some random shots and a couple of other blogs...

so instead of leaving i chatted to a few people and then got another hour, so i guess i'll be hiking into the evening again... there's a lot of people out there who are more diligent bloggers than me, and i thought i'd put links to some of their sites, in case you were interested...

so wired is reknown for her astonishing blogging diligence... i hiked with her for a little bit of the very first day, and again for a few hours in the sierras - hopefully i'll catch her somewhere in oregon... her experience would be very different to mine, but i believe she actually writes about her day's events, rather than string cheese etc... http://erinspctjournal.blogspot.com/

this is headbanger's - i've hiked with him a few days - he's good to hike with, and on roughly the same time frame as me, although i'm not about to start pulling 46milers... http://leisurelylost.blogspot.com/

and seahorse and chilidog - they're great - theirs is peeinginthebushes.blogspot.com ...




it's really hard picking shots from the small thumbnails: this first one is my sleeping spot one night... it was on a ledge above a river - a decent height above. during the night i kept sliding down so my feet were overhanging the cliff edge. i had to be very careful with my gear cooking and getting set up cos the whole ledge sloped towards the edge...




really cool clouds build up above shasta... it's a 14er - not sure how high but it stands alone so it looks extra impressive...








this was a lazy snake lying on the path one day after i'd spent a couple of days feeling like it was snake country and wondering why i hadn't seen any...




i know this is a pretty ordinary shot, but it looked realy cool - these bright red thistles in front of shasta in teh background, really haven't captured it, often feel like i'm going to have thousands of photos where i'm explaining to people later - 't looked way cooler than this'..




and this is the terminus geyser - apparently not a real geyser at all, but still pretty amazing, you could have cooked a meal on any of the various vents steam was shooting out of, although it would have tasted like sulphur...