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	From:  "Winston Goodbody" <wgoodbody@hotmail.com>
03/10/2001 07:56 AM

To: wgoodbody@hotmail.com
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Subject: Yellowstone Ski Traverse - Update from Leg 4

Hi All,

Here,s my update for leg 4 of our Yellowstone Ski Traverse.  As always, full
info on our trip along with pictures can be found on our web site:

http://ski.mountainzone.com/2001/yellowstone/html/

Win

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Thorofare: Yellowstone,s Heart of Gold

By Win Goodbody

Thorofare Creek.  Two Ocean Pass.  Atlantic Creek.  Yellowstone Point.  Open
Creek.  To hunters from around the world these are more than just names of
geographic features in northwest Wyoming,s Teton Wilderness.  They are
legendary places renowned for abundant wildlife in the most remote area of
the US,s lower 48 states.  The closest road is 30 miles distant.  Right next
door is Yellowstone National Park.  For those who know some part of the
thousands of square miles of rugged terrain here on either side of the Park
border, the area is simply &Thorofare8.  Inside this one word fits the very
heart of Yellowstone country, the distilled essence of everything that is
great about this crown jewel of America,s natural heritage.

Thorofare really refers to two main drainages that grow from steep mountain
creeks into larger rivers that meander through flat, wide valley bottoms
before merging.  Each drainage is initially tight and dense, spilling down
between rocky Absaroka peaks, but then broadens and opens into vast meadows
etched with old oxbows where waterways shift back and forth.  The Thorofare
Creek drainage starts on the north face of Younts Peak near the Continental
Divide and heads north before turning west.  The Yellowstone River drainage
starts on the south side of Younts and goes west before turning north.

These two rivers wind around opposite sides of the massive Thorofare Plateau
and then join just before entering Yellowstone National Park,s southeast
corner.  It seems odd that the river downstream of the confluence is called
the Yellowstone, for before they meet Thorofare Creek looks larger than the
Yellowstone River.  From this point the Yellowstone flows north into the
Park until it hits Yellowstone Lake, some 15 miles away.

Thorofare hosts the bulk of its human visitors during one concentrated
period each year.  Every autumn in those parts of Thorofare outside the
Park, hunters arrive to pursue elk, moose, deer, and other game.  Whether or
not they are in harmony with the letter or, more importantly, the spirit of
the law, there are in fact many permanent hunting camps scattered throughout
Thorofare and the Teton Wilderness, and it is clear that hunting is big
business.

Miniature towns spring up as large groups with convoys of horses haul in
everything needed to live well for weeks on end.  The more developed camps
feature raised platforms, log furniture, corrals, and enormous 50 gallon
steel drums in which food is secured from bears.  Though there are usually
ample numbers of animals to hunt outside the Park, guides and outfitters
will place salt licks just beyond the Park boundary in an effort to lure
creatures out and ensure that paying clients have something to blast away
at.

Other people, far fewer in number, come to hunt with camera and binoculars,
either in summer or fall.  For them, just being in Thorofare and feeling the
pulse of this magnificent land is sufficient payback for the long journey
in.  Here are also to be found animals that cannot be hunted, such as wolves
and grizzly bears.  Despite all of the usual problems that will have an
impact on Thorofare,s future, this is still a staggering swath of relatively
undisturbed earth where, to paraphrase the Wilderness Act of 1964, &(man is
a visitor who does not remain.8

All told, several thousand people might pass through during the annual
window of milder weather.  But for more than half the year, from early
November until early June, no one comes.  With the first real snowfall the
back country falls quiet and the last humans decamp for town.  A visit to
Thorofare in winter is therefore a chance to experience real isolation and
behold Yellowstone,s unique beauty during a harsh season.

This was the fourth leg of our Yellowstone traverse and a return to longer
distance travel.  The second and third legs of the winter had each been half
as long as the one before (the first leg was 130 miles, the second was 60,
the third was 35).  We had to break out of this pattern, I realized, or we
would soon be down to day trips of several hundred yards.  A trip into
Thorofare was just the thing to turn our attentions back to bigger miles and
more challenging territory.  We figured it would take two weeks to cover the
80 mile route we had plotted.

Remote in summer, Thorofare is even harder to reach when snow is on the
ground.  Approaching from the south, it,s 30 miles through wild Absaroka
territory.  Continuing from where we left off at the end of our last leg
through the northern Gros Ventre Range, we depart from Togwotee Pass in
unsettled weather.  Scattered snow showers swirl around in a black sky.
After several sunny days in town, which I used mainly to sit inside and eat
too much, it looks like we are at last due for some snow.

Amazingly, Togwotee Pass is the first road running east west across the
Continental Divide in Wyoming we have come to since starting our trip almost
two months ago 200 miles to the south.  We will cross only one or two more
roads between here and the northern turnaround point of our traverse at
Bozeman, Montana.  Heading north from Togwotee feels a little bit bleak,
even if we do have a groomed road to follow for the first few miles.  We,re
really leaving civilization behind and going deep into the woods this time.

Or so we think.  Five miles on, a stunning old wooden lodge appears.  Built
in 1922, it stands on the original highway to Yellowstone and was the
stopping point for many illustrious personalities back in the day.  In more
recent years, I had heard from someone, it was a basic back country lodge
where you could stay or eat.  Just a nice place to stop in.  We ski hungrily
to its door, drawn by full-blown fantasies of one more night inside, one
last meal before being forced back into our pathetic floorless tent (it,s
all we,ve brought this time) where we live on dehydrated beans and sticks of
butter.

Sadly, Brooks Lake Lodge has turned into an upscale if barely patronized
outfit of late, a way station for private snowmobile tours.  The local
henchman materializes instantly and removes us from the bar before we can
even inquire what,s on tap or find out if any of the paying guests want to
put some money on a game of billiards.  I ask whether, by any chance,
there,s some unheated back hallway in employee housing where we could maybe
curl up in our sleeping bags for the night?  The response is as warm as a
mid February night in Yellowstone: No can do.  We decide to retreat just
beyond the fascist compound,s perimeter to erect our shantytown for the
night.  It,s now snowing in earnest.

It,s hard to explain the kind of magnetic appeal these last outposts of
humanity exert on me as we leave on a trip.  It seems to be getting worse as
the winter wears on.  Each leg is just a little harder to embark on.  Each
departure day (especially if the weather is dark) seems a little grimmer.  I
feel I am looking for a reason - any reason - to put off for one more day
the inevitable wilderness death march that is sure to come.  Any diversion
at all to hang us up.  To be rebuffed at the lodge when comfort is so close
seems unbearable.  I,m just not ready to crawl into the sleeping bag again.
I almost want to shell out the $150 for a night indoors.

And it,s not just major, obvious pitstops like a lodge in front of my skis
that make me want to postpone the inevitable.  Outward bound on our drives
from town to trailheads now, every little gas station we pass suddenly looks
like a great place to stop and explore.  They might have precious local
gifts we can find nowhere else.  They might sell those orange hats that say,
&My wife thinks I,m hunting8!  I need one of those.  Or maybe a piece of
petrified wood with &Wyoming8 emblazoned on it.  Definitely need one of
those in the pack.  And I must get another road atlas for my collection.

Any kind of establishment that has anything for sale must be investigated.
Look over there!  Don,t we need a 300 pound chainsaw wood carving of a moose
head?  What, to take with us?  Can we stop at this bathroom?  We just
stopped 15 minutes ago.  I know, but I don,t want to miss one.  Should we
stop for lunch here?  We already had lunch.  Twice.  I know but(we may never
eat again.  Whoa there!  A point of historical interest!  Can we stop and
read about how trapper Bucky nearly starved to death at this very spot 150
years ago and had to resort to eating the leather from his snowshoes?  We
really shouldn,t.  Hits too close to home.  Plus it,s getting late.  That,s
exactly the point, I think.  If I can just stall for another hour or two we
may have to wait another day before casting off.  Like sand slipping through
my fingers, the few remaining opportunities for frittering away time vanish
into the air.  The trailhead is getting dangerously close now.  Doesn,t look
like there,s any way out.

Wait!  Turn this car around!  I can,t leave without knowing who won the
match between the Jersey Penguins and the Hosers!  I try to disguise my
inadequate knowledge of pro sports by keeping the references vague.  Leave
off a city name here, the full team moniker there.  I,m sure as heck not
going to risk mentioning a specific sport by name.  Cast the net wide, I
think.  Better chance of getting something.  Could be baseball, basketball,
hockey, Australian football, or cricket I,m talking about.  Jersey might
mean New Jersey, or maybe I,m off in Britain following a darts tournament.
Have to keep Joe guessing.

There must be a pro sport game going on somewhere in the world at this
moment.  And I have to know the outcome!  I,m hoping cricket.  Don,t those
things go on for days?  We can,t leave now, not when Sri Lanka might be
trailing Norway by hundreds of points or baskets or yards or whatever they
have in that game.  Come on Sri Lanka!  No dice.  A last whimpering claim
that I,ve forgotten my stock car racing magazines and can,t go forward
without them does nothing to slow the car down.  The trailhead looms.  I,m
being delivered to my doom with no delay.

The morning after being denied our civil rights at the Brooks Lake Lodge, we
awake to more snow.  Not what I was hoping to see.  It,s coming down.  Not
really dumping, but steadily snowing.  We may have a few inches from the
night.  This is the first real accumulation from a storm we,ve seen this
winter, and it has an immediate effect on our mood.  Before I,m more than
three words into the sentence I,ve crafted to subliminally convince Joe that
maybe we should stay put and see what the weather does, he practically
shouts his assent to the plan.  Apparently we,re on the same wavelength.
It,s the first rest day we,ve taken on the trail, the first day we haven,t
packed up and kept moving no matter what.  The very thought of sitting
around drinking endless cups of tea and reading sounds like heaven to me.
And then there is the lodge with roaring fireplaces and gourmet food just
across the way.  We vow to take a second shot at infiltrating the posh
resort.

