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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Viva la Vida -- posted at 13:07 -- Wednesday, July 08, 2009 I had an action packed double weekend. Friday we spent the day at Joan's with just a few friends enjoying the sun and swimming and aquaskipping. I tried all last summer to get the hang of it and I finally figured it out. Here is a video. Riding it kind of reminds me of the "It" from South Park. Watch this video for instructions on how to ride the "It" and/or the Aquaskipper. -- posted at 08:47 -- Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Heather and I spent a week bumming around the Hawaii Big Island in a rented VW bus. It was a great way to celebrate Heather completing 3rd year of medical school. We started out in the southeast corner hanging out on some hidden beaches, hiking around the volcano, and viewing lava. In the middle of the trip we explored the SW corner and laid on beaches north of Kona. In the end of the trip we did some hiking around the valleys at the north end. We of course took lots of pictures. I have a busy weekend planned, so I doubt I will go through them any time soon. -- posted at 17:48 -- Monday, June 15, 2009 I went up to Chinook Pass yesterday for a day of skiing. Maybe the only sunny place in western Washington. After skiing one particular 1500 foot run, I took off my pack to put my skins back on and realized I only had one. I didn't clip it to my bag properly and it must have fallen off at the top. Damn. So I had to boot pack all the way back up to retrieve my skin. -- posted at 16:46 -- Thursday, June 11, 2009 Last weekend Heather and I went along with David and Megan to San Francisco and we lived it up. We had some good food and drinks, walked a lot around the town, and went to the San Francisco Academy of the Sciences. There is some crazy stuff in there. I took a few pictures of San Francisco, and posted them here. -- posted at 21:01 -- Monday, June 01, 2009 Saturday Heather and ski toured out of Chinook Pass. We climbed a peak (I couldn't figure out its name) east of Naches Peak. Brilliant views from the top. We could see all the way to Mt. Hood. The trip wasn't quite epic enough to warrant an entire album, but maybe I will try to post a few of them. We took a really cool panorama. -- posted at 13:28 -- Monday, May 25, 2009 Another weekend another amazing trip in the North Cascades. This time it was Heather, David, Adam and I. We skied into Maple Pass from Rainy Pass. Set up camp and skied a few lines. As the sun set we ate and partied. In the morning we skied some more. I can't really imagine a better way to spend the weekend. Pictures are in my Picasa Web Album. -- posted at 21:55 -- Monday, May 18, 2009 Last fall I saw Eldorado Peak for the first time and decided that I would ski there some day. This weekend my friend Adam and I had the weekend reserved for a skiing adventure. We decided Eldorado Peak was the best place to go. It was quite a bit of work to make it the nearly 7000 feet to the top, especially the first 2000 feet hiking through steep forest with no real trail. But it was absolutely beautiful up on the glacier and we had excellent weather to boot. Here are the pictures. -- posted at 17:14 -- Thursday, May 14, 2009 Heather will be out of town for a bachelorette party, so I have got my adventure planned. Adam and I are going to spend the weekend on Eldorado Peak. (the mountain above David's head in this picture) The trip will require over 7000 feet of vertical gain, which is more than is required for many routes on Adams and Baker. I'll be taking my new skis :D -- posted at 09:25 -- Sunday, May 03, 2009 I am annoyed that Picasa Web Albums doesn't have nested folders, so I reorganized my photos page to be in nested tables. I wanted the table to be collapsible, but the built in Frontpage feature doesn't work. Does anyone have a suggestion of how to do collapsible tables? -- posted at 20:22 -- Stupid weather pulled a fast one on us. It is great weather, opposite of forecast. So instead of skiing, I bought new skis. -- posted at 15:41 -- Saturday, May 02, 2009 I had plans to do a ski tour at Snoqualmie Pass. Perhaps another attempt at Kaleetan Peak. But, it is raining too much making it too unstable and too miserable, so we have canceled. Maybe I will go shopping at REI instead. -- posted at 19:17 -- Monday, April 27, 2009 I uploaded pictures from Cascade Pass last weekend. -- posted at 23:21 -- Sunday, April 26, 2009 David and David and I spent the weekend skiing the Cascade Pass area, one of my favorite places in the state. It required a 3 mile hike just to get to the trailhead. Part of it had to cross a massive avalanche with granite and trees that had crossed the road, I don't imagine Cascade River Road will open any time soon. We had our sights set on skinning all the way up the Sahale Arm (click here for pictures from last fall) and maybe summiting Sunday morning, but the weather on Saturday really was not ideal. It was thick clouds and snowing all day. We made it about a 1000 feet up the arm from the pass, navigating from tree island to tree island in the dense fog before turning back and camping at the pass. -- posted at 22:44 -- Friday, April 24, 2009 I'm doing it, I am going to switch to Picasa to host my pictures, rather than self hosting them with