LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[Kona2]

Mitch - I can't tell when the numbers get posted, so if I get a late start on writing them down, it's pretty easy to have happen. No worries - the important thing is to move the dial! Thanks!

[Kona2]

Happy Birthday Andrea (July 13th)! Now that I am working on the July 13th numbers, I realize there is a flaw in my birthday system as these should definitely be reported on the actual day!

[Kona2]

Another picture posted - check the team roster page to see who it might be!

Row to Beijing: are we back in the ocean yet? I think we've had to portage thru Europe! Team has contributed 144,653 challenge meters!

Season meters as of 74/365 = 9,797,844 m

Total meters on the day = 122,026 m

Oars in the water = 22 percent

MILESTONES:

THREE Half Marathons: Barbara, Chris and Dan !!!

A quick look at the worldwide rankings shows that we are in some pretty competitive company on this team! Top rowing times!


And thanks to today's rowers:

Barbara 21,134 m
Chris 21,097 m
Dan 21,097 m
Rodrigo 19,446 m (steadily moving up in the team rankings!)
AJ 15,623 m (is there a drawing of the backyard project?)
Lilia 8,515 m
Tony 7,777 m
Pat 7,337 m

[bg]

disorganized as usual...belated happy birthday andrea...yeah chris on the million and pr...it is cool to have an almost twin.....welcome back darryl and keith....hopefully i didn't miss anyone...barbara

[acrewer]

I'm back from the East Coast. I managed to flail through 30 minutes today, not a pretty sight . But meters are meters right?

BG - My son found a Boston Red Socks cap in NY with 'Red Socks' written in Hebrew! He loves it.

Glad to be back in LA and leave the humidity behind.

Gina

[Kona2]

Welcome back Gina!

Relatively quiet day on the rowing front! On our Row to Beijing challenge, we have crossed the 1.5MM contribution mark for a total of 153,648 challenge meters contributed! We're on our way to Lucerne, Switzerland (I really liked biking and hiking there!)!

Season meters as of 75/365 = 9,887,793 m

Total meters on the day = 89,949 m

Oars in the water = 27 percent

MILESTONES: Searching....searching....

And thanks to today's rowers:

Darryl 14,337 m
AJ 14,072 m
Mitch 12,002 m (really close to 300K)
Chris 10,000 m
Peter G 8,000 m
Tony 7,775 m
Steven 7,104 m
Gina 6,162 m
Lilia 5,481 m
Barbara 5,016 m

[Kona2]

Here's what I have so far on the birth date quest:

January 15, 26

February 11

March 3, 4, 13, 16

April 22

May 1, 12 (twice for May 12~)

June 13, 22

July 11, 13, 22

August 6 (twice), 30

November 20

December 9, 20

With 17 more folks to potentially hear from...there may be another match in there somewhere! (Stats delight - there was! )

[bg]

I'm back from the East Coast. I managed to flail through 30 minutes today, not a pretty sight . But meters are meters right?

BG - My son found a Boston Red Socks cap in NY with 'Red Socks' written in Hebrew! He loves it.

Glad to be back in LA and leave the humidity behind.

Gina

welcome back.....so is your son becoming a boston sports fan....btw...i think they red sox t-shirts in hebrew too...]/color]

[Kona2]

Team milestone: TEN Million Meters! Superb!!

[DuluthMoose]

For those who are interested, I've posted pictures of my recent canoe trip in the Quetico Provincial Park at:
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2267 ... 8560wuKfVf

To see the comments on each photo, view in the manual mode and scroll downward on each photo to see them at the bottom of each photo. The automated slideshow is a nice feature, but will only show the title on each photo. Hope you enjoy! Darryl

[Toothdoc]

For those who are interested, I've posted pictures of my recent canoe trip in the Quetico Provincial Park at:
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2267 ... 8560wuKfVf

To see the comments on each photo, view in the manual mode and scroll downward on each photo to see them at the bottom of each photo. The automated slideshow is a nice feature, but will only show the title on each photo. Hope you enjoy! Darryl

Beautiful pictures Darryl. You truly were in God's country. Simply beautiful reminds me of the Adirondaks without the mountains.

