Carine, I watched you guys on Bob's SPOT throughout the day. All he told me beforehand was that he was going to tag a couple of peaks higher than the "run-of-the mill 10K-footers" he plays on near Reno. I halfway expected to see his track head north to Russell after you guys summitted Whitney, but when the signal headed south I knew he was going to bag Muir.
He keeps creeping closer to that magical number of averaging exactly one summit of 10K' or better every week for 20-plus years. He has well over 1000 summits of 10K' or better during that time - if he keeps tagging mutiple peaks each week throughout the summer, he'll get the average to 52 per year (or one every 7.00 days, depending on how you look at it). That's just insane! I'm doing good if I can claim 5-7 10K'-plus summits in a year. That's just a light month for Mr. Pickering . . .
