The 09ers

Explorations In The Sierra Nevadas

New Boots!

I finally got new waterproof boots! Having wet feet for 5+ hours was a horrible experience. Pretty excited about these. Since REI so close I figured I should form over the mula for a membership, hopefully it was a good choice.

Claim on Fire

 
Two weekends ago my friend Elise and I decided to sacrifice our Friday night so we could leave at the crack of dawn up to Serendipity to get a full days worth of mining in. Being that she is from Alaska, this was something that was right up her alley. 
After a riveting drive up I-80 and through my favorite [...]

Humpty Dumpty…..

Image from: http://flickr.com/photos/waltarrrrr/

BLM Updates Claim Record

The  claim has now officially made it into the BLM’s database.

Bank of America Sucks

Can someone PLEASE explain to me how this is legal.
On July 15th I deposited 1,000 from my credit union to BOA.
Today I was pleased to see this little treat. I went into BOA today to have them explain to me their rationale for thinking they could do this.

They continued to explain to me how the [...]

Stick it to em Jim Rogers

Pappa Benny: I need more power then God!

Bernanke made another one of is  epic speeches the other day. He went crying to congress, as always, to demand more power. He simply just asked for more power then God himself, what’s so wrong with that? He needs this power so he can ‘head off’ all of these financial fires before they get ‘bad’.
I’m [...]

Way to go senate! //sarcasm

Okay, the roster of 69 Senatorial neo-cons in favor of strengthening FISA’s authorization to steal intellectual property without warrant follows:

YEAs – 69

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn [...]

Euchre Bar Success

A couple months ago I wanted to go check out Euchre Bar from the south access trail head. Using the directions from the governments website, I thought it would be easy enough to find without getting exact GPS coordinates. We arrived at the access road about 15 miles past Forresthill. After what we thought was [...]

I’ll be watching you

This video never gets old

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