a few more shots from the ride, stolen from a friend's blog:

making our way up to 'paradise': (me on the right, with too much crap in my pockets!)



view of mt. rainier up close:



your truly, at the top of windy ridge (that would be the st. helens crater behind me)


and had i not DNFd, this would have been the 4th pass, chinook:


next year i'll conquer this damn route!