Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board How'd you pick you handle?

I just thought I needed a lot of it (positive attitude) to get my sorry bu++ up Whitney on those long dayhikes and my outlook on life.

So how does one change their username, anyway?? I looked in the "My Profile" section and it's the only thing you can't change. Do I need to re-register with a new name??

When I signed up, the handle "Richard Piotrowski" was already taken.

I hear it may have opened up again.

and crystal may come back and take if for herself.

HeeHee! there's only room for one on this planet.

HL~
if i remember there is room for 30 characters on the username line. figured i should be one and the same on all boards. i'll drop the formerly soon.

So will I.

It used to be easy to recognize people by their Member Numbers, but since it doesn't display, I thought I'd add the "formerly."

Bob R - I found this re: westernmost point in the contiguous U.S. See what you think...

CaT

I'm always telling the Boy Scout Troop and others who I hike with that it's "just another mile"........

It's much easier if they don't know too many of the details!

Didn't like to wear shoes or jackets as a kid. Still don't. Stuck as a college nickname. Nothing like sitting on the shore of a high altitude artic cool stream or lake dipping my feet after a long day's hike. A very good reason to filter water

I was just getting to know who was who on this board. Now it seems many are changing their handles. I'm getting confused!!!

... is a horse in ... take a guess!

Mine is too obvious.I've been fishing the Eastern Sierra since I was a kid.Family bought a summer house on Bishop Creek in 1973.It became mine when I was 21 back in 1981.I've fished almost every body of water from Lone Pine to Bridgeport and well into the interior of the mountains.I've hiked and backpacked the east side extensively too.It's also my license plate and email address.But I'm tired of it and since people are changing their names I'm taking HikerLaura when she gets a new one.She's had alot more fun lately then I have.
Thor

Thanks MC! I think Richard identifies to the Sierra Snails because he also carries a red house on his back (ref. camping on MT Whitney this past December)

Thor: You can have it as long as I get a fishing lesson! I'll even cook it up right fo' ya!

BTW: I have a peak, too!!

From http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Purpus/talk22.html#Para0290
"Purpus camped on L. B. Hobson's ranch at the foot of what he calls Piute Peak, which from all indications is probably present-day Lookout Peak. He also explored Laura Peak, a distinctive limestone peak in a generally granitic region, where he found an isolated population of Forsellesia, otherwise unknown from the Sierra Nevada. Among the new species he discovered in the Piute Mountains was the lovely Delphinium purpusii Brandeg. In a letter to Katharine Brandegee dated May 23, he describes "... an other Echeveria, which is alltogether different from E. purpusii it grows on Granit and limestone rocks and has smaller leaves and stroh colored flowers ..."; this is the plant that has recently been described as Dudleya calcicola Bartel & Shevock. His published travelogue mentions a Cupresses he did not recognize, an obvious reference to the endemic Piute Cypress."

I'm still looking for it on topo...

Laura:

Must climb Moose Mountain

Funniest thing I read all day...good one, AlanK!

I've been curious about this as well...definitely a job for Wayne!

Chris

My parents gave it to me 45 years ago.

See California-Trailwalker's post earlier today. He linked to a Web site that claims the answer is Cape Blanco, Oregon. (The site also makes a silly reference to the last sunset of the last millenium being on December 31, 1999, a year before the millenium actually ended.)