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Month: April 2009

  • Our Favorite Santa Fe Loop Drive

    We take Mom, Dad, and Sarah on this great drive through the Jemez mountains from Santa Fe. It features cliffs, waterfalls, Ponderosa forests, a giant volcano caldera, a lush river with a great hiking trail, hot springs, a soda dam, blood red sandstone and a native American pueblo. Mom took all the pictures again. Route…

  • Sante Fe Sights

    Showing Mom around Santa Fe, I see many sights I don’t encounter normally. During the day we walk around the plaza area, then after dinner my dad, Sarah, and Ann join us for a traditional Friday evening gallery walk on Canyon road. Seeing most of this for the first time is fun for me, then…

  • WordPress Geo Mashup Release 1.2.4

    Fixes some problems saving locations (Issue 194) and a rare “duplicate entry” WordPress database error. Upgrade as usual.

  • Post Moderate at Diablo Canyon

    We take Mom out to Diablo Canyon. I lead Post Moderate 5.9, which is long enough at 165 ft to challenge my stamina. As I did before, I blow the two-rope logistics and have (or get) to climb to the top again after failing to lower. I need to use more visualization techniques – not…

  • Earth Day Walk

    Picking up Mom at the airport may not have been too Earth day-ish, but I walk everywhere else. Mom and I hike to Tribes for lunch, then I walk with Ann to Century Bank. The lobby at the bank is closed, so we walk up to the drive-through. “Sorry Miss, but you must have a…

  • Atalaya / Dorothy Stewart Loop

    I set out to hike ten miles to see how my leg holds up. The day could hardly be clearer, and the warm air smells like apples. I go slowly, and while my left leg feels a little more fatigued than the right, it doesn’t hurt! The Wyoming trip this summer seems possible again.

  • Dead Cholla Wall Climbing

    We planned our Petaca Point hike with hopes that conditions would be good for climbing at nearby Dead Cholla Wall, and they are perfect. We join one other couple, also easing back into climbing after a hiatus, to try some top roping here. As is often the case, reaching over the cliff edge to clip…

  • Petaca Point Overnight

    I can’t remember the last time I had such a terrible time leaving for an outing. The weather looks dreary, we’re slogging through our preparations, and neither Ann or I really want to go. “Just force it,” I say, “we need this.” The sky looks darker and darker as we drive north until our final…

  • Red Bull Air Force Altimeter

    I worked with visionsmith.com to use Geo Mashup to manage the geo content of this team of skiing, skydiving, BASE-jumping, paragliding maniacs. This site makes especially good use of Geo Mashup’s full post display and tabbed category index to create a highly interactive map for exploring the content of the site.

  • Book: Blood Brothers / Elias Chacour

    An autobiography by a Palestinian Christian who has been a tireless advocate for peace with Israel. It’s written in a simple but vivid style, and Chacour has some remarkable success stories that are a welcome relief from the usual Middle East news. He makes his own unshakable faith quite clear as the inspiration and grounding…