A Personal Blog
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Dream Themes and Selected Sequences
Following up on my last blog post, here are some highlights from my dream log… Tech & Travel Adventures Tesla at the dump → You found a discarded Tesla sedan, restored it with bodywork, and drove it down to Tacoma like a prize reclaimed from ruin. * Tesla road trip from Texas → You realized…
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ChatGPTs Interpretation of 1.5 years of Daily Dream Logging
I’ve been logging my dreams lately. Below is ChatGPTs response when asked to deduce some things about my life, my purpose and what vision I’m pursuing. 1. Themes of Building, Repairing, and Reconstructing Across many dreams, you are building houses, patching drywall, shifting foundations, fixing cars (Tesla, damaged windshield, bald tires), or evaluating properties. Even…
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A Weekend of Patience, Perseverance and Promises Kept!
Good Thing We Got Everything Wrong Out of the Way Early… The adventure kicked off Friday evening with a real *classic*: turning into the northbound express lanes during peak southbound traffic. As we cruised north, we glided past miles of bumper-to-bumper southbound cars, soon, we too would be joining them. Our first opportunity to exit…
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Warming up for the Big One on Mt Hood
First Volcano of the Season: Mount Hood South Face The goal for the season is to summit Mt. Rainier, so we warmed up with Mt. Hood via the South Face. Johannes, Lawrence, my new friend Justin, my mom, and me got together and caravanned down to the Timberline lodge at around noon Saturday. The original…
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A Spring Ski Mission to Mount Baker
We met up at the park-and-ride around 8 a.m.—me, Reid, and a few others—and hit the road for Mount Baker. We rolled into the parking lot around 10:30 and were on the trail by 11. The group was solid: Reid (my longtime hiking buddy), Lawrence (who I’ve known for a while around Seattle), and Peter,…
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Snovernight @ Kendall Lakes
Met Betsy at Swedish hospital around eight on Saturday. Usually when I’m meeting people for the snow shoe overnights I have to leave the apartment at like 530, so this late start was a nice break from the usual. We met the team at a park in Snoqualmie around 9am. Mike Kretzler was leading the…
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What is this? Powder Snow?
It’s been a while, maybe a month since we’ve had fresh snowfall. But Mother Nature delivered and about three feet of the good stuff has fallen since Thursday. My buddy Johannes and I figured today would be about as good as any to see it for ourselves. Avalanche dangers would be considerable, but the tree…
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Blasted with Pow in Bullion Basin
I must’ve been excited for this ski outing because I woke up at 4:30am thinking I had overslept my alarm. My dream that morning was comical. It involved a 4ft tall chicken leg, dessert for breakfast. And culminated with me being stranded high up on a peak somewhere in the Issaquah Alps with only 10…
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Avoiding Crystal Mountain Crowds on Little Ranger Peak
Why do people hike in the winter? Is it because it’s winter and it’s beautiful with the snow and crisp air. Or do folks get out in it because it’s winter and that’s just how it is and staying indoors for the entire weekend is way worse than going out in the cold, frozen forest?…
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Taking the High Road (forest road 7320) to Serpentine Hill and Iron Mountain
There was some confusion because Mark thought a few of us hadn’t taken the right turns to get to the Serpentine Hill trailhead. Justifiably, there were a few confusing turns and it would’ve been easy to get lost. I had come up the night before the try out my new car camping set up so…