Well my package finally arrived, only 6 days late. So now I'm fully equipped for some overnight backpacking. And I finally have more than five days worth of clothes.

Yesterday was the LANL student picnic, where every year the ~1,000 student interns working at the lab get together at Urban Park and hang out with the people they already know, clustered in little groups in the shade beneath the pines. I went with Carolyn, who I hadn't seen in over a year. The picnic organizers humbly request that we bring our own plates, and I continued my running tradition of eating out of a frisbee. This, unfortunately, led to the coating of my disc with a thin film of potato salad that made throwing the disc a little challenging.

I ran into several people I hadn't seen since the summer before last. Sleazy-T, Pete, and assorted others, as well as a host of people I've met this year at Ultimate.

Carolyn is going to accompany me on my hike this weekend, and John from ultimate might as well. I'm planning a trip to Lake Peak (12,409'), overlooking Santa Fe Lake and the Aspen Basin. It's a short trip, but it has lots of vertical change and is very high altitude, for me anyway. If we make it up Raven's Ridge without totally exhausting ourselves, we then have access to several other peaks without much vertical work.