It turns out the lodge is open to the public (read: unwashed masses) for
lunch, so we slink over and decide to pay way too much for a fabulous four
course meal.  The fact that we are now actual customers parting with dollars
and not marauding visigoths (for the moment) keeps the welcoming committee
from last night at bay.

I still feel like there is a closed circuit camera pointing at our table and
burly guards in an underground command center watching our every move, but
for the moment everything is ok.  Here it is day 2 and Joe,s having the
mushroom fettuccine while I demolish the linguine with cream sauce.  Our
only concern is the size of the portions, but we figure this isn,t the usual
&all you can eat8 joint we,re accustomed to and that a request for &some
more8 wouldn,t be well received.

Now that we,ve taken the financial hit, we decide to get our money,s worth.
We have justified the significant outlay for lunch as tickets to a day
indoors (the snow continues to fall).  Even though the restaurant closes at
2:30 PM, we hang around and play pool in the bar.  Then we settle in with
some magazines and try to strike up a conversation with the bartender.
Maybe we can find some common ground that will lead to an invitation to stay
inside tonight.  Doesn,t happen.  I watch him periodically out of the corner
of my eye to see if he,s whispering into some tiny microphone on his lapel,
reporting back to the command center on our whereabouts.

Come 5 PM Joe is still inside by the fire, reading and smiling at every
staff member who passes by.  They seem to be appearing with some frequency,
maybe to check whether he,s still there.  He,s doing his best to look like a
legitimate overnight patron, but they,re not buying it.  They,re probably
trying to decide which of several different lodge security forces should be
tasked with removing him.

Meanwhile I,ve reached my shame threshold and have gone outside for a ski
around the lake, not wanting to be present for the inevitable hands-on
eviction that will occur as soon as our goon friend from last night returns.
  Sure enough, around 6 PM Joe is formally asked to leave.  He goes without
a fight and heads back to the tent to inform me of the defeat.

As much as we might want to, it,s pretty clear by now that we are not going
to be spending the rest of the winter at Brooks Lake Lodge.  I don,t even
think we can get away with our 7 hour lunch scam again.  I,m picturing an
all out offensive by the authorities to remove us from the immediate area
(and maybe Wyoming) starting first thing in the morning if they so much as
catch a glimpse of us.  We have to move.

Our choices are to turn around and ski the five miles back to the road where
we,ll start hitch hiking south to Mexico and a sunny beach, or to push on.
We decide on the latter and saddle up on the morning of day 3.  We,re
Absaroka bound.  Not a peep from the lodge as we head across Brooks Lake.  I
look around half expecting to see artillery pieces on surrounding peaks
swiveling towards us, trained and ready just in case we change our minds and
try to head inside again.

But the layover was not a total loss.  Far from it.  In fact, the poor
weather motivated us to consult our maps for the first time and see exactly
what we were getting into.  It was a bit of a wake up call.  We seem to be
in the habit of planning most sections of our trip on very large scale maps.
  Restaurant place mats of Wyoming, road atlases, maps of the US hanging in
drug stores, globes of the earth: all of these have at one point or another
been the research tool of choice for plotting our way through Greater
Yellowstone.

The only problem with these topographic specimens is that they yield none of
the low-level detail necessary to actually navigate day by day.  What ends
up happening is that the night before we leave on a leg (assuming we have
had the foresight to get our hands on a quad or other smaller scale map) we
sit down to examine how we might actually get through wherever it is we are
heading.  Suddenly the landscape is full of cliffs, avalanche slopes,
gorges, and dense woods.

It,s sort of like tracing a finger across a map of Arizona thinking it might
be a fun hike, then realizing you just crossed the Grand Canyon.  What
looked pretty straightforward on the map of Wyoming that flashed across the
TV screen during an evening weather report now looks downright impossible.
These are usually quiet moments as we each pore over the maps and realize
that there is no way we can go where we thought we could.

Spreading out all our quad maps on the table in the lodge after lunch (I
glance nervously at the bartender to see if this breach of decorum might
prompt a call to the command center), we get a rude shock.  There is no way
we are going to be able to follow the Continental Divide north from Brooks
Lake to the headwaters of Thorofare Creek as was our plan.  The Divide here
is a featureless plateau above treeline, and getting on and off would
require crossing steep slopes.  With this year,s poor snow conditions, not
to mention the storm that was currently unloading, it would be plain foolish
to head up there.  Plus we don,t have a real tent, and our experience on
Island in the Sky during leg 2 has already filled my annual quota for
traveling (not to mention camping) on exposed plateaus in high winds during
whiteouts.

It,s as if there is a blackboard in front of us with our route chalked on
it.  We get out the eraser and wipe the slate clean.  We have to rethink the
entire thing, or at least the first half.  We notice there is a low route
option.  It winds around and follows drainages where the Continental Divide
route is straight, but there are no dangerous slopes and it stays mostly on
valley bottoms.

We hadn't thought of going this way before because of dreadfully dense woods
and the potential for out of body bushwhacking experiences, but now we see
there are trails we could follow.  It might not be too bad.  Yeah, I,ve
heard that one before.  Without much discussion we mentally draw the new
route up on the board.  We,re happy about it.  It feels like a huge relief
now to know that we aren,t going off to be sacrificed to the weather gods.
The optimism about our new route more than offsets any bad feelings from the
Brooks Lake Lodge affair, and we set off excited and energetic.  I am raring
to go and don,t want to return to town anymore.

For two days we hack our way toward the South Buffalo Fork drainage.  The
going isn,t great, we see some of the same bottomless, collapsible junk
we,ve come to expect and love, but we are moving forward at least.  By
afternoon of day 4 we arrive at a hunting camp on the side of a large meadow
below Pendergraft Peak.  In a low snow year such as this it is very easy to
spot these camps, some more elaborate than others.   The site of crude log
structures and a large metal drum inspires us to make ourselves a home away
from home.

We dig a large rectangular pit down to the ground and gather wood for a
fire.  In an hour we are as comfortable as one could be, in or out of town.
There are some large trees above us, and even though snow is falling we are
sheltered.  We stoke the fire, gaze out into the Absaroka night, and enjoy a
break from the brutal cold that has followed us on past legs.  One of my
favorite rationalizations is that it can,t be brutally cold if it,s
storming, and vice versa.  So the good news tonight is that it isn,t
brutally cold.  Because it,s storming.

The next morning, after more consulting with the maps, we make the second
major change in our route.  As snow continues to fall and we look at the
area around Younts Peak on the quad (for the first time, of course), we
notice what a perfect avalanche slope our route crosses.  No way to avoid
it.  This is where we planned to get over the Continental Divide, which runs
along the spine of the high Absaroka crest in this area.  Worse, we notice
that the trail on the other side of the Divide up Thorofare Creek stops
before the head of the canyon.  There are several miles between where we
would pass Younts Peak and pick up the trail on the valley floor below.
Hmmm.  I wonder why that is?

If there is anything I have learned so far this year, it is to STAY ON THE
TRAIL!  I have told Joe I will pay him $50 for every time I suggest leaving
the trail as long as he hits me with a shovel and prevents me from actually
doing it.  If there is a trail through an area, there is a reason for it.
And if a trail stops somewhere, you can be darn sure there is a reason for
it.  After all, people have been traveling through these parts for hundreds,
even thousands of years.  It,s highly unlikely that all the nice routes
through haven,t been found already.  Adventurous off trail exploration in a
place like the Absarokas certainly has its place, but not when you,re trying
to make good time with heavy packs in February.

Examining the tight spacing of contour lines on our quad map, I see that the
upper Thorofare drainage near Younts Peak looks like prime habitat for some
of my least favorite species, namely cliffs and gorges.  I also suspect
there are healthy local populations of downed trees and impenetrable brush
lurking in there.  Our experiences leaving the trail along the Green River
during leg 1 and then again coming down Redmond Creek during leg 2 have left
too much emotional scar tissue to ignore.  I don,t want to do it again.  I
picture us rappelling with packs using the shoelace, our 120 foot section of
8 mm chord.  No thanks.  Afraid that a descent of the upper Thorofare would
use up our lifetime quotas of world class bushwhacking and canyoneering, we
decide to nix it.

But we then see there is another way over the Divide with a trail the whole
way.  Instead of going north from Younts and then west (following Thorofare
Creek) toward the massive meadows where Thorofare Creek and the Yellowstone
River meet, we can go west and then north (following the Yellowstone River).
  I,m disappointed we are abandoning Thorofare Creek, but the idea of
descending the Yellowstone River almost from its source (which, as for
Thorofare Creek, is Younts Peak) is thrilling.  A few minutes spent with the
map and we are once again excited and happy with this change of plans.
There is no question it,s an easier route.  Also a little bit shorter.

All these breakthroughs in planning and navigation, and it,s not even 9 am!
Meanwhile, as we realize the route just got easier and shorter, and notice
snow is still falling on and off, and feel the warmth from the morning fire
we have going at possibly the best camp site either one of has ever enjoyed
in winter, what do we decide to do but(take another day off and stay put!
We,re getting used to this rest day thing now.  It,s so easy to do.  You
simply wake up and announce you,re not going anywhere and then go back to
sleep.  Again, I am the first to verbalize the concept, unsure whether Joe
is going to think I have gone completely soft.  The second rest day and it,s
only day 5?!  Instead he responds as if I,ve just offered to carry his pack
the rest of the trip.  A rest day it will be then.  Back to the fire.  Once
again, we are both thinking the same thing.

We spend the day lounging, reading, and collecting enough wood for a massive
bonfire.  Before this winter, I had only experienced one fire on an
overnight ski trip, and that was in June.  As I had never done it much
before, I never thought of making fire a part of the daily winter camping
routine.  If you had asked me about having a fire in winter before this
year, I probably would have said it was a lot of trouble and not worth the
effort.  But that was before I went ski touring with Joe Hartney.

