Paper Cuts

Since I can't afford a subscription, I occasionally stop by Borders(sorry DJ) to buy a coffee and read The New Yorker. Tonight, after first reading a David Sedaris article about buying weed in trailer park, I read this piece by Susan Orlean(Adaptation) about origami.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070219fa_fact_orlean


Read the article first before looking at the images. Amazing.

http://www.langorigami.com/

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&sa=N&resnum=0&q=Robert+Lang+Origami&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wi

Nerd Out

Here is some temperature data presented in graphical and tabular form for your viewing pleasure. Does this tell us anything? I'm not sure. DJ you might have to get some long underwear knitted from pubis.





...........DOY MON DY TMAX #YRS TMIN #YRS PRECIP #YRS SD MAX SD MIN

Ropa

There has been a lot of talk about gear, but I'm wondering what you folk have in mind as far as clothing. It seems like we're shooting for a late spring, early summer departure -- do we still need gortex? I own zero true winter clothing, do I need to invest, you figure? The weather numbers I've seen seem to suggest so. Thoughts?

Monkey Wrench

As you guys know I was recently hired away from my lifelong passion: eFloodZone. While we look back and remember that halcyon era, it would be wise to grapple with the fact that I have no fucking clue when I can grab some vacation time from my new employers. More info to follow...

Beef Jerky and Smokes

So yeah for the sake of getting booted from the trip I figure I should contribute something.....so believe it or not I will keep the jump-rope jokes for myself and post something of worth. I actually made myself read one of those books to get some ideas on trails and have a few ideas...the first being that we do one ~10 mile hike (4 bottle of liquor hike) and a shorter 2-4 mile day hike. The first hike that I found that not to pedestrian for us is "Inspiration Point, Stanford Point, and Dewey Point" is covers 10 miles and is considered strenuous but with Josh jump roping and shit and Brad ability to survive in harsh temps due to his thick winter coat we should be ok...but for real it calls for 9 hours with a high point of ~7000 ft. It also suggest a campground that we could set up in for the first night. As far as the second shorter hike there are a couple of hikes that I thought would be cool; the first being another hike in the valley area or a red wood stand hike.

We need to discuss the exact time period involved i.e. 5 days or 4 or 6 whatever. I know that for me a 7 day week would be max. Next we need to decide how we want to set up the hikes. Go out for 2 days then come back to the valley and get supplies then head out again or whatever.

I will scan in the trail details tomorrow at work so long as I can dig my car out of the fucking snow.