Hey Mike,

I was worried that your blog was broken. I thought I’d test it out with some pictures from some recent mountain biking near Donner Pass, Auburn and Santa Rosa

-Travis

This may be the middle fork of the American river.

This is Castle Peak

This is on Hole in the Ground.

This is the new Donner Rim Trail.

This is a view south from Annadel. That’s Mount Diablo back and left.

Scenic Sonoma County, CA.

Ouch.

Hey Mike,

Last weekend I climbed (red) to the top of a volcano and skied down (green).

More pictures

I take some solace in knowing I’m not the only one who sees this and thinks ‘Less than three.’

…is the noise birds make.

I rode home from school the other day (which includes a some mile stretch along a causeway designed to be a seabird habitat) and thought of you as I missed the first picture of mating Long Necked White Birds in flight (Snowy egrets, I believe) and thought ‘if only I’d taken the camera out of my bag and put it in my back pocket like I usually do’ . I didn’t stop to take action on the thought and moments later saw a big blue bird (great blue heron I presume) taking flight as I thought ‘if only I’d taken the camera out of my bag and put it in my back pocket after the last picture I missed’. This time I put the camera in the ready position and had a quite uneventful rest of the ride home.

The other day i thought I was going to be attacked by a dingo, but then it scampered off into suburban backyards to eat baby kittens. The second one’s from the train in the eastern bay and probably needs to be cropped. The last one is a where’s waldo type game.

   

  Travis

It was supposed to be a 200 mile loop starting at about 3 o’clock and going clockwise. At about a half hour before the official 5:15-5:45 am start they found out about a road closure due to a forest fire and ran the route backwards to the halfway point as an out-and-back. In all those miles, this is my only photo.

So California. A biodiesel car.

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