Today the Teton High School cross country team hiked about 5 miles from the Teton Canyon Alaska Basin trailhead on the Roaring Fork trail (to the south of Table Mountain) up to Hurricane Pass, where we had a beautiful view of south fork of Cascade Canyon and the Tetons. From there we hiked about 12 miles down Cascade Canyon, northward along the west edge of Jenny Lake, and finished at String Lake where we took a quick dip before getting a ride back to Driggs, Idaho in a school bus.The total hike distance was about 17 miles, with 4060 feet of elevation gain along the way. Our lowest elevation was 6770 feet, and the highest was 10,330 feet. It took about 9.5 hours. We took some nice breaks to let people in the back catch up.About 45 student-athletes were there, split into 3 groups each starting a half-hour apart. (The wilderness area rules require groups of no more than 20 people each.) We were led by coach Neil Gleichman, with assistant coach Griffith, and several of us parents heading…
Pathetic movie made from a surprisingly good fantasy book. Christopher Paolini was a kid when he wrote it and you can tell. I think he used a word-of-the-day calander while writting it. Every 5 or 10 pages he busts out an obscure word, uses it once, and then moves on the next word-of-the-day. Plot and story points are obviously ripped off from other fantacy and science fiction stories. There is a very clear Obi-wan taking Luke under his wing vibe. Why do so many youth fiction novels deal with orphaned children finding out they are the children of some grand inheritance or some such? Somehow, even with obvious leaning on other authors, Paolini still manages to suck you into the story and cheer for his characters.
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