A veteran of not one but several courses on tracking and outdoor skills
taught by my fellow New Jerseyan Tom Brown, Joe knows what he,s doing out
here.  Thank God one of us does.  I increasingly feel like I am playing
client to Joe,s guide.  When it comes to fire, Joe leaps into action like a
dynamo.  He can have a blaze going in no time and seems to instinctively set
about gathering wood the moment we make camp, much as I grab the shovel and
start excavating a hole for our tent.  After seeing how easy it is to get
one going in the right conditions, I am now a winter fire convert.

A fire in winter is nice anytime anywhere, but in the Absarokas right now
conditions are so fire-friendly that it is almost foolish not to have one.
Like much of the west, the Absarokas are still bone dry after the active
fire year in 2000.  All the fuel that did not burn is still right there
under a few feet of snow.  Actually the Absarokas themselves did not ignite
much this past year, but they could have.  Literally all you need to do to
start a fire is brush the snow off a piece of wood and hold a match to it.
It,s astonishing how dry it is.  You can hold a match to boughs on a dead
tree and ignite the entire canopy.  Past blazes killed many trees but left
them standing.  They now fall down all over the place.  There are huge
quantities of partially burned trees on the ground.  It takes little effort
to find and collect them.  Possibly the best thing about winter fires is
that you can have them in places you never could in the summer.  Whereas in
current conditions a summer bonfire in South Buffalo Fork would set Wyoming
on fire, in winter it,s perfectly safe and manageable.

We leave our hunting camp on day 6, and even though we have spent almost two
days there doing nothing but eating and roasting next to the fire it,s not
easy to pack up.  The weather remains spotty and we know we,re long overdue
for a pummeling.  But everything we own is dry and we are fully rested and
beyond well fed.   Building on the obscene amount of food I consumed during
the last stint in town, I have continued to eat like it,s the end of the
world and now feel a little sick.  I almost have to force myself to eat
dinner just to keep the weight reduction program for my pack going, but in
truth I,m no longer hungry.  I guess there are worse afflictions I could be
suffering from in the back country.

Having gone as far as possible up the South Buffalo Fork, we,re ascending
Lake Creek toward the Continental Divide now.  We have to go up and over to
hit the Yellowstone River, and we pray for a decent weather window to see us
through.  We,ve made all the route changes we can at this point.  There,s no
way to avoid this high crossing.

The first day going up is pretty good.  There are so many trail blazes on so
many trees we may as well have a set of runway lights guiding us along.  We
don,t even have to pay attention to follow the trail.  We get some sun
splashes but no real views that paint a picture of the route ahead.  Can,t
really see where we,re going up above.  That night it clears up, which
brings back the cold.  Down to around )20 F but we,re doing fine.

The next day we get going early and things look good initially.  We approach
within a mile or two of Ferry Lake.  Almost to the Divide.  All the snow
that,s been falling over the last few days is really adding up now.  We,re
glad we don,t have to face that blank Younts headwall in what are surely
terrible avalanche conditions.  It,s deep powder.  Would be great skiing,
but we,re breaking trail through it.

A few hundred feet above Ferry Lake is a mild pass over the Divide that will
deliver us into Woodard Canyon, at the bottom of which we will hit the
Yellowstone River, our highway for the rest of the trip.  Once we reach the
Yellowstone all route-finding and weather issues will be done as it,s flat
ground on the trail the rest of the way.  Even if it,s a raging storm we
will be in the trees and can slog along ok.  I am looking forward to that
moment even though I know we are sure to hit some terrible snow down there.
I,d rather face the bad snow demon than be way up here waiting for the
Blizzard of ,01 to kick in.

But it will have to be another day that we find out what Woodard Canyon
looks like.  Quickly, thoroughly, the weather turns evil.  It,s snowing and
blowing, and visibility deteriorates.  We can,t actually see Ferry Lake, but
we know it must be there in front of us.  We leave the trees to start
plodding up toward the lake and get a taste of the wind.  It,s not an Island
in the Sky gale, but still humming along all the same.  We can,t see a
thing.  We blunder around for an hour and incredibly are still not sure
where the lake is.  This is a decent-sized alpine lake, and the fact that we
can,t find it doesn,t bode well for tracking down the pass above.  We take
cover in a clump of wind-blasted trees to figure out a plan.

I know Joe wants to go up and over regardless.  I,m not that concerned about
finding the pass.  We can get out the compass and start flying blind if it
comes to that.  It,s more the question of what descending Woodard Canyon in
the maelstrom will be like that has me worried.  Whereas we can put it in
reverse, retrace our steps, and still find our way back to treeline and a
feasible camp site on this side of the Divide, once we go through the pass
we,re just on our own in the whiteout with no knowledge of what lies ahead.

The voice of fear and paranoia prevails, and I convince Joe that retreat
sounds pretty good right about now.  We turn tail, and though it,s not been
more than 25 minutes or so since we entered the stand of trees, our tracks
have been erased by the wind.  We just took it as a given that our tracks
would be there as an umbilical chord for at least a few hours or so in case
we wanted to go back, but they,re gone.  We eventually find them by probing
around for a more supportable strip of snow through the white and manage to
feel our way along.

We make it back into the woods by mid afternoon and set up the tent behind a
massive tree that shields us from the wind almost completely.  Time to wait.
  The storm rages on.  It,s Saturday, and I realize a good friend is having
a no-holds-barred 30th birthday bash back in Portland, OR this very night.
The theme is Saturday Night Fever.  What I wouldn,t give to be there.
Instead, I,m stuck here singing songs from the soundtrack.  The names of
several of them such as &Night Fever8 and &Staying Alive8 seem rather
appropriate given our situation.  From Joe,s scowl I can tell I,m not the
only one wishing I were elsewhere.

We get our window the next day.  It isn,t clear, but we can see the lake,
and once we reach it we can see the pass.  And then it does clear, or at
least on the east side of the Divide.  What we see confirms a half-baked
weather theory we have been working on the last few days.  Coming up the
South Buffalo Fork we have had some real snow, but we have also had nearly
continuous light flurries as something frozen ) not snow ) falls from the
air.  It,s more like tiny pieces of frozen vapor.  This happens all the
time, even when skies are clear.  It,s almost like any moisture that is in
the air ) even if there are no clouds ) is being squeezed out.

Given the local topography, this makes sense.  The Continental Divide here
is a high mountain crest above 10,000 feet, and all weather moving west to
east gets pushed up over this massive obstacle.  With the lifting, the
moisture has no choice but to come out.  Once we are at the pass and can see
both sides of the Divide we are given a stark piece of visual evidence that
seems to support the theory.  To the west the South Buffalo Fork is a sea of
clouds, while to the east down Woodard Canyon it,s a clear, sunny day.

Descending Woodard Canyon is a joy.  The upper reaches of the drainage are
so open we can just cruise along effortlessly.  I have taken up the call I
championed toward the end of leg 1 in the Wind River Range that "it,s all
downhill from here".  While technically true, it,s also almost 45 miles to
the road.  Joe strips his climbing skins off his skis and makes a few turns
in perfect powder.  As we get into the woods we find more of the manic trail
blazes everywhere.  We lose the trail maybe once or twice while crossing
open avalanche chutes but quickly rediscover it.  I have started to
photograph these trail blazes.  I want a collection of them.  What could be
more welcome to the eye of a ski tourer in the Absarokas than big, fresh
trail blazes?  We are really getting lucky with this one.  Before we know it
the downhill stops and we are standing on the bank of the upper Yellowstone
River.

It seems hard to believe, but we have penetrated to the inner sanctum.  How
did this happen?  The moat has been crossed, the turret guards sacked, doors
broken down, inner courtyards laid waste, maidens rescued from towers.  We
are there.  We have battled our way through to the most remote place in the
lower 48 states.  And it wasn,t even that hard!  We listen as our shouts of
joy echo crazily up into the canyons.  I cringe to think how enraged the
local weather gods will be when they wake up and see that we are already
over the Divide and deep into the promised land.  Nothing they can do about
it now.  Too late to throw the Blizzard of ,01 at us.  Sorry guys.  Maybe
next time.

I almost want to cry.  It feels indescribable to be here at last.  The
Yellowstone River in February!  35 miles upstream from Yellowstone Lake!  It
seems so wild, so quiet, so alive, so free, and so far away.  It,s a vision
that could sustain decades of wilderness ski touring.  Just the thought that
one day I might stand right here could get me through anything.

Steep-sided cliffs and slopes of burned, thin trees plummet down on all
sides.  It feels massive, an ocean of wilderness.  There are animal tracks
everywhere.  The river itself is not very wide yet.  After all, we are only
a few miles downstream from its origin on Younts Peak and it,s just getting
going.  But there is no mistaking that with a little care and feeding and a
few hundred miles of flow, this little whipper snapper is going to grow into
one of the great rivers of the Northern Rockies.  We stand and gawk.  The
weather is lovely and late afternoon color starts to paint the scene.  This
is one to remember.

Eventually we snap out of our stupor, somewhat sobered by the realization
that even if we have made it this far we still have a long way to go.  We
continue along the trail (more blazes) for another hour before making camp.
We can just about see the opening ahead where the river veers north into a
broad meadow.  We,ll surely reach it tomorrow.  Joe builds a small fire from
burned downfall and we settle in for a cold clear night.

Day 9 dawns perfectly clear and still.  A savage cold hangs in the air.  The
weather gods know that their snow machine is now more or less useless as we
are out of the mountains and can keep going in just about any storm
conditions.  But maybe they can slow us down or at least make life just a
bit uncomfortable with their cold machine.  Either they got a brand new
turbo-charged model for Christmas or some ace mechanic has given the old one
a complete overhaul.  The results are impressive.  It,s in the )25 F range,
which we,ve seen before, but this just feels really, really cold.

