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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,

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

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

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

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