Archive for the 'Outdoors' Category

Always June

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Pile into Pomona’s “Alumni Van” and drive to June Mountain. Exhaust yourself snowboarding. Drive back to school. Sound familiar? Last weekend I and one of the kids from the last June trip co-led another ski trip to June Mountain. It was even better than the last, and we stayed 2 days. Here’s some highlights: 7 […]

Interlude

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I thought this page was a lot more exciting when there was a new set of cool camping pictures on it every week. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep that up, but I did just get some pictures from the Hearst Castle trip I did like three weeks ago. I think I took like one (bad) picture […]

Keep’em Coming

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Another weekend, another camping trip. This time it was to Joshua Tree for OTL‘s semesterly leader training. I didn’t think I was going to go, since I don’t technically work for OTL any more. But one of the current staff couldn’t make it, and I’ve done this a bunch and I like doing it (as […]

Carpe Dies

Monday, January 30th, 2006

seems to mean there will always be loose ends. I am having trouble making it past the top one or two priorities on my to-do list. Meaning I’ve still only done 2 out of 13 chapters of the statistics I would’ve liked to have finished in December. On the bright side, I went mountain biking […]

Dancing for Rain

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

We’re losing daylight but I cant work any faster. Under the veil of dusk we go on, Don’t close your eyes. What if it all disappears in the shadows that reach for the stars? The last six months have been great, but the last two days were amazing. Hard to put in to words, but […]

Ant… ici… pation…

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

I’m leaving this at the top of my blog until Mount Hood opens. Then I get out my brand new (previously owned, unused) Burton Canyon 158 with Flow bindings and the new Vans Fargo Boa boots (no laces!).

Backpacking Oahu

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

I had promised to post more about my week and a half in Oahu… here goes.

This is the view I got one afternoon after doing some day hiking above Waikiki (which is the beach just east of Honolulu).

Panorama from above Waikiki Click the picture to see a bigger version.

More pictures are up on my .Mac account. I even captioned them!

Aloha from the North Shore!

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

I just came to O’ahu for my cousin Jeff’s wedding last Sunday and I’ve been touring the island on my own since then.