Expeditions

While spending time with family in the San Francisco Bay area LJ and I took a drive out to the Marin Headlands. The drive leaves Highway 1 near the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge. Our first stop was a great view point of the Golden Gate and San Francisco.  Every time I see…

As part of our trip to California this last month I wanted to give the Rubicon a try. We left Novato, CA about 8:30 AM and headed for the trail. The drive through Sacramento was no problem and 50 had light traffic. We made one last fuel stop before heading up Icehouse Road. Icehouse Road…

Sounds boring.. However, on all our outings I try to find some sort of rock hounding spot for LJ. It’s a dad thing, trying to keep these types of interests alive in our kids. Even the simplest hobby can lead towards a life time interest or career. We started the day driving to a location called Topaz…

This last Sunday we took a picnic trip in the Pike National Forest for fathers day. Living on the west side of Colorado Springs we are lucky to have the national forest right out our back door. Our destination was a sub-alpine park at the  base of Almagre called Elk Park. Looking west from the park….

I spent the weekend of April 24 with Bill Burke in Moab for an advanced recovery and spotting class. This is the second advanced recovery class that I have taken and I really enjoyed the refresher.   We spend the first day working recovery scenarios as well as covering correct recovery gear usage. The second…