Drawbar Cliffs and Pinnacle Mountain

Draw-bar Cliffs and Pinnacle Mountain. I just want to emphasize the "and" while I start posting today's 9.9 mile 3000 foot climb. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. This well known mantra may well have been based on the life and times of Chip. With the possible exception of early to bed, Chip is up and adam at o'dark thirty and stays that way into
the o'dark hours of every day. He stays positively focused, optimistic and otherwise motivated through each intervening hour, vigorously burning both ends of the candle. This weeks travels brought him close to one thousand miles with journeys through Valley Forge and the Delaware Water Gap. All of that fueled by a successful launch of his latest entrepreneurial venture on 11/11/11. Now while most people, namely me, would say OK enough is enough for one week, Chip is planning and packing for the Saturday Hike to Heaven. This weeks cloud 9 was Drawbar Cliffs, the planned banquet including Bratwurst (Johnsons Original, Beer   and Navel Oranges. As I was getting the fire started Chip yelped a couple loud OMG's and other expletives from the far corner while reaching into his backpack. At first I thought he'd been bitten by a snake but.... I grabbed the wrong meat!!!! (that's what she said). What it turned out to be was he had grabbed hamburger instead of the Bratwurst from the freezer. Clearly not a reason to go back. So we grilled out sirloin instead of pork and I can live with that.
On these outings where tourists are sparse, we always seem to meet a few great people and today was no exception. Here is pictured a fine couple from Charleston (the other most beautiful place in the world), a Minister traversing the church of God, who gave us information and directions to an ancient trail and Petroglyphs (cave drawings), sure to be on our itinerary for future trips and a young lady we met on our return trip at the juncture of Mills Creek and Pinnacle Trail, a very steep and strenuous jaunt to the top of Pinnacle Mountain that Chip had not detailed as part of our venture until it was too late to re-think and refuse.


Now my advise to Chip was simply this; Put a camera in your Rav4 and click a few shots along way on your endless road trips. Submit them to Carrie, your daughter and editor in chief and let her share these memories with the world through her Clausens Blog.

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