As per usual I have the week between Christmas and New Year’s off. This winter has been terrible for ice climbing so far, and by terrible I mean nonexistent outside of Mt. Washington, I hoped I could get some good climbing in during my vacation. The trouble is my two partners, Chris and Boris were […]
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2011-12-10 thru 12-11 Catskills, Slide Mtn
Somewhat spontaneously last weekend I took an overnight backpacking trip to the Catskills. I’ve never been up there and it sounded like a good idea, even with the chilly weather (low around 15F) that was predicted. A friend from work, Carly, and me drove up early Saturday in the brown and dead landscape that […]
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2011-12-01 thru 12-04 Hunting
A while ago I asked my roommate Eric if I could bring my Dad down to his family’s farm in Pennsylvania during deer season. My Dad hunted with a neighbor for deer in NH but was always unsuccessful. Usually Eric and his family have very good luck and hoped my Dad’s luck would change if […]
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2011-11-20 House Work
The Halloween snow storm we got took out a large branch from the Japanese Maple in the backyard, the branch in turn took out the power line from the house to the garage. Eric had some trouble getting in touch with our landlord so we decided to fix it ourselves. While we were at it […]
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2011-11-08 Skipping Work for the Gunks
Today I skipped work with Chris to take advantage of one of the last great days of weather we’ll have before the snow really hits. Well I didn’t actually skip–we took vacation days. The weather was mostly sunny, and in the mid-60’s. Perfect climbing weather. Oscar and Charlie (5.7) Son of Easy O (5.8) […]