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Live Music: CSO plays Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony
We’ve been wanting to see a classical music performance for a while now. Tonight we finally made our way to Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver to hear the Colorado Symphony Orchestra play this program: Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major Schubert Konzertstueck in D major for Violin and Orchestra Kreisler Caprice Viennois,…
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Off Day at Golden Cliffs
One of those days. We get to crag late, it’s busy, and the climb that is free is cold and shady. Neither of use climb very well. We’re hoping that too much climbing in the gym isn’t ruining our footwork.
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Greyrock Mountain
We headed up the Poudre canyon to Greyrock trail with our friend Alan today. It’s a hike we’ve had our eye on, and we wanted to scope out the climbing potential too. After a couple of miles of good climbing, the peak comes into view. It looks like about 600 feet of granite dome. One…
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Movie: Whale Rider
A young girl defies the values of her Maori culture when she feels called to become a Chief. Told convincingly without getting overly sentimental. It made me ponder (as The Gods Must Be Crazy did) what the ramifications are for a culture that is thrust suddenly into a global environment that other cultures have had…
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Movie: Horatio Hornblower
This is a six-episode series by A&E based on the C.S. Forester novels featuring british naval hero Horatio Hornblower. We’ve been watching these here and there over the past weeks. I haven’t read Forester’s books, but these movies border on naval Harlequin romances. Obstacles and enemies are carefully constructed for Horatio to demolish with utter…
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CDT-ROM 2005
To my amazement, Jonathan Ley continues to produce a revision of his Continental Divide Trail Maps every year. For this set he sifted through hundreds of our scribbled-on maps and incorporated our more useful notes. I’d love to see these available as an online resource someday (currently he offers them on CD only).
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Movie: Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
I don’t know whether this movie was supposed to be a campy satire, a serious drama, or a Shakespearean tragedy. Maybe all of the above. The mix can be a bit quixotic, but there’s no doubt that it’s good.
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Lower Arthur’s Rock
It’s a bright, sunny day, but there’s a cold wind blowing. We follow Dave and Lisa to Lower Arthur’s Rock at Lory State Park. There’s the usual parking permit to deal with, and the trail up the arroyo is more like a bobsled track in places, but the rock is dry, out of the wind,…
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Movie: The Door in the Floor
As rich with symbolism, loss, and irony as I’ve come to expect from John Irving adaptations. Once again I haven’t read the book, and I can sense that I’ve glimpsed only a piece of a broader tapestry woven into A Widow for One Year. As always there is some humor to help you along here,…
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Movie: La Femme Nikita (1990)
A strange movie for both Ann and I to choose to watch again. Maybe it’s the appeal of the unique combination of punk girl, hit man, and My Fair Lady-style transformation. Ann remarked that this is the first muscular female gun-toting heroine character she remembers. It was probably the prototype for many more to come.…