Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board What did you do on 09/09/09?

I did 9 miles in about 90 degree heat on 09/09/09:

Morris Peak Photos.


Saw a bunch of familiar signatures in the summit register, some from a long time ago:



Rogue Photonic.



Norma and Mars Bonfire.



Tom, Lisa, Rafael, Alice, Rachel.



Tom Sakai, who has recently had the pass above UBSL named for him.



A bunch from Jim Freeland.



An Al Green, from 1984. He recently had the pass between LeConte and Mallory named for him.



Bob from 1986.

What? No 9,090' of vertical gain????? Maybe on 10/10/10....

It's a Sunday, so who knows?

I had been thinking of this for quite a while.... actually since the last big UNIX time-geek rollover earlier this year...

As it happens, my Toyota Land Cruiser (still in excellent shape) hit exactly 222,222 on 09/09/09. That took a little bit of planning; really not too much, just avoided driving to the store a few times early this week.

I really wanted to be in my LC, on Tues, at location:

cslat = "Lat: 33.3333 N ";
cslon = "Lon: 44.4444 E ";

because in real life I program GPS satellite downlink software programs (for UncleSam), and to get a pix of my cell phone, GPS, and odometer at the same instant would be very cool.

Still glad I was not there!

Mark

I celebrated my daughter's 9th birthday on 9-9-09.

Whoa! Baghdad???