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Hiking – Mount Si – Take 3

mircea — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:59:00 +0000

Take 1
- Time going up: 6:00 hrs
- Time coming down: 2:00 hrs
- Total time: 8:00 hrs
Take 2
- Time going up: 2:45 hrs
- Time coming down: 1:35 hrs
- Total time: 4:20 hrs
Take 3 - this one
- Time going up: 2:00 hrs
- Time coming down: 1:25 hrs
- Total time: 3:25 hrs

This was also the first time we got on top of the haystack. While technically most the peak of the haystack is the peak of Mount Si, what most people understand by “doing” Mount Si is reaching the haystack basin.

Mount Rainier as seen from Mount Si

Seattle

Bellevue

Mount Baker and Glacier Peak

The Haystack Basin as seen from the top of the Haystack - Mount Si

I90 from Si

Skyrim

mircea — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Towards the end of March I finished the main questline for Skyrim, one of the best games I’ve played lately and probaly one of my all time favourites - it’s up there with Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Halflife and Diablo II. I really really liked the game.

Some random thoughts, impresions about the game:

total wasted time: ~ 108 hours. Online some people claim that it can take up to 300 hours.
the game graphics are beautiful and not extremely demanding (ie it ran just fine on my laptop - Core i5 / 4GB RAM / Radeon 6550M 1GB)
the flow of the game is non linear - you can choose the order in which you do the quests
in game: you can fight dragons (yeah!), own houses, own horses, get married, transform into a werewolf, pick locks/pockets and of coures you are the one chosen to save humanity (duh!)

Slideshow

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http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/poo-poo-point

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