http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog Musings on the present, reminiscing about the past, posturing for the future. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:45:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our shadows stretched out long in front of us as we made our final ascent down to the lakeshore that is tonight's campsite. It was a long day, much more arduous than yesterday - partly because we had a 1,900ft cumulative elevation gain and partly due to the altitude and ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/09/03/second-day-hard/ It's around 5pm on Tuesday and we're all sitting around in a circle at our first campsite. We ended up trekking a bit more than a mile further than we'd planned as the rangers warned us about an "aggressive" bear active in the area where we'd originally planned to stay ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/09/02/day-one-feeling-good/ Happy Labor Day folks. Hope you're enjoying your time away from work. As promised, I'm posting a detailed rundown of this week's JMT hike.  And, as you read this, the guys and I are probably halfway to the Eastern side of Yosemite National Park, where we'll begin our journey with high hopes ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/09/02/john-muir-trail-half-through-hike-2008-re-do/ Hi guys, it's Friday.  I'm ready for the weekend.  Ready to pack, and take to the skies around 10am Monday to get to the trailhead for our early Tuesday hike-start.  Let's do this. Tonight around ten o'clock, and after doing the dishes after watching Barack after eating dinner after playing with ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/08/29/2160/ It's the end of Wednesday and I swear I've done a week's worth of hard work in this first half.  Between making up for my vacation last week and trying to get a little ahead to take the edge off my vacation next week, I'm cramming... Random and scattered today, be ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/08/28/random-and-scattered-today/ Tonight the JMT hike crew got together at my place to make some final arrangements and do our food shopping.  Several hundred dollars and tens of pounds of pack-weight later we were back at the house splitting things four ways.  The hike nears... the hike nears. I actually don't have much ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/08/27/2142/ 8:30 or so on this week-starting Monday, and work came at me like an avalanche today.  Who knew a week of work sandwiched in between two weeks of vacation would be stressful?  Everything to catch up on, everything to make up time on and get done early.  Ugh. Sharaun and Keaton ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/08/26/2130/ Early evening Sunday and Sharaun and Keaton packed off for a dinner thing at church without me (I'm still feeling a bit worn-down from the case of the sniffles I had last week).  Had a nice lazy day today, watched the new Rambo flick on DVD with a buddy and ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/08/25/2117/ Friday, Friday; the Lord brought us another Friday.  Give thanks, plebs, give thanks. Today, while my father-in-law and I were sitting around the house playing with Keaton, she retreated back into the hallway and, this time, didn't come back right away like she normally does.  Usually, she'll go back there into ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/08/22/just-like-you-daddy/ Thursday and the sand in my vacation hourglass is running low. Also running low, the time between my writing this and our departure in a little more than a week for our John Muir Trail "redo" hike.  I put a meeting on the group's collective calendars for next Tuesday to do ... http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/08/21/giving-work-the-short-shrift/