As you can tell by my SPOT checkin below I am now in Portland!!! It has be eventful getting to this point. Last sunday I set down at the computer to check the progress of 
some climbers there were climbing Mt. Adam. I then ran accross a headline that Mt. Adams was on fire! 30 Acres were ablaze. An hour latter 300 Acres, 4 hours later 1000 Acres, a day later 6000! This is not good I thought. Sure enought the south climb trail head was right smack in the middle of the fire. After talking to the Ranger district I found out that the TH would be closed for at least 2 weeks! Ouch time to come up with plan B. I am now planing on tomorrow heading to mount hood and I am going to try to at least make it up to hogsback. Then on Sunday we are going to head to Rainer where we will see how far we make it! But I am jumping ahead. 
I was suppose to fly out on Tuesday @ 7:15. I had a training class in St. Louis which I got out earlier from @ 4:00PM. That gives me 3 hrs to get to the airport and catch my flight! No problem right? WRONG! No sooner had we left training and got on the hwy, we came to a complete stop were we sat until almost 6:30. Unfortunaly there was a horrible wreck which was litteraly .5 mile infront of us. We got diverted to a side road and finally made it to the airport by 7:00 15 min before my flight. As you guess I missed my flight. They were able to get me out this morning at 6:00AM so all was good. So tomorrow I start my big adventure. Wish me luck. I will be posting SPOT messages all along the way. Stay tuned!
some climbers there were climbing Mt. Adam. I then ran accross a headline that Mt. Adams was on fire! 30 Acres were ablaze. An hour latter 300 Acres, 4 hours later 1000 Acres, a day later 6000! This is not good I thought. Sure enought the south climb trail head was right smack in the middle of the fire. After talking to the Ranger district I found out that the TH would be closed for at least 2 weeks! Ouch time to come up with plan B. I am now planing on tomorrow heading to mount hood and I am going to try to at least make it up to hogsback. Then on Sunday we are going to head to Rainer where we will see how far we make it! But I am jumping ahead. 
I was suppose to fly out on Tuesday @ 7:15. I had a training class in St. Louis which I got out earlier from @ 4:00PM. That gives me 3 hrs to get to the airport and catch my flight! No problem right? WRONG! No sooner had we left training and got on the hwy, we came to a complete stop were we sat until almost 6:30. Unfortunaly there was a horrible wreck which was litteraly .5 mile infront of us. We got diverted to a side road and finally made it to the airport by 7:00 15 min before my flight. As you guess I missed my flight. They were able to get me out this morning at 6:00AM so all was good. So tomorrow I start my big adventure. Wish me luck. I will be posting SPOT messages all along the way. Stay tuned!
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