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That One Day When I Got Bored and Just Started Ordering Watches off Amazon

Posted on: 17 June 2019 /

Categories: Buying Stuff

This is a true story. The Contenders Suunto Core All Black ($129.99) Pros It’s all black! Supposedly if you calibrate either the altimeter or the barometer, the other one sorts itself out automatically. Has a cool “second hand” that cruises around the circumference of the dial. Very cool band. Cons Kind of hard to read.

Turns Out Mid-June Was Too Early for White Pine Lake This Year

Posted on: 14 June 2019 /

Categories: Other

I was kind of worried it might be, but I was supposed to be going on an overnighter to White Pine next week with the church kids, and, as the responsible adult, I thought it might be wise to check it out and make sure that was going to be doable. It probably wasn’t (isn’t?).

Richards Hollow Falls: A Pleasant, Nearby Day Hike

Posted on: 12 June 2019 /

Categories: Hiking

For whatever it’s worth, I have within the last 12 months gone on a dayhike and not reported on it. OTOH, I’m reporting on this one apparently. Richards Hollow Falls is in Richards Hollow (!!), just up the Left-Hand Fork Road in Blacksmith Fork Canyon. These are all places in Cache Valley, a little south

A Couple Days around Tahoe in the Spring

Posted on: 10 June 2019 /

Categories: road trips

You know, there are people out there who own and maintain blogs for the purpose of building an audience and making money. I do it mostly to make fun of my future self, I think. Or maybe to enable future self to make fun of past self. Whatever. I’m sure there’s mocking involved. The dog

The “Loneliest Road in America” Is Fine

Posted on: 4 June 2019 /

Categories: road trips

This refers to Highway 50 going across Nevada. I’ve driven lonelier. On this trip I drove lonelier. That stretch from Elko, Nev. to Snowville, Utah, for instance, much lonelier. And uglier. Whatever, I guess. We started this part of the trip in Ely, Nev., which based on my short trip to the one grocery store

From Here to Great Basin

Posted on: 3 June 2019 /

Categories: road trips

To celebrate the end of the school year I left town, which is kind of counterintuitive from the standpoint that Logan is just a lot nicer when all the students leave and things don’t feel quite as crowded. Except on Saturday when all of Franklin County, Idaho comes to town, which is just kind of

Ski Spring Break: Big Sky, Jackson, and Grand Targhee

Posted on: 27 May 2019 /

Categories: road trips, Skiing

They were all better than Sun Valley. The Mountain Collective pass I bought for this ski season included both Big Sky and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR). And then there was spring break in March, so: northward, ho! I’d never been to Big Sky before, although I’d driven down that highway from Bozeman to West

Skiing Sun Valley

Posted on: 24 May 2019 /

Categories: Skiing, Travel

And… it’s 2019. I had a Mountain Collective pass this year, which included two free days (I mean, free once you buy the pass) at each of Snowbasin, Snowbird, Alta, Jackson Hole, Big Sky, Squaw Valley, Mammoth, Taos maybe?, somewhere in Alberta, probably a couple other places, and Sun Valley. I’d never been to Sun

Next Conference: San Francisco

Posted on: 22 May 2019 /

Categories: Cities

Our big academic conference in December was in San Francisco last year. It was exciting. No one wanted to go out to restaurants — or, at least, not like I thought they ought to. The city is hilly. I went to Alcatraz for the first time in my life along with a few other people. The

Autumn Comes to Temple Fork

Posted on: 21 May 2019 /

Categories: Hiking

I think at some time I posted about a quick hike I took up to the Temple Fork sawmill site. Huh, looks like I did. Anyway, I hiked up to the same site yet again, only this time IN THE FALL. Crazy. Colors were different and I got a couple photos I liked. Here: So,

That One Day When I Got Bored and Just Started Ordering Watches off Amazon

Turns Out Mid-June Was Too Early for White Pine Lake This Year

Richards Hollow Falls: A Pleasant, Nearby Day Hike

A Couple Days around Tahoe in the Spring

The “Loneliest Road in America” Is Fine

From Here to Great Basin

Ski Spring Break: Big Sky, Jackson, and Grand Targhee

Skiing Sun Valley

Next Conference: San Francisco

Autumn Comes to Temple Fork

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