Dennis, are you ok?

[Snow Nymph]

Hope you were not one of the 50 homes damaged.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/13/wildfi ... index.html

[gary c.]

The hatchery also took a pretty bad hit
Gary C.

http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/News ... geId=3.2.1

[dmatt]

Hi Snowy:

We received one inch of rain in the Alabama's on Saturday night (in a 2 hour period) and another 3/8 " (in a 1/2 hour period) on Sunday night, but all is wet by OK.

How did you do up on Whitney?

Thanks,

Dennis

[Snow Nymph]

Cool, I thought you lived in Independence, and saw that you had not posted since Fri. Glad you're ok.

I was at Whitney Portal when when the storm hit. We got updates while waiting it out and heard about Independence. There was a rock slide at the upper switchback that blocked the WP road. The loaders cleared one lane for us to get out by 11:30pm.

Made the summit, up the MR and down the main trail, but didn't get the other peaks due to sketchy weather. Took it slow, but was 2 hrs faster than last year (did not bonk early trying to keep up with long legged beasties). 13 hrs and no soreness, aches or pains!!! Got out just as the storm was starting to let loose. Working on pix now.