Joe and I leave the sleeping bags and immediately start doing the cold
weather war dance.  This consists of jumping, hopping, running in place,
swinging arms and legs, blowing on fingers ) anything to keep the blood
flowing.  The dance is an awkward enterprise to begin with, and the fact
that the snow is completely unsupportable at our camp site doesn,t make
things any easier.

You can,t just roam around anywhere as one step on any snow we haven,t
painstakingly packed down will result in a thigh deep plunge.  Not what we
need right now.  We,ve each sculpted our own little platforms and stand
watching each other flop and twist.  Talking at this point is strictly
forbidden, aside from the occasional obscenity or prehistoric grunt.  Tra la
la!  Ah, Yellowstone!

Even as we plow into the normal morning routine of making breakfast and
breaking camp, the dance must continue.  This makes for a haphazard on again
off again kind of progress that would probably be humorous to watch if we
weren,t living it.  Everything happens in fits and starts.  You can,t get
out your stove, light it, and start melting some snow in one continuous
process.  By that time your hands would be frozen solid.  You have to do one
little thing, then rewarm.  Do the next little thing, then rewarm.

As it so happens, the cooking area we hastily set up the night before is
wedged against the fire pit.  There,s not much room for dancing in there.
But dancing is mandatory, so I frantically pioneer a new traveling variation
going back and forth between the cooking area and my platform.  I go and set
up the stove.  Hands are now numb, so I head back to the dance platform,
careful to only step on the few packed footprints that will support my
weight on the way.  Swing, hop, jump, blow, shake.  Now there,s some feeling
so it,s back to light the stove.

Into the fire pit.  I fill the stove,s primer cup with fuel.  Where,s the
lighter?  I start searching zipped compartments in my jacket.  Damn zippers.
  Can,t really operate them with gloves on.  Not in that one.  Hands are
heading south fast.  There,s the lighter.  It,s in a ziploc bag.  Struggle
to open it.  [ATTENTION!  HANDS WILL BE FROZEN HARD AS WOOD IN 10 SECONDS!]
I,m getting an alert from the engine room that I should head back to the
dance platform, but I just want to get the damn lighter out at least on this
run.  Ziploc won,t open.  [BEGIN COUNTDOWN!  10, 9, 8(] Got the lighter out!
  May as well try to start the stove while I,m here.  [(7, 6, 5(]  I flick
it.  Nothing.  Shake it.  [(4, 3, 2(]  I take off my glove to work the
lighter with my bare hand.  Boy is it cold.  It won,t light, though it now
feels like my hand is on fire.  Too late.  [(1!  ABORT! ABORT!]

I cram my useless limb back in the glove and hobble over toward the dance
floor.  In my haste to get there I miss one of the packed footsteps.  It,s
as if I stepped into space.  I plunge in to my thigh, and as I wasn,t
expecting this at all and am caught completely off guard, I fall face first
into the snow.  Getting up isn,t easy because, again, there,s nothing to
push solidly on to right myself except the packed spots, which have now been
obscured by my floundering.  It,s a full snow bath as I thrash around in the
white stuff.  Joe seems to be enjoying this.

At last I get up.  I pull my submerged leg out of the posthole, but my camp
bootie catches and remains lodged three feet down.  My socked foot comes out
on its own and is instantly ice cold.  I balance on my one foot that has a
bootie, not wanting to have to step into the snow with my sock but pretty
sure that,s going to happen.  Somehow I get the wayward bootie back and put
it on.  On to the dance floor at last for some super charged disco
movements.  Time to get funky.

And so the morning goes.  The sun hits camp at about 8:30 am and the
temperature leaps.  We realize part of the trouble is that we,ve camped in a
classic cold air sink right next to the river bottom.  It,s taken longer
than usual this morning to activate the 40 or 50 degree temperature swing
we,ve come to expect.  It,s going to get up to 25 F today.  As we warm up we
wonder what all the fuss was about.

This is the day we make it out into the open.  After several hours on the
trail we reach the burned fringes of the first of several large meadows
along the upper Yellowstone.  The snow has been mixed, alternating between
supportable and rotten junk.  Through the burn it,s not too bad.  We,re
actually covering ground.  Late in the afternoon when we try to head
straight across the first open swath of flood plain we find out what bad
snow is all about.

It,s thigh deep junk.  Each step goes right to the ground.  We have to lean
back on our skis to keep tips up lest they snag in the ample bushes.  We,re
snowshoeing, postholing on skis.  The pace is excruciatingly slow.  Looking
behind us it appears we have shoveled a three foot deep trough through the
meadow.  We,re submarining along, still about 20 miles from Yellowstone Lake
(and from the Lake it,s another 15 miles to the road) and have five days of
food left.  At the speed we are going now we could easily run out of food
before we make it out.  Our spirits, previously sky high, turn morbidly
dark.

Reaching the north side of the meadow, we decide to call it a day and resort
to our favorite anti-depressant to lighten things up: fire.  Joe starts
hauling in entire trees.  I begin excavating an enormous rectangular area
for the fire and our camp.  The snow is three feet deep, but I outline a 12
foot by 20 foot area and start digging.   An hour and a half later we have
ourselves an amazing pit beside a beautiful meadow.  It is quite possibly
the greatest camp site ever.  And the sun is still up.  Our moods swing 180
degrees again and we enjoy a long night of stoking the fire and eating.
It,s such a beautiful night, we decide to just sleep out under the stars in
our giant pit.  It,s going to be another cold one.

I wake up at 3:30am.  My feet are going numb.  I wish I had left a stove set
up next to me so that I could cook a hot water bottle to put in my sleeping
bag but I forgot.  I,m conscious of a fiendishly powerful force that seeks
to strip any warmth I have accumulated in my bag.  It,s horrendous.  Much
too cold to even get up and try to put on more clothes or get warmer.  I
huddle and fiercely rub my feet together for the rest of the night.  I don,t
fall back asleep.  This is all part of being admitted to the inner sanctum,
I say to myself.  The good news is that it isn,t storming.  Because it,s
brutally cold.

Joe probably interprets my getting up at 7 am to build a fire as a weird
sign.  Something must be up.  He,s done about all the fire building so far.
I just gather wood.  But here I am out of the bag breaking sticks and
stacking them in a pyramid.  I have waited as long as I can, and it,s now
light out.  I need to get warm and I know this is no ordinary morning.  Not
a cloud in the sky and dead calm.  But it,s colder than usual.  I can feel
it.  Before I even consult my little key chain thermometer I am fully
prepared to swear that this is the coldest temperature I have ever
experienced.  I just know it is.

When I check the thermometer it,s doing something I,ve never seen before.
Whereas we are used to seeing it maxed out at )25 F or so, there is always a
little bit of the red column protruding up from the ball at the bottom.
Just a tiny bit, but enough to see that there is a slight rise above the
ball.  I always assumed that this was the max, that no matter how cold it
got the thermometer would always look the same.  I actually wished I had a
better thermometer that wen lower just so we would know exactly how cold it
really was.

But this morning there is no red column above the ball.  I look closely
because it,s such a slight difference I could be wrong.  But there is no
mistaking it.  Only the ball is red.  Nothing above it.  In my dementia I
imagine that even some of the ball is empty.  Yikes.  I estimate by some
mystical and completely unscientific method that it is at least )35 F.  We
later find out after exiting that on this morning it is )30 F at West Thumb
on Yellowstone Lake.  We are slightly higher than the lake but more
importantly we are in a massive cold air sink with steep walls on all sides.
  It could well be even colder than )35 F where we are.

Joe gets up and samples the brisk morning air.  It,s too cold for the war
dance.  We have to get a fire going pronto.  We opt for a &hot start8 and
splash stove fuel on the wood to speed things up.  Even white gas is a
little ornery at this temperature and requires an open flame applied for
several seconds to get a response.  But once coaxed over the initial hump,
it goes like crazy in no time.  We spend the next two hours sitting very
close to a raging fire.  When the sun comes up it feels like a blow torch.
We spread our sleeping bags out to thaw, and steam boils off of them.  It,s
the first real drying sun we,ve had this winter.  Despite the inhuman cold,
I know that spring is on the way

For the next four days we continue down the Yellowstone River heading for
Yellowstone Lake.  Just beyond our camp with the swimming pool-sized fire
pit the snow mysteriously turns supportable and we begin to fly.  Each day
our packs are lighter.  The cold relents and it,s so hot during the
afternoons that Joe takes off his shirt.  Animals are everywhere.  We,re
just another two beasts roaming the valley floor (which is now several miles
across).  We might even smell worse than most of the other ones around.  On
these final days we hit our stride.  This is what we came for.  It,s about
the most enjoyable time one could have on a wilderness ski trip.  I don,t
want it to end.  For the moment, Yellowstone is ours.

Mighty Thorofare Creek comes in from the east.  We,ll have to come back
another time to explore that universe. We hit the southern boundary of
Yellowstone National Park.  Not far now.  We see wolf tracks.  They,ve just
been here ahead of us.  We spend a day skiing past The Trident, a peak I,ve
wanted to see for years.  We,re in the home stretch, almost to the lake.
Colter Peak goes by.  We can see the lake.  We arrive at the blank expanse
of snow and ice, welcomed by two bison who look like they,ve been postholing
as much as we have this year.  The Southeast Arm of Yellowstone Lake.

Day 13.  It,s the last day to the road.  We have something like 17 miles to
ski to get to Lake Butte near the northeast end of Yellowstone Lake.  That,s
where the groomed road from the East Entrance comes in.  I know we,ll be
able to find a ride there around to the South Entrance, and from there we,ll
hitch another ride back to Jackson, our home base.

