Ginnylynnpeterson: September 2008

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Crow Pass - 24 Miles - 6 Hours and 59 Minutes - Sherrie's Longest Run Ever

Wow! Am I ever behind on my blog postings.....Fall has ended and winter, well, its pretty close to being in full swing....but back to fall for just a moment as truly another highlight of the season. I feel really lucky to have the partners that i do. I've written about that before, so won't go into all the details again. But I have just come off of and am still in this period of time that feels about impossible to coordinate a time, a day, a moment to get out and do some bonding.....so when these moments arise i appreciate everything the experience has to offer.

Ok, way off track on the actual event....CROW PASS! Sherrie keeps saying that this is the longest run she has ever done (24 miles), and I still find it hard to believe....Its been snowing in the mountains and the day definitely started with mixed reports with how much snow to expect....but really it was nothing to worry about. Beautiful blue bird day, lots of friends along the way, fall colors, a cold river. We finished in 6 hours and 59 minutes! Maybe not the Crow Pass fastest of all times, but do those folks ever stop to pee? Enjoy the slide show!

Friday, September 5, 2008

Bomber Traverse....well an attempt.

It has been a very, very, very rainy summer. One of those summers where you just have to say GO or you will never get out. Sherrie and RC did this trip the weekend before and highly recommended it.

The Bomber Traverse has been on my list ever since I started going out to Hatchers Pass. This is a modified cut and paste of the hike/run description: This hike begins at the Gold Mint Trail head. Heads back 6.5 miles to a huge hanging valley. Head up the valley to the saddle. Looking down you should see Reed Lake. Glisade the snow slope below to the lake, then follow the Reed Lakes trail back to the road. Round trip distance is approx 15 miles.

Well, that was the idea anyway.

So Tanya and I picked a day and we stuck to it. It actually looked a little promising in the beginning.....but then it started to rain, and then it started to pour and pour and pour..........

We turned around close to the hut. We gave it a good go, but really climbing up the boulders and no visibility....well, probably better we went back. BUT if you want to see what we could have seen check out Sherries blog http://mtngrlinak.blogspot.com/2008/09/bomber-traverse.html

Sushi!!

I've been trying to learn to make sushi. So while staying with Tanya and Rick for a few weeks I made them eat sushi once a week!

Luckily Ben and Jay were able to partake in a sushi event!

Rick was sooo impressed with my sushi making skills, he couldn't wait to get the next bite in his mouth!

Hike up Wolverine with Benny and Jaya

My freinds Benny and Jaya made it town and we had the PERFECT weather window for heading up Wolverine. One of the best weather windows we have had in Anchorage all summer!

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Always Nice to see a Rainbow!

Parking Lot Nightmares!

I've never tried the poll feature on blogger before. Guess I don't really have too much to poll. But as I've been running around town, shopping for my new apartment, i have found certain parking lots to be a pain in the ass, leaving me with the feeling that I too might just ram the person in front of me if they don't get out of the way.....Good thing yoga breathing comes to mind in these potential sticky situations. And of course PDF's came out on Friday, so that didn't help much either. As the parking lots have felt as if everyone in Anchorage had to spend their renewable energy allowance on the day the check was issued...well, still trying to think of what Best Buy sells thats renewable.....So, if you have a second, look to the right and click on the parking lot you feel is a local nightmare. I guess blogger doesn't allow folks to enter their own opinion, but I guess you could add a comment! Thanks for reading!

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Meet Joe Black Quote

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived"

To Lucy Barfield (The dedication in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

My Dear Lucy,
I wrote ths story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be

your affectionate Godfather,
C.S. Lewis

Ithaka

When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,wish always that your course be long, full of adventure, full of lore.Of the Laestrygones and of the Cyclopes,of an irate Poseidon never be afraid; such things along your way you will not find,if lofty is your thinking, if fine sentimentin spirit and in body touches you. Neither Laestrygones nor Cyclopes,nor wild Poseidon will you ever meet,unless you bear them in your soul,unless your soul has raised them up in front of you.

Wish always that your course be long;that many there be of summer mornswhen with such pleasure, such great joy,you enter ports now for the first time seen;that you may stop at some Phoenician marts,to purchase there the best of wares,mother-of-pearl and coral, amber, ebony,hedonic perfumes of all sorts--as many such hedonic perfumes as you can;that you may go to various Egyptian townsto learn, and learn from those schooled there.

Your mind should ever be on Ithaca.Your reaching there is your prime goal.But do not rush your journey anywise.Better that it should last for many years,and that, now old, you moor at Ithaca at last,a man enriched by all you gained upon the way,and not expecting Ithaca to give you further wealth.
For Ithaca has given you the lovely trip.Without her you would not have set your course.There is no more that she can give.

If Ithaca seems then too lean, you have not been deceived.As wise as you are now become, of such experience,you will have understood what Ithaca stands for.

Constantine P. Cavafy

I am Vertical - Sylvia Plath

But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil Sucking up minerals and motherly love So that each March I may gleam into leaf, Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted, Unknowing I must soon unpetal. Compared with me, a tree is immortal And a flower-head not tall, but more startling, And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.

Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars, The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors. I walk among them, but none of them are noticing. Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping I must most perfectly resemble them --
Thoughts gone dim. It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation, And I shall be useful when I lie down finally: Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.

Thoughts....

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion -- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)

A friend of mine just shared this with me and I thought I would pass it on!

Myself
by Edgar Guest

I have to live with myself, and so, I want to be fit for myself to know;I want to be able as days go by, Always to look myself straight in the eye; I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done. I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself as I come and go Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am; I don't want to dress myself up in sham. I want to deserve all men's respect; But here in this struggle for fame and pelf, I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to think as I come and go That I'm for bluster and bluff and empty show. I never can hide myself from me, I see what others may never see, I know what others may never know, I never can fool myself -- and so, Whatever happens, I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free.