For the next month, I will be largely... elsewhere. I leave tomorrow night and drive up to Durango with Minesh and Laura, where we'll be spending the night at the house of a caver friend of mine. In the morning, we're taking the Durango & Silverton narrow gauge railroad up to Needleton. From there, we hike up into the Chicago Basin for four days of backpacking. This'll be the longest backpacking trip I've ever taken, and the last mountain climbing I'll get to do with Laura before we climb Rainier at the end of the month. We'll hike back out and catch the train on the 4th, go back to Durango, and drive back home.

Once back at home, I'll just have time to take a shower, unload my mountaineering gear, and load up my pre-packed suitcase for the following 10 days. I then drive down to Albuquerque and spend the night at Nina's. On the 5th, I catch a plane to Seattle to go be in Dan's wedding. From Seattle, I fly straight to Tucson for the INMM conference. I return home on the 14th, but only for four days. Then it's off to Rainier until the 26th. I should have email access while at INMM, between the 8th and 14th of July, and for the short stint I do at home between the 15th and 19th. Other than that, I'll be largely incommunicado.