The site should be significantly faster.

However, there have been reports of comments getting "hidden", not showing up, or just acting plain old strange.  Given the secret sauce I used for the speedup, I'm actually not surprised.  I pushed out the changes quickly because they had such a huge impact on speed.  The good news is the comments are likely still around, they just aren't showing up.

If you have a comment disappear, post a link to the story / forum it happened in so I can take a peek.   Let me know what you did when it disappeared (editing it?  posting it?  nothing at all?).

Thanks for your patience on this!

Here is some un-edited pics from my camping trip.  These were taken from a nearby hill we scrambled to the top of.  Since these are all taken in the daytime, none of them are really that great.
Mt. Ranier While you can't see it, our camp is almost smack in the middle in some trees below. Little Twin Sisters Lake

The blurry picture of your truely.  Taken by Shannon, sans tripod (you pack that up!)

Update [2006-7-7 15:23:7 by coryking]: Let me know if that fixed it!

There is no other way to describe the part of William O Douglas wilderness we hiked. Starting from our camp next to a real, live burbling spring - we hiked 4.7 miles to Penoyer Lake. From there, we hiked another mile, past small sub-alpine lakes and prisine grassland to where the trail, Cowlitz Trail #44, intersected with the Pacific Crest Trail. Sadly, since we only had a day to hike, we had to turn back. I highly recommend this area for hiking. The only thing I'd do different next time is come in from the north side by Bumping Lake (on the big map, it's just right of Twin Sisters Lakes). This way you avoid all the elevation gain and are only .5 miles away from the fun stuff. Also, if you can - please do this as an overnight trip. Shannon and I have every intention of aquiring some good backbacks and doing this overnight later this summer. There is SO many trails past literally hundreds of small lakes that you need a few days to explore.

The Map Really big map (430kb)

While we are at it - does anybody have good tips for forest pictures? All mine tend to have really muddy looking trees. I've bitched about my cameras green response before, but I wonder if it is my camera? There is a lot of contrast in trees, and I am wondering what kinds of tips people have for high quality shots? Should I dump my digital camera for these kinds of trips and go film? (yes) If so, what kind of film?