A Personal Blog
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Just Preseason Mashed Potatoes
We met up at Eastgate park-and-ride around 8am. It was raining pretty hard down in Seattle, which didn’t feel very auspicious, but we linked up anyway. Peter offered to drive, so Lawrence and I piled in. We were up at Snoqualmie around 9, started at Summit East, and skinned up toward Silver Fir. Conditions were…
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Cutthroat Ridge… too intense of a name for anything
I chatted with cashier while she smoked outside the gas station. She was saying that she thought it was weird that guys would wait in line for the bathroom at the convenience store when they could just go pee outside. It was inconsiderate to the ladies since they had to wait longer. Sophie and Patrick…
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Yellow Aster Butte
Over the weekend we headed out from Seattle to Yellow Aster Butte. The drive up took about two and a half hours from Northgate, with Lawrence kindly taking the wheel while the rest of us caught up and enjoyed the sunshine. Not a cloud in the sky, perfect hiking weather. We hit the trail around…
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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…