New Profile Photo

Whoo! New profile pic! OK, not the most exciting thing, I know, it's been a rough morning, give me a break. Sporting my brand spanking new SU hat, and trying to convince myself that I can pull off a beard without looking like a total redneck. As you can probably tell, I'm not doing a very good job. Oh well, short post for now but I'm going to try and get some good links posted, and get this site up and running a little better. I put some adverts up to see if I could get any money out of this thing, they may or may not stay.

~The Viking

Memorable quote from this morning's practice.

"Ok you guys are goin' pretty good with square blades, but as soon as you add the feather you guys look like a bunch of monkeys trying to fuck a football." ~Coach

Its been a while.

Let's sum things up quickly shall we? Alot of things have changed since my last post about hiking mountains, most of all my point of view has changed. It hasn't exactly been elevated, more pushed to the left a little bit (and no thats not a hint at my political stance). Even though things are a little turbulant at the moment, I like where I'm headed, and if I could go back I might change a few key moments, but overall I can't complain.
Moving away from my somewhat vague remblings, I'll give you some specifics. I'm at Syracuse University, got here a little over a month ago. Lots of cool things have happened that are plenty blog worthy, so I'll try and post some of the highlights of my college experience so far. I'm still rowing, I was at the Head of the Genesee yesterday, our frosh boat came in 16 out of 30, but our varsity eight was second overall, so it was a good day for the team. I have to go write a paper about something now, I don't know what it's supposed to be about yet, just that it's due in about 3 hours.

~The Viking

11 Miles and three mountains later...

This is the hike we took on our second day at Greylock.

1. We started along the hopper trail going down into the valley.
2. As we made our way down we crossed over several small streams.
3. This part was hard, we gained about 1100 feet climbing up the side of Mt. Prospect.
4. Finally at the top, we stopped and had lunch before movin on.
5. Here we ran into a slightly drunk hiker who was going back the way we had just come.
6. More incline, we took the road for a short bit to give our legs a rest from the uneven trails.
7. Now we've made it to the top of two mountians and have a refreshing stretch of flat trail along the ridge of the mountain.
8. Finally we reach the top of Mt. Greylock 3,497 feet above sea level. We finish lunch, refill our water bottles and start heading back to camp.
9. It started to pour right about here, so we jumped back on Hopper trail and high tailed it back to camp.
10. We got back to camp drenched, exausted, and thoroughly impressed with our journey.

There you have it, that basically sums up the majority of the trip. I'll make sure to take more pictures the next time I venture out into the wilderness.

~The Viking

Panorama from the camping trip.

From left to right: Mt. Prospect, Mt. Williams, Mt. Fitch, and Mt. Greylock.

~The Viking

Rowing Nationals

I'm leaving for Indianapolis tomorrow, and hopefully I'll remember to come back with an update longer than this one. Wish me luck!

~The Viking

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