Outdoor Travel Geek

Month: December 2012

  • snow scouting

    Today I went snow camping. Or I guess I should rephrase that. The original plan was to go snow camping, spending the night in a snow cave. We ended up doing a day trip instead. It’s all good for me though, I was planning to go up to the same place next weekend anyways, so…

  • not so subtle

    Today I went home to visit my family for Christmas. My parents gave me a Christmas card. Here it is. They used to be somewhat subtle about this. They’re not so subtle anymore. So anyways, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

  • newly nikonian?

    My new Nikon D600 arrived today. Coincidentally, it was actually sunny today. So I took it for a hike. I figured the best way to see how much better it is than my old camera is to go somewhere that I’ve photographed often. So I went to Cold Canyon, a place I’ve hiked to probably…

  • farewell pentax

    Recently I ordered a Nikon D600, which is a pretty big (and expensive) upgrade from my Pentax K20 camera. So I’ll soon be selling my Pentax gear to cover the cost of the new camera. I’ve had a great run with Pentax, with two different cameras over six years. So this week I decided to…

  • reno and rosey return

    This week I took a few days off to go to Reno and ski Mount Rose with Gid and Jason. We left after work on Tuesday. Although it wasn’t snowing, there was still snow on the road. That in and of itself would have been okay, but it was so cold that my windshield wiper…

  • ride railroaded

    The plan sounded easy enough. Drive to Elk Grove then ride south along the river on the levee roads, grab lunch in the old historical Chinese community of Locke, cross one of the drawbridges and then ride back to Elk Grove on the other side of the river. Forty nine miles of completely flat roads–it…

  • light painting fun

    Here’s a quick and dirty copy and paste of the light painting we did during the meteor shower last night. Thanks Brenda for the pix! There are four separate exposures here, each of which was 30 seconds long. The end result is this card. Four poopy people wish you cheers and Merry Christmas!

  • panoche hills

    The Panoche Hills is a large area owned by the Bureau of Land Management. If you’ve ever driven down highway 5 from Sacramento to Los Angeles, you’ve passed right by it. It’s a hilly grassland area, which in my opinion, is not all that interesting. It seems like the only reason why this area gets…

  • old glass

    It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring… It has been raining a lot lately. In fact at times I guess it has been raining enough to be considered pouring. And I guess I’m an old man now. And I have been doing a lot of snoring lately (I think). Something about the rainy…