Wow! Sounds like a major week. Hope you recover quickly (if not already). Looking forward to seeing some pics. Good luck on the unmentionables...
-- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, June 29, 2008, 6:23:51 PM, you wrote: MR> Wow. What a week. MR> Got some good photography done, lots of biking and quite a bit of MR> hiking. Pictures to follow soon. MR> Monday & Tuesday we bicycled. Monday on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It's a MR> totally different way of experiencing the Parkway. Highly recommended if MR> you can handle the hills. MR> Wednesday we hiked the Profile Trail on Grandfather Mountain all the way MR> up top Calloway Peak. The goal of this week's trip was mainly plant and MR> flower macro photography but even so I was surprised to find that I used MR> the Sigma 180/3.5 macro for 100% of my shots on Wednesday. The big find MR> of the day: Gray's Lily. It's a very rare endangered species found only MR> on a few mountains in the southeast. Lisa spotted them and I got quite a MR> few good shots. The hike was a killer, though (with a pack loaded with MR> camera gear) and my quadriceps hurt like hell the next day. Not a good MR> omen for Saturday's big event... MR> The Blood, Sweat and Gears century! 100 miles of biking with 13,000+ MR> feet of climb. This year I made it all the way up Snake Mountain -- a MR> FIVE MILE climb, half of which is around 8% grade and the last quarter MR> mile of which is an 18% grade -- without walking or even "serpentining" MR> through the steepest part. (Of course, I nearly fell off the bike at the MR> rest stop at the top...) MR> Way too much to describe here (gluttons for punishment will get it in my MR> blog) but a very positive week. Possibly other good developments which I MR> won't even mention here for fear of jinxing anything. MR> Photos next... -- 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.
