Labor Day weekend in Gunny Gorge. What could be better? I’ll tell you what, not a whole lot. I have to thank Scott for conceiving of and organizing this really cool self-support, overnight kayak trip through Gunny Gorge. In addition to those responsibilities, he also carried all of the group gear and food in his […]
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Home again
If you want to know if you enjoy where you live and can really call it home, spend 17 days and 4500 miles driving across the country and back. If, like me, you are utterly relieved and simultaneously overly joyful when you cross your state line again, then chances are that you like where you […]
mapping, photos, storiesEJ Kayak Class
The weather was cold and the nights were long back in late December when I decided to attend EJ’s kayaking class on the Ottawa River. My decision morphed with other goals and New Year’s resolutions to the end result of having kayaked 50 days (including the Numbers), having bombproofed my roll, and having radically modified […]
outdoors, stories, videoMade it to the Ottawa!
49 hours after leaving Boulder, CO, I arrived at the Wilderness Tours resort on the Ottawa River. So far, the plans that I laid out in my New Year’s Resolutions have proceeding beautifully. I love the concept of combining separate goals into an intertwined super-goal so that each portion becomes dependent on the other and […]
kayak, storiesThe Numbers!
I finally kayaked the Numbers section on the Arkansas River after 7 seasons of fearing the class IV run! Here I am celebrating after rapid number 1 went extremely smoothly. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day in the Arkansas River valley which was in stark contrast to the cool, rainy months that characterized Colorado […]
kayak, outdoors, storiesMiddle Fork of the Salmon River Follow-Along
Check back at this post each day to see the progress we’ve made as we raft and kayak our way down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River! We launch on Friday, 6/26, take out on Thursday, 7/2, and will then kayak for a few days near Jackson, WY before returning to Colorado. Update 6/3/09: […]
gps, mapping, outdoors, SPOTTraining Camp 2009
I attended Colorado Whitewater’s annual Training Camp this past weekend and had a great time helping out by sweeping on Saturday and Sunday. We had a really great group of folks and I managed to grab a few photos, so I thought I would post them for the whole crew to see. Hopefully, I will […]
outdoors, photos, storiesEmbedded Google Earth
Edit 5/21/2009: The G.E. plugin is killing performance on my PC and since it wasn’t too impressive, I have removed it from this post. It is now incredibly easy to embed Google Earth into a blog or website, with the results that you see (maybe) below. However, I’m not sure how effective of a tool […]
digital, mapping, webFrom Blizzard to Summer Bliss
The weekend began with yet another April blizzard along the Front Range, but ended with warm, sunny weather in the Utah desert! I began Friday (4/17/09) by battling awful road conditions through Clear Creek Canyon and up I-70 and was treated to lack of heat in the van during the blizzard as my thermostat decided […]
gps, mapping, outdoors, photos, stories, video