A Grand (Canyon) adventure
Jim Block and I signed up for an 18-day OARS dory trip through the Grand Canyon. It had been on my bucket list for a long time. I was bumped off my “someday” status by an applicant to medical school whom I was interviewing. I was impressed by him and by OARS, as he described it. The reality was everything I hoped for, and more.
Now I am trying to relearn WordPress enough to post some images. At this moment, I have uploaded successfully, but cannot seem to connect my Grand Canyon gallery to my Distant Explorations page. it will happen.
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Back from another trip to Nepal
In March, 2011, I returned to Nepal with Leeli Bonney and Jim Block, with whom I had traveled in 2009, and six others, including my son Keg. Leeli shepherded us there, but did not accompany us on the Annapurna trek. We went east to west, Besi Sahar to Jomsom.
Here are a few images. Others can be found here.
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A gift to friends
Here’s the gift: my last posting to the Haute Route galleries. All 13 stages now documented. The gift part is not the posting; it’s the **last** posting. No more from me about new images here. Unless, of course, …
We are under 16 fresh inches of snow in the Northeast Kingdom, awaiting reinforcements from Philadelphia. They have been en route at 40 mph for 2 days, now due within the hour.
Best wishes for a full and satisfying 2011.
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A trip to the West Coast
We took advantage of the break in classes for Thanksgiving to travel west to visit family. One expedition from Portola Valley was over the hill to Moss Beach, where Stephanie and Dan and their 4-month-old twins live. We were early enough to spend a couple of hours at the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve, a remarkable concentrated habitat for a variety of marine and littoral plants and animals. It is a festival of colors, shapes, patterns and textures, to say nothing of natural history. I posted a bunch of images on the Galleries page, in the Distant Explorations category.
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Back again after a looong absence.
Not remembering how to navigate or operate this site, we shall anticipate errors and frustrations, with equanimity. A basic design principle, “Make it easy for good people to do the right thing,” either has been overlooked or I do not qualify for it. Please bear with me.
Just as a trial, here is an image from a walk this summer, the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt.
Matterhorn clouds forming
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Second post
With a little more watching, coaching and practice, I can add images to text on this blog. I wonder where that will lead. Click on this image to see several more from Martha’s garden.
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Slowly learning this technology
Things that must seem perfectly obvious to others, judging from their success in achieving competency, are often quite incomprehensible to me until/unless I can watch and practice what they are doing.
There’s an interesting article in the 9 April 2010 issue of Science, “Conquering by Copying,” that reviews a computer tournament of best strategies for succeeding in unfamiliar environments. If I understand the argument correctly, copying successes of others while devoting only a small portion of time (say 10%) to innovation is the optimum approach. Translated to personal experience, I do better with examples, teachers and monitored practice with real-time feedback than with instruction manuals or even videos. I envy those who can take an idea or an instruction manual and accomplish something worthwhile.
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