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Month: January 2004

  • Preparing for the Continental Divide

    Apr 2011 Update: This is part of my journal of a 2004 CDT hike. You’re welcome here, and there are some planning resources, but if you’re looking for maps I recommend you visit Jonathan Ley. I did collect a track of the CDT in Wyoming in 2009, which I later added to Open Street Map,…

  • Book: Shantung Compound / Langdon Gilkey

    In 1943 Japanese troops rounded up all the foreigners near Peking, China, and shipped them to this abandoned, looted church compound. The two thousand internees were made largely responsible for governing themselves while confined there until the end of the war. As I read this account of the difficulties they encountered I was amazed at…

  • Movie: Charlotte Gray

    Feeling tired but a little restless after a day of climbing, we settle down to watch this World War II movie about a Scottish woman who goes into German-occupied France to assist the resistance. It’s a good story, highlighting how a person’s ideals and emotions can be changed by war. The cinematography is gorgeous throughout.…

  • Kern Slab

    Here’s Clare after pulling hard through the crux of the brutally parallel finger crack, Initiation. After putting a toprope on it, I can’t crank through it. Barry and Ann both give it an unsuccessful whack as well. It seems made for Clare though, who sinks her fingers in and cranks away. We cheer her on,…

  • Wagon Wheel

    We went out to Wagon Wheel for a walk today, and because we didn’t bring our climbing stuff we actually walked! It was a blissful day with air like cool silk. We did a four-mile loop around our usual bouldering area, scouting out nice rocks and climbing a couple of the hills to the northeast.…

  • Movie: The Lady from Shanghai

    As soon as the film started Ann and I both wondered out loud: did the soundtracks of movies made in the late 1940’s all sound the same to people back then, or are we anthropomorphizing? The film gets right down to business shooting Rita Hayworth in soft light, and that’s about all it ever does.…

  • Small Site Changes

    I’m now running WordPress 1.0. I was enticed mostly by the improvements to categories. There are now descriptions for the categories, and a post can be filed under more than one category. As usual, please comment if anything is broken or simply offensive to your person.

  • Wagon Wheel

    Ann and I have been cooped up in the house too much, being sick. So we go out to wagon wheel today, in beautiful weather, for a little gentle walking. And we bring the crashpad and shoes just in case. Well, we park at the Little Loaf and start right off doing a bunch of…

  • First Virus of the Year, Part 2

    My turn now! I didn’t feel too bad this morning, so I went to work even though my throat was getting sore. I know how people love it when you come to work sick. Everybody loves a live virus. So I caught a clue and came home again. I’m still hoping for a lighter case…

  • Sake Hog

    I picked up this new word from a motorcycle license plate on my way to work this morning. I’ve heard the term rice rocket, but this is my first encounter with sake hog.