Way off topic and NDR...It's just where I've been all summer.

Steve, I went out and climbed Old Rag today with approximately 100,000 of my closest friends. The NPS parking lot was completely full by 8:30 am according to the NPS ranger. The lady next door had opened her cattle gate and had over 300 cars at $10/each parked in her pasture. By noon the line at the entrance to the rock scramble making up the last 30 minutes of the climb was at least 45 minutes with at least 100 people waiting. The weather was in the low 50s with 15-20 mph winds with gusts to 30 mph. The leaf peepers and unprepared hikers packed the mountain today.
 
Rick...Thanks again for the pointers. I've heard of spinning, I'm going to have to look into practicing that some more and along with the inhale exhale and relaxing. I'm sure there's a pile of other rookie mistakes I'm making, but I'll get those figured out too.

Brad...Wow! That's insane, but I'm still jealous. I'm itching to get back out and climb again. Just a few more weeks until we head up to New Hampshire. Maybe Jon and I can try Old Rag on one of those "off days".

Steve
 
for Brad B.....Whewwww. I thought maybe you took to the brown water or maybe you got kicked in the head by a mule or something. Glad to hear you are still sane. ;-)

BTW no disrespect intended to those of you that climb the mountains. I would if I could. But after serving Uncle Sam some time back I promised to not stand in line to do anything if possible and there are a lot of mountains out there without lines I bet.
 
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Steve
The summit shot of Mount Abraham caught my interest. Is that the remains of a human made structure? I am referring to the rocks stacked in a semi circle. Could not tell the scale.
Just curious
Thx
Ken
 
Thank you Paul

Ken...yes and no. Yes it is man made. No it's not the remnants of an old structure. It's the culmination of hikers/climbers building a sort of circular wall for protection from the elements...namely the wind. It gets pretty windy and cold up there even when I was there. I didn't hang out up there long. I did tuck in long enough to eat a candy bar, then off I went.

On a side note...it's kind of frowned upon for structures of this to be built on top of the mountains. It takes away from the wildness of the trip; however, when there is a ski lift within a 1/4 mile I suppose they tend to not care as much.
 
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