Outdoor Travel Geek

  • 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…

  • fall riding to folsom

    Growing up in San Francisco I didn’t really experience autumn. In San Francisco the climate doesn’t change much between seasons, and I remember most of the trees (of which there weren’t all that many) being evergreen. So I didn’t really experience colorful autumns until I moved to the Davis/Sacramento area. Out here there are tons…

  • four f’s of thanksgiving

    So it’s Thanksgiving this week. In general, I try to be pretty conscientious of things I’m thankful for, and if you’ve read this blog with any sort of regularity, you’ll probably notice that a lot of times I’ll write about things I’m thankful for. So I guess even though this is supposed to be a…

  • cold canyon

    It’s been a pretty rainy week. Today there was a break in the rainy weather, so after Sunday service I decided to try to go and do something outdoors. I ended up just going to Cold Canyon to hike on my own. I’ve been there numerous times but for some reason I don’t have a…

  • how i took it

    This blog post is for “Do It Yourself Photography’s” “How I Took It” contest. Is it wrong to basically reuse a blog post for two separate photo contests? Uhhhhmmm well, I hope not. Of the thousands of pictures that I’ve taken over the years, this one is probably my favorite. There are many reasons why…

  • the foolish life

    This morning I had a somewhat foolish thought. For a brief moment I thought about quitting my job, selling my house, and buying one of these bike trailers. Without a job or a house I’d be free to just wander around the country by bike. I think it’s a really smart and well designed trailer.…

  • seoul search

    The weather has been quite incredible lately, it’s kind of hard to believe that it’s November. I for one would like to take advantage of the awesome weather to get a little bit more riding in, before it gets cold and rainy. Today I rode with Fan– he’s been wanting to ride for a while,…

  • giro d vino

    Today I rode the Giro D’ Vino with Stanley and Jiro. I rode this ride once before and found that it was a nice chill ride, a great way to end the season. Last time I rode it, the weather was pretty bad, cold and cloudy the whole day, and it even rained for a…

  • birthday suit biking

    This Saturday Trek bicycles had a bike demo day at Granite Bay. These demo days are pretty fun, especially the ones at Granite Bay. The trails are relatively easy at Granite Bay, so more people can come out and ride, and there’s plenty of things to do at Granite Bay so it’s nice to spend…

  • tubbiness in tahoe

    I spent this weekend in a cabin in Tahoe with some friends, some old and some new. Sleeping on a couch in a cabin was a nice change from sleeping on the ground in a tent like I’ve been doing for the past few weekends. Another change was the camera I brought this weekend. I…

  • mud blast

    Today team #YOLOLOL went to run Mud Blast, a mud run along the San Jaoquin river. For me it was the end of a crazy semi-vacation. I call it a semi-vacation because real vacations should be kind of relaxing. This vacation has been pretty exhausting, though still really fun. I wasn’t even sure if I…