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Brought to you by Mr. Cheer or Die and the Vikes Geek, welcome to theNote: Mr. Cheer or Die is on vacation through September 7. (Having mastered seafood culinary skills, he is moving onto Spanish paella.) Writing today is guest author Daren Bloomquist.
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:: Planting a Flag on a Mountain Top! ::
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Hello again, fellow Viking fans. This is “NewMexicoGuy” writing to you again from Las Cruces, New Mexico. You might have read my first story COD put up on May 17 this year about growing up listening to the Vikings at our cabin on Whitefish Lake. COD asked me to put something together while he takes a brief and well-deserved hiatus from his work on The Vikings Underground. Instead of another story, I’m going to describe something that I am going to do to show my enthusiasm for the Vikings this season.
If you remember back to my original story, COD included a link to a photo of myself in the mountains just East of Las Cruces. That experience hiking to the 8990’ peak was the inspiration for my idea. I’m going climb to the summit for the fourth time this fall…once the rattlesnakes are all safely hibernating…and hoist a Vikings flag.
I’m convinced that the Vikings are going to reach greater heights this year. Raising the flag at the nearest, but highest peak in Southern NM would be my perfect way cheering on our team as they work towards a World Championship. I’m psyched about this season!
This will make for one great photo album. Maybe I can continue climbing various mountains across the country and world and plant a Vikings flag, snap a photo, and carry the flag back down and to my next target.
I'll probably write a brief story of my experience to document any funny occurrences, injuries, bone-chilling scares, and other memories. I'll come back here to ppost those stories. I will get a world map in my office and place a pin at the place of each flag raising.
I’m planning to make the 12-hour hike to the Organ Needles later this fall and you can count on me to send a photo from the Organ Mountains in Southern New Mexico. Go Vikes!
Posted by maasx003 at August 31, 2005 07:42 AM | TrackBackHi Daren,
Thanks for the pic on the Organs. I too am in Las Cruces, and will look forward to seeing the Viking flag up on top.
Posted by: Dave at September 1, 2005 09:42 AMYou live in Cruces? Wow. Do you like to hike at all? We'll have to get together for a beer sometime. I've been here since 1989.
Posted by: Daren Bloomquist at September 1, 2005 09:41 PMHowdy Daren,
Great picture!! Brings back memories, I was born and raised in Las Cruces but I moved to Alamogordo in '95. Although the areas where you are climbing are mostly safe, except for the occasional rattlesnake, be careful, because the military used to use those mountains (both sides) for target practice in the 40's and 50's and there could be the chance of unexploded munitions either on the surface or worse just below the surface, possibly even in areas that are deemed safe, rounds can ricochet far from their intended target and not explode, so enjoy but be very cautious! I could really dig seeing you hoist that Vikings flag on top of Mount Detroit come Super Bowl time! If that happens, heck I'll drive over there and split two six-packs of Michelob with ya if gasoline isn't six bucks a gallon by that time!! SKOL!!!