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And then I woke up. Ended up hiking up to September Morn lake (decent climb!). It’s a cool lake and would’ve been a better place to camp (better sites) if not for the fact that it’s another two (three?) miles from Keyser Brown and another 1,000+ feet in elevation climb. Das Leben ist ja schwer. [...]

Sep 3rd, 2011 | Filed under Hiking

I’m just gonna throw a bunch of photos up. Two nights, two days essentially. Park up in British Columbia, borders Jasper; Mt. Robson is the tallest peak in the Canadian Rockies iirc. Iffy weather. Photos.     Enough. Camped first night at Whitehorn, second night at Emperor Falls. There are a lot of people backpacking [...]

Aug 26th, 2011 | Filed under Hiking, road trips

Banff and Jasper are the ultimate in drive-up outdoorsmanship. So few reasons to go more than a hundred yards from your car, all packed into a 200-mile highway. It’s brilliant in its way.     And when I finally left Jasper for the last time, heading west into the unknown wilds of Mt. Robson Provincial [...]

Aug 25th, 2011 | Filed under road trips

Or I went on a hike at least. The hike is to Cavell Meadows and is in Jasper National Park and pretty well encapsulates why hiking in Banff and Jasper is kind of counter-productive. To wit: (1) there are a lot of people on it; (2) it’s very steep; (3) it offers the same view [...]

Aug 24th, 2011 | Filed under Hiking, road trips

Walkin’ in the park just the other day, baby,  What do you, what do you think I saw?  Crowds of people sittin’ on the grass with flowers in their hair said,  “Hey, Boy, do you wanna score?”  And you know how it is. I really don’t know what time it was, woh, oh,oh  so I [...]

Aug 23rd, 2011 | Filed under road trips

There’s a lot of drive-up scenery in Banff. Conversely, there appears to be next to none that is not drive-up. Here are some pictures of drive-up scenery in Banff. My friend Terry once told me about the reporter who was sent to cover the story of the Hindenberg landing. The reporter came back to his [...]

Aug 20th, 2011 | Filed under road trips

First stop in Canada other than the bathroom just on the other side of the border crossing: Waterton Lakes National Park of Canada. Not sure why they have to have the “of Canada” in there. Seems like the location’s coordinates would imply as much. Waterton Lakes is sort of a National Park after the old-school [...]

Aug 9th, 2011 | Filed under road trips

One good thing about being a student is that you get a holiday break and you can take it for granted and no one’s gonna think you’re ungrateful. Except I was still working on my one paper, but whatever. By the time I turned the paper in, the weather was sunny, cold, and clear, so [...]

Jan 20th, 2011 | Filed under Travel

Haleakala National Park, Hawaii » I figured no one had ever been to see the sunrise at Haleakala before, so I better do it and take photos. Certainly no one has ever taken photos of it before. Woke up: 3 AM. Left Kahana: 3:10 AM. Arrived at summit: 4:55 AM. Realized I should’ve slept another hour: 4:55 AM also. Nah, earlier. Probably more like 3:45 AM is when I realized it.

Jan 9th, 2010 | Filed under Hawaii, Hiking, Travel

There, I said it. Here’s the most picturesque scene from my last hike in the OC: Not pictured: me nearly dying from dehydration in the vertical assault to reach this cherished view. No joke — all the classic symptoms (nausea, exhaustion). And not even this new laptop’s display can make the steep gully view down [...]

Oct 24th, 2007 | Filed under Hiking, Travel