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|Dan Winter
|standard route
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2000
|I have been up this a number of times. Turned back on one attempt because of rhime ice on the final scramble part. Everyone I know calls this mountain McClellans Butt!
|Posted Jun 6, 2008 5:10 pm
|Good Conditioner
Date Climbed: Nov 4, 2006
|Nice scramble at the top
|Posted Sep 25, 2007 5:40 pm
|Main Trail
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2007
|Good conditioning hike, very similar to Mt. Si but a little longer. Short scramble to the top was fun.
|Posted Aug 20, 2007 4:57 pm
|Been up there four or five times. Never the scramble to the summit though
|Posted May 24, 2007 6:12 pm
|Fun Hike
|Hiked it many times with DAF... Fun little scramble at the top. Good if you want to avoid the crowds on Si...
|Posted Jan 19, 2007 10:45 pm
|Mountain Goats on this Side of the Pass!
Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2006
|And would you believe neither my hiking partner nor I brought our cameras that day?! Two goats - they looked to be young'ens - stared down at us as we rounded the last corner. We were not the only hikers amazed to see them there. The other handful of people on the trail were as stunned and excited as we were. Terrific day, aside from the goats, also- perfect weather, great new hiking buddy and a good workout. I like this trail despite the grim trek up the road at the start. I'll like it even more when the very latest newly blazed section, bypassing the road, opens soon.
|Posted Dec 20, 2006 10:13 pm
|Good alternative to Mt Si
Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2005
|Like others have said, be careful at the top. After hiking on a trail for the entire approach, the final scramble exposure gets your attention.
|Posted Dec 4, 2006 3:56 am
|Kyle Bissell
|beast hike
Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2006
|Made it to the base of the summit scramble with about 1.5 hours of daylight left... decided to wait until a day with more time. New trail reworking by the WTA is wonderful, however it does make the hike about 10-15 minutes longer.
|Posted Nov 12, 2006 7:27 pm
|Best of the Corridor
Date Climbed: Mar 27, 1993
|Date is my first climb -- the year they were working on the Mt. Si trail and had it closed. I've hiked it at least once a year since then, and frequently several times a year.
Of all the hikes along I-90 from Seattle to Snoqualmie Pass, this is the best for (1) easy access (2) good trail (3) nice views (4) pleasant scramble at the top.
Ever since they closed the old trail (bridge was wiped out by the creek in the 1990s) that followed an old wooden pipeline, and moved the trailhead to the current location, I've been torn between doing that, with the long traverse to the real trail, or going up the forest service road that cuts off the lower mile.
Hint -- if you go to the actual trailhead, take the old, overgrown road bed just below the forest service road for the traverse. Its much more pleasant thank hiking 3/8 mile on the gravel.
During the winter and spring you can cut off the large loop to the south by going up the steep avalanche gully if you are comfortable on steep (up to 45 degree) snow and alpine ice. Makes a great spring climb when the conditions are good, and was the way I climbed the mountain the first 3 or 4 times I did it.
|Posted Aug 26, 2006 4:36 pm
|the gravel road killed it for me...
|another reminder to stay north of I-90 i guess...
|Posted Jul 9, 2006 6:58 am
Date Climbed: May 21, 2006
|Encountered compact snow above 3500 feet making it impossible to follow the trail. Got turned around a few times but eventually came to the right side of the final scramble. This is the moment the weather chose to turn ugly. Rain with strong gusts almost turned me around but thoughts of the summit took me all the way. Be careful on those avalanche gullies. Next time I'll make sure to bring my axe.
|Posted May 22, 2006 2:19 am
|Route Climbed: Standard 6/12/04
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2004
|I still want to do the North gully ascent. Waiting for the right conditions.
|Posted Feb 16, 2006 1:53 am
|Route Climbed: Main Trail
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2005
|Climbed by myself, didnt see a single person the entire way up, great views from the summit. High exposure scramble at the top was a nice finish to the hike.
|Posted Feb 14, 2006 3:07 am
|Route Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: November 20, 2005
|A lot of time in the woods on the way to the top but a nice, short Class 2-3 scramble up the summit ridge at the end leads to a nice summit. Good idea to bring a scramble rope in case there's some ice, snow, or wet rock up top as the ridge has a fair degree of exposure.
|Posted Nov 21, 2005 12:55 am
|Route Climbed: Main Trail Date Climbed: August 2004
|Climbed this awhile ago and I can't remember much about it besides the fact that there was cell phone service on the summit, probably because of the proximity to I-90.
