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Ann’s latest ankle-wear
Four weeks after spraining her ankle at Sugarite Canyon, Ann got this supportive and stylish brace to help her keep from re-inflaming the injury. Now at six weeks, it seems to be working, and getting her plenty of attention from the style-conscious senior crowd at the post office. She’s no longer using a cane, and…
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Glorietta Baldy Hike
The day seems unreal, it’s so summery. Not a cloud in the sky, just warm enough to sweat, a little breeze rattling the dead aspen leaves. I keep questioning whether the real world is ever this nice? Could I be dreaming about hiking? The Baldy trail has a few brief steep spots descending into Apache…
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Santa Fe Rail Trails
Today’s bike exploration is a success. After passing what might have been a no trespassing sign on a dirt road heading north from Rancho Viejo, I intersect a dirt jogging trail, as I hoped. This bends east, climbing to the Santa Fe rail line to Lamy, which has another rutted dirt track along it. I’m…
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Rancho Viejo Bike Exploration
There are an intriguing number of dirt roads surrounding my new neighborhood. My recumbent bike is no mountain bike, but I can usually handle a trail on it if things don’t get too steep or rocky. I have some high hopes for old railroad beds in the area, but the first I investigate is quickly…
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Tobico Marsh Hike
Mom takes me on her favorite hike north of Bay City. Many different kinds of trees are turning here. Mom finds a few mushrooms, but she says the harvest has been much better in past years. We see swans from the boardwalk near the marsh, but we decide they’re the introduced variety rather than the…
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Leaf Storm in Ann Arbor
I’m visiting my mom in Michigan this week. We’re treated to this amazing autumn spectacle at a friend’s house in Ann Arbor:
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Caballo Peak Loop
There are miles of trails right out of Los Alamos that I haven’t touched yet. Most of the town is surrounded by burn areas from the 2000 Cerro Grande fire, which gives it a unique flavor. Burn areas are often pretty, but horrendous to hike through due to piles of deadfall and thorny new undergrowth.…
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WordPress Tally Graph Plugin
I’ve released a new plugin that I use to create the bar graphs in my blog sidebar. I’m going to try to host it almost entirely on the WordPress site, so this may be the only post about it here. Here’s the link: Tally Graph Plugin at WordPress.org
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Book: High Infatuation / Steph Davis
I admire Steph Davis for her climbing, diet, and ability to express the inexorable draw one can experience toward the outdoors. The book is not as much about her personal relationships as I thought it might be given the subtitle “A climber’s guide to love and gravity”. She quotes some of the same Rumi poems…
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CDT Torreon Road / NM197 Overnight Loop
I park near a tiny paved road in the remote mesas of this part of New Mexico, find the cairns that mark the Continental Divide Trail here, and start hiking. It soon occurs to me that this is a strange place to take a long hike at the height of the fall aspen season. It’s…