Tag: camping

Alone in the Mountains

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I just got back from my first solo backpacking trip. The mountains were magical but not enough to lift me from my funk. Here’s a slideshow I made. It starts at Plumas-Eureka State Park and the nearby Johnsville Cemetery and meanders on up to Rock Lake and environs, where I camped. I put the thing together with software I learned about at a Knight Media training session. It’s called SoundSlides. Its being super-easy to use […]

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Trinity Videos

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As promised, three videos from our trip to the Trinity Alps this week. What I did upon encountering a wee patch of snow: [flashvideo filename=wp-content/video/slide.flv image=wp-content/video/slide.jpg /] A wee narrative about a stream and its surroundings: [flashvideo filename=wp-content/video/stream.flv image=wp-content/video/stream.jpg /] Cheryl and Jill and a wee thunderstorm on a mountain lake: [flashvideo filename=wp-content/video/thunder.flv image=wp-content/video/thunder.jpg /]

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Tangled Up In Blue

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Hi, friends. Sorry I haven’t written for a long time. I’ve become increasingly aware of how boring this blog is. However, newly returned this afternoon from a short backpacking trip to the Trinity Alps, I will succumb to the desire to show-and-tell. Actually, I don’t feel like writing so I’ll put this up in the form of a gallery with plain old captions. I’ve edited the photos down from 400-plus to 36 images. As you […]

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