canyonwalker and I just spent 3 days in the backcountry at Anza Borrego Desert State Park. I'm always amused at the difficulty warnings that rangers give for the backcountry, even though I know why they do it. People are stupid[1], and they really don't want to be out there having to drag injured or dead bodies back ( Read more... )

We took the XTerra up to the Sierras yesterday, to have fun around Ellis Peak. We popped Gambit's cherry, so to speak, by taking him out the back end of Barker's Pass to get back to Hwy 89. I was hoping to get him dirtier, so that I could do extra intimidation on all the grocery-getting wannabe SUV's in my work's parking lot, he's just mostly ( Read more... )

Lying with my foot up is driving me crazy. And killing my back. DVDs only distract me for so long, so I've been working on cleaning up & uploading more pictures to Flickr.

Westwater Canyon, in Moab, Utah, where we went white-water rafting a few years ago was put up on the 17th.

Today, I'm been putting up a mix of pictures from Yosemite, BF's ( Read more... )