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North Dale Ball Exploration
There’s a great network of trails east of Santa Fe that doesn’t quite connect to the northern National Forest trails that in turn connect to the Pecos Wilderness. Today we set out to discover if the connection can be made cross-country. It starts well in open piñon forest. Then we hit an old barbed wire…
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Network of Ensemble Theatres
Teamed up with Vernal Creative again, we put Geo Mashup to work mapping and listing the theaters that belong to this organization. The presentation is simple and effective, but it also exemplifies the way Geo Mashup makes WordPress into a GeoCMS. The map is really a map of WordPress pages, but in this context a…
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Scouting for campsites near Utopian Vistas
This is the first time we’ve had any serious car trouble out in the boonies. We head up US285, then east on NM567, and finally up a small forest road. We’d like to find a good group campsite for the memorial day weekend, but it’s getting dark and we decide to settle in for the…
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Enchanted Tower Climbing
At last I get some routes in at this intriguing climbing area! During the blizzardy weather on our last trip we only scouted the pocket-strewn routes, so I was eager to pull on some of those pockets. Friday night is warm and tantalizing, but Saturday brings light showers. Determined not to miss any window, we…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.