A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Took the General up to Stampede for the day, dog crate strapped in the bed and the speaker wedged beside it. It's a short run from Truckee, out along the…
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A few slow late-May days at home, nothing on the calendar, so I walked out to the creek both mornings. The water is still moving fast with snowmelt, riffling…
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Late spring walk on the South Yuba this evening. The river is running hard with the melt, loud enough that you stop talking without noticing. Most of the rocks…
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Started the morning along the river outside town, where the sagebrush is still winter-gray but the willows along the banks have gone green at the base. The…
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Up in Idaho, and the plan was a boat on Lake Coeur d'Alene — a sunny April day, which on this lake apparently still means wind. Took a Cobalt out from a marina…
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Skied Northstar today and so did everyone else, apparently. The corral at Arrow Express was packed all the way back to the buildings, roped lanes full of…
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Lake first, mountain after. Started on the Placer County shore, walking out along one of the old wooden piers — the water so flat the buoy field read as…
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A few bluebird days in a row now, and this one went to skiing over on the Placer County side. From the top of the ridge the whole of Tahoe was out — the lake…
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Skied at Spooner Lake today. Full sun, hardly a cloud all afternoon, and the snow out on the open meadow was tracked up every which way — ski trails, snowshoe…
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No plans today, which was the point — a winter day at home. Snow still deep across the meadow and heaped on the aspens out front, sun up high enough to knock…
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