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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,

Summiting Mt. Naomi

Posted on: 20 May 2019 /

Categories: Hiking

It’s also called Naomi Peak. It’s the highest peak in the entire Bear River Range (!). You know, if you sub-divide your mountain ranges thoroughly enough, every peak can be the highest peak in something. So I had this one student last spring whom I saw at the dog park last summer and we talked

Bend > Tacoma > Red Lodge > Cache Valley > Blog Post

Posted on: 17 May 2019 /

Categories: road trips, Travel

These blog posts are pretty perfunctory. Go somewhere, post about it a year later because you feel like you have to. One day I’ll look back at all these posts and understand how I never had the time to become an astronaut. On the last full day I was in Bend, Aela and I hiked

Oregon Tourist Hike II: Green Lakes Hike

Posted on: 4 May 2019 /

Categories: Hiking, road trips, Travel

Next up on the Bend-area tourist hike agenda was the Green Lakes hike that, somewhat predictably, leads to Green Lakes. This would be the longest hike my dog had ever attempted. Would she make it? Whatever, here’s a little commentary and some photos from the hike. Started at the Green Lakes Trailhead (!). The hike

Oregon Tourist Hike I: Tumalo Falls and Creek

Posted on: 3 May 2019 /

Categories: Hiking, road trips, Travel

I did nothing but tourist hikes on this trip. TBH, though, I think pretty much every hike you can do out of Bend ends up being a tourist hike. Kind of like when you go to the Wind Rivers and there are a million other people there even though it really shouldn’t be a tourist

Oregon Trails: Road-Tripping with the Corgi

Posted on: 2 May 2019 /

Categories: Cities, road trips

The dog does not like being stuck in the car for hours at a time. Legitimately, my goal for this summer is to find a way to get the dog to ride in the car in relative comfort and happiness without sitting on my lap. Mal sehen. Last summer, we took a long road trip

Narrows IV: Riding the Lightning

Posted on: 30 April 2019 /

Categories: Hiking, Religion

I’m not quite a year behind on travel posts yet. Last summer, I went with (led?) the River Heights 4th young men on a trip through the Narrows. This marked the third consecutive year of doing a trip through the Narrows (c.f., 2016, 2017). I didn’t take my camera on this one because I was

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

Skiing Sun Valley

Next Conference: San Francisco

Autumn Comes to Temple Fork

Summiting Mt. Naomi

Bend > Tacoma > Red Lodge > Cache Valley > Blog Post

Oregon Tourist Hike II: Green Lakes Hike

Oregon Tourist Hike I: Tumalo Falls and Creek

Oregon Trails: Road-Tripping with the Corgi

Narrows IV: Riding the Lightning

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