Showing posts with label aconcagua. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aconcagua. Show all posts

Friday, March 6, 2009

Testies

Vote for my videos here and 5-star rate this one

I'm taking the HAM radio test tonight, and am about to begin studying - college taught me well.

Eric has a cool short video of him flying over the flooded LZ here

Below is another Aconcagua pic, taken at about 19,000' the morning of summit day. That little bump in the horizon is the shadow from the mountain.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Sixth - email from the contest - dropped grad school - Fav Photo

Moved from 5th to 6th (Jim Beam Contest) today as a video jumped about 100 votes in a few hours to be in 2nd. People are pulling some weird stuff with the voting.

Luckily, voting doesn't count for much right now - I found out today from an email from the contest administrators. Being the good citizen I am I just sent them a note saying you might want to watch as there are some weird things going on with voting. I got a nice reply that said to pick the top 5 the judges don't look at votes, votes will be reset once the 5 are choosen. Quote: 'the votes are just for fun right now.' Which is probably true, but couldn't hurt to have a bunch of votes.

Dropped out of grad school today - now I can be a real hang gliding bum (but I do still have a job).

I'm going to post a few photos over the next couple days from my trip a few years back when I soloed Aconcagua (22,841'). This one is the third day of the hike to base camp 'Plaza Argentina.'