Kyle Meyer went hiking July 9, 2011 7 miles 1,750 feet gained
Zipped out to Burnt Lake for what I thought would be a quick overnight. I only brought my bivy sack for shelter as the forecast was good, but I quickly realized that would be insufficient with all of the hungry mosquitoes around drinking me dry.
I tried to fish a little, but was quickly overwhelmed with mosquitoes. I hiked out at 9pm and made it home before midnight. I hate hiking alone and in the dark!
Trail Talk
I know what you mean about feeding the skeetos and hiking alone in the forest at night
Oh noes!
I ran into mosquitos earlier this week also. I guess it's that time of the year to start packing the headnet.
Woodland hiking alone in the dark is pretty eh. Desert/high sierra hiking alone in the dark is awesome.
Kyle,
Just across the way from Top Spur to McNeil point we didnt encounter a single mosquito at all. Go figure.
btw I tried to send an email to you at the contact information and gmail bounced it back after 4 attempts. I've contacted Eric about it, but the elevation gain/mile stats are incorrect, in the sense that they are not calculating everyone's averages.
Shit! When I transfered to the new hosting environment, I never set up the DNS entries for the email address. No wonder it wasn't working! I'm sorry Matt. The email address will start working in the next day or two.
The elevation gain/mile stats are only based on people with over 100 miles of total mileage so that the errant user with a single Mt Hood climb doesn't skew the stats. Can you give me an example of it calculating incorrectly? Feel free to email me at kaiuhl -at- gmail -dot- com until my wenthiking email address starts working again.
Nevermind, I figured it out. Looks like I was doing something really stupid—limiting the number of users from the database from the first ten that were in there, and then sorting:
It should have looked like this:
You are now in the top 10 Matt : )
thanks Kyle!
/me slinks away, contentedly stroking his ego
bummer, kyle. sorry you had to bug out. sorry for bad pun. what kind of bivy do you have? no headnet in it?
Haha. I have an MLD Superlight Bivy. It has a little bug netting, but not enough room to be comfortable in it zipped tight for hours while awake.
Yo, just an FYI -
Date input is a little wonky in Lion (Firefox, but not Safari).
Also, your uphill per mile is broken again. :)
First off, there are no grizzles at burnt lake. Let alone four. I am quite sure.
Also, did you change the service that resizes the images? The quality seems to look like what I get from Picassa :/
I did change the quality to help pages load faster. Damn son. I made what I thought was an unnoticeable change and you jumped right on it. I'll up the large size's quality to somewhere in between where it is now and where it was.
Much better! No more pixelated halo effect.
Hmmm.. so it must have resized a bunch of the old pictures too. Anyway to batch reconvert the smaller images back to the middle-ground res without reuploading everything?
Also, it would be awesome if there was a button on the image that clicked through to the original size.
(end of pestery comments...)