[GeoStL] Re: Greetings from Mount Elbert
- From: "GC-RGS" <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:55:01 -0500
I just hung up with Dan and have the latest for the day.
Dan said Mt. Elbert was really a rough climb and from the treeline up was just
almost a straight path up the whole time. No benches, guardrails, cables,
nothing. There was still snow down in some of the valleys and fresh snow they
saw Monday.
They are having their first real meal at a microbrewery in Leadwood. No motels
yet and probably none the whole trip. It gets to about 35 at night and Dan took
a bath in the creek after they descended the mountain yesterday. He said REALLY
COLD since it's all from melting snow. But, he and Jeff are still talking.
First couple of days in CO they hard rain, sleet, and very cold, but on Tue and
today the weather was perfect. He didn't say how many caches they found so far
but I think the one at the top of Mt. Albert was the only one for yesterday.
they started walking at 6AM.
They only road their bikes once so far along an old RR trail, about 2-3 miles.
Tomorrow he hopes to ride his bike over some pass but doesn't know if he's got
enough strength left.
They plan on leaving Sat. and will sleep in a rest stop along the way and get
in Sunday. There should be some good stories when they get back, hopefully
together.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Wheeling
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:29 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Greetings from Mount Elbert
Man, work blocks access to Gmail but you have like three seconds before the
firewall kicks in. Anyway he said it was 5 hours up and 3 back down and they
got a cache at the top of the mountain.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Sarah Chisholm <sarah_cf30@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Did you fall off a cliff?
----- Original Message ----
From: Brad Wheeling <brad.wheeling@xxxxxxxxx>
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:04:45 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Greetings from Mount Elbert
I talked to Jeff again last night after he and didg got back down. He said
the ascen
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:33 PM, <szcue@xxxxxxx> wrote:
WOW, that is absolutely awesome! Hope they take lots of pictures and
share them at the Fall Picnic. I wouldn't even begin to think about doing
something like that. Drop it from a balloon, yes, hike it NO! Thanks for
letting us know they made it to the top safely. Now keep us posted on their
safe descent. Susie
-----Original Message-----
From: Wheeling, Kathy <Kathy.Wheeling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 6:05 pm
Subject: [GeoStL] Greetings from Mount Elbert
Hey gang - I just got off the phone with our good buddies, jc_geo and
didg guy!! They had just completed the BIG hike to the top of Mount Elbert.
So they called me FROM THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. How cool is that??! :p
Jeff said they were at 14,433 feet, according to the elevation on his GPS.
That's a monster hike. I won't be surprised if he tries to place a new cache
high on that mountain top.
To learn more, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Elbert
Kat
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