My first 12er. Oh, you mean those don't count. You say that in Colorado that you only count the 54 14ers (peaks above 14,000'). Well, too bad, I'm claiming my first 12er, the highest I've been on land in my life so far, until later in the day when we were a little higher on the road (the highest continuously paved road in the Western Hemisphere, or something like that). And yes, my shirt does say "Bacon is meat candy". Bacon makes everything better - even hiking up mountains.
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I forgot to post it, but about 2 months ago, I went mountain biking with 4 guys from work. 2 of them are really good (1 had a single speed, which you have to be pretty hardcore to take on these trails and climbs). We went on the Shorline trail, north of the other trail I went on (the Drake posting). The ride again started with a 500 ft climb which again killed me. Once up top, the going was pretty fun, but I didn't have much energy from the climb. In fact, I decided to not finish the ride because I wasn't feeling so hot, so one of my friends rode back to his car and came and picked me up. Not the best way to impress the coworkers the first ride out.
I played around with my camera a little today while we were at Rocky Mountain National Park. I wanted to see if I could get a couple of good panoramic pictures. These were taken with my Canon Rebel XT with a 18-55mm lens (I used 18 because it was the widest I had). Here are the results:
This picture was a stitch of two pictures.
This was a 360º panoramic from a peak at an altitude of about 12,011'. Click on it for the bigger picture. I think I used about 20 pictures for this one. This was before cropping, and you can see where I must've turned and raised my camera a little bit. All of the pictures were shot by hand and I was standing on an uneven boulder.
This is the same picture with cropping to make it even (again, click to see the bigger version).
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