Right. I got back from North Carolina around 6:30 last night and I’m still in recovery mode but I’ll bash out a bit of a report here. I’d threatened to post updates on my blog throughout the weekend but that obviously didn’t happen and I shouldn’t be surprised; there’s simply not enough time (nor places to get an Internet connection) to do it. This year, having been stood up by my usual Canadian contingent (sniff), I departed a day earlier than usual, on Tuesday. This basically put me ahead of the usual game by 24 hours and I was able to get in a full day of hiking and photography on Thursday. Good thing, too, because official activities prevented me from shooting nearly as much as I'd have liked to during the rest of the weekend.
So I did a long hike on the Grandfather trail Thursday morning, followed by an even longer one, with a full load of camping gear on Thursday evening. Camped out at the Alpine Meadow camp site this year. Photography at sunset and sunrise was only "OK" but it was still a great adventure. Friday was mostly business but I did lead the now-traditional Saturday morning hike on the Grandfather Trail to Attic Window Peak. This year we had an attrition rate of only 25%! Cotty, Helen and I made it all the way to Attic Window, though it did take some persuading: Cotty thought he already had enough video at that point and Helen had some silly notion of getting back in time to take a shower. Bah! It was big fun. I spent Saturday afternoon selling schwag. I sold a big pile of "You can never have too many lenses" t-shirts, plus a few bumper stickers and a few "Auto Parts" books. Haven't added up the totals but I think we raised a reasonable chunk of money for the National Childhood Cancer Foundation there. Sunday was just a blur. I'll have to look at everyone's photos and see if any of them jogs my memory... I'll post a few of my own shots later. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
