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Climbing Mountain Biking Nature & Hiking

2025 Christmas and New Year’s Road Trip

December 20, 2025 through January 4, 2026 This year has been a busy one. We’ve done some trips, some of which I’ve mentioned here, many I didn’t write about. With Christmas and New Year’s being on Thursday, we opted to take the two weeks off and do a long road trip. We planned generally for […]

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Climbing Nature & Hiking

2025-11-27 thru 30 Red Rocks Thanksgiving

Well! Its been a while since I posted anything, since July in fact when we went to the Uintas. My computer starting going on the fritz earlier this year and degraded precipitously in the late summer and fall. At this point I’m not sure what is wrong with it, but it seems hardware related and […]

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Motorcycling

2024-04-27 thru 30 Death Valley ADV

For a while I’ve been hoping to get a smaller ADV bike so that I could tackle harder terrain with Andreas. The popular trend has been a bit in the other direction. Guys doing gnarly roads/trails on big ADV bikes like the 1200GS, 990 KTMs, and the like. To be honest I’m not really sure […]

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Nature & Hiking

2024-04-24 & 25 Joshua Tree

Leaving San Diego I headed east to Joshua Tree. I’d climbed in J-Tree many years ago, in 2011 to be exact. This time I wouldn’t get as much climbing in, but being solo and only there two days, that is to be expected. My objectives were to do some of the OHV roads in the […]

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Motorcycling

2024-04-19 & 20 Ocotillo Wells Motorcycling

The next leg of the trip, which was the catalyst for the trip in the first place, was to meet some former fellow motorcycling coworkers at an off-highway vehicle recreation area between San Diego and the Salton Sea. Leaving Las Vegas in the afternoon I headed across some of the more desolate sections of the […]