I modified the design of this site a bit yesterday. I removed the left-side navigation bar and moved the links to the column on the right side of the page. Besides simplifying things a bit and making all links available throughout the site, this allows me to post somewhat wider photos.
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Looks like I’ll be making a quick one-day run up to Royal Gorge tomorrow for a day of cross-country skiing. Conditions look decent and we should be able to get on the road back home before the next Pacific front arrives tomorrow night.
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I caught a brilliant sunny day on my hike today - between the Christmas rain storm and another that is likely to arrive tomorrow. The grass is really starting to come up now, though you can’t tell from my black and white picture… ;-)
One of the great things about winter at this coastal hills park [...]
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Equipment becomes outdated. Trails get rerouted. [...]
Soft-shell garments are supposed to combine insulation, wind resistance, and water repellancy (or even waterproofness). They are cool, but are they really better? The gear-lusting side of me wants to say yes, but the practical side keeps saying “hold on.”
Soft-shell jackets are not light. While my Arc-teryx Delta fleece jacket weighs about a pound and [...]
I went to Almaden Quicksilver for my (almost) annual solstice hike today. I like to search out signs of the coming spring at this time of the year, so I brought back a few pictures of flowers.
I took a slightly different route today. In the past when I have followed what I described as the [...]
Dry autumn grass at Fletcher Lake. Yosemite National Park. October, 2003.
I found this photo while going through old photos to free-up hard drive space. I’ll keep this one.
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On today’s morning hike at Almaden Quicksilver County Park I focused less on racking up miles, and more on photography and visiting areas I don’t often go to.
I took advantage of the winter die-back of the grass and other vegetation to travel off of the trail into some new areas. Off-trail travel is generally not [...]
Back from the Sierra
We drove up to Royal Gorge for a day of cross-country skiing - and just arrived home a few minutes ago.
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