Travel
Skiapalooza #10 – The Year That Chip Wasn’t
Title: The Year that Chip Wasn’t When: February 6-9, 2009 Who: Chip, Jamie, Steve, Mark M, and Drew Where: Summit County, Colorado (Copper Mountain and Breckenridge). PreFlight: This year was quite unplanned compared to our usual trips. With both Chip and I wondering what the job market would bring us, we didn’t really want to … Continue reading
2008 Camping trip – Winfield, CO
Way back in April or May, Chip and Joanne sent out a note saying to reserve the weekend of July 12th and 13th for a camping trip to Winfield Colorado. As a group, we’ve stayed in this location a number of times before. There’s a number of large places to set up group camping, an … Continue reading
Arches National Park
Here are Gregg Lowrimore’s pictures and PhotoBlog, and Lori Stone’s Pictures from the same trip. Up again at 5:15 to head for the Courthouse Towers and sunrise. We weren’t exactly sure where we were going, went a little too far, and ended up at the northern base of “The Organ” looking at “The Tower of … Continue reading
Canyonlands National Park / Dead Horse Point State Park
The album for Friday night, if you just want to see the pictures (only a couple are linked in this story). Here are Gregg Lowrimore’s pictures and PhotoBlog, and Lori Stone’s Pictures from the same trip. We got up at the standard photographers sunrise time of of 5:15am to start driving to Mesa Arch for … Continue reading
Driving to Moab
The album for Friday night, if you just want to see the pictures (only a couple are linked in this story). Here are Gregg Lowrimore’s pictures and PhotoBlog, and Lori Stone’s Pictures from the same trip. About a year ago, Gregg mentioned that our photography group needed to do a photo trip to Canyonlands and … Continue reading
Rock’n and Rollin’ in San Jose
Well, another “event” made the news while I “was in town”. I was out in San Jose last week to do some work for BAE Systems, and was sitting in the hotel when the building started shaking pretty good. Not enough to knock much down (a couple things fell, but it wasn’t too bad). Pretty … Continue reading
SRP at SRP
Most people who know me know that I sign emails, letters, and other notes with the initials SRP. Little did I know they’d name an entire company after me! SRP working at SRP (Salt River Project) in Phoenix, AZ.
Fall Colors 2007 – The Annual Trek
It’s been a very interesting, very busy summer, with virtually no time to get away to the hight country. But, I still had to go. I called Gregg after I saw his pictures from last weekend, and asked if he was interested in a quick trip to Guanella Pass. This trip is talked about all … Continue reading
Labor Day 4 wheelin’
After almost 6 weeks away from home, I decided to take the truck up to the Continental Divide and play. I have been away so much this summer that I haven’t really made it to our natural Colorado playground at all this year. First off are some pictures and things, and then the “story”. Photo … Continue reading
Steve’s 2007 Vacation vs. The Angora Fire
Thursday, June 28th, 2007: As most of you know by now, I take a week long summer vacation every year to Lake Tahoe, generally in late June through the end of July. I have family in the area, and we spend quite a bit of time playing in or near the Lake, as well as … Continue reading