6 posts tagged “photos”
Since I already had a Boostaroo so my three kids could listen to movies in the car, and I had three Logitech mm28 speakers, it seemed only logical to eventually do this:
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| Logitech mm28 Speakers X 3 |
I got an iPhone for Christmas. It is a lot of fun. Here is the Unboxing Ceremony.
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| iPhone Unboxing Ceremony |
I decided to walk to work a couple weeks ago. I thought it would be interesting to see a familiar place at a different pace. Despite living in Fort Collins for almost 20 years and driving the same route to work for about 14 of those, I'd never walked along most of the route. I live in southwest Fort Collins and work in southeast Fort Collins, so the walk was about 7 1/2 miles and 2 1/2 hours. Click the photo below to see the whole album. Enjoy.
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| Walk to Work December 2007 |
I've ridden the 24 Hours of Moab mountain bike race with friends each of the last 4 years. It's been a great experience with lots of camaraderie, as a training goal, an opportunity to push ourselves, and more than anything else a chance to get out into the beautiful Moab desert and ride with a bunch of terrific, like-minded bike folks.
Each year there's a "quiet period" after the race where we rest and don't really talk about "next year." The quiet period this time lasted...maybe minutes, or maybe we were already talking during the final hours of the race. For a variety of reasons, we are a little hungrier than usual to get back out under the stars, lights ablaze and start turning the cranks over. So, the 24 Hours of Vail Lake comes onto the radar.
Here is some information to help us decide if and how to ride this new, early-season race.
24 Hours of Vail Lake race home:
http://www.grannygear.com/Races/Vaillake/index.shtml
Schedule of events:
http://www.grannygear.com/Races/Vaillake/2008/schedule.shtml
Pricing:
http://www.grannygear.com/Register/price_table.php?class_select=price_scale&year=2008
Vail Lake in Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=104490150066531762262.00043d07fd69c22f79aee&ie=UTF8&ll=33.483286,-116.968174&spn=0.05233,0.064716&t=h&z=14&om=1
Google Earth w/Course Map Overlay:
http://www.grannygear.com/Assets/Images/Maps/2007_Granny_Gear_Race_Series.kmz
Vail Lake KML:
Driving directions (Fort Collins to Temecula):
So a mere 16 hours of driving and we're there, ready to race. :-)
Enough "facts," how about what others have written about their experience?
Also noteworthy is the fact that Bluebird Lake, though six miles from the nearest road, used to have a large concrete dam and served as a water source for the city of Longmont. In 1988 Rocky Mountain National Park removed 5 million pounds of concrete and rebar from Bluebird Lake (see "Removal of High Dams" near the bottom of the linked page) to restore it to near-pristine condition.
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| Bluebird Lake November 2007 |
For an interesting visual comparison take a look at these pictures from the same hike in August 2004. Here is a good example showing Bluebird Lake in winter and summer.
