Photo of the day

I headed out to the top of the mountain today to try out my Christmas present – snow shoes. At the tram boarding I shot this photo which missed the top speed that I saw, 55mph. I looked up the wind-chill for those figures and it was 4 degrees F. I slogged through the snow […]

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What a weekend. I think I took more photos of more unusual things than I’ve ever done on a single weekend before. A cold front brought tons of rain and snow for the high elevations. The full sized image is here.  (After the image loads in the browser window, click on it for a full […]

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Hiked to the summit again today – my sixth time for the month. Nature does small things so well…. and then finishes off the day with the grand and the majestic.  

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Back on the trail again – second day in a row. Today was also the second day that I got to try out the discovery about my manual focus macro setting on my “marginal” Olympus 5060 zoom. Seems to me that what was once marginal, is now full functional, at least in the manual mode. It’s […]

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Actually, the photos really make up a “report” on the conditions that I ran into while hiking on Saturday. There were no flowers, no real high drama, and other than the fact that one had to be continually cautious for the last several miles, it was a great day for a hike. The full story […]

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You wouldn’t hardly know it was winter this weekend – highs in the 60’s, warm breezes.  I decided to take short hike on the back side of the mountain, looking of all things, for a single tree in the middle of the forest. We didn’t find the tree but on the way back into town […]

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Busted up to the top of the mountain in my best time yet – 3.5 hours for 7 miles and 4,000 feet.   Sunday saw another 8 miles but that day was an up-and-downer – just kills my knees.  But on that trip I looked for hidden treasure, so to speak, and was partially successful. […]

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No fireworks tonight, at least not at the local country club. It was great however, to be up on the roof and watching the horizon explode in every quadrant with flashes and booms and all the noise that is the celebration of the 4th. We, my hiking friend from Michigan and I, are very tired. […]

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I was hoping that you could fake out a blog, but it seems that is not possible, unless I’m just missing something. I wanted to go back in time and create some entries, but this thing seems too smart to let me insert posts for back in February. I suppose what I can do is […]

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I skipped it last year – but this year with company in the house.. it was time to trek off to the early morning events on Saturday. The morning was not really sunny, but occasionally a shot of light would light the balloons against the darker sky. We were late getting out of the house but at […]

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