June 12, 2007

Down To The Wire

Just a few weeks until departure.
Here are a few photos of our training climb in the Pioneer Mountains outside of Ketchum.  More details later, but first-- we're on our way to Boston.  Yes...it is counterintuitive for us to spend five days at sea level just a few weeks before we're going for some serious altitude.  That's another story and another adventure to be mentioned!

Meanwhile- this is our hike last Saturday.   
 
Johnstone_creek_hike_06_07












The hikers, plus four dogs.


Pioneers_06_07















Augie_exhausted_06_07
















Pioneer_cabin_06_07















Bob_the_cookie_pied_piper_pioneers_















View_from_near_pioneer_cabin_06_07
















If you click on the photo of the cabin, you'll see that it reads "The Higher You Get, The Higher You Get"   Well, yes.  Kind of like the line in the film Buckaroo Bonzai, "No matter where you go, there you are."