You should try dealing with that addiction from way over here on the flatter east coast - you wind up planning most of your year around a couple of trips just to get in the general vicinity of big mountains. Managing decent training is the worst part of this, with the closest peak over 6700 feet being more than 1200 air miles away.
It's definitely worth it, though. In about 8 days John (catpappy) and I will be setting up camp in Death Valley for a week of desert rambling. Nothing much higher than 9000 feet this trip, but summer and the Sierra is only a few months away!
