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Month: June 2010

  • Zimmer Creek Hike

    Plans refuse to be realized today. Confused by a wrong mileage in our guide, we fail to find the first trailhead we look for, even walking half a mile up a dirt road to make sure. Left with less time we try a shorter hike, but even after starting at the right trailhead on the…

  • Fish Family Gathering at Cascade Lake

    Ann’s parents choose Cascade Lake State Park for the site of a rare convergence of Ann with her two brothers and two nephews. We engage in hiking, badminton, fishing, horseshoes, kayaking, campfires, many good meals, and a sustained effort at a family photo. Bridge Family Portrait 1 I made a timelapse video of some of…

  • Hike up Tamarack Ski Resort

    George W. Bush made a well-promoted visit via helicopter to this up-and-coming Idaho ski area, but then the economy tanked, bankruptcy struck, and construction stopped. We start amidst monstrous Tyvek-wrapped shells of buildings to do a nice strenuous hike up the ski hill with Ann’s brother Randy. Intermittent rain showers keep patches of mushrooms fresh,…

  • Black Cliffs with Randy and Nephews

    We take Ann’s brother Randy an his sons Jonathan and Nathaniel to the Black Cliffs for a little climbing. As an only child, it never occurred to me that I might still have nephews some day. I hear “Uncle Dylan” a few times before I really register that it’s me! It’s fun watching how these…

  • Boise Bike Trail

    We arrange a truck shuttle with Ann’s parents so they can bike down the Boise river bike path while we go up it. This is an area that is central to the city of Boise and the “green belt”, the lush woods along the banks of the bigger rivers in southern Idaho. I offer to…

  • Reynolds Creek Loop

    We return to the Wilson Creek trailhead early to avoid afternoon thunderstorms this time. Our route takes us past Wilson Creek Feeders, a giant feedlot packed full of cattle and manure – thankfully downwind today. We see boldly patterned reptiles going about their business – a gopher snake sunbathes in the trail, and a longnose…

  • But I don’t want to be smart

    As we’re starting along one of several trails into the Owyhee mountains of Idaho from the Wilson Creek trailhead, Ann tells me about several people who recently went to the hospital for lightning injuries sustained while waiting for Old Faithful to go off in a storm. We deride their lack of judgment just as lightning…

  • Green Belt Duck Walk

    I find another bike trail along a canal in Nampa to walk. This one is absolutely packed with mallards, little fuzzy ducklings trailing behind moms and dads. I woke up yesterday with lower back pain, so I walk a little like a duck also.

  • Black Cliffs – Mid Cliffs with Doug & Liz

    Cousins Doug & Liz are cruising through Idaho on their summer road trip, and we entice them into a morning at the Black Cliffs on the Boise River. The easy routes here still demand careful attention, which makes them all the more fun (sometimes in retrospect). We get coffee in Boise afterward – a fine…

  • Greenbelt Trail and Canal Run

    I’m feeling pretty good on a barefoot run when I reach the end of the greenbelt bike trail, so I hang a right on a dirt road that follows a canal through developments and farm fields. I go pretty far on the canal road too, and by the time I return to the bike trail…