We take off like Norwegian nordic racers on the most supportable snow we,ve
seen.  We can even kick and glide and are really going for it.  The weather
is sitting on the fence at first.  Looks like maybe the snow machine is
sputtering into life, but then it dies.  Must be out for maintenance.

As we watch, Yellowstone Lake appears out of the clouds and we can see
everything.  All the way across.  We see The Promontory, Frank Island, Dot
Island, even West Thumb.  This is my Park!  We have talked about maybe
trying to ski right across to West Thumb but are wary of open water.  We
stick to the eastern shore and rip past one point after another.

By early afternoon the day has turned into a keeper.  It,s sunny with hardly
any wind.  And we are loose on Yellowstone Lake like a bunch of criminals.
Just having the time of our lives.  We stop briefly when trading leads,
otherwise it,s heads down hammering.  But this is not a death march.  This
is pure joy.  We feel invincible and want to see what we can do.  After a
winter of going slow, we want to push it home.  The smell of the barn is
overwhelming now.  We can taste the finish line.  And it,s only 3 PM!

Sometime after rounding Park Point I glimpse Steamboat Point in the far
distance.  I recognize it and know where the road comes in.  It can only be
a few miles now.  After passing Elk Point I start to go flat out.  The
movement feels good.  I don,t know how long I can keep it up, but I,ll stick
with it for now.  Joe sees that it,s still about four miles to go and has
the sense to maintain a normal pace.

I can,t even feel my pack.  Either I,ve done permanent spinal damage and
have lost all feeling in my shoulders or I,ve learned how to pack light at
last.  Kick and glide!  I can,t believe I,ve been missing this all those
years I spent skiing on fixed heel gear!  The snow hisses by.  Home stretch
now.  One more small bay to cross and that,s it.  I can see the road cut
ahead.  I feel like I could get airborne with a little more effort.  A
thundering final burst sees me to the line.

That,s it.  I,m there.  I slide to a stop.  All the cold, all the bad snow.
It,s all been wiped away by the last four days.  I want to start shouting.
We made it!  Yellowstone, my Yellowstone!  Thorofare!  I can,t even think,
and luckily there is no need to.  Joe comes in and we stand there resting.
Then it,s time to go ashore.  Just in time for a glorious sunset across the
lake.

Luck is with us and we get a ride out first thing in the morning as we had
hoped.  Driving back to Jackson, my thoughts race over the great landscape
we have passed through.  There are so many more trips to do, so much more to
learn.  But for a first time visit to Thorofare we,ve done pretty well.  Not
only did we get to the place itself, we got to the very heart of its spirit.

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I see no problem in obtaining a signature to the Statement currently drafted
for
Eric Tan.  It is his evidence after all and I doubt if there will be much
substance to change.  We can keep it in our files as a privileged document
without any obligation to disclose it.  When we are firmly into the
proceedings,
we shall have to think about disclosing a Statement of Eric Tan if that is
what
we want to do.  It may be, as the case develops, we will want to either delete
or add to the Statement by asking more questions.  For this purpose, it is a
good idea to remain in contact with Eric Tan.  I do not think we need to have
anything as formal as a consulting agreement.  It is just important that one
person makes sure that we know where Eric Tan is at all times in the event
that
we need to contact him.

In the meantime, SRT are going to appoint a UK chemist and are pressing
Mitsubishi very hard now for formal consent to the release of the samples.  I
think I shall firm up on the appointment of the arbitrator (now agreed to by
SRT) when we have the decision on the samples.  Obviously I have pointed out
again on the telephone the potential shelf life problem.

Regards,
David Best.

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As per your request, here are the names and addresses of people Laura Wente
and I sent maps to today:

Tim Carlberg
Avista Corp.
1411 E. Mission
P.O. Box 3727
Spokane, WA 99220-3727

Mark Ewbank
Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.
2200 6th Ave., Suite 601
Seattle, WA 98121-1820

Let me know if you need anything else regarding these mailings. I'm sure I'll
be back there soon to ask for another map!

Kate


Hi Carol,

I saw that you posted about getting a nanny.  I've used two services, but
only one that I can suggest.  For my last nanny, I used Morningside Nanny
Service, or something close to that. They seemed thorough, and found us a
wonderful person.  I've also used River Oaks Nanny, but they sent me a nut
case.

Good luck,

Kay


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Becky-  If Burlington and Amoco have the right to turn back east end
transport-ENA would like to be included in that group regarding turning back
our Havasou transport.


I have advised against Ken or Jeff attending the generators meeting:  Ken is
still willing to make time avail on the 3d to meet with the gov.

From: Susan M Landwehr on 04/29/2001 05:04 PM
To: Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Janel Guerrero/Corp/Enron@Enron, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Maureen McVicker/NA/Enron@Enron, Steven J
Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT
cc:

Subject: Re: ken lay tour

All--here's some thoughts on the RGA related events.  We currently have Ken
scheduled to participate in an energy roundtable discussion on the afternoon
of the 2nd with at least four governors attending that session--Kempthorne,
Hull, Geringer and Ridge.  (Engler and Rowland are also attending the overall
event, but they will be in a healthcare breakout session).  Kaufman and I
thought that it would be particularly helpful for Arizona Gov Hull and Idaho
Gov Kempthorne to hear Ken's remarks and have a chance to talk with him.

I have also been working with Rosalee to schedule an early evening
(6:00-7:00pm) meeting that night  with Exelon co CEO John Rowe. John Rowe
will be in California for some investor meetings and well as attending some
sections of the RGA events.  I have told my counterpart at Rowe's office that
we would confirm Ken's availability on Monday morning.

If you do decide that Ken should attend the Davis meeting in Sacremento that
day instead, we will just reconfigure a bit.  Paul and I will cover the RGA
events and I will cancel the John Rowe get together. I would also want to
talk about having Mr. Lay reach out to Hull and Kempthorne via phone sometime
in the near future.  Same with Rowe.

	Rosalee Fleming
	04/27/2001 07:12 PM

		 To: Janel Guerrero/Corp/Enron@Enron
		 cc: Maureen McVicker/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard
Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, Steven J
Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Sherri Sera/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Susan M
Landwehr/NA/Enron@Enron
		 Subject: Re: ken lay tour

I received a return call from Lelanie in Governor Davis' office this
evening.  She said the Governor wanted to invite Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling to
a meeting the Governor is having at 2:00 p.m. in Sacramento on May 2 with a
lot of CEOs.  I still pressed for a one on one meeting on May 3 in
Sacramento, but she told me the Governor wanted to have the one meeting all
at once and his schedule was very tight on Thursday, May 3.   I transferred
her to Sherri and called Ken.  Ken wanted me to try to get more specific
information, which she shared that it is with generators - Sempra, Williams,
CalPine, Duke, Dynegy, and Reliant.  She also said since the Governor has
worked with Ken, she thought he might prefer that he attend.  Ken said to let
you all know and be thinking whether we even want to do it.  He said one
thought might be that he'd do that meeting and maybe Jeff could do the one in
L.A. on May 2.

Talk to you Monday.

Rosie

Janel Guerrero
04/27/2001 02:39 PM
To: Rosalee Fleming/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Maureen McVicker/NA/Enron@Enron, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT
Subject: ken lay tour

Just so we're all on the same page......Dasovich will arrive in Houston on
Monday (mid-day) and will travel with Dr. Lay beginning on Wednesday (to
Austin) and then on to LAX, Sacramento etc.  Steve said there really isn't
time to have a pre-briefing so any questions that Ken has will have to be
addressed enroute to CA.

Rosalee....we're giving Steve the briefing book today so he can review over
the weekend and we'll have a final copy to Ken before he departs next week.


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No, that is the email address I have.  That's what I mean I have been unable to reach him.  Here are his phone numbers from his card but I don't know if they work either.

Tim Harbert
(303) 753-8699
(303) 898-9470 Cell

Good Luck
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Herbertson [mailto:felinewoman@msn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:37 PM
To: Lucci, Paul T.
Subject: Re: Hi!

Tried this address.....for Tim......is this a joke???? Just wondering????
Debbe.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lucci, Paul T.
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:11 PM
To: Deborah Herbertson
Subject: RE: Hi!

Saturday doesn't work for me.  Email Tim at www.discovery@cmconline.com <http://www.discovery@cmconline.com/>.  I think I'm free Thursday night but I may be taking a customer to dinner.  What does Friday night look like?

-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Herbertson [mailto:felinewoman@msn.com]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:42 PM
To: Lucci, Paul T.
Subject: Re: Hi!

I have been in a new position (orientation) for the past 4 weeks, and been VERY busy myself.  How about Thursday or Saturday. The only days Carolyn can't would be Wed.'s
 I think we should all meet somewhere for drinks and go from there. Please e-mail Tim, and also give me his address for Carolyn.
Let me know what you think so I can at least alert Carolyn as well.
Debbe.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lucci, Paul T.
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:21 AM
To: Deborah Herbertson
Subject: RE: Hi!

Hey what are you guys doing partying without me.  Yes I have been traveling, in fact I have been gone almost all October, up through the 15th.  But I'm finished.   When are you thinking of getting together?

-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Herbertson [mailto:felinewoman@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 5:41 PM
To: plucci@enron.com
Subject: Hi!

Hi Paul,

Ran into "Tim" at Sambuca's Friday night, and he was wondering what happened to our "get together" we were supposed to have several weeks ago????
I told him I hadn't heard back from you, therefore assumed you were not interested. He said he thought you were out of town a great deal, but was going to e-mail you because he wants possibly to set something up with us four. (Myself, Carolyn and you two)
No problem if you are too busy, believe me I understand.........or whatever the reason might be.

Take care,
Debbe.

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i found my email from last month.  is there some early nom?

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Mazowita, Mike
Sent:	Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:21 PM
To:	Barbe, Robin
Subject:	RE: Ponderosa Deliveries for June 2002

Thanks Robin.

