So I re-did my highpointing statistics webpage in a fit of boredome while waiting for my user account at LANL to be reinstated. I added a couple of stats that are of some interest:

On my highpointing trips I have hiked over 243 miles with a net vertical gain of over 53,000 feet (over 10 vertical miles). That sounds impressive to me, until I look at Scott's webpage and see that he has hiked 1,423 miles and almost 300,000' of vertical gain. Oh well; he's been doing it for 10 more years than me.

In other Feats Of Strength news... I managed to misuse a broken security turnstile here at work in such a way that the bars came flying back at me and knocked me right in the face. I have a huge welt and bruise on the bridge of my nose and it hurts like crazy. I'm glad nobody saw that happen...