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Stuff from 2013 about Which I Never Posted

Posted on: 1 February 2014 /
Categories: Other

2013 wasn’t much of a blogging year. Trying to make up for it I guess. Or, just, I’m going through my all-day allergy shot desensitization process and what else am I going to do? Besides research, I mean. Always research. Posted a bunch of stuff about the ski trip to Tahoe in March already. Don’t

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Mono Lake: Totally Worth a 45-Minute Visit

Posted on: 31 January 2014 /
Categories: Travel

If I’d stayed longer, maybe I would have spotted a brine shrimp! Although 45 minutes was plenty to spot one coyote (not pictured below). He wasn’t as friendly as my coyote spirit guide I met in La Mesa though. I took pictures, then. It cost $3 to park there. There were two other parties there

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Alpine, Mammoth & Squaw: The Year of Skiing Marginally Continues

Posted on: 26 January 2014 /
Categories: Skiing, Travel

Switzerland: Fog and ice patches. PNW: Depending on the day, but fog and ice patches also. Tahoe: Drought! Was at Alpine for the first time ever on Wednesday. It looked like this: The terrain looks awesome; shame not to be able to ski it — it’s amazing that they’ve kept the place skiable at all

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Whistler-Blackcomb: A Huge Ski Resort

Posted on: 15 January 2014 /
Categories: Skiing, Travel

Here are some things I did at Whistler that I’d never done before: Skied a glacier. Unless I did that in Switzerland and just couldn’t see it well enough to recognize that it happened. Rode a T-bar. Hiked up a hill to get to a put-in spot. Skied in Canada. All these posts are magnum

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I Was Also in Bern

Posted on: 13 January 2014 /
Categories: Cities, Travel

This is going back to the Europe thing. After the conference in Milan, I went up to Bern, Switzerland and had a couple of great days with Thomas and  Christine. The day before we went skiing, we went out sight-seeing in Bern. Here is evidence of the aforementioned. It was rainy. Pretty city, though. One

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Skiing Mt. Baker on New Year’s Day

Posted on: 12 January 2014 /
Categories: Skiing

This blog is apparently now mostly about chronicling my experiences of skiing badly in as many places as possible. OTOH, at least it has a theme. I grew up in the Seattle area, but had never been to Mt. Baker before (for skiing). I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that what

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Milan: City of Conferences and of One Large Cathedral

Posted on: 27 December 2013 /
Categories: Cities, Travel

My impressions of Milan, having spent a week or so there for a conference and stuff: Everything looks like it’s from the 70’s. Sidewalks are narrow and not flat; people walk on them slower than they need to anyway. They have a lot of Italian-brand cars. People seem to be dressed up a lot of

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“Skiing” the Swiss Alps, Grindelwald

Posted on: 26 December 2013 /
Categories: Skiing, Travel

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ski in the Swiss Alps so, naturally, this: Was at a conference in Milan and have a friend who lives in Bern who had invited me up to his place for a couple days. Bern was great, his place was great, the food was great, people generally great, just that the skiing

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The Basement Before and After

Posted on: 11 July 2013 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

I’ll do a separate post about the long, arduous process. There was a lot involved. The basement deserves two posts. At least two posts. Here’s one. The main difference being that I turned the lights on. And that there were lights that could be turned on. And a ceiling. The before photo does a poor

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Friday — Diamond Peak

Posted on: 15 March 2013 /
Categories: Skiing

I wrote all these up on the plane ride home. FYI. Paid: $49 (Reno Sports Authority) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: 9/10 Weather: Overcast with some eventual light snowfall. Would Return?: Definitely I’m probably just a sucker for ski resorts with lake views, but I loved Diamond Peak, despite its shortcomings and quirks. I liked

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