Category Archives: Summertime
Another Northwest Jaunt…
Multnomah. Portland. I know, I know I go on and on about this place and the amazing people and food and what not and then some friends come to town from Scotland and England and Boston and ask what does … Continue reading
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Snowmass Lake
After a week of huffing exhaust fumes, getting my credentials checked by at least 14 brainless security guards a day and having my face melted off by the general sensory over load of X Games X-fest X-travaganza, a few days … Continue reading
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Home Stay
Sometimes, being at home is like being on vacation. Especially, if you’re home for 10 days after a 2 month stint on the road and if you live in Aspen where, it turns out, the AARP comes to summer. For … Continue reading
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hood river
Summer in Oregon rules. For a decade and half or so I’ve been spending my summers or some portion of them here. At the beginning, it was three months of lapping that little patch of Timberline snow with the entire … Continue reading
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Over and Out…Zumiez Couch Tour 2011
it’s a wrap…. Yesterday we finished up that 12th and final stop of the Zumiez Couch Tour, which officially means my summer as a mall rat/carnie/truck driver/haggard pile of shit is just about over. It’s been a fun 40 days … Continue reading
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The Grand Traverse…
texas red. We’ve traversed 5,000 miles of road, squashed one zillion summertime, swampy bugs on our windshield and listened to every podcast, playlist and story three people can tell in a car. And we’re only halfway there. I mean technically … Continue reading
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It’s Official….Summer’s Over.
jersey shore. Despite the Indian Summer we’re in the midst of here in Colorado, I have come to the sad realization that summer is officially over. The damp dead smell of decaying leaves in that crisp morning back to school … Continue reading
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Boys & Girls and Backpacking Too…
Buckskin Pass toward Capitol and what not… So, I moved to Colorado a few years back, which is always such a weird thought because as much as I’ve spent my life in the mountains snowboarding, hiking and what not, I … Continue reading
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Mount Whitney…
Mount Whitney only 99 switchbacks and 3hrs to go… It’s funny how the mind works and the little lies you tell yourself in the name of self preservation or self punishment or ego or what have you. You know those … Continue reading
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