I don't think Lonestar will be a problem, it is Williams. And yes, Williams is early!

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Barbe, Robin
Sent:	Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:20 PM
To:	Mazowita, Mike
Cc:	Germany, Chris
Subject:	RE: Ponderosa Deliveries for June 2002

	i called  and spoke with williams and i left a voice message for apache. i told both entities that we wanted 25MM and 20MM respectively.

	i'll check into the lonestar nom issue.  i never heard of a nom being due this early in the month.

	chris or i will get back in touch with you.  he is going to be in the office tomorrow.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Mazowita, Mike
Sent:	Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:47 PM
To:	Barbe, Robin; Germany, Chris; Kelly, Katherine L.; Denetsosie, Troy; Brady, Kevin
Cc:	Hill, Garrick
Subject:	RE: Ponderosa Deliveries for June 2002

Robin:

  Have the Ponderosa volumes on Williams and Apache been nominated for June, 2002  ?

  We want to take the full volumes under each contract: 25,000 MMBtu - Williams and 20,000 MMBtu for Apache.

Is there a nom due for Lonestar also??


How's that for VAR management.

Lavo


-----Original Message-----
From: 	Kanji, Ayesha
Sent:	Monday, August 06, 2001 8:21 AM
To:	Causholli, Monika
Subject:	RE: Company reports

Hi Monika,

I am attaching Bowater.  Georgia-Pacific and International Paper are awaiting the final edit from Peggy.  Let me know if you need anything else.

Ayesha

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Causholli, Monika
Sent:	Monday, August 06, 2001 8:08 AM
To:	Kanji, Ayesha
Subject:	Company reports

Hello Ayesha,

Can I get the company analysis that you have worked on so far? You can email those to me.

Thanks,
Monika Causholli


Jim,

As we discussed, I would like to have nominations for the CLE Planning
Committee for the 2001 law conference identified before year end so that the
committee will be able to meet in early January.  Below is draft language for
inclusion in an email from you to the general counsels of the various
groups.

The chair for the CLE Planning Committee for the 2001 Law Conference is
Michelle Cash.  Each business unit law department should have at least one
representative on the CLE committee.   The first CLE Planning Committee
meeting will take place in early January; therefore, please give Michelle the
name of your group's committee member by December 20.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------

Michelle Cash
Enron North America Corp.
1400 Smith Street, EB 3823
Houston, Texas  77002
(713) 853-6401
michelle.cash@enron.com

This message may contain confidential information that is protected by the
attorney-client and/or work product privileges.


---------------------- Forwarded by Kate Symes/PDX/ECT on 02/28/2001 01:13 PM
---------------------------

	Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp.

	From:  Jeffrey Oh                           02/28/2001 01:01 PM

To: Kate Symes/PDX/ECT@ECT, Todd Perry/PDX/ECT@ECT
cc:

Subject: Joke of the Day

For anyone who didn't see David Letterman the other night, this is a true
story. A little long, but not dirty (for those who might be offended) and
totally worth the read:

On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters at
a slot machine. She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband
in the hotel dining room. But first she wanted to stash
the quarters in her room. "I'll be right back and we'll go to eat,"she told
her husband and carried the coin-laden bucket to the elevator.

As she was about to walk into the elevator she noticed two men already
aboard. Both were black. One of them was tall...very tall...an intimidating
figure. The woman froze. Her first thought was: These two are going to rob
me. Her next thought as: Don't be a bigot, they look like perfectly nice
gentlemen. But racial stereotypes are powerful, and fear immobilized her. She
stood and stared at the two men. She felt anxious, flustered and ashamed. She
hoped they didn't read her mind but Gosh, they had to know what she was
thinking!!! Her hesitation about joining them in the elevator was all too
obvious now. Her face was flushed. She couldn't just stand there, so with a
mighty effort of will she picked up one foot and stepped forward and followed
with the other foot and was on the elevator. Avoiding eye contact, she turned
around stiffly and faced the elevator doors as they closed. A second passed,
and the another second, and then another. Her fear increased! The elevator
didn't move. Panic consumed her. My God, she thought, I'm trapped and about
to be robbed! Her heart plummeted. Perspiration poured from every pore.

Then one of the men said, "Hit the floor." Instinct told her to do what they
told her. The bucket of quarters flew upwards as she threw out her arms and
collapsed on the elevator floor. A shower of coins rained down on her. Take
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She heard one of the men say politely, "Ma'am, if you'll just tell us that
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They reached down to help her up. Confused, she struggled to her feet. "When
I told my friend here to hit the floor," said the average sized one, "I meant
that he should hit the elevator button for our floor. I didn't mean for you
to hit the floor, ma'am." He spoke genially. He bit his lip. It was obvious
he was having a hard time not laughing.

The woman thought: "My God, what a spectacle I've made of myself". She was
humiliated to speak. She wanted to blurt out an apology, but words failed
her. How do you apologize to two perfectly respectable gentlemen for behaving
as though they were going to rob you? She didn't know what to say. The three
of them gathered up the strewn quarters and refilled her bucket.

When the elevator arrived at her floor they then insisted on walking her to
her room. She seemed a little unsteady on her feet, and they were afraid she
might not make it down the corridor. At her door they bid her a good evening.
As she slipped into her room she could hear them roaring with laughter as
they walked back to the elevator. The woman brushed herself off. She pulled
herself together and went downstairs for dinner with her husband.

The next morning flowers were delivered to her room - a dozen roses. Attached
to EACH rose was a crisp one hundred dollar bill. The card said: "Thanks for
the best laugh we've had in years." It was signed;

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Much Calif Power Price Gouging Beyond FERC's Reach -ISO
Updated: Monday, June 25, 2001 06:59 PM ET   Email this article to a friend!
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By Jason Leopold

Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

LOS ANGELES (Dow Jones)--Federal energy regulators only have the authority to
order refunds for about a third of the $9 billion California Gov. Gray Davis
claims energy companies have overcharged the state in the 12 months to May
2001, documents from the state's wholesale market operator show.

Of the total, $2.9 billion came from the May-September period the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission has said it can't act on, and $2.8 billion from
the October-May period is attributable to municipal utilities over which FERC
lacks jurisdiction, according to documents from the California Independent
System Operator.

That leaves just $3.3 billion in alleged overcharges that FERC could
potentially order refunded - far less than the $9 billion Davis seeks.

Talks between generators and state officials to settle billions of dollars in
unpaid bills and issues of overcharging began Monday. Curtis Wagner, the FERC
administrative law judge presiding over the talks, has said California will
likely see refunds from generators, but far less than the $9 billion Davis
expects.

Davis said Sunday California is going to Washington, D.C., "with one goal,
and that is to bring back $9 billion."

Nearly half that amount is attributable to municipal utilities, the ISO
documents show. The ISO said the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power,
for example, overcharged California $75 million between May and October.

David Freeman, the governor's chief energy adviser and the former general
manager of the LADWP, said the agency didn't overcharge the state, but
conceded it profited by selling spare power to the ISO.

Davis adviser Nancy McFadden said the state needs FERC to lay the groundwork
for the state to seek refunds from public utilities by ordering refunds from
corporate energy suppliers.

But during a conference call Sunday with reporters, McFadden and Davis press
secretary Steve Maviglio couldn't explain how the governor would go about
getting refunds from companies whose wholesale power prices aren't regulated
by FERC.

Davis testified before the U.S. Congress last week that generators
overcharged the state $9 billion and that FERC should order the refunds.

State Sen. Jim Brulte, R-Rancho Cucamonga, has asked for an investigation
into Davis's testimony, saying the figures were based on "shaky
calculations."

To come up with its conclusions, the ISO compared hourly market prices
received by sellers to an estimate of market prices that could have been
expected under competitive market conditions.

The ISO established a benchmark for what it determined was competitive - at
times about $125 per megawatt-hour to $200/MWh, a fraction of actual prices
in the market - based on the cost of natural gas and compliance with
air-quality rules.

The ISO, however, typically used the price of gas at California's northern
border, according to the documents. Generators paid a higher price for the
fuel in Southern California, raising the cost of making electricity.

The ISO also used reports of earnings by the state's "Big Five" power
suppliers during 2000 - earnings that for some quadrupled - to draw the
conclusion that generators overcharged the state, according to the documents.

The ISO attributed high power prices in part to the state's three largest
utilities' failure to buy the power they needed in advance, leaving the grid
operator to pick up the shortfall at the last minute, according to the
documents.