Dan

[just27]

I've posted pictures of my recent canoe trip in the Quetico Provincial Park at: http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2267 ... 8560wuKfVf Darryl

Beautiful wilderness and great pictures ... I feel I've qualified for a Girl Scout Outdoorsman merit badge, just by watching the slide show! I was trying to figure out which one was you, Darryl, but intuited correctly before going back to the manual/comments mode. (Rethinking whether to take the digital camera on my rafting trip, instead of the disposable, waterproof camera they recommend. Although, I'm sure there's a reason for that!) Dinner looks great - was that the trout in the skillet?

Happy belated birthday, Andrea!

Chris

[DuluthMoose]

Beautiful wilderness and great pictures ... I feel I've qualified for a Girl Scout Outdoorsman merit badge, just by watching the slide show! I was trying to figure out which one was you, Darryl, but intuited correctly before going back to the manual/comments mode. (Rethinking whether to take the digital camera on my rafting trip, instead of the disposable, waterproof camera they recommend. Although, I'm sure there's a reason for that!) Dinner looks great - was that the trout in the skillet?

Chris

Thanks Chris (and Dan). No problem picking me out in the Quetico. I'm usually the oldest geezer in the crowd and I tend to wear bright colored T's so my crew doesn't lose me. Sometimes they get way ahead of me - the lead from behind thing you know. My paddling partner is my wife Ginny. My right hand man is a younger brother, Dave; who is a Forester by profession and worked in the BWCA on portage crew for 4 years. His paddling partner, Brian (the young one), is a fisheries biologist colleague of mine with more than 50 trips of experience into the Quetico. Linda (the redhead) and Haynes are long time paddling friends of ours from Seattle and Atlanta areas respectively.

I have taken a digital camera on these trips for about 10 years now; and before that a cheap SLR. I would take a digital on your Grand Canyon trip, but get a waterproof, lexan carrying case for it at your local outdoors store first. My point and shoot Olympus fits snuggly in a GSI case along with a spare set of batteries duct taped to the inside, and a spare memory card. Pelican is another case to look at and widely available. My camera was completely submerged this spring in Missouri for at least 5 minutes when my canoe got pinned. The lexan box did not leak a drop, but you have to be careful that the rubber gasket is clean (no dirt or carrying straps on it) before latching the box before it will be watertight. If you take a digital, be sure to case it before entering rapids as there is bound to be significant splashing and risk of getting the camera wet. And that would be a no-no. And you would want to mount the case securely on something, but still be very accessible when you want the camera.

Dinner was lake trout in that photo. And we were fortunate enough to have 2 other lake trout dinners, and 2 dinners with a mix of walleye and northern pike. First night is stewed steak over mashed potatoes so no need for fish. Dinners 2 thru 6 we had fish with supper. Dinner seven we were campbound because of a thunderstorm and couldn't go fishing and had to chew on jerky for that dinner. The last dinner we couldn't catch the right kind of fish and I wasn't going to eat small mouth bass no matter what! Darryl

[Kona2]

Good info Darryl (as usual!). I'll see if I can copy some of your rowing lesson posts and the links to your photos into our Lunar Landings room since this is keeper info!

Row to Beijing - we've contributed 168,833 challenge meters!

Season meters as of 76/365 = 10,039,640 m

Total meters on the day = 151,847 m

Oars in the water = 30 percent

MILESTONES:

1.3 MM Dan
1.2 MM Barbara
Half Marathons: Dan and Barbara

Stellar rowing by all:

Dan 42,194 m (two days worth)
Barbara 21,252 m
Darryl 14,443 m
Peter H 14,298 m (almost to 300K)
AJ 12,455 m
Chris 10,000 m (and one chicken photo)
Peter G 9,000 m
Tony 7,779 m
Steven 7,112 m
Mitch 7,054 m (Peoria, AZ? I thought that was in Kansas!)
Gina 6,260 m

[bg]

great pictures darryl....wow.......very beautiful...and to do it all by canoe....and also, for me, to be able to pack efficiently for a trip....very impressive....barbara...who needs to get to the y today......