Saturday, November 28, 2009

Thanksgiving from the top of Mount Mansfield

This was the view from 4,030 feet on Thanksgiving Day. That is right, those are clouds at eye level. The hike was up the Sunset Ridge Trail, around 3 miles in length and around 2,600 feet in elevation gain. This is looking up a the Chin summit, one of a couple on Mount Mansfield. The summits are named after the parts of a face because some drunk mountaineer thought it looked like a profile.
The clouds would come in and then departs with strong gusts of wind. It was like being inside a pillow, white all around and this eerie silence.
Heather, bundled against the cold, taking a picture of me. I will post those shots later once I have loaded the camera into this computer.
This is looking towards Camel's Hump. Just surreal. These were all shot with my dinky iPhone camera. It was a beautiful hike and a great Thanksgiving.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Made my bed and slept in it too!

Yep, made a bedframe with Heather this weekend for our foam mattress. Very strong design carefully constructed the easiest and cheapest way possible. So, materials cost about $38 including paint that has not yet been applied and it took about 6 hours to construct.