ohana

For summer vacation (and a *zero birthday) we spent a week on the Big Island, followed by a week on Kauai. The former was quite interesting: staying in the tatami room at the family-owned Manago Hotel, followed by a beautiful chalet in the rainforest outside Volcano park, and culminating with a day in Hilo and… Continue reading →

buckeye ’07

East toward Bridgeport, then several miles up Buckeye road (washboard dirt), to our campsite by the big granite boulder. Hike on the second day to Big Meadow up Buckeye canyon beneath towering peaks and surrounded intermittently by bulls. The next day to Twin Lakes, and not a nibble. Finally to fishing Buckeye Creek, lowest level… Continue reading →

weldin’

…is, as I-Roy says, “a wha di young gyal wan,” but it should also come in handy elswhere too, I imagine. Practice, practice, today on the cutting torch…triple-ought nozzle and the steel’s like butter…

typo3

Now scaling the immense crags of Typo3.  Fell into a few cravases already, and keep finding myself back at the base camp, usually soon after a particularly stupendous panorama.