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Month: July 2006

  • Movie: The Snow Walker (2003)

    Films like this make me realize how overdramatized most of the movies I watch are. The story down here isn’t stripped to the very bone like Bubble, but it is told unpretentiously. It’s a worthwhile tale, and the Alaskan setting is intriguing. Referred by Nehring

  • Horseshoe Mountain

    Dad, ever the explorer, chooses a forest road he’s never been up for his birthday weekend excursion. Four Mile Creek Road in Pike National Forest takes us into the Mosquito Range west of Fairplay, Colorado. We’re initially put off by swaths of private property and mining detritus, but end up having a beautiful hike up…

  • Movie: Deep Blue (2005)

    This ocean life documentary doesn’t go into great depth in any particular place or creature, but contains jaw-dropping footage from ocean locations all over the world. It does an especially good job of conveying a removal from the human realm, where the camera is an omniscient eye showing us sights that most human beings never…

  • Movie: A History of Violence (2005)

    David Cronenberg has interesting ideas, so I was willing to give this film some leeway, but after half an hour of swallowing one cliché after another, I gave up. Maybe I’m spoiled, but I’d rather listen to Cronenberg talk about his message than sit through such a bland set-up. Referred by Fresh Air

  • Take me to the river

    The idea is simple: we stay cool on a hot evening by bobbing around in the Poudre River for a while. The plan is complicated: Ann drives with our newly acquired tubes to the free solar-powered air pump on the bike trail, while I ride my bike to the take out at the Shields St…

  • Potty Training

    Hey kids, it’s time for another fun-filled RV-life lesson! Today we’ll answer the question, “Hey, why is the carpet by the bathroom all wet?”

  • “Operation Aborted” error in Internet Explorer

    A recent change to Google Maps brought this gremlin to the hobomap and many other Google Maps API users also. I found the explanation at Mapki. The cardinal sin is putting the map-creating javascript inside a <div> or other tag. It has to be right before the closing body tag. This is a bit painful…

  • Dusted

    We awake to the buzz of a low-flying plane, and it’s not the kind that the Reverend Horton Heat sings about. The cornfield next to is getting a dose of pesticide, and as far as we can tell, so are we. As people who go to great lengths and expense to avoid eating pesticides or…

  • Storm Mountain – The Monastery

    The day begins in a maddening comedy that ends with us chasing Sean down a forest road, and Sean going home with no idea where we are. We embark without him on the rugged trail to The Monastery, where we manage to do some climbing on strange new rock despite a hot sun. When we…

  • Storm Mountain Camping

    We don’t know any good open camping spots near Estes Park, but Roosevelt National Forest encompasses much of the map area northeast of there, so we go in search of a spot. Following Devil’s Gulch Road to Glen Haven we find nothing. Nor is there much prospect between Glen Haven and Drake. We’re planning to…