Today I went to the head of the trail I typically hike and ran across something which seemed 400 years out of date.

The images say it all. This is not a gag. Needless to say, I am looking for another ‘favorite’ hiking spot….

The series features Dr. David Goodstein, and the material is presented with explanations of abstract subject matter that a layman with entry level Differential and Integral Calculus can understand.

The best feature of the site at the link above is that you can click on the VoD icons and view streaming videos of each of the sessions. Very nice, and quite generous considering the 25 year old series still costs $450USD if you purchase it on DVD.

An outstanding series.

When we returned home after the successful hunt, Jim’s brother Don put pen to paper and chronicled Jim’s journey from ‘maybe next year’ to the Record Book.  The story was later submitted to Jim Dandy Productions for possible publication in the Northern Nevada Outdoors magazine. The story was accepted and published in the Summer 2008 edition.

I have published a reproduction of that NNO article as a page on this site.  Since I was a member of the hunting party, I am able to provide items the original hardcopy article cannot – the original color images, as well as additional images which did not make it into the print version.  Not wishing to shed further details and detract from Don’s telling of the story I will not write more.

Read the story: My Brother’s Ram

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Great Basin is home to Wheeler Peak, which is the 2nd highest mountain in the state. I went to Great Basin for the first time 5 years ago and summited the 13,063′ peak with our friend Jim. Aileen wanted to visit Great Basin, and she said she was game to try to summit Wheeler. So, we met our friend Jim at the park and made a go of it.

We set up camp in the high campground and although we were not able to get our preferred camp site, it was a great spot. The elevation at the high campground is just under 10,000ft, so it provided us with an opportunity to better acclimate to the elevation (we live at 6,000ft).

The first day hiking, we visited the Bristlecone Forest and the Icefield (~11,000ft) where Aileen and I took turns lounging in the rock chair I sat in 5 years earlier on my first visit.

The next day we decided to make a Wheeler summit attempt. Aileen was an absolute trooper, and we made it to the top in 3 hours and 25 minutes.

I was concerned as to whether or not Aileen would be mentally prepared for the final ascent, which can be very intimidating when you see it from the saddle below (2D pictures simply can’t convey what you’re up against when confronted with the final part of the ascent). The view of Wheeler from Mather Overlook gives a sense of the length and steepness of the final ascent leading in from the right side of the peak (this view is from a significant distance from the mountain).

Aileen was fantastic and soldiered on through the thin air making it to the top in good time.

The site Gallery contains some images from the trip, and more will be added as time allows.

Interesting aside:
I took this shot in Utah on US-50 just east of the Utah/Nevada border east of the park. If this does not look like a tilted smaller version of the Stepped Pyramid of Djozer I don’t know what does. Note the snazzy orange trash can…

The original post was quite long so I created a separate page for the images/descriptions.

Now instead of the single Rodeo Creek image there are multiple images which can possibly be rendered as the header background with each page request.

I modified a theme I made for a friend, and I have been able to closely replicate my old theme.

I still have some css mods to do, but the results are good so far. I have a page layout I want, and I get the images in the header.

I’ll be working on more images as time allows. I have many pix, and I hope to add many more to the list.

I was coming down Rodeo Creek and stopped to take a shot of the Montana range which is across King’s River Valley.

The picture turned out really well, and thought I would change my blog css a bit to accommodate the picture. I GIMPed it and placed it into my blog page header.

In light of the new layout, I modified the basic color scheme of the background to better match the header picture.

The page background is simply a snippet of part of the Montana range. I softened and flipped/rotated it to give it some symmetry. I reasoned that a background taken from the picture itself should match just fine.

I’ve never used earth tones before apart from greens, so I’ll see how I like this.

I know I know – they are rather dark and bitter, but I couldn’t help but laugh until my sides ached.

Check it out – and close the door when you do or you might wake up the household laughing….

Note: I have only watched a few of these, and while they have not been ‘X’ rated, the content can be ‘mature’. Bear that in mind if you have young children.

It appears that the Gentoo Foundation’s Charter has been revoked, and Foundation (well, it’s not a foundation any longer) member Daniel Robbins has some thoughts and suggestions for a remedy.

As I run Gentoo as my primary OS (at home), I was quite interested in this.

Visit the link for further information.