What a pleasure to see all this activity here
OK, the grizzly is fluffy, smspell. Are you 100% sure?
- and you can take Louloup to all of the USA, stefada, something unforgettable for both of you
NixChix, what will be your next climb?
BladeD, someone wouldn't mind another boost in return for the secretarial work
.... even as I tried to be cheap on the gift wrapping
it's tea honey - not that you have the time
Good Morning Base Campers!
What Base Camp does right now
We are on our top40.nl 2.0 trek which takes place here: top40.nl
There is still time for you to earn this badge. The window doesn’t close until 0000 UTC when July 31 turns into August 1.
We had a blitz visit from BladeD, so the U.S. Mint is putting the mold up in their machinery for his owl badge.
Unfortunately he didn’t stay long enough to push us past team Andrax in the challenge, Captain adriverhoef pointed to yesterday.
And there is no chance whatsover for him to be as soft as I am … and you’ll not see me begging in public.
Oh, no! I never beg … BladeD, somebody, anybody, everybody

- is now earned by:
acpartsman
BladeD
davwhite5xq7
Eric_Kaiser
little mermaid
NixChix
tanner2
TLD
Yodap@BC

Upcoming trek
On Wednesday August 1 we’ll begin our five-day trek at team Crunchers4Life
As mentioned the badge depicts NixChix hiking in Zion National Park with his son
- which we didn’t know when we made it. How lucky we get an event that fits into a picture!
Think about it!
If press photos were made this way
– you have a picture of a beached whale and then some whale decides to beach …
well, yeah, it’s far our, but think about it!
That's what happened with this badge, and isn’t that magic!


There was a small tsunami in the Bay of Karrebæksminde around noon. That was when the mermaid entered the ocean for a blissful salt water swim – the first one in several years.
And it was so gooood!
I forgot being a ♥ heart patient ♥ altogether
- which I do most of the time - and dare where others don't.
How lucky I am, not being one of the afraid ones .... met so many who were really scared

EDIT: A couple of - let's call them 'typos' - made better and a layout correction

What?...no
Top40 is in the lead in all the races but July points all projects
You should overtake that one too
Where do you find all those pictures
I'll be moving to next camp shortly

I don't mind saying that its been 57 years since my birth.

I don't have a next climb planned. I have already climbed Half Dome in Yosemite. My son and I did the 19 mile round trip, 4800 ft up and 4800 ft down in one day, er technically it wasn't the same day. we left one morning and didn't get back to our tent until around 3-4 am. That was our second attempt. Our first attempt was cut short by tragedy. About half way-up rangers were running past us (I was exhausted and they were running!) and helicopters were landing on the sub-dome. Someone slipped and fell to their death off Half Dome in the pouring rain. That was the incident that prompted the National Park Service to institute a lottery-permit system to limit hikers as too many climbers was seen as a contributing factor to the incident.

2 years ago we made a trip through Utah and hiked many miles at Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Zion National Park and Golden Spike National Historic Site. Everytime I say "never again".

I hope we can pull ahead of Team Andrax in this last 24 hours. I will be a little late switching to Crunchers4Life since I will be still at work at 00:00 UTC.

Cheers
[edit: I prematurely pressed post]

Thanks LM for the reminder where our next trek will be. I've also notified David.
Y'all have a great day.

Good Morning Base Campers!
What Base Camp does right now
We are about to finish our top40.nl 2.0 trek.
You may still be able to squeeze in a WU or two thereby ensuring yourself the one and only owl badge.
We don’t mind inconveniencing US Mint once more at all.

These Base Campers will receive this valuable badge in the Base Camp Hall of Fame ASAP.
acpartsman
BladeD
davwhite5xq7
Eric_Kaiser
little mermaid
NixChix
tanner2
TLD
Yodap@BC
Thank you very much each and every one of you for playing along
and thank you to Captain adriverhoef for his music, his hospitality and not least the Carol Beer episodes

Upcoming trek
On Wednesday August 1 0000 UTC
– that’s 8 p.m. if you’re a left ponder on EDT .... I think
we’ll begin our five-day trek at team Crunchers4Life
Captain smspell was a sergeant in the US forces stationed south of my border in Germany
and just a short drive from where Eric_Kaiser - who received a 100-year-Ebola-diamond today - lives.
Geography is good

The badge - a snapshot of NixChix's son giving his Dad a helping hand - can be yours for as little as 1 WU.
One of John Philip Sousa’s snappy marches would be the obvious music for this trek, but cmptr says Noooo ....
This one is not German, but close enough. Austrian Johann Strauss, Sr. wrote the Radetzsky March
and we’ll enjoy the version played by the Wiener Philharmoniker at the New Year Concert 1987 from Musikverein in Vienna.
The conductor is German Herbert von Karajan.
Do you know the joke?
Herbert von Karajan was very conscious about how good he was and – like all of us here – Herbert enjoyed showing off.

One night when leaving his workplace, the Philhamonie in Berlin, in a taxi, the driver asked where Herbert wanted to go.
’Doesn’t matter,’ Herbert said, ’They need me everywhere!’

Our Crunchers4Life
trek will last until 0000 UTC
– midnight between August 5 and 6
when we begin a trek challenge style at MOT. More about that later.
I hope to see a lot of you welcoming the first decidated team we have seen here for a very long time
– and with a very dedicated and hard working Captain.

EDIT: A couple of imperfections - I hope I was faster than Captain adriverhoef