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in reply to: My Thoughts on Today’s Event! #49033

Ahh-yupp! Well it’s nice to know you have dependable help…not. Team LOMU turned into LOMU, lonely LOMU. I had to do a quick reassessment of my flag pole design. I determined that my design from last year was too much to carry. I dug through my gear and found that my tarp pole would work perfect if doubled up. I found the hike annihilating; I over packed in anticipation of poor weather and could have gotten better sleep (so, stupid!). Something about thinking your running way late and being in trees constantly makes progress seem slow. A funny part was right around the time that I was getting discouraged, I stopped for a breather. In the process of reaching for my water I dropped a trekking pole which disturbed the largest bees nest I have ever heard. Well nothing like the vision of having a beard of bees to kick start your pace. I envisioned the movie “My Girl”, and those episodes of Tom and Jerry involving bees in a formation of an arrow. Anyways after emerging from tree line it turned into a fantastic hike, I can’t complain about the weather and I was dedicated to the cause. I got nothing, but positive feed back even from the US Park Ranger that was at the summit. He snapped a photo and told me he appreciated what we were doing (he had already known about the event.). I saw, no other flags on any peaks and started wondering if I had the right day. After an hour of flag flying I descended, a truly awesome day. Stopped by the Moose Land Grill at about 5:30 and the place was empty, 4 cars max. I waited for about 20 min. and boogied back home. Great Job People! Great Job America!

Log: I started up Valleyway at about 9:15 (a little late), but Frodo insisted 3 hrs was plenty of time. You were right on dude!

I peaked at approx. 12:15 let several people know what the cause was and all found it to quote one person “inspiring”.

I began my decent at approx. 1:20 stopping only for water. Hammered down and got to my car at 4:25.

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in reply to: Signups: 72%!!! (2003) #48923

I :dunce: suggest Frodo go the distance and cover two mountains, I know he can do it… :beer:

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in reply to: Thank you, Alphazone.com!!! #48918

I just went to that site. No more redirect. But it was cool of them to do it at all.

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in reply to: How big was your pole? #48787

A few weeks ago, I saw some telescoping flag poles at the annual fair we have in MA called the Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, MA. They looked decent and were ok priced, but they were light! I liked the whole “project” aspect of making mine myself anyway.

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in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48755

@SuperDave wrote:

@Greg wrote:

Bummer. I wish we looked for it again before we left. I think the last time we looked was prety close to 1:30 PM. Any pics?

Yup…I just got the film developed last night, and I should have a chance to scan and upload them in the next day or two.

Hey SuperDave,

Your slackin man! Get those pictures up so we can see the real life recording of that Man VS. Nature thing you typed about. J/K Seriously though inquiring people want to see!

LOMU

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in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48742

The start of our hike was right on schedule at 940 hrs until I realized my hydration pack was leaking. False alarm! It was only too full and leaking out of the cap. The hike up was warmer than anticipated and relatively straight up. This was a really nice day, sunny with occasional breezes and practically no bugs. I split the load of the flagpole with my buddy James and we made it to the summit at about 1120 hrs. It worked out perfect not too heavy with out any sacrifice of rigidity. Dan, James and myself flew our flags right on time at 1200 hrs. The two choices of flags were of course Old Glory and a POW-MIA flag. The turn out was about 30/70; meaning about 30% out of all the persons at the summit knew why we were there. The remaining percentages were intrigued and appreciative of our efforts and for the most part expressed this to us sincerely. This was an event that has lived up to my all my positive anticipations, minus smelling like Gatorade. I thank everyone who took part, supported or contributed to this event as a whole. I hope it went as well for everyone else as it did for me and to the victims for which we made this effort for ‘You Are Not Forgotten’.

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in reply to: celebrating after flags on the 48 ? #48683

Is this place huge or what? 😮

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