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Sustainable Adventure: Twenty K
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Sunday, August 02, 2015. Had a good 20 km run this morning. My longest so far this summer. It was a beautiful sunny morning for it. I'm always more motivated when the sun is shining! And it was pleasantly cool, at least early on. At one point there was balding grey haired somewhat rounded man running ahead of me. He looked like he was moving very slowly, but it seemed to take forever to pass him. Either he was moving faster than he looked (my preferred interpretation! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Sustainable Adventure: October 2014
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Friday, October 10, 2014. Heading for our trek. We flew from Kathmandu to Bhadrapur and drove to just before Fikkal. We are sitting outside our "hotel" (Kanyam Inn) surrounded by a tea plantation. Amazingly we have wifi! Our guide, Raj, seems very nice and we just met up with our porters who came out by overnight bus. We went for a walk around the tea plantation with all of us taking photos, even our porters (on their phones). Links to this post. Thursday, October 09, 2014. Bhaktapur and Durbar Square.
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Sustainable Adventure: Flight Visualization
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Sunday, July 26, 2015. Doarama provides cool 3D visualizations from GPS data. Here's my long flight near Vernon, BC. If the embedded view doesn't work you can see it on their site. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Programmer geek, mountain climber, adventurer, traveler, reader, writer, photographer, environmentalist, tree hugger, nature lover. View my complete profile. Enter your email address. Spirit and Adventure (Shelley). Wanderlust and Words (Penny). The Software Life - my computer blog.
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Sustainable Adventure: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. In the spirit of Alastair Humphrey's microadventures. I had a paraglider microflight the other morning. It was a whopping 80 feet vertical off a high point along the river bank. (A big hill for the Saskatoon area! The launch area was good but small - just enough room to lay out your glider between the bushes. We went out early at 7am, just after sunrise, to avoid strong winds (and spectators! I pulled up the glider and was lucky...
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Sustainable Adventure: Jackson Paragliding Part 2
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Thursday, August 13, 2015. Jackson Paragliding Part 2. My second day of paragliding went better - we got in two flights and both my launches and landings were reasonable. I was all ready to write a much more positive blog post. But the third day wasn't quite so good. Grand Teton from the top of the tram. I can see why a lot of people stop tackling new things as they get older. Especially physical skills, which I think are like languages - a lot easier to learn when you're younger. Shelley on tandem flight.
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Sustainable Adventure: Day 1 Jackson Hole Paragliding
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Day 1 Jackson Hole Paragliding. Jackson Hole is a beautiful place to fly and it's great getting whisked up 4000 ft on the tram. As beginners we were flying early in the day before conditions got rougher, which meant fairly short "sled ride" flights, but still fantastic to be flying. Of course, Shelley, who claims to be much more nervous, did just fine on both launches and landings. That's awesome, but it just makes me kick myself more! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Sustainable Adventure: August 2015
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Monday, August 31, 2015. Flying at the Ranch. The ranch" is a private flight park near Cashmere, WA. Our instructor in Santa Barbara had talked about how nice it was and we were in the area so we thought we'd check it out. Aerial Paragliding. Runs the school there and it turns out that the ranch is mostly used by students. It's possible to get some longer flights from here if the conditions are good, but there are other bigger flying sites nearby. We hadn't signed up for any specific instruction but Doug...
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Sustainable Adventure: Spiders of the Day
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015. Spiders of the Day. A couple of new spider sightings. I think this might be a long-jawed orb weaver. It was on the underside of a horizontal web built in a corner of the pond at Innovation Place. And this one was nearby, also on the underside but of a much small web. No sign of my usual fishing spiders today. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Programmer geek, mountain climber, adventurer, traveler, reader, writer, photographer, environmentalist, tree hugger, nature lover.
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Sustainable Adventure: Photo of the Day
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Saturday, August 01, 2015. Photo of the Day. This is probably recoverable on the computer, but it's better to start with something decent, rather than try to rescue it later. I also tried moving around so I was shooting away from the sun and didn't need the flash, but it wasn't as good an angle, although more natural looking without the flash. Why do I think this is a butterfly rather than a moth? There's no simple answer, but a bunch of clues. Thin antenna with "clubs" on the end. Programmer geek, mount...
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Sustainable Adventure: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. These photos probably won't be as popular as birds and flowers, but I love all the colorful varied lichens you find on the rocks on the prairies. Lichens. Are symbiotic organisms consisting of algae or cyanobacteria (or both) living among filaments of a fungus. Most of these ones on the rocks are "cructose" or crusty lichens. On a positive note, healthy lichens are a sign of good air quality! The photos were taken at Castle Butte and Jones Peak in southwest Saskatchewan. Spring...
