tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152993022011-04-21T21:07:17.262-07:00Irwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552449382070922817noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15299302.post-61242572799995476552008-01-01T19:47:00.000-08:002008-01-01T21:00:57.657-08:00

Irwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552449382070922817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15299302.post-1159147861828040322006-09-24T18:19:00.000-07:002006-10-06T11:31:10.710-07:00

Another 70 degree September day in the Puget Sound area. On Saturday I went with a Mountaineers party on a scramble up Bedal Peak, 6,557 ft. I don't have any pix of Bedal's summit, other than from the summit, because it was quite the bushwacked until the last 1,000 ft, when you could finally see the summit. It's about a 4,600 ft. scramble. The views from the summit of the neighboring peaks such

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Arrr! A pirate blog entry you're thinking, right? Sorry, just a lame-ass 8,050 ft. peak in the North Cascades. Climbed it on Sunday in perfect weather with the route completely to ourselves. It's one memorable sighting as you near the crest of the North Cascades, Highway 20. Mid-5th class most of the way. About 8 pitches up and near 10 raps down. It was fantastic except the the extreme number of

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Okay, my play on words will surely make you barf, but sometimes I can't resist. I guess it's the pun syndrome. You think you're funny, but everyone else thinks you're a dork. Oh, well. So after two years as an Account Director at Write Image, I was hired away by a fast growing technology+marketing consulting firm called Ascentium.I'm responsible for project management as well as business

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Upon accepting a new position with Ascentium, I quickly booked a trip to Jackson Hole and the Grand Teton National Park to climb the Grand Teton. Not having any time, or energy, to research route beta etc., I decided to hire a guide to climb the highest peak (13,770) in the Teton Range.Really the only guide service for climbing theGrand is Exum Guides.It was a wonderful, and successful trip. We

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iTunes is designed for a one-way transfer of data--from iTunes to the iPod. It is not designed to import from your iPod. I didn't really understand this until I unknowingly accomplished several things:Wiped my iPod and about 5 GBs of data cleanCreated great anxiety and sweaty palmsHad to re-rip my entire song and Podcast collectionThen figured out I better backup my iTunes library on several

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Sheer blaspheme to the Web 2.0 recruits, I’m sure. Nevertheless, it’s my excuse and I’m sticking to.Late June, the hottest June I can remember in the Northwest, I’m experiencing what might have been mild heat exhaustion. Luckily I fell into that misfortune next to a snowmelt-cold creek, crashing down the mountain with the rush and roar of a freight train. I covered my head with my creek-soaked

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Mount Rainier Climbing

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Went to do a conditioning hike up Kendall Catwalk, part of the Pacific Crest Trail, on Father's Day. The trailhead starts right off the Alpental turn off on Snoqualimie Pass. There was too much snow to make the last mile 1/2. If I had poles or an ice axe and something other than my trail running shoes, it probably would have went.This was one of the waterfall crossings you were warned about at

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This last weekend, Mother's Day weekend, me and seven other Mountaineers climbed the Brothers in the Olympic National Forest, Brothers Wilderness area, west of Seattle across the Puget Sound and Hood Canal. It was a spectacular weekend, blue skies and warm temps.Three gradual miles from the trailhead we came to a popular resting point, Lower Lena Lake. Another three miles or so takes us to our

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Took myself down to Manzanita, Oregon for my birthday weekend. My furry campanion, Cassie, and I stayed at my brother's and girlfriend's place they recently bought. My family and I have been going down to Manzanita for years. It's amazing now that one of us has put down some roots there, at least in the form of a incredible house and a nice mortgage.My brother, Cassie and I hiked Neah-Kah-Nie

Irwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552449382070922817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15299302.post-1145289504606032642006-04-17T08:43:00.000-07:002006-04-17T08:58:24.620-07:00

I had a sobering ride in this morning. A car and bicylist accident just past the Ballard bridge on the Burke at one of the Fred Meyer intersections. The good news was the cyclist was starting to stand up as I slowly rode by. Who knows whose fault it was, nevertheless, typically riders are on the losing side of that proposition.Last year I witnessed a cyclist taken out as a women opened her

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I was only into my second week of communting to work when it happened: My first flat tire. No warning. No spare tire or patch kit in my pack. And right inbetween somewhere and nowhere. Luckly I had a bus pass so I didn't have to walk all the way home. But still. The shame. Walking your bike while others zoom right by. One whizzing biker asked if I was okay when he zipped by. "Yeah," I responded

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Super cool milage tool and calorie counter (but who's counting calories?) from Google.http://www.mapmyrun.com/index.phpMy route from Magnolia to Montlake is abouit 6.5 miles. Some days it feels like 25 miles!http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_run.php?r=8e7e22dad3557b815916a9cb97707f07

Irwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552449382070922817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15299302.post-1143650271673282882006-03-29T08:28:00.000-08:002006-03-29T08:37:51.683-08:00

Today was my first bike commute to work. I rode from home (Magnolia area) across the Ballard bridge, caught the Burke to the Montlake Bridge, hopped a bus across the lovely Gov. A. Rossellini bridge ($2 fare for 1 mile!), got off at the Kirkland P&R and rode 1/2 mile to my office. SWEET!My car commute typically takes 40 minutes. My bike commute with a shower at work was 20 minutes longer. Now I'm

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