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Recent Climbing and Hiking

I haven’t had too much time to post recently, though that doesn’t mean I’ve been all work and no play.  In the weeks since I posted last I’ve done some hiking and lots of climbing.  Usually it has been Friday night after work trips to the Gunks to camp.  Saturday we start the day early […]

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Beer Bottle Collection

Many of my friends know that I collect beer bottles.  I’ve got quite a few.  Not sure how many but probably in the 300-400 range.  I started taking pictures of them so I could share them here and to preserve them in case I need to get rid of them.  Thus far I’ve photographed about 200. […]

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Gunks July 17-18

The weekend of July 10-11 I was supposed to travel to the Gunks with Chrystal for some climbing. Unfortunately weather didn’t look good and Chrystal had some work stuff pop up late Friday afternoon. We rescheduled for the next weekend, July 17-18. Another friend from Sikorsky, Andrew Brookhart, also committed to the trip for that weekend. Chrystal’s […]

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Norway Trip

Eric Parsons started an idea of going to Scandinavia a while ago. His idea was to travel sometime in 2010.  Parsons being how he is, he needed a little prodding to pick a time to go.  With a rough date picked Jon Crim, Chrystal, and I all committed to going, with Chrystal showing up a […]

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Self Rescue Class

I took a self rescue class over the weekend and learned a bunch of great techniques to help me whenclimbing and something goes wrong.  Self rescue techniques are pretty straight forward, when looking at them on paper, but trying to recreate them without assistance gets a little tougher.  I took these photos so I would […]