the Coppermine software. Picasa is just too slick and easy to use in comparison. And it has really nice geotagging, which I am a sucker for. -- posted at 12:22 -- Tuesday, April 21, 2009 I've done it! I have gone through all of the pictures Heather and I took. I narrowed nearly 2000 pictures down to just 158. -- posted at 23:41 -- The second to last set of pictures. Days 3 through 5 of our trek through Torres del Paine. Here is a map of our route. -- posted at 21:41 -- Thursday, April 16, 2009 Another round of pictures. This one is from day 1 and 2 of our 5 day trek in the Torres del Paine National Park. Here is a map of our route so you can see where the pictures were taken. -- posted at 19:39 -- Wednesday, April 15, 2009 I've uploaded another album of pictures. This time of the Perito Moreno Glacier. (Map, Wiki) Even though we only spent an afternoon there, I thought it was so amazing that I made an entire album for it. It is definitely one of the coolest things in all of S. America. -- posted at 22:47 -- Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Since there are so many pictures, I am going to have to upload them in multiple albums. The first is Buenos Aires. -- posted at 23:06 -- Monday, April 13, 2009 I always like to keep track of my mountain activity statistics. Over 7 days we hiked 64 miles and gained 17,400 feet in elevation. -- posted at 22:19 -- Saturday, April 11, 2009 The trekking in Torres del Paine and Fitz Roy was fantástico. We brought back a few thousand pictures, I'll sort through them and start posting them some time this century. -- posted at 20:49 -- Wednesday, April 01, 2009 Yesterday we watched icebergs fall off the Glacier Moreno. Ultra fantastic. Tomorrow we start our Torres del Paine trek. Even though we are really at the end of nowhere, all the hostels have wifi. -- posted at 17:55 -- Sunday, March 29, 2009 I think Buenos Aires is my favorite South American city. We walked nearly 10 miles today, never out of earshot of live music. And people are dancing in the streets for no apparant reason other than it being a nice day (85 and clear like Seattle on a sunny day). -- posted at 16:09 -- Thursday, March 26, 2009 Not much has happened since you were last here. Mostly I worked, skied a few times, watched Lost, and went for a small hike in the snow. I have also been spending a lot of time packing. Saturday Heather and I leave for Patagonia for two weeks. That will hopefully give me something a bit more interesting to write about. -- posted at 16:42 -- Thursday, March 12, 2009 I went skiing last Saturday. Other than that mostly I have been working and relaxing and seeing a few friends. -- posted at 21:01 -- Sunday, March 01, 2009 Yesterday I did the Hog Loppet with Heather, Nico, Pops, and Viola. It is a 20.8 mile traverse from Mission Ridge to Blewit Pass. Everyone does it on cross country skis, but we thought that would be too easy so we did it on our AT gear, wich is much heavier and has no glide capability. But Heather and I finished it nonetheless. -- posted at 13:56 -- Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Heather and I had a three day weekend, so we went to NY to visit our friend Aaron again and do big city life. I already posted pictures. The first round of pictures with my new camera, the Panasonic DMC-G1. -- posted at 22:37 -- Sunday, February 08, 2009 I went and skied Lichtenberger Mountain yesterday with some buddies. We did a very non-standard route, but along the way we got some good turns, found the eastern opening of the abandoned Cascade Tunnel, and skied along HW-2 for 3 miles. Here is a video of me skiing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41xyL3DQltI -- posted at 18:00 -- Wednesday, January 21, 2009 I have uploaded pictures from our circumnavigation of Table Mt. -- posted at 20:37 -- Monday, January 19, 2009 Heather and I took advantage of the inversion by doing a two day tour around Table Mt. near Baker. I'll post pictures this week. -- posted at 20:20 -- Wednesday, January 07, 2009 I've uploaded pictures from our trip to Kicking Horse. -- posted at 22:49 -- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 We had a company ski day today at Stevens Pass. It was good fun, too bad it rained nice and hard all day. Would not have been so bad but they closed the lifts early. Somethinbg about evacuating the mountain due to avalanche danger. -- posted at 17:06 -- Monday, January 05, 2009 I uploaded pictures from the Seattle Snow Storm. -- posted at 20:51 -- Saturday, January 03, 2009 After making the most of the snow in Seattle (pictures forthcoming) Heather and I drove deep into the Canadian Rockies and spent a week skiing at Kicking Horse: a mountain we have been dreaming about skiing for years. This place lived up to its reputation and delivered the largest amount of technical terrain in one place I have ever seen. -- posted at 22:44 -- Sunday, December 21, 2008 Heather and I got some serious vertical footage skiing in Seattle. We skinned up 4th Ave on the north face of Queen Anne Mountain a few times. I'll post pictures some other day, but for now here are some videos: -- posted at 14:49 -- Saturday, December 20, 2008 The weather was too inclement to go skiing today. But maybe tomorrow we will ski down Queen Anne. -- posted at 22:42 -- |
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