more pictures added

I got a chance to upload some more pictures from this winter - I think thats pretty much all of 'em. I also put up some pictures from recent hikes up Sugarloaf mtn and Mt Margret. Sugarloaf is right here in the canyon and Margret is about 15 miles into the park. This is a picture from Sugarloaf looking down at the McKinley Chalets on the right, the Princess on the left and the Nenana River between them and Mt Healey in the back.

Alaska or bust!

Depart for Denali today. Its always fun figuring out the most important things that you need and figuring out how to confine them to two bags less than 50 pounds. And so it begins....

The big, bad, first-ever post

In an act of complete and total unoriginality, I have decided to hop on the blog bandwagon, so to speak, and record some random musings on occassion--maybe even a photograph or two--for posterity's sake. Whether anyone besides me, my shrink, and perhaps the prosecuting attorney and jury will ever read this is uncertain at best (speaking of which, if you're reading this right now, what the hell are you doing? Wouldn't something else--anything else!--be a better use of your time?). But I'm sure Dante was thinking precisely that while he penned that whole Divine Comedy thing...which wasn't that funny, I might add.

And with that rhetorical flourish, the website began. Ok, so things can really only improve from here...

(Even better, and even more like me, I can't even say Im the original author of this post...thanks big bird)