&t***One year ago today;/a>
I arrived in Juneau for the start of a three-week, 1100-mile bike ride through Alaska.
***In lieu of the Tuolumne trip
I went for a bike ride today. Since I’ve found that an occasional mountain bike ride is a good way to keep me from getting too distracted by the occasional mountain biking yahoos [...]
***Yet another hike
around the middle loop at Almaden Quicksilver today. (Randol to Prospect #3 and back via Mines Trail.) The mountain bikers were out in force today. I’m OK with this - heck, I’ve ridden my mountain bike at this park. However, a couple of yahoos went flying past me just above the parking lot [...]
***Final exams next week
and then my summer vacation begins. Because I teach on the quarter-system (that’s why I’m still in school at the end of June) I don’t start classes again until late September. Yeah!
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***Last year at this time
I was getting ready to head to Alaska for a 1100-mile bike ride from Skagway to Anchorage via The Yukon Territory and Fairbanks, Alaska.
Our first lunch stop in Canada, looking back towards the mountain range we had just crossed.
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Fire Hydrant at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park.
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***Half Dome View from Glacier Point
- from the What were they thinking!?” Department. Please tell me that the person responsible for locating and painting this fire hydrant no longer works for the National Park Service!
Photo by the ever-ironic Patricia Mitchell.
***Seen at Patty’s web site
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring [...]
Yosemite Valley Flowers. June 15, 2003
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***Back from Yosemite
where we stood beneath Bridalveil and Yosemite Falls and visited Glacier Point.
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***Quicksilver Park
again today. Got an early start; did my Prospect #3 loop; home by 10:00.
***Waterfall Day
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Some years ago we started doing a family one-day trip to Yosemite Valley in early June to catch the waterfalls near their peak. We’ve missed the past few years but we plan to be there tomorrow!
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2003.06.29
***Need to build some fitness
(and lose some weight) before my British Columbia and Sierra Nevada trips! Today I did the 11-mile loop at Almaden Quicksilver.
Once again I carried my camera and once again I did not take any pictures. There are, I think, two things going on here.
I like to photograph my outdoor adventures [...]