Banff without Getting Out of the Car
There’s a lot of drive-up scenery in Banff. Conversely, there appears to be next to none that is not drive-up. Here are some pictures of drive-up scenery in Banff. They have trees and clouds there. Bow...
View ArticleMisty Mountain Hopping
Walkin’ in the park just the other day, baby, What do you, what do you think I saw? Crowds of people sittin’ on the grass with flowers in their hair said, “Hey, Boy, do you wanna score?” And you...
View ArticleMt. Edith Cavell Is Sort of a Hike On Which You Can Go
Or I went on a hike at least. The hike is to Cavell Meadows and is in Jasper National Park and pretty well encapsulates why hiking in Banff and Jasper is kind of counter-productive. To wit: (1) there...
View ArticleAssorted Other Tourist Photos from Banff, Jasper, Yoho, and Kootenay
Banff and Jasper are the ultimate in drive-up outdoorsmanship. So few reasons to go more than a hundred yards from your car, all packed into a 200-mile highway. It’s brilliant in its way. Emerald Lake...
View ArticleMt. Robson and the Berg Lake Trail
I’m just gonna throw a bunch of photos up. Two nights, two days essentially. Park up in British Columbia, borders Jasper; Mt. Robson is the tallest peak in the Canadian Rockies iirc. Iffy weather....
View ArticleBeartooths: Keyser Brown Lake, September Morn Lake, and First Lake
And then I woke up. Ended up hiking up to September Morn lake (decent climb!). It’s a cool lake and would’ve been a better place to camp (better sites) if not for the fact that it’s another two...
View ArticleWhiteface Mountain Has an Appropriate Nickname
I suppose it’s a good thing it was icy, otherwise I’d feel like I hadn’t had the true Whiteface Mountain experience. “Iceface” being the nickname. It rhymes (sort of) and, therefore, is true. Also it’s...
View ArticleSaranac Lake Is a Town in New York Where I Took These Photos
First night of the trip I stayed in Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks in New York. Thought the place was cool when I was there in the fall of ’09 on my road trip (e.g., this 48stateroadtrip post), so was...
View ArticleSkiing Stowe (with the Other Tourists)
Skiing Stowe was expensive and nice. Great weather, they take care of the mountain well, tons of parking right next to the lifts (!!), lifts go to useful places, many (long) runs of varying...
View ArticleSmugglers Notch Ski Resort Review
My hotel was located about six miles away from the Smuggler’s Notch ski resort going by way of Highway 108. The state of Vermont closes Highway 108 between Stowe and Smuggler’s Notch during winter....
View ArticleCrystal Mountain Resort (Report from Yesterday)
Headed up skiing to Crystal Mountain with my dad yesterday. I’m guessing I hadn’t been there since some time before 2000 (the year). Um. Here are some facts so that I can list here in order to break up...
View ArticleMonday – Heavenly
Paid: $93 (bought at Sports Authority in Reno the night before) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: 5/10 Weather: Absolute Bluebird (my bro’s thermometer read 42 degrees on our way up Sky Express the one...
View ArticleTuesday – Mt. Rose
Paid: $49 (weekday full-time student price at window) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: N/A Weather: Sunny with high winds at the top. Would Return?: Probably Mt. Rose was exactly as advertised:...
View ArticleThursday — Squaw Valley
Paid: $60 (bought someone’s voucher off Craig’s List a month in advance) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: 6/10 Weather: OVERCAST with light snowfall throughout. Would Return?: Maybe This was the big...
View ArticleFriday — Diamond Peak
I wrote all these up on the plane ride home. FYI. Paid: $49 (Reno Sports Authority) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: 9/10 Weather: Overcast with some eventual light snowfall. Would Return?: Definitely...
View Article“Skiing” the Swiss Alps, Grindelwald
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ski in the Swiss Alps so, naturally, this: Was at a conference in Milan and have a friend who lives in Bern who had invited me up to his place for a couple days. Bern...
View ArticleSkiing Mt. Baker on New Year’s Day
This blog is apparently now mostly about chronicling my experiences of skiing badly in as many places as possible. OTOH, at least it has a theme. I grew up in the Seattle area, but had never been to...
View ArticleWhistler-Blackcomb: A Huge Ski Resort
Here are some things I did at Whistler that I’d never done before: Skied a glacier. Unless I did that in Switzerland and just couldn’t see it well enough to recognize that it happened. Rode a T-bar....
View ArticleClimbing Pikes Peak (in a Car)
Pikes Peak is super-close to Colorado Springs. It’s a 14,000+ peak to which you can drive. It is the highest elevation to which I have ever driven. It’s sort of like a toll road operated by the NFS....
View ArticleMills Lake Hike and Rocky Mountain National Park
This happened a long time ago. Before I did my dissertation defense. Before my niece even got married. A long time ago. Rocky Mountain National Park is a National Park located in Denver. There are a...
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