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If I'm not mistaken, today is Jim's wedding day. Congratulations and best wishes for a long happy marriage!

Happy Wedding Day dude!

HikeUp wrote:If I'm not mistaken, today is Jim's wedding day. Congratulations and best wishes for a long happy marriage!

I'll drink to that!

I wonder if we will get a trip report?

hvydrt wrote:I wonder if we will get a trip report?

With pictures!

Congratulations Hikin' Jim. All this time I thought you just hiked; now we know you've been acourtin' as well. Where's the honeymoon? I hear the overnight rates at the Baldy Ski Hut are excellent.

Now we have to ask. Is she a hiker or would she say "Hiking? Aw gee do I have to?"

If she is anything like him, she would have to be an extremely nice person.

Why, thanks, guys.

We went to Hawaii for two weeks. Sorry, not going to do a full TR. We did do some hiking in Haleakela NP on Maui and in the Alakai "swamp" on Kauai (it's really more of a higher altitude rain forest). We had a really great time.

Is she a hiker? Her famous quote: "I like hiking, but I cannot go hiking like you go hiking." lol She's actually not a bad hiker, but the idea of overnighting or doing a serious all day hike doesn't appeal to her. Don't look for her on the Baldy Village trail just yet.

HJ

Sooo, how's the wife and kids?

Dude, we've only been married 4 weeks. Give us a little time on the kid thing.

I was wonderin, If, (now I'm just makin this up so) if she got tired of you and told you to go, the ol, "take a hike", line. Would you hesitate, put your finger to your chin and look out the window at the mountains in a dreamlike gaze? or would you drop to your knees w/o even thinking about those mountain trails and clean fresh air and beautiful etc, etc, , lock eyes with her and beg to stay?

Hikin_Jim wrote:Dude, we've only been married 4 weeks. Give us a little time on the kid thing.

It is a proven way to produce a hiking partner.

The downside is that the partner will eventually kick your ass. (Well, it's an upside from someone's POV.)

AlanK wrote:

Hikin_Jim wrote:Dude, we've only been married 4 weeks. Give us a little time on the kid thing.

It is a proven way to produce a hiking partner.

The downside is that the partner will eventually kick your ass. (Well, it's an upside from someone's POV.)

I can see it now:

Maybe he'll stay Michiko's size so he won't show me up too badly. lol

Jim. Who are those people in that pic?

Iron Mountain 7/28/01

Iron Mtn? The Iron Mtn? Dang, that apple didn't fall far from the tree! Very impressive. He looks super young in that photo.

I don't think I tried Big Iron until maybe Jr. High (High School?). Took me a couple of times before I summited successfully too. Did see some pretty cool Big Horn Sheep back in Coldwater (before they made the canyon off limits).

Eric and I climbed Baldy for the first time in 2001. While we were looking around on the summit, a guy pointed to Iron Mountain and said it was the hardest peak in the San Gabriels. The 11 year old mind immediately locked in and we went a couple of weeks later. We've been back every year since. We're about due for another trip.

Wow. 11. Pretty dang good.

You have analysed your genetic material, haven't you? Gotta preserve that stuff.

Oh, and Baldy: Did you do it from the village?

Hikin_Jim wrote:Oh, and Baldy: Did you do it from the village?

That first time we did the Ski Hut Trail. We did not do the Bear Flat hike until the following spring. That was the warmup for Eric's first Cactus to Clouds.

AlanK wrote:

Hikin_Jim wrote:Oh, and Baldy: Did you do it from the village?

That first time we did the Ski Hut Trail. We did not do the Bear Flat hike until the following spring. That was the warmup for Eric's first Cactus to Clouds.

Of course, how silly of me. Big Iron, Baldy from the Village, and C2C: child's play!

I take it you'll be doing Anapurna and K2 with him this summer? Or are 8000m peaks a challenge for you guys anymore?

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