|Posted Sep 21, 2005 12:19 am
|Date Climbed: September 1999
|I moved to Seattle in July and this was my first Washington hike (and only the fourth in my life). I went with my friend, Steve-o, who lied about the distance and elevation gain. I kept thinking... God, the trail feels longer than two miles... It took us something like 6 hours RT. I should really go back and try it again... I bet I could cut that time in half.
|Posted Aug 10, 2005 11:56 pm
|Robert D
|Route Climbed: The trail Date Climbed: 8-02-2005
|I just climbed the Mountain yesturday, with you Mr. Z. It was rather nice and sunny way up there... Got sun burned... but it was cool because you can see the sound, Mt. Si and many of the others on the I-90 corridor
|Posted Aug 3, 2005 4:42 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: June 26, 2005
|Nice cloudy day, but we managed to break through at the very top for a bit. We were the first ones on top that day, and passed 27 peoples on the way back down...
|Posted Jun 27, 2005 9:18 pm
|Route Climbed: Trail Date Climbed: June 16th 2005
|Climbed with Skook on a very cloudy day. Good training hike.
|Posted Jun 18, 2005 11:59 pm
|Jeffrey Zickert
|Route Climbed: Main Trail Date Climbed: 6-3-05
|Very overcast day, no view at all. I'll have to go back when the clouds are no where to be found.
|Posted Jun 3, 2005 6:03 pm


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Managing Chronic Laminitis: Form and Function
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The visible signs of chronic laminitis are enough to break any horse owner's heart--the dished, ridged hoof walls, the uncomfortable gait. But what's at the heart of the visible clinical signs, and, once a horse has progressed to this stage, can we do anything to significantly improve his quality of life?
Chris Pollitt, BVSc, PhD, head of the Australian Equine Laminitis Research Unit at the University of Queensland, discussed lessons he's learned from years of researching and managing chronic laminitis at the fourth annual Promoting Excellence Symposium of the Florida Association of Equine Practitioners (FAEP). The meeting was held Sept. 25-27, 2008, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Chronic laminitis encompasses the lingering aftereffects of the acute phase. In chronic laminitis the distal phalanx (the bone within the hoof capsule, also known as P3 or the coffin bone) has displaced. He said that as we watch laminitis progress via radiographs, we can see the toe rotating downward, a change that often causes significant remodeling.
Pollitt explained that this remodeling is caused by a multitude of factors working in conjunction. First, the weight of the horse pushes down on the bone and strains the already-inflamed lamellae (the Velcro-like fibers that secure the bone to the inside of the hoof capsule). These tear, allowing the bone to pull away. But along with this, the ongoing growth of the hoof occurs differently than it did before the laminitis first developed.
Tubules of horn growing down from the coronet band are now kinked. They no longer grow in a straight line--instead they grow inward, driving a wedge between the wall and bone. This is visible externally as the telltale ridges or rings that can be seen on lamintic hooves--it looks as if someone has placed a rubber band around the hoof. Pollitt noted that this tissue can recover and straighten itself up over time. At the same time the distal sole grows inward, further driving this wedge and forcing the hoof to continue growing in this distorted position.
The effects of this inward-growing horn can cause trauma to the distal phalanx, seen as excavation of the bone and significant remodeling. Eventually, the tip of the bone can completely wear away.
Pollitt noted that these ingrowing wedges are not typically seen before six weeks after the primary laminitic event. If you can get the horse to six weeks, you might not need to take drastic action. But if bony remodeling is evident, it's time to start working on that hoof.
So what can be done about it? Pollitt said at this point it's "chasing a horse that's already bolted."
The easiest way to make horses with bony remodeling feel more comfortable is to support the back of the foot--but at some point you also have to address the distorted tubular growth.
A strategic hoof resection (removal of hoof wall) might help some of these cases significantly, alleviating the pressure on the bone caused by ingrowing horn and re-establishing normal growth. Pollitt noted that venograms taken after resection show markedly improved uptake of blood in the foot (indicating improved circulation) as pressure on the venous structures within the hoof are relieved.
Pollitt noted that some horses might also benefit from a deep flexor tenotomy (surgically severing the deep digital flexor tendon), but the decision should made on a case-by-case basis.
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'Bachelorette' Emily Maynard will be walking down the aisle in November, but it's not for her own wedding — it's for her best friend's for which she has accepted the position of Maid of Honor.
We know: always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
Even though she's been prepped to tie the knot herself on three separate occasions (with deceased fiance, Nascar driver Ricky Hendrick; season 15 'Bachelor' Brad Womack and her season 8, pick Jef Holm) this is Maynard's first time taking on MoH duties, and she has no idea what that really entails.
