Near the end of May, I quit my job and fled to Canada for two and a half weeks. The first week was spent sight-seeing with Erika. The second week involved backpacking down the West Coast Trail. The last few … Continue reading
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My first experiences with skiing and with respectable snow were in Lake Tahoe. It is also the place where I had first seen whitewater, though not where I would first navigate it. It had been a few years since I’d … Continue reading
Directly across from us, roughly 200 yards, after we reached the top of our climb. It took about 3 minutes to turn from a spark into this. It, of course, doesn’t look nearly as foreboding in a photo. If you … Continue reading
I returned to the Altadena Mines for the third time today. With me were Erika, Patrick and Anne Marie. We visited two mines, I explored the smaller claustrophobia-inducing one further this time, and we were making good time traversing the … Continue reading