Re: Report on trip with Sam's Spud

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Erker wrote:

>   So did you just take the Spud? Just shoot
> the 5 (I think) rolls of 120 you had?

The Spud arrived from Bob on Thursday, so I took that and left
the Ricohflexes home.  (Good thing; no room for a big bar in the
rental car, what with luggage and groceries for 4 adults stuffed
in there.)  The first couple days, in Kananaskis, I generally
would have preferred the twin rig for hyper, so the Spud didn't
get much use.  I think I got in two shots, from one location,
while going up a steep trail, and two more from a hill overlooking
a lake.  The next few days, in the Lake Louise area, I was glad
to have the Spud.  I thought the scenery there was more suited to
normal base than hyper.  I got in a good number of shots, especially
on the Big Beehive hike.  Up through this point we were having
magnificient weather, sunny and warm (got as high as 80F one day).
But Thursday as we were driving to Montana rain moved in--and stayed
through early afternoon Sunday.  The Spud stayed behind all this time.
By Monday morning I still had 9 shots to go to use up my supply of 4
rolls of 120.  I took four shots before lunch, from one mountain with
a 360-degree view (one direction looking down at the Prince of Wales
hotel in Waterton), but had no more good opportunities to put the
Spud to work before we had to had back to Calgary that afternoon.

I would have left the last roll of 120, with 5 unused pairs, in
the Spud for Sam, but he had already told me he had no time to
get out and have any fun, :( so I thought it might sit a long time
before he got around to using it up.

Using the Spud went pretty well, but mounting the slides has been
hell on me.  More on that later.

Paul Talbot