OK, has nothing to do with bourbon, but I figured that was one way to get people to read this. Wolfy…thanks for posting the Imogene story. You are indeed fortunate you weren’t there to see the mid-race urination. Kinda wish I hadn’t had to see it either.
I am starting my next writing project, which will be a story on a sort-of re-enactment of the first recorded ascent of Long’s Peak, via Keplinger’s Couloir. It is a fairly easy climb but it’s really out in the boonies, on the southwest side of the peak. I already have the most important item for an historically-correct repeat of the route: a recipe for really heavy biscuits. Since Maj. J.W. Powell, who lost an arm in the Civil War, was the original expedition’s biscuit-chef, I will have to prepare the biscuits using only one hand. Fortunately, Keplinger himself had all his appendages, so I won’t have to actually climb one-armed!
I know it’s a longshot but…are there any BaconStrippers with knowledge of any good sources on the exact route the Powell party took? I think I have it figured out but so far as I can tell, no one knows for sure.
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That’s not to say Powell couldn’t have done it and carried his fair share of the portage as well. I’d read a “real-life inspirational memoir” or sit through a slideshow by that one armed adventurer. Outside Magazine dropped the ball.
-M
will you be sporting a mean porkchop-foo-man-choo facial hair arrangement? that’s the exact inverse of my bashguard. sweet!
best of luck with the retracing of Powell’s steps. from what i’ve read of his accounts on the Colorado, that dude was stout!
J.r.
ps- Team Bacon Strip should be well into their 24 hour race at Cool as I type. getting dark and the weather is kinda chilly, should be sportin’ lights and layers now. hope those boys and girls are havin’ fun now. i might ride the motorbike over the hill in the morning to watch em and help drink the last of their reebs, bri