Category: travel
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some clips from my Scotland trip
I posted photos from my Scotland trip, but forgot about the footage. Here are some clips I shot. Here’s the bowl in the Cuillin Hills that was amazing: Here’s a shot of the scree pile I hiked to get to the top of the Cuillin Hills bowl: A short clip of the summit and the…
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additional clips from Morgan visit to Florida
We visited Busch Gardens while Debi’s family was here. Toren and Ethan went on the kids’ boat ride and had to spice it up as it was a little too tepid for them: Brent showed us some cool crustaceans that get washed out of the sand when waves come in but then wiggle back in:…
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videos from Granite Peak
I just posted my trip report for Granite Peak. In addition to the report, I posted, I shot a few videos. First up, here I am rappelling from the top of Granite Peak: Now Tom’s turn: Now the mountain goats’ turn… Okay, they weren’t rappelling. But they did climb right up one of the chimneys…
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MT-Granite Peak
Summit Date August 19th, 2012; around 4:00 pm Summit Party Ryan Cragun and Tom Triplett Trip Report Granite Peak isn’t the tallest highpoint (McKinley in Alaska is; Granite is number 10) nor the most remote (Gannett Peak in Wyoming is more remote), but many people have claimed that it is the most difficult highpoint to…
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visit to California – Silicon Valley tour
When we decided to visit my sister, there were just a few things we wanted to do. We obviously wanted to visit them, but in addition to that, we wanted to visit Stanford University, eat at The Giant Artichoke (she blogged about that, which is how I knew about it), and visit companies in Silicon…
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visit to California – light house and artichokes
On the 13th we drove into San Francisco, crossed the Golden Gate, and stopped for lunch in Sausalito. We then went for a nice walk to the Point Bonita lighthouse. Toren carried his cousin’s Woody doll (from Toy Story) on his shoulders the whole way (I carried Toren most of the way, in effect carrying…
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visit to California – Stanford University
During our trip to Utah we took a side trip to California to visit my sister, Wendy, her husband, Mario, and their two kids, Ethan and Xander. Mario has a fellowship at Stanford for the next couple of years and they are living near there in Campbell, CA. We drove through the night on August…
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hiking from Monte Verde to the Highlands
I spent the previous evening playing video games with my brother Josh, some of his friends, and some nephews. Josh’s wife, Jessica, stuffed us with delicious food. I needed another hike just to work dinner off, so I put Toren in the pack again and headed out, hoping to find a route from Monte Verde…
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walk by the Weber River
Feeling like I had eaten too much the previous day, we decided to go for a walk with my mom by the Weber River. There is a very nice, paved trail that starts in Riverdale and runs along the Weber River. We followed it to its end (and past the end a bit) headed south,…
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hike to Beaver Ponds
Toren has a new favorite animated kids show on PBS – Wild Kratts. It’s about two brothers who have adventures with different animals. In one episode they explore what beavers do. When we planned our trip to Utah and were going to be staying with my parents for a few days, I remembered that there…