Puppy... Full time - Mt Teocalli - softball - flying - burn x 2

Here is Liz with the new dog - we've renamed her Charley... she's cute and well-behaved except for the random uncontrollable peeing when she meets another dog that is Alpha to her... which is pretty much every dog since she is just a puppy... hopefully she'll grow out of that...

Here is the water fall at the end of the Lower Loop trail just out our front door where we take the doggy for walks.

So I officially went full time again a week or two ago... yuck - but you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes (oh the rough life I lead). Work has been going fairly well - placed some Execs at Wrigley Chewing gum - Liz wants free gum for the rest of her life... I'll work on that. Now I'm working on a Fleet position with Waste Management in Oakland, CA... where the cost of living is a bazillion million times more expensive than pretty much anywhere - which has made the position quite challenging to fill. I'm also trying to place a GM for 1 and 1 Internet out of Chesterbrook, PA - which has proven to be fun so far - in that I know the area quite well and the industry is also something I'm somewhat familiar with...

With all this full-time work I don't get out as much which is a bit of a bummer - but Cam Scott and I had an epic adventure on Sunday where we rode our bikes out to Teocalli Ridge (which is one of the top ranked single tracks in the word by the way) - once we rode our bikes to the top of the ridge (about 7 miles UP) we got off at the saddle and continued on foot to the top of Teocalli Mountain which was about a 1 hour scramble straight up the side of this mountain to one of the best views in Crested Butte! At just shy of 14000 feet we made it to the top and hung out for a bit - then scrambled back down - hopped back on our bikes and rode the raucous single track back down into town - just before we came out of the Aspen grove into the wide open flower field switchbacks it started to dump rain... we hung out for a bit, let the lightning pass, and continued on our way - I've never been so muddy in my life. We washed ourselves and our mud-caked bikes off in the river crossing and pedaled on home... it was a great day - and fun to get out.

Starting the grueling single track up... we had already climbed 5 miles of double track at this point...

The View from up top...
Cam Scott was super mountain climber that day... beat me to the top by a lot!
The ridge...The mud...

The KBUT (local radio station) softball team that we played on all season lost its 3rd game in the playoffs - knocking us out of the running... but alas it was KBUT's best season ever! If only Liz hadn't broken her ankle! In our 2nd to last game Liz played catcher and hit too (much to my chagrin) but the team we were playing couldn't get her out despite the fact that she would WALK to first base after hitting the ball - it was hilarious. We won that game 39 to 3...

Liz's ankle is coming along - she's still in a brace and will be for quite some time... but her PT has started and that is going well.

Went flying on Saturday down to Grand Junction to shoot two properties - it was a gorgeous flight - as they always are. Maybe I should work more on my advertising and get more business - that's so much more fun than talking with execs all day inside in front of my computer...We're off to Burning Man again this year... we're in the process of preparing for the craziness.