On a trip to the heartland I shot another video of the annual Beer Mile: After a few Thanksgiving meals I needed to work off some of the calories consumed. Hiking with the Bloomington Hikers served that purpose nicely. As usual, I led a hike of the eastern portion of the old Blue Diamond Trail [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Midwest
Posted in hiking, tagged Beer Mile, Bloomington Hikers, Blue Diamond Trail, Deam Wilderness on November 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Albuquerque
Posted in hiking, tagged Albuquerque, open space, Sandhill cranes on November 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Deteriorating weather locally and some airfare credits sent Tara and I down to Albuquerque for a three day weekend trip. Our first objective was Albuquerque’s open space visitors center where we checked out the recently arrived migrants. The number of sandhill cranes was limited this mid-morning by the visitors center so we took a hike [...]
Twin Sisters
Posted in hiking, tagged Rocky Mountain National Park, Twin Sisters on November 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I think this one was my idea. Anyway, Pete was game. He’d climbed “Twin Sisters Peak East” back in his days of being a Rocky Mountain National Park rat, but only a trail rat. He’d orphaned it’s trail-less neighbor “Twin Sisters Mountain” so off we went to right some age-old wrongs. The trail was well [...]
