Tag Archives: Travel

Across The Great Divides

On June 20, a humid Wednesday in the District of Columbia, I schlepped my internal frame pack, my daypack and a carry-on, all exploding with two weeks worth of clothes and camping gear, to Baltimore Washington International Airport. Two bumpy rides later, I landed in an even hotter, but dry, Denver. My first real vacation [...]

Angels Landing

As I said before, our day at Zion was my favorite on the trip. The Narrows stole my heart, but the Angels Landing hike after lunch was amazing on its on. Starting at the valley floor, Angels Landing is two and half miles one direction, and it feels straight up. There is an elevation gain [...]

Rocky Mountain National Park

After four days in Telluride, Colo., Scott and I met Abigail, Dave and Meredith to backpack in Rocky Mountain National Park. We spent two nights in the Never Summer range in the northwest section of the park, entering on the Colorado River trailhead. According to rangers, Never Summer is one of the least visited sections [...]

Half Dome 1, Josh 0

“It’s not that I’m scared, I’m just really tired,” one big burly guy said to another. The second looked at the peak of Half Dome, the largest granite monolith in the world, and agreed that he too was indeed too fatigued after the eight-mile hike from the floor of Yosemite Valley to finish the trail. [...]

Out ‘n About: Summer Vacation ’07

Edit (July 16, 2007): Yea, I know photos didn’t magically appear while I was on my trip. I tested the workflow once before I left and everything worked perfectly. On the road, something in the combination of 5MB images from my camera, my Treo 680 phone, the horribly slow Cingular data network, my ibiblio.org email [...]