Antarctica to Telluride

[Hippie]

Antarctica to Telliride    ----

Hello Bill Spindler.

You are about to ascend into a very high experience in the rocky mountains. We know you may have many questions and we are here to answer them for you. Your friends are here to help you in this transition. First and most importantly, go outside and climb up on your roof with a small lawn chair, drink a beer or three. That will give you the additional altitude adjustment needed for the elevation in Town Park.

Secondly, refer back here for additional information as you depart on your journey to Telluride. Your fellow festivarians are happy to be very verbose in their desire to help you on the path.

You already said it before - Blame it on Greg.

Most of all be aware of the Crunchy Frog. We have reserved a sleeping spot for you before land rush.



 Listening to: My dog chewing on a bone

[billspindler]

Antarctica to Telliride    ----

Hello Bill Spindler.

You are about to ascend into a very high experience in the rocky mountains. We know you may have many questions and we are here to answer them for you. Your friends are here to help you in this transition. First and most importantly, go outside and climb up on your roof with a small lawn chair, drink a beer or three. That will give you the additional altitude adjustment needed for the elevation in Town Park.

Secondly, refer back here for additional information as you depart on your journey to Telluride. Your fellow festivarians are happy to be very verbose in their desire to help you on the path.

You already said it before - Blame it on Greg.

Most of all be aware of the Crunchy Frog. We have reserved a sleeping spot for you before land rush.

Ulp! Well, the corner of Antarctica where Greg and I have spent time is good conditioning...the base altitude at South Pole is 9300 feet, but because the Earth's atmosphere is thinner at the poles, the actual pressure varies with the barometric pressure and can be as high as what you'd find at 13,000 feet. That results in the South Pole diet...the thinner air means you burn more calories than at sea level. I may need that help    As for the upcoming journey...don't worry, I'll continue to poke around this forum and ask questions as necessary.

Once upon a time I had a summer job at Cornell (Ithaca NY) and there started to be all of these ads in the paper for something called the "Woodstock Music and Arts Fair." Really cheap tickets. But I had to work. A couple of friends came back early Sunday morning with everything soaked, they'd left early and told horror stories about how they didn't enjoy it...took me a few more years to meet up with other friends who told me what I'd missed.

As for South Pole, we did have good music...back about 29 years before Greg was there, we had a sunrise concert. Unfortunately it was cloudy so we missed the sunrise (the only one for the year). But we had fun anyway... Sunrise concert, September 1977 (no, I wasn't picking, just enjoying and taking photos).

 Listening to: Leaving on a C-130 by the Kiss-ass bandits (with apologies to John Denver)

[Cindy Lou]

So Bill are you presently living in Antartica? That will be a long journey to Telluride!

[billspindler]

So Bill are you presently living in Antartica? That will be a long journey to Telluride!

No...haven't lived there since 2008. Currently living in Southside Virginia, will be moving back to Boulder in Aug.

[Hooch]

Do you have bizarre penguin stories you are willing to share?

 Listening to: Footsteps. They are getting closer. Closer! CLOSER!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!

[gregsfrontporch]

Do you have bizarre penguin stories you are willing to share?

Not many penguins at the south pole,

That's because they've all been penguin fried since they started supplying us with flame throwers! 

 Listening to: monkeys dancing in my head chirping "Festival, Festival, FESTIVAAAAAL"

[billspindler]

First time I saw penguins in Antarctica was after my first Pole winter...at Cape Crozier on the coast of the Southern Ocean. Reminded me of a huge music festival (Woodstock?) except that apparently the stage hadn't been erected yet.    

[Hooch]

That's awesome!!  Did you feel very tall? 


Hehe...you said "erected".  That's funny to me because I'm 12.

 Listening to: Silence due to lack of penguins

[Hot Sugar]

Hehe...you said "erected".  That's funny to me because I'm 12.

Saying erected is 60% of my stand up act. Many have said it's my best joke.

[gregsfrontporch]

I've always been envious of plumbers, because they get to talk about "nipples" all day.  That's a word that always brings a sheepish smile to my face!   

[Hooch]

I've always been envious of plumbers, because they get to talk about "nipples" all day.  That's a word that always brings a sheepish smile to my face!   

And they can say it without winking!  That takes practice.

[Maple Al]

Just don't tell Hooch that penguin bacon is better than the pig version. Why do you think all those people go to Antartica? It's not to study the weather, you know that it's cold. Better put them on the endangered species list.

[Hooch]

So...I've heard a rumor that penguin bacon is actually better than the pig version!!  I read it on the interweb so obviously it is true!

[gregsfrontporch]

So...I've heard a rumor that penguin bacon is actually better than the pig version!!  I read it on the interweb so obviously it is true!

I know of a south bound plane that leaves in February that'll take you to all the penguin bacon there is!

[Hooch]

So...I've heard a rumor that penguin bacon is actually better than the pig version!!  I read it on the interweb so obviously it is true!

I know of a south bound plane that leaves in February that'll take you to all the penguin bacon there is!

Do they offer in-flight snacks?  It's a heck of a long flight from here to the bottom of the planet.