it best on his site: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone Warning foul, but funny, language.
Tags: humor, Technology
Tags: funny
Mount Ampersand is located in the northern part of the Adirondacks near Saranac Lake. Mike Turns and I hiked 2.8 miles to the summit (3,250 feet) and back. Conditions were wet and sloppy, but towards the summit, the trail was icy. Cramp-ons would have been nice on this journey. They would have kept my butt dry!
From the trailhead, we hiked about a mile and a half through a relatively flat birch and hemlock forest. Many babbling brooks crossed our paths and we enjoyed the frozen ice shelves which had formed on and around the brooks. The next half mile was more of an incline, but did not compare to the icy incline of the final climb which I estimate the degree of inclination to be 45 degrees at some points. The icy trail was covered by a thin layer of snow which had fallen the night before. This gave our shoes something to grip onto, but it proved to be an insufficient amount. We slipped several times, but no major wipe outs. At times, the mountain presented us with false peaks and gave us the illusion we were close to the summit. This frustrated us because we wanted to receive our reward of COMBOS for making it to the top. Later, we cheated and munched on COMBOS before we got to the summit. With the extra energy from our delicious snack, we reached the apex of this great mountain and discovered that our real reward was the grandiose view. You can’t grasp how big the Adirondacks are until you stand on top of one of the many high peaks. Forested mountains go on as far as the eye can see.
Our trip down went quickly, but we slid, crabbed and stumbled on our way. This is where the cramp-ons could have helped. This was an excellent hike and the reward was well worth the effort!
Enjoy the pictures below which Mike took (except the one of him).
