Tripping up to Mammoth and bits and pieces

I finished working on "Wild Child" Friday. Skye reminds me that I promised to take her camping in Mammoth. When it rained here, it snowed there, so I realized time was running out. On Sunday after getting beat up at Jujitsu, I decide we should go up on Monday so we can get back by Wednesday night to make it to the screening of "The Heartbreak Kid", the movie Cindy worked on and Skye can make it to the Talent show at the home school park day, her talent being hula hooping. Yes it sounds a bit crazy but we had a lot of fun.


I bought this tent like two years ago along with a couple of sleeping bags, part of a e-bay crazed shopping spree, finally they get a taste of the great outdoors. I'm very glad I bought a couple of good sleeping bags, cause it was 26 degrees at night.

One of objectives of the trip, beyond living up to the promise I made was to strengthen Skye's bicycling skills because we're racing in the Urban Assault Race this Sunday. We made some pretty long rides. Skye was a trooper even when I miscalculated the length and steepness of a hill that we ended up pushing our bikes up for the better part of an hour. But we got some amazing views and a fun downhill ride.


That little patch of green in the middle of the photo above was where we started our ride.

It was a great little escape.

Upon return, just before heading out for Cindy's screening I try to check my e-mail only to find out our computer has crashed, total meltdown, the computer is dead. I'm writing this on a new computer, just about the most basic model available seeing as how these machines seem to become cheaper to buy than to fix after a few years and they seem to inevitably crash after a couple of years or even if they are working become obsolete by the time you get them home. Oh the madness.

Also on the horizon, Oct. 6 I'm running or rather climbing in YMCA's Stair Climb to the Top, 1500 steps up the US Bank Tower, the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Check out my official race webpage to help raise money for the Y.