The ISO alleges the following companies overcharged the state by the listed
amounts between May 2000 and February:

American Electric Power Service Corp. (AEP </investments/quotes/?symbol=AEP>,
news </investments/news/?symbol=AEP>, msgs
</investments/discuss/?symbol=AEP>): $22.9 million
Arizona Public Service Co. (PNW </investments/quotes/?symbol=PNW>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=PNW>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=PNW>):
$24.6 million
Aquila Power Corp. (ILA </investments/quotes/?symbol=ILA>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=ILA>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=ILA>):
$28 million
Avista Energy Inc. (AVA </investments/quotes/?symbol=AVA>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=AVA>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=AVA>):
$48 million
Automated Power Exchange: $16 million
British Columbia Power Exchange Corp: $439 million
Calpine Corp. (CPN </investments/quotes/?symbol=CPN>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=CPN>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=CPN>):
$236 million
Constellation Power Source Inc. (CEG </investments/quotes/?symbol=CEG>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=CEG>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=CEG>):
$7.8 million
Cargill-Alliant LLC: $1.4 million
Citizens Power Sales: $557,000
Coral Power, LLC,. a unit of Shell Oil (RD </investments/quotes/?symbol=RD>,
news </investments/news/?symbol=RD>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=RD>):
$27 million
Duke Energy Corp. (DUK </investments/quotes/?symbol=DUK>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=DUK>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=DUK>):
$804 million
Dynegy Inc. (DYN </investments/quotes/?symbol=DYN>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=DYN>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=DYN>):
$530 million
Enron Corp. (ENE </investments/quotes/?symbol=ENE>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=ENE>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=ENE>):
$39 million
El Paso Corp. (EPG </investments/quotes/?symbol=EPG>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=EPG>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=EPG>):
$29 million
El Paso Power Electric Co. (EE </investments/quotes/?symbol=EE>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=EE>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=EE>):
$24,475
Hafslund Energy Trading LLC: $712,528
Idaho Power (IDA </investments/quotes/?symbol=IDA>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=IDA>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=IDA>):
$28 million
Koch Energy Trading: $2.5 million
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power: $75 million
MDSC: $24 million
Mieco Inc.:$1.6 million
Morgan Stanley Capital Group (MWD </investments/quotes/?symbol=MWD>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=MWD>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=MWD>):
$124,644
NewEnergy Inc.: $1.5 million
Nevada Power Co. (SRP </investments/quotes/?symbol=SRP>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=SRP>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=SRP>):
$9.1 million
PacifiCorp: $65 million
PECO Energy Co. (EXC </investments/quotes/?symbol=EXC>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=EXC>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=EXC>):
$4.2 million
Portland General Electric (ENE </investments/quotes/?symbol=ENE>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=ENE>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=ENE>):
$44 million
Public Service Co. of Colorado: $14.1 million
Public Service Co. of New Mexico (PNM </investments/quotes/?symbol=PNM>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=PNM>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=PNM>):
$15.5 million
Puget Sound Energy: $24 million
Reliant Energy Inc. (REI </investments/quotes/?symbol=REI>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=REI>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=REI>)
$750 million
Mirant Corp. (MIR </investments/quotes/?symbol=MIR>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=MIR>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=MIR>),
formerly Southern Co., $753 million
*Sempra Energy Trading Corp. (SRE </investments/quotes/?symbol=SRE>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=SRE>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=SRE>):
$82 million (this number has been wiped out by the ISO)
Sierra Pacific Power Co. (SRP </investments/quotes/?symbol=SRP>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=SRP>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=SRP>):
$23 million
TEK: $11 million
Tuscon Electric Power: $1.1 million
UPA: $131,715
Winston and Strawn: $11,917
Williams Cos. (WMB </investments/quotes/?symbol=WMB>, news
</investments/news/?symbol=WMB>, msgs </investments/discuss/?symbol=WMB>)
$860 million
Total FERC jurisdictional sellers: $4.7 billion
*Total without SETC/SDG&E: $4.6 billion
Total FERC and Non-FERC sellers: $6.7 billion
*Total without SETC/SDG&E: $6.6 billiion
Total March-May overcharges: $2.3 billion


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Mike is entering that deal right now. I'll get back to you with the deal
number.

Thanks,
Kate

Evelyn Metoyer@ENRON
12/07/2000 03:11 PM
To: Kate Symes/PDX/ECT@ECT
cc:

Subject: 12-7-00 Checkout

I am missing the following deal for Mike Swerzbin brokered through Prebon:
Enron sells to Morgan 25 mw of Mid-C for Jan'01 at $700.00


John,

Thanks. I have reserved March the 2nd for the meeting.

Vince

"John D. Martin" <J_Martin@baylor.edu> on 08/18/2000 02:02:31 PM
To: vkamins@enron.com, sgibner@ect.enron.com
cc:
Subject: Hello guys

Vince and Stinson,

Just got a copy of the attached paper and thought it may have some interest
for you guys.

On another note, I am putting together a workshop in the spring on the New
Economy and Business Education and will be seeking out some Enron network
people to join in the discussion (2-hours on Friday March 2nd).  I'll let
you know more as we work through the details.  The idea is to "brainstorm"
about the new world you guys work in every day and its implications for
what we should be doing.  Hope this is interesting to you and that you'll
want to spend the day with us.

Take care and enjoy the weekend.

John

 - risk.pdf

John D. Martin
Carr P. Collins Chair in Finance
Finance Department
Baylor University
PO Box 98004
Waco, TX 76798
254-710-4473 (Office)
254-710-1092 (Fax)
J_Martin@Baylor.edu
web:    http://hsb.baylor.edu/html/martinj/home.html


Scott, Janel:

I am getting questions from commercial folks re: the proposed profit tax.
Could you copy me on the letter or memo on Enron's position that has been
prepared?  Also if we have done any analysis on its legality
(constitutionality) I would like to see (Mike Day memo perhaps?).

(I apologize if you have already circulated something on this as I may not
have read it.)

Thanks,

Alan


Kate:

That is fine with me.  Are we OK with this?

C

   Kate Symes                04/13/2001 11:04 AM

To: Kimberly Hundl/Corp/Enron@Enron, Melissa Ann Murphy/HOU/ECT@ECT, Rhonda L
Denton/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Chris H Foster/HOU/ECT@ECT, Samuel Schott/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: New CTPY Name - Sierra Pacific Industries

I've gone ahead and entered the counterparty name "Sierra Pacific Industries,
Inc." in Chris Foster's deal #573679, in the interest of moving it along
through the confirmation process. (The deal was done on 4/6 and flowed on
4/10.)

I spoke with Bob Ellery (Sierra) yesterday and he seemed fine with the name
we have in our system, although I'm sure he's not the final authority. Then I
spoke with the Confirms group today and they were ready to get the deal off
of their new deal report. So, since I haven't heard anything to the contrary,
I changed the deal from it's "new counterparty" status.

Please let me know if this presents a problem for any of you.

Thanks,
Kate Symes
Trading Support
503-464-7486


FYI.  Please coordinate going forward with EPSA.

Jim
 -----Original Message-----
From: 	"Samantha Slater" <SSLATER@epsa.org>@ENRON [mailto:IMCEANOTES-+22Samantha+20Slater+22+20+3CSSLATER+40epsa+2Eorg+3E+40ENRON@ENRON.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:03 AM
To:	jconnelly@calpine.com; breilley@coral-energy.com; lebarrett@duke-energy.com; john.j.stauffacher@dynegy.com; steve.dalhoff@dynegy.com; Jenni.Barr@ElPaso.com; jsteffe@enron.com; pschaub@entergy.com; jtsheehan@mediaone.net; susann.felton@mirant.com; CParnell@MWGen.com; don.beckham@neg.pge.com; melissa.lavinson@neg.pge.com; joe.isabella@nrgenergy.com; greg.towstego@opg.com; Kristen.Ludecke@pseg.com; lvollmer@pwrteam.com; chajovsky@reliant.com; dacrabtree@tecoenergy.com; jlsena@tecoenergy.com; gkunkel@TENASKA.com; jmartin@TENASKA.com
Cc:	Jackie Gallagher
Subject:	REVISED EIA Alternate Electric Power Data Confidentiality	Policy

Last week, EPSA met with EIA to discuss a revised Alternate Electric Power Data Confidentiality Policy proposal.  The following are EIA's changes to the original Alternate Policy proposal circulated by EPSA on August 2.

The following items would be held confidential:

EIA - 423: cost of fuels (not previously collected by EIA)
Purchase price would also still be held confidential, as noted on the original Alternate Policy.  EIA-423 basically duplicates FERC Form 423.

EIA-906: fuel stocks (currently held confidential)
Stocks was originally "crossed out" on the Alternate Policy, but it is now back on the list of data items to be held confidential.

EIA-826: energy service provider data on sales, revenues and number of customers
Under the original Alternate Policy, regulated utilities and wires companies would have also been able to keep this same information confidential.  Now it will only be data submitted by ESPs that will be held confidential.  However, please note that EIA-861 collects this same data from ESPs and that data will be released on an annual basis.

EIA-767: Under the revised Alternate Policy, no data submitted on the 767 will be held confidential
This is a change from the original Alternate Policy.  The original Alternate Policy includes estimated useful thermal output, plant financial information, cooling system costs, etc. as data to be held confidential.  The data will now be released 12 months after year-end.

EIA-860: Maximum tested heat rate (currently confidential)
No change from original Alternate Policy.

EIA-861: No data submitted on the 861 will be held confidential
No change from original Alternate Policy.

EIA-411: No data submitted on the 411 will be held confidential.
No change from original Alternate Policy.

EIA-412: Generator plant costs and expense data only for unregulated plants (not previously collected by EIA)
No change from original Alternate Policy.

I've attached a copy of the original Alternate Policy in case you need it.

Please forward any comments on these changes to me no later than noon Eastern Time on Friday, August 31.

EIA anticipates a Federal Register Notice on or around September 7.  There will then be a 30-day comment period on the proposal submitted by EIA to OMB.  We will notify you when the Federal Register Notice is issued.

Mary Hutzler, Acting Administrator at EIA, has expressed an interest in meeting with EPSA and its members to further discuss these issues.  If there is an interest in EPSA arranging a meeting for members in Washington, D.C. during the next few weeks, please let me know as soon as possible.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks again for all of your help!

Samantha

Samantha M. Slater
Manager of State & Regional Affairs
Electric Power Supply Association
1401 New York Avenue, N.W.
11th Floor
Washington, D.C.  20005
Phone: 202-628-8200
Fax: 202-628-8260
E-mail: sslater@epsa.org

 - Confidentiality.doc


Hi Everyone!!!

As you already know Neil and Robyn are getting married
March10,2001 at the Four Seasons in Palm Beach.  The
Chestnovs have reserved a block of rooms for the
wedding.

If you want to make your reservation now, at the Four
Seasons, their phone # 1-800-432-2335.  The rate is
$335.00 per nite (Friday and Saturday 3/9 and 3/10).

There is a Hilton next door to the Four Seasons.  I do
not know what their rate is, but the phone number is
(516) 586-6542.  There is also a Howard Johnson.  That
phone # is (561) 582-2581.

