Update on the Mountain.

Little Mike has never been in the mountains before and he was thrilled to ride to the top of the Four Peaks and hike down today on the trail crew.  Kadizzle went up from the bottom and worked on the footpath while Mate, Cliff, and Little Mike came down from the top.  It is a lot of hard work and the crew 63, 67,67, and 70 had to give in about 1:30.  Although Kadizzle thought he had the bases covered with the phone for communications, he forgot one critical connector.  So we tried the satellite communication system we carry. It worked, but all crew members need to practice.  It is not easy to type one letter at at time, and the navigation on the DeLorme could be better.

So now the crew will embark for pizza in Tonto Basin.  The pizza is good, but little Mike is finicky, Kadizzle will gobble it down with the help of Little Joey.  A pitcher of beer might be in order.  Cliff, and Mate claim they want to go back up to the top and do another day.   Tomorrow or tonight we will have to decide.

The weather here has been fantastic and it is hard to be homesick for North Dakota, but we will be back in the land of the protest, or the fight against the Black Snake as the warriors call it by Sunday.

A friend of Mrs. Kadizzle was killed today in a plane crash in Moab.  Sad to hear about.  The man was a professional pilot who sometimes hauled freight.  In the course of making an emergency landing he hit a power line.  Mate just recently went repelling with the Moab crew which included the pilot.  So life goes on and you never know what will happen next.