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2015 Memorial Day Weekend in Red Rocks

May 22-25, 2015 The week before Memorial Day I was in Baltimore for a conference on composites.  I returned late Thursday night and had pre-arranged to take Friday off of work.  Carly luckily had her 9-80 Friday off on that day as well.  We had hoped to go to Colorado to visit with Dave, Phyli […]

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Wet Weather in Salt Lake City

May 17, 2015 Though things seem to have returned to normal, back in late April through Memorial Day we’ve had some really wet weather in Salt Lake City.  While no records were broken there were many, many days we had rain, clouds, or drizzle.  The persistent rain was really a bummer for climbing opportunities, but […]

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Bryce Canyon National Park

May 9-10, 2015 Weather in Utah has been uncharacteristically rainy here in Utah for the last few weeks.  The last few weekends have been rainy or threatened rain.  This weekend and the coming week are forecasted for more of the same.  The precipitation isn’t all bad, though since we got very little snow over the […]

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K-Bone Memorial Shitter Construction

November 1-2, 2014 Last weekend Carly, myself, a whole crew of BD folks, and Bozemanites traveled to Indian Creek to construct a toilet, or more appropriately a shitter.  Indian Creek’s campgrounds are fairly minimalistic and they don’t have many toilets.  Superbowl Campground only had one for instance.  After the passing of Kevin “K-Bone” Volkening last year in a […]

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Fourth of July Lone Peak Trip with Carly

July 4-5, 2014 Over the Fourth of July I headed up to Lone Peak with Carly.  We had been packing, unpacking, moving, and generally doing a whole lot of not particularly fun things for a while.  Carly had the great idea that if we got the bulk of the moving done prior to the holiday […]