I know you probably think it's too early to make a
reservation, but the Four Seasons only has 200 rooms,
and the guest list is about 250.

Let us know if we can help you with any arrangements.

Joan and Gary

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We need $258,240 wired to Avista to cover our northwest book of business for Jan 7-12.  Please let me know the time line, and if there are any problems.

Thanks,

Sean


The language that puzzles me is on page 24 of the New Regulatory Framework
release.  It is discussing the Chicago Board of Trade's suggestion that the
exclusion for unilateral transaction execution facilities, such as
EnronOnline, be deleted.  The release says:

"However, under the proposed exclusion there can be but one counterparty to
all market participants.  That is quite different from using one or more
specialists in a multilateral trading setting.  In that structure, the bids
and offers of non-specialists are permitted to interact with each other."

I can understand the point with respect to "or more" specialists, but I
don't understand how you can distinguish EnronOnline from a market with a
single specialist who is a counterparty to all trades.  I also don't
understand the point about bids and offers interacting with each other.
This may be because I don't understand how specialists go about their
business.  But the question is, I suppose, does EnronOnline have to take
steps to make sure that bids and offers are isolated from one another so
they don't "interact?"  Maybe, in fact, that's the way EnronOnline works,
but this is pretty confusing to me.  I suppose this language may cause more
trouble for DealBench than EnronOnline, since DealBench deal rooms may have
all sorts of interactions among bidders.

I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Robert S. Baird
Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.
One American Center
600 Congress
Austin, Texas 78701
Telephone: (512)495-8451
When calling from Houston (713)758-2414
Fax: (512)236-3210
Email: rbaird@velaw.com
Home telephone (512)347-8066
Car phone: (512)627-8065
Home fax: (512)347-8065
Pager: 1-888-487-2651

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Dan:

I have a 3:30 Meeting in my office with this guy.  Can you review this and
attend the meeting?

Thanks, Jeff
----- Forwarded by Jeffrey T Hodge/HOU/ECT on 07/19/2000 09:39 AM -----

	Phil DeMoes@ENRON
	07/14/2000 04:12 PM

		 To: Jeffrey T Hodge/HOU/ECT@ECT
		 cc: David Fairley/HOU/ECT@ECT, Janet R Dietrich/HOU/ECT@ECT, Ozzie
Pagan/HOU/ECT@ECT
		 Subject: Elba Deal Language

Jeff,

I have been working closely with Southern Company on the sale of natural gas
from Elba and/or Destin for 10 yrs.  Please note the attached Exhibits that
Southern has drafted to our Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement dated December
29, 1999.  Additionally, I have attached two proposals that summarizes the
structure of the deal.  Pricing is still to be determined once we agree upon
the language for your review.  Please advise as to a time that we may
discuss.  I can be reached at x37912.

Thanks.

Phil D.

---------------------- Forwarded by Phil DeMoes/Corp/Enron on 07/14/2000
04:00 PM ---------------------------

"Kilpatrick, Alan M." <AMKilpat@southernco.com> on 07/12/2000 06:07:53 PM
To: "Phil DeMoes (E-mail)" <phil.demoes@enron.com>
cc:

Subject: FW: CONFIRMATION LETTER

I don't know if you got the e-mail below from Donna so I am sending it to
you again. This is a draft so please review and lets discuss.

Alan Kilpatrick --- * - 205/257-6143 --- * - 250/257-7795 ---  * -
amkilpat@southernco.com <mailto:amkilpat@southernco.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Bailey [SMTP:dbailey@balch.com]
<mailto:[SMTP:dbailey@balch.com]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:45 PM
Cc: amkilpat@southernco.com <mailto:amkilpat@southernco.com>
Subject: CONFIRMATION LETTER

 Phil,

Per the request of Alan Kilpatrick, I am frowarding to you a revised draft
of the confirmation letters covering the two LNG transactions SCS is
discussing with you.  In the interests of time, they have not been reviewed
by Alan or the other SCS folks and so are subject to any comments or changes
they might have.

 <<DDNQ02_.DOC>>

 - DDNQ02_.DOC


CALENDAR ENTRY:	APPOINTMENT

Description:
	meet w/ Sanjay - demo curve manager 2519

Date:		1/22/2001
Time:		3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Central Standard Time)

Chairperson:	Outlook Migration Team

Detailed Description:


Attached is the initial draft of the partnership agreement for Enron Net
Works Partners, L.P.  In light of the accelerated schedule to close the Net
Works equity fund, please forward your comments to me at your earliest
convenience.


vegas was fun.  i am tired.  i had to go to portland afterwards.


Hello Tom & Tana,

Just checking on the status of the MSA for GM.  Can I have it by Tuesday
afternoon?  Please advise.

Thanks T&T

JA

John Allario
Enron Net Works L.L.C.
713-853-4587 (o)
713-562-8684 (c)
john.allario@enron.com


Steve / Rick -- below is a brief description of Dan Reck's recent acquisition
of WebModal.   L.
----- Forwarded by Lisa Yoho/NA/Enron on 02/14/2001 08:06 AM -----

	Cathy Phillips@ECT
	02/14/2001 07:29 AM

		 To: Mark Frevert/NA/Enron@Enron, Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeffrey A
Shankman/HOU/ECT@ECT, Doug Arnell/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Alan
Aronowitz/HOU/ECT@ECT, Pierre Aury/LON/ECT@ECT, Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Rick
Bergsieker/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Kathryn
Corbally/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Stephen H Douglas/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jennifer
Fraser/HOU/ECT@ECT, Shanna Funkhouser/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Eric
Gonzales/LON/ECT@ECT, Gary Hickerson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Vince J
Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT, Larry Lawyer/NA/Enron@Enron, Chris Mahoney/LON/ECT@ECT,
George McClellan/HOU/ECT@ECT, Thomas Myers/HOU/ECT@ECT, John L
Nowlan/HOU/ECT@ECT, Beth Perlman/HOU/ECT@ECT, Brent A Price/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Daniel Reck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Cindy Skinner/HOU/ECT@ECT, Stuart
Staley/LON/ECT@ECT, Mark Tawney/HOU/ECT@ECT, Scott Tholan/Corp/Enron@Enron,
Lisa Yoho/NA/Enron@Enron, Neil Davies/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Per Sekse/NY/ECT@ECT
		 cc: Nicki Daw/NA/Enron@Enron, Cathy Phillips/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jennifer
Burns/HOU/ECT@ECT, DeMonica Lipscomb/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Yvonne
Francois/Corp/Enron@Enron, Angie Collins/HOU/ECT@ECT, Donna
Baker/HOU/ECT@ECT, Helen Marie Taylor/HOU/ECT@ECT, Chantelle
Villanueva/HOU/ECT@ECT, Betty J Coneway/HOU/ECT@ECT, Patti
Thompson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Cherylene R Westbrook/HOU/ECT@ECT, Candace
Parker/LON/ECT@ECT, Sharon Purswell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Gloria Solis/HOU/ECT@ECT,
Brenda J Johnston/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Kim
Hickok/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Susan McCarthy/LON/ECT@ECT, Paula
Forsyth/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Kristy Carnes/NA/Enron@ENRON, Shirley
Crenshaw/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jody Underwood/NA/Enron@ENRON, Kathleen D
Hardeman/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Stuart
Cichosz/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Judy Zoch/NA/Enron@ENRON, Sunita
Katyal/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Cherry Mont/NY/ECT@ECT, Legal
Temp 3/HOU/ECT@ECT
		 Subject: WebModal

Please read the following message from Dan Reck regarding WebModal.  Thank
you.

----- Forwarded by Cathy Phillips/HOU/ECT on 02/14/2001 07:25 AM -----

	Daniel Reck
	02/13/2001 01:48 PM

		 To: Cathy Phillips/HOU/ECT@ECT
		 cc:
		 Subject: WebModal

At Monday's EGM meeting, Mike McConnell asked me to describe the WebModal
acquisition EGM made last week.  Following is a brief description of the
freight capacity market and what WebModal gets us:

Market

The US market for logistics is $600bn annually.  We are pursuing the largest
homogenous segment which is long-haul truckload and intermodal.  That market
is $50-$100bn annually, depending on who you ask and whether you include
dedicated fleets.

The interesting thing about these markets is that they are extremely
fragmented and massively intermediated.  There are over 100,000 trucking
companies (carriers) in the US and thousands of independent brokers (brokers
in this market act as credit principals).  10-20% of all loads are conducted
in the spot market (brokered) and the rest are done under 1-3 year contracts
that are generally non-firm, but define the relationship between each shipper
and their chosen carriers or intermediaries.

On the rail side, the US railroads act as wholesalers, selling their capacity
to Intermodal Marketing Companies (IMCs).  The IMCs then retail or broker out
that capacity to shippers.  The difficult part of ground intermodal is that
the rail haul makes up only the long-haul component.   The trip from the
origin warehouse to the origin rail yard and then the delivery from the
destination rail yard to the destination warehouse has to be done by truck.
This first and last mile transportation is called "drayage".

WebModal

WebModal developed a system to price and schedule intermodal moves so they
look identical to truck.  They have a database with prices and schedules from
all the RRs and 48 drayage companies that gives them complete US coverage.  A
buyer can type in their scheduling and equipment requirements and receive
instantaneous quotes for zipcode to zipcode service.

Because of the inherently different cost and performance structures of rail
and truck, the pricing differences between the two modes of transportation is
significant.  For any move greater than 500 miles, intermodal is generally
20-30% less expensive than a single driver truck move.  The substitutability
of intermodal and truckload should allow us to trade the spread in price.

The WebModal acquisition gets us a team with tremendous industry expertise
and a good head start as we enter this market.  The next move will be to
build a truck intermediation capability.

I encourage you to meet Chris Kravas the CEO of WebModal.  He will be
spending all of his time in Houston when he is not on the road.

Please give me a call if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Dan Reck