B.A.M. 2.25.06

total miles: 26
elevation: 5000 ft down to the water, 5000 feet back up
total time: 5 hours

a few muscles in the bod are a bit stiff today. and by 'a few' i mean 'damn near all.'

i figured the best way to follow up a late night of hard drinking would be to drag my ass up and down a mountain all afternoon instead of eating, sleeping, or generally getting well... what the hell, no one's ever accused me of being particularly smart, or prudent, or a dead wringer for mary tyler moore for that matter. but anyway, the mean little trick Big Basin plays on you is that park HQ is at the top, and the beach is at the bottom, so when you're on your way down, you get all ballsy and think "hey, i'm not entirely exhausted yet, i'll just keep pushing on," completely forgetting you've got 12 miles and 5000 feet to climb back up...

so much, in fact, that you feel like taking the hard way down.

by the time park HQ was 1km away, i began to realize how much northern california looks like the forest moon of Endor...

mostly because of all the ewoks i had to fight off with my nunchucks.

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HFS

you know it's a good day when you're backstage having beers with X after the show and Jello Biafra sits down next to you on the couch.

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