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| Friday...5:30 pm I just noticed that I forgot to link the newly tidied Squaw web pages (11 through 15) to the index, so I've done that. I've also been sent a few extra IDs for riders. Thanks people - keep them coming... there are only about another 150 left to identify... Monday...4:12 am That's it people - that's all you're getting. Phew - I'm pooped. All I have still to do is put up the last 92 pics from Squaw and try and figure out who all those people are. Please let me know if you recognise anyone. Thanks! Hope you all enjoyed it. Saturday...2:15 pm I ran out of time. Spent until now in Tahoe City, trying desperately to get all the photos online, with poor Mark Van Zuuk helping with uploading each time I passed him a floppy. At least we managed to get the first 200 up. Friday...uh Saturday, 1:22 am Urg. How can it be *that* late... I have to be up at 4:15... I'm sitting in my truck in the car park at beautiful Squaw Valley. Except it isn't that beautiful down here - there are copious amounts of building work going on, so I have an excellent view of several bulldozers and some rubble. I spent the evening with Squaw volunteers Gary, Shirley, Dave (they did the very fine barbecue on Wednesday) and our fearless leader, Marc van Zuuk. Marc spent the day driving about, setting up checks and marking trail. He also spent the day fixing flat tyres, broken radiators, broken engine mounts and trying to get more dolomite from the local hardware store. So no complaining about badly marked trail, OK? In the morning (aka "in a couple of minutes") Marc gets to get up at sometime before 4 am to go and set out cones at the hw-89 crossing, to prevent eager spectators parking right where the riders are going to be coming through. Once the "check manners" convoy up to High Camp (three quarters of the way up the mountain), Marc's going to take myself and Wynne Brown (AERC writer/photographer) with him up to Watson's Monument for a check. Thursday, 11:15 pm I still have to figure out where I'm going to go, and it'll probably be a case of "wait and see how it works out on the day". An awful lot will depend on electricity access (and there was you thinking laptops were technologically advanced - you haven't seen *this* laptop, with its 20 minute battery life) and how cooperative my digital camera is at downloading (put it this way, as of today, the picture download is dodgy, the flash isn't working at all, and the battery cover is slightly chipped on the hinge, so has to be held together with an elastic band). We shall see how well this all really works out in the field. |