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Happy Birthday Richard! #88938 02/07/12 09:07 PM
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 838 Washington State rosabella Member
rosabella Member Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 838 Washington State	Have a GREAT day!!! Rosie "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike

Re: Happy Birthday Richard! rosabella #88939 02/07/12 10:27 PM
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 120 Yorba Linda, CA lilbitmo Member
lilbitmo Member Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 120 Yorba Linda, CA	Happy B-day Richard - hope you enjoy the snow that should be a falling

Re: Happy Birthday Richard! lilbitmo #88941 02/08/12 03:21 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,025 Likes: 5 Whitney Doug Sr Member
Doug Sr Member Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,025 Likes: 5 Whitney	Hi Should talke a hike ! Doug Jr is still talking about the sign he put on your window . Some snow maybe three inches fresh in the Portal over the last melted tracks. HAVE A GREAT YEAR. The Portal Crew

Re: Happy Birthday Richard! rosabella #88943 02/08/12 02:29 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,447 Likes: 11 Ridgecrest, CA Richard P. Member
Richard P. Member Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,447 Likes: 11 Ridgecrest, CA	Thanks Rosie. And again for those great brownies! There's a photo out there of me wearing a crown too. (Has to do with the gag name I've given myself.) Thanks Patrick. Doug, do you want me to leave? I've always wanted to climb Whitney on my birthday, but it's never worked out. Even this year, if I had taken the day off... new snow. Speaking of which, cool that there's a little more... Tell Jr. I didn't steal the sign. I left it pinned behind a tree stump. I also promise I'll never block that spot again, even though it means I'll have to walk farther to get to the Trailhead. Thanks. Photos: http://piotrowski.smugmug.com SpotCasting: https://maps.findmespot.com/s/9DDZ#history/assets

Re: Happy Birthday Richard! rosabella #88944 02/08/12 05:57 PM
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 783 Behind the Orange Curtain, Cal... Tracie B Member
Tracie B Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 783 Behind the Orange Curtain, Cal...	Like the photo, Rosie! Happy Birthday, Richard, one of these days you'll get a birthday hike in... but a bit of birthday trivia if yesterday was your birthday, February 7th was the official "Full Snow Moon", so snow was appropriate T

Re: Happy Birthday Richard! Tracie B #88945 02/08/12 07:03 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,447 Likes: 11 Ridgecrest, CA Richard P. Member
Richard P. Member Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,447 Likes: 11 Ridgecrest, CA	Thanks, I'll have to look that one up... AKA: Hunger Moon Storm Moon I was thinking that this morning would have been an excellent time to be somewhere in the Alabama's for the moonset. Awesome watching it descend towards Morris Peak down here near the southern end of the range this morning. Photos: http://piotrowski.smugmug.com SpotCasting: https://maps.findmespot.com/s/9DDZ#history/assets

Re: Happy Birthday Richard! Richard P. #88946 02/08/12 10:55 PM
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 526 Likes: 2 Seal Beach Shin BaldyMaster Member
Shin BaldyMaster Member Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 526 Likes: 2 Seal Beach	Hi Richard, Happy Birthday!! Are you happy being getting old? I don't ask how old you are. Pretty soon your body parts will tell you how old you are. Till then keep on hiking and enjoy the mountains. Hope to hike with you many more years. Shin P.S. Hi Rosabella and Tracie, Don't give Richard a wrong idea about 12-2-12 Full moon,please. There is nothing cool about it. It's a 22 miles of winter climb on the deep snow. He has to take Sunday off like a normal folk. He can watch a full moon with good foods and beer or wine at home.

Re: Happy Birthday Richard! Shin #88948 02/08/12 11:52 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,447 Likes: 11 Ridgecrest, CA Richard P. Member
Richard P. Member Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,447 Likes: 11 Ridgecrest, CA	Thanks Shin. I don't like to remember how old I am. I know I'm getting old because the climbs hurt more now then the did way back when. I also like to spend more time watching TV after a climb these days. Before, it would have been "what am I going to do tomorrow?" BTW: check out the web-cam for the spindrift off of Whitney and Keeler. Amazing! Glad I'm not up there today! Photos: http://piotrowski.smugmug.com SpotCasting: https://maps.findmespot.com/s/9DDZ#history/assets

Re: Happy Birthday Richard! Richard P. #88949 02/09/12 12:01 AM
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 783 Behind the Orange Curtain, Cal... Tracie B Member
Tracie B Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 783 Behind the Orange Curtain, Cal...	Full Moon trivia for 2012: January 9th Full Wolf Moon February 7th Full Snow Moon March 8th Full Worm Moon April 6th Full Pink Moon May 5th Full Flower Moon June 4th Full Strawberry Moon July 3rd Full Thunder Moon August 1st Full Sturgeon Moon August 31st Full Blue Moon September 29th Full Harvest Moon October 29th Full Hunter’s Moon November 28th Full Beaver Moon December 28th Full Cold Moon

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