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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Travis: Went mountain biking this weekend. Me: Looks like you’re having way too much fun. Get back to the lab. Me: That’s more like it. How did that happen? Following too close, no mudflaps? Travis: No fenders. Everyone I went with was too fast for me to follow too closely. Travis: It was worse on […]

Travis There are a number of reasons I find it easier to make quasi-anonymous snide comments on the Internet rather than contribute anything worthwhile; inexperience, not being a good writer, laziness and apathy are foremost amongst them. I met my friend Heather in Minnesota. She was on the cycling team with which I occasionally rode. […]