Maynard talked about her worries in a recent blog post entitled "Maid of Honor… So.. Now What Do I Do?"
In the self-deprecating post, Maynard quipped, "You'd think after three engagements I would've made it to this point, right? (I find it best to make fun of yourself before others have the chance) Obviously I'm going to need your help! Anyone have any fun tips for being the best maid of honor a girl could ever ask for? Fun bachelorette party games/favors/whatever else?"
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In 1590 the Frankfurt printer and engraver Theodor deBry published a folio edition of Thomas Hariot's Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia with engraved illustrations based on John White's watercolor paintings. DeBry's engravings were the first images of indigenous North Americans that most 16th century Europeans had ever seen.
Thomas Hariot, a scientist, and John White, an artist and cartographer, had journeyed to North America in 1585 as part of Sir Walter Raleigh's attempt to found an English colony in the new world. Hariot and White were charged with providing an accurate description, in words and images, of the geography, native peoples, and natural resources of the new world.
Raleigh and his associates wanted to encourage settlement in the Virginia colony in order to stake an English claim to compete with the Spanish and French conquests of much of North and South America. Accordingly, Hariot's account emphasizes the abundant resources and generally friendly Indians that he encountered in Virginia.
John White created the first accurate map of the Virginia coast.He also painted watercolor images of the Indians he encountered, documenting their clothing and tools, religious and social rituals, agricultural methods, buildings, ships, and weapons.
Hariot and White returned to England in 1586 and delivered their accounts to the colony's backers. In 1587 another group of English colonists set out for Roanoke, with John White as appointed governor of the colony. Also in this group were White's daughter Eleanor and her husband Ananias Dare, future parents of Virginia Dare. The settlement did not fare well: food supplies ran low, and White was sent back to England for provisions the next autumn. When he finally returned in 1590 the Roanoke settlement had been abandoned and the colonists had disappeared.
Meanwhile in England Thomas Hariot's account of his experiences, titled A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, had been published as an individual quarto and as part of Richard Hakluyt's extremely popular compendium of travel literature, Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589). Hakluyt's book contained no illustations, however, and in 1590 he contracted with Theodor deBry, a skilled engraver and printer, to publish a deluxe volume of Hariot's work along with illustrations based on White's paintings.
DeBry's edition was the first volume in a series of travel narratives —Collectiones Peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Indiam Occidentalem (1590-1634)– for which he became famous. Accounts of European exploration and conquest of the Americas, Africa, and Asia were hugely popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. And DeBry's Briefe and True Report has many features typical of the genre. Although ZSR's copy is in Latin, DeBry also published editions in Hariot's original English as well as Dutch, German, and French. Latin was still the language of international scholarship in 16th century Europe– but travel accounts were written by soldiers and adventurers, not academics. At the beginning of the century, nearly all printed material was in Latin; by 1600 a shift was underway toward publishing in the vernacular languages.
The 16th century also saw the beginnings of an empirical approach to science and history. Instead of relying on classical and church authority, naturalists and explorers recorded their first hand observations of the new lands and cultures they encountered. Thus the early modern travel narrative set itself in opposition to classical works of cosmography.
In many ways Thomas Hariot's narrative and John White's images typify this new approach. And deBry from his very title page makes it obvious that he is charting new territory. Instead of the classical figures who usually inhabited the ornate architecture on such pages, DeBry's book features White's Algonquian Indians. The new world literally replaces the old on the book's first page.
Despite the flood of firsthand travel narratives, 16th century Europeans were still influenced by the ideas of classical authors. In particular, images based on Pliny the Elder's descriptions of the monstrous races from lands beyond the known world held firm sway over the imaginations of many Europeans.
John White and Theodor deBry's Indians– exotic but dignified and definitely human– provided one of the first correctives to these mythical images.
DeBry's engravings reproduce White's paintings with reasonable accuracy. But a comparison of the paintings and engravings makes clear that deBry felt free to make some alterations. He added multiple perspectives to the depictions of several figures. He also filled in White's spare backgrounds, and he altered the human figures, giving them more European facial features and the defined musculature typical of figural illustrations of the time.
DeBry also includes some additional images at the end of the volume–John White's rather fanciful depiction of ancient Picts. For readers steeped in classical learning these images had obvious connotations: they were a reminder that for the Greek and Roman authors, the ancestors of deBry's European readers were the barbarian races.
The 1590 first edition of this volume is part of the ZSR Special Collections Americana collection. These materials were purchased between 1938 and 1943 with matching funds from the Wake Forest College Board of Trustees and the Tracy W. MacGregor fund.


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