Well, the second day back in the office is coming to an end. I think in a few minutes I’m going to have to walk out to the balcony and drink a glass of wine while I read a book. You can’t work all day long, or at least I can’t if I’m not going to go crazy.
I’m close to getting everything together for the next production run over in TR. The stuff should all end up getting to JFK by next Wednesday and I’ll have it all in Turkey for delivery on Monday. It’s a bit of a bummer that it’s taking so long to get all the different deliveries together, but it will be okay. I ordered a bunch of extra material for MFT if he does decide to go with CiloGear in making those packs for his ambassadors. We’ll need to do some initial design stuff, but that won’t be too hard from my end of things.
I’ve also emailed Cliff, and I hope to hear back from him pretty soon. I’ve got a bunch of designs that I think he could sell pretty easily.
Intellectually, the most interesting thing today was going over the winter wildlands alliance’s report on Winter Recreation on Western National Forest Lands. I met the executive director of WWA, Mark Menlove, at the Outdoor Retailer show two weeks ago. I was introduced to him by Kevin Kobe, an old friend of BP. In any event, the WWA report is a hard headed examination and tabulation of the current state of America’s national wildlands in the winter. It’s pretty interesting reading. For example, they found that of all the groomed trails, less than 10% reserved for non-motorized recreation. Of course, that makes sense when more than half of all users of National Forests in land are seeking the silence of the winter to cross-country ski, snowshoe or find backcountry turns. WTF? That’s worse than women’s bathrooms!
Cody came back from Europe. Kelly should be coming back soon from Pakistan. Fall is coming. I saw my first fall leaf in Salt Lake City with AP, and one season of travel is over. Climbing might actually be awesome in the gunks right now…
