Am on this tutorial page: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... eLogo.html
I'm on step 5: Trace the bitmap mountain to form a new path.


After doing step 5, manual/tutorial says one should get this result:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... hmc_10.png


But I'm getting the following
http://imgur.com/xI8St.png


http://imgur.com/satBr.png(after I select the Node Tool and click on the pencilled oval)

Please advise.

Oh yeah, you've got a lot of nodes there!
When you're using the Pencil tool, try increasing the Smoothness, on the tool control bar. I don't know if you slide it all the way to 100 if you might have trouble making the details on the top of the mountain. But you should be able to move it at least to 50, and still get those details.

That said, it probably doesn't matter that it has so many nodes. The next step will result in that path disappearing anyway