Bloggered
Blogger ate my post. I do not feel like rewriting my post. So a short version of why Chef is an extreme athlete. Lions, ticks, and bears! OH MY! Seriously thru-hiking is an extreme sport. Think about some of the things we have to do on the Pacific Crest Trail. You start out at the Mexico U.S. border. Watch out for the "aliens "a border patrolman said. So you start in a desert Dodging illegal aliens and then you have to deal with rain, sleet, snow, hail, fog, rain, wind(don't laugh, It is hard to stand in 60 mph winds), cliffs, high snow covered pass(as high as 13,199 ft), glaciers, deserts, fording rivers full of spring runoff, spiders, ticks, scorpians, rattlesnakes, mountain lions, and bears.

Extreme Athlete
Am I an extreme athlete? I have been jokingly asking myself that question. In Twin Lakes Resort a man walked up to me and said "I'm an extreme athlete too." Now I thought that was pretty funy, but I needed a ride. I remember a couple of days later argueing with Eagle whether or not we were indeed extreme athletes. It was pretty houmorous if I recall correctly. A couple of chuby kids dreaming about ESPN's Extreme Games.

Here is my arguement that I am an extreme athlete. I participate in the sport of backpacking or hiking. Todays top two headlines.

No charges in wilderness survival-school death
California hiker mauled by mountain lion leaves hospital

How many sports have their participants Mauled by Lions? It is not even hiking season and we have death and a lion attack. I walk through places like this. I know some one that was attacked by a bear, was only a few miles away when it happened. Rattlesnakes, deserts, glaciers, snow covered passes, cliffs, fording rivers, lions, bears, scorpions, ticks, snow, sleet, rain, fog, hail, spiders, giardia, high altitude pulmenary edema, are some of the things that you have to deal with on a Pacific Crest Trail thru hike. Some pretty extreme stuff.

Anheuser-Bush Too Push Asian Beer
It seems that A-B will try and cash in on the microbrew import craze with Harbin Lager.

With increasing demand amongst American consumers for non-domestic beer, A-B's interest in Chinese beer is significant.

I love how the market is not imports but non-domestic. It really drives me nuts when microbrews are not domestic beers. I do not really see a huge demand here for it, but if it gets shelfspace in enough coolers some will sell.

Sunday Random Fifteen
Uncle John's Band-The Greatful Dead
Hard Time Killing Floor-Buddy Guy
Naked As We Come-Iron And Wine
Back Around-Bonnie Raitt
Our Shangri la-Mark Knoffler
God Only Knows-Jonatha Brook
N'oubliez Jamais-Joe Cocker
Everything But You-Peter Keane
Cows With Guns-Dana Lyons
I'm A Blues Man-Johny Winter
Goin' Home-Pure Prairie League
How Sweet It Is-Joan Osbourne
Sweet Child Of Mine-Poor Man's Whiskey
The Spoken Wheel-Flogging Molley
Don't Call Us We'll Call You-Taj Mahal
Station Blues- North Mississippi Allstars

Guinness Goes Red

It appears that Guinness is trying something new.

Yes thats right red Guinness.

Happy Birthday!

Lilly
Tate

Happy Birthday
12/15 Connie
12/15 Numbrrs
12/16 John Prez
12/17 Dan Boehl
12/18 Hollis

This might take a while

I am having trouble getting the comments to work. I googled cheflovesbeer.blogspot.com and there is no such document. However comments I have left come up with the right words.

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A Picture

Thanksgiving at my friend Dave's farm. Believe it or not, this is before I got really dirty. Dig it!

Try again

I am not sure how blogger works anymore.

Here you go Dan

Try this link for some pictures of the tribe. Try here for backpacking pictures. Make sure you hit on the picture of Chef.

The link below discusses the inturnment of the Japanese in WWII. It seems that some of our politicians do not care to remember history. I will try to come back to this.

I am not sure what to say about this.

ROADLESS RULES

You can still make a difference ! Just because the evil George W Bush was reelected is no reason to give up hope. We need to keep the Roadless Rule. The Roadless Rule is balanced policy that was finalized after years of scientific study, a record number of comments,and 600 public hearings. It is a vital tool for protecting 58.5 millionacres of our National Forests from harmfuland costly roadbuilding and commercil logging. Please write to Forest sevice Chief Bosworth At this address:
Contact analysis Team
Attn:Roadless Petitions
USDA Forest Service
PO Box 221090
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For more info check out ourforest.org

I am done

I finnished the trail in Stehekin WA on the16th of October. The weather was getting rough and Chef was tired.

Chef is getting close to Canada

I am only about 180 miles from the end.

The Sierras

The Sierras are amazing. At one point on the PCT Idid not go below 10,000 feet for about seventy miles. It seams like every day we climb a pass. Then we follow a steam down to a fork and climb a stream to the next pass. After Muir Pass we got about Four hours of frozen stuff coming out of the sky. It was unpleasant but we made good miles.

There is still some snow in the passes. It can be hard to find the trail because of the snow. The snow can be scarry. At times a fall would be dangerous but hopefully not fatal. The snow can also be fun. I slid down Mule pass yesterday on my but. The hikers at the bottom said it was too early to have that much fun. They were wrong.