Dashboard aren’t only for cars. Welcome to my personal Everest.

Well, here are the stats for the last 20 days.  If someone would say I’d b pushing the 200-mile mark in three weeks, I would have called them crazy. The 35,000 feet of gain is starting to look like a Mt Everest number.

My room mate says he really admires my dedication and drive. Or the fact I’m gone so much between hiking and driving he basically has a single cabin all to himself.   I expect my miles to start leveling out as I switch to climbing which will hopefully yield shorter approaches (albeit much more up).  But I may be bumping the 100k of gain this summer if my projections hold. But alas, I have no mileage/altitude goals. Sweet.

I have also driven over 3000 highway miles for the Xanterra employee shuttle so far this season. Which has a pretty low benefit return for the few people I have provided transportation .  But, to quote Longfellow:  “Ours is not to reason why, ours is to but……”  well, maybe not that extreme.  Probably better to just shrug, and ask the obvious:

I’m enjoying getting to know the people working here. Sharing backstories. Everything and everyone is so interesting.   So much to write about I could spend a year on what I’ve experienced in the last few of weeks.  I think going forward I’ll just start posting dashboard updates on Sundays. Not really the end of my ‘weekend’, but hey, I love to give people something to look forward to going as they start their ‘work’ week in the real world. I only say ‘work’ because when people say it around the RV park, I have to try hard not to shake my head and smile.