Last weekend, six illustrious mountaineers drove up to Stevens Pass to climb Slippery Slab. The climb itself is not very exciting - one fourth class gulley and one fifth class pitch - but if you look at the day as a nice hike where there happens to be a pitch of rock at the end, it’s quite enjoyable.
I have just discovered a truely annoying form of spam - the porn site that adds comments all over your Web site just to up its google ranking. If you can believe it, I just spent 20 minutes deleting 131 comments with links to perfectly aweful sounding things (which I will not repeat out of decency).
Until now, I would log on to update the site and find maybe 5 or so of these comments about penis enlargement, but it went too far today. Rest assured I will be taking steps to prevent this in the future. In the mean time please be patient. If you open up a comments box to find 27 links to *blech* they will be deleted shortly and hopefully permanently!
The Madison is possibly the wildest race at the track. In it, teams of two riders compete against each other in a tag team format. One rider is sprinting as hard as he can, and when he passes his teammate, he uses his momentum to slingshot his partner into the race.
There are three days of racing at the Marymoor Velodrome this weekend as part of the Marymoor Velodrome Challenge. Come on down and check it out!
Well, I’ve found a temporary solution to my problems...I’m uploading images via FrontPage, then hand typing in the image code. It’s not elegant and it limits where I can post images from. At least it will allow me to keep posting until I get the problem solved, though.
About the picture: Our group in Banff passed this waterfall on our way down valley on the second day of hiking. This is the first time I’ve successfully captured blurred water. I think I was able to do it because it was an overcast, rainy day.