March 6 - March 15
Jack rappelling at Turkey Rock... her first Rappel! - taken by Joe
| Welcome! Well for most of you who visited this site previously I am sure some of the quotes made absolutely no sense and I can guarentee most of you had no clue on some of the pics... so now i will add a summary, links to the pics (to make the download faster) and an explanation of the pix... Hopefully we'll be adding more, just waiting on pix from jack and possibly the crew at Dekalb... so check back! | |
| Summary bits | Quotes & Pix |
 Well to start off, Jack and I drove out to Denver in my 86 Cavalier... The quotes to the left are just a small indication of how much fun we had on the way out... Even during the ice storm, blizzard, and fun meeting of the ditch we still had a laugh! |
on the long trip out: J: I think it would be fun to sleep with someone like me. J: I think I'd be fun in bed. H: I think the visibility is definatly at least 150 ft. J: No way more like 20 ft. H: No definatly at least 100 ft .. J: NO..(this convo went on for like 20minutes...) H during 360: OMIGODJACKOMIGODOMIGOD H after pushing car out of ditch: You'll be fine... ugh u want me to drive? J on the Unforgiven II: Do you know what in hell this song is about? J still in the storm: Wake me up when we can see the mountains. Me and our grass exploding tire after our 360. |
| This has nothing to do with the quotes adjacent, but that's ok... Got there on Sat. and just vegged out with Joe, Andy, and Michele. Sunday did a Boulder visit with tiff |
On all the phone calls: All of us multiple times: Guess who called again. T: I've gotton more phone calls this week than in the past two months. tiff's answering machine, in a very dead voice: please do not call after 8, i work at 3 in the morning... |
| Monday we realized that my battery was dead.... so we went blading... Jack loved my blades, hahahaha! And we found out that blading over ice is not necessarily a fun experience... also got to see the coolest little contraption... a walking cane(?) that turns into a chair...- we wanted that! |
On blading in denver: - beware underpasses 
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| So we attempt to change my flat and got someone to jump us... our first visit to Firestone. Tuesday we were bound and determined to go skiing but alas my battery again was dead... so after a brand new battery was bought and installed (thanx to teh firestone dudes). |
On fixing my retarded car: H & J:Will you jump us. H & J(to the firestone guys): Yep its us again. H & J:(the second day at firestone): Hopeuflly we wont' see you tororwo H & J:(the third day at firestone): Hopefully we really wont' see you tormorrow |
 So we made it to Loveland... had an awesome time skiing! We loved it, course we were a little intimidated at first and again when we realized there were moguls on the blues out there, but we made it with no problems and no falls!
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On skiing in the mountians: H: It's not that steep. J: I'm gogni to kill you. H: Ughh yeah forgot to tell u jack, there are moguls on the blues out here. J: -THANX! |
| After skiing at Loveland we headed up to Breck to visit Jen and Andy... headed home early due to me feeling like crap... and of course we get stranded right outside of the foothills. Luckily Tiff is very cool and she came and picked us up... |
On the trip home from breck: H: I think i'd feel better if i puked now... J: I'm pulling over. J: Ugh how come ur lights are really dim? H: We're at some tacobell.. where? ughh good question. somewhere off of I-70.. |
 So wed. became our get car and visit Firestone again day... Thursday visited Firesotne for the last time, picked up the infamous car... Went to Boulder to play! Hiked at Eldorado... mucho fun, scary at times, but awesome. Also ended up at Flagstaff Mtn. (pix below). That night we went to Thrillseekers.. pix now on here!
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On hiking in eldo on shale, past the no hiking sign: H & J: We're fucking nuts! H & J: Rock! H & J: Incoming! H: Shit, there's the trail!! H: Um yeah, now we have to go down... J: Can we get fined?? |
 Met up with J, A, and M at the springs.. decided to go to Turkey Rock to go climbing... Very exhausting day... hour and a half hike in and out (give or take) through a foot + (more like 2) of snow. Mucho fun! Jack's first Rappel and outdoor climb... my first trad clean...
pic- view from the top of Turkey rock. |
On the "15 minute accent" and the return: H: 15 minutes my ass H: does he know where the hell he's going? everyone: are we on the right trail? everyone: wehre the hell is the rock? Max: follow eiger (the dog) he seems to know where he's goign. H, J, & M: where the hell is the van? H, J, & M: I think they moved the van just to make us walk further. H & J: My shoes are sloshing. Andy(30 ft from the real road with teh van stuck): there's seven of us, we should be able to push it out... |
 We won't even get into what all went on there... from forgotton rope bags to trying out like 3 different climbs before deciding on one to setting up a rappel that wasn't quite right... Jack in front of the rock I climbed. |
On rappelling: J: My mom would die if she knew what i was doing. J: I'm goign to kill you. (to me) JOe: you can rap with a pack right? Matt: Eiger, stay! (to his dog, while in a pack while rapping down) Joe and Matt to me noticing my rappel wasn't quite right: Stop! dont' move, that's not right! (yeah made me feel real safe...) Joe: I'm coming up there. |
 On the return to Karen's we all were forced to take showers... (not that that was a bad thing)- thus the shower quotes... even had enough energy to go dancing that night! |
On Karen's place: Joe Andy & Michele: Take a shower. Karen has unbelievable pressure. H to Andy: Hey there's a heater in here. |
 On the return to Denver we made a stop at Tiff's and she gave me an early bday present.. my bunny ears! heehee.. course anyone who saw Priscilla would die:)! |
ON the bunny ears: H: you need a tarp (only jack will get this one) H: i'm ok, really ... we're normal i swear.... |
 From there it was time to head home... started out a little in the wrong direction, but made it back with no major occurances.... but check out what the car looked like- can u tell we lived out of it??
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On the return to IL: H: why in hell is there a stoplight? are we even on 76???? H & J: illinois sucks My mom: did u get that rock climbing? :) J on the way up to denver actually- and on the way home: why are u so quiet? H: John Wayne's Bithplace! H: Zap! J: that's Zip!! |
 A self portrait of me and jack at Flagstaff Mtn...  Jack with the Rockies in the background.. on Flagstaff Mtn. |
 Jack at Flagstaff enjoying the snow.  Up at the atmospheric research center in boulder.. (flatirons in teh background)... the Mars Car... lisc. plate- ON2MARS... u can kinda see the nifty artwork.... |
