So.
You may have noticed this site has been down for the past few days.
If not, you may have noticed a lot of the information on my site — like categories — are gone.
Needless to say, I’m having a few issues with my web host, which thinks my lil’ ol’ site is taking up too much CPU time. I’m going to try to straighten this out over the next few days, but access and content may be spotty.
REALLY not looking forward to re-writing all the categories. Grr.
If you link to this site, and the URL you’re using has something like “modernhiker.dreamhosters.com” in it, please do me a favor and change it to simply “modernhiker.com.” The link should still work fine, and if I should have to move to a new hosting company, you won’t even notice … except that my site will probably be up more often.
Our annual coverage of the E3 Expo kicked off last night, which means I will be in various control booths or writer hermitages for the next few days.
Posting has been / will continue to be very light for the next few days. Once I get out of this bleary-eyed gamer haze and back on the trail, I’ll pick back up where I left off.
Until then, enjoy these panoramic quicktime photos of trail locations, via the Goat, and a collection of videos from this year’s PCT, via simplehiker.
I’ll be keeping them both running in the background while I write about graphics, franchises, and processors. See you in a bit!
Over the weekend, I climbed Mount Hillyer - my 25th peak over 5000 feet - and now qualify for membership in the Sierra Club’s Hundred Peaks Chapter! That’s one New Year’s Resolution down, several more to go.
But as it’s a big number, I thought I’d take a peek at how I’m doing so far this year. Also, GPS programs make it easy and fun to keep track of all sorts of fun numbers. So here’s the first half of 2007:
Hikes done: 19
Total Mileage: 168.15 miles - 72.23 uphill, 78.07 downhill, 14.96 level
Total Ascent: 66,805 feet
Time Spent Hiking: 5 days, 12 hours, 28 minutes.
To put that in perspective, for the entire year of 2006, I hiked 234 miles with just under 47,000 feet of incline. So I could be doing better, but I’m definitely going to destroy last year’s numbers.
Hopefully.
Here’s to another six months of high-quality hiking time!
I got back to Los Angeles from the east coast this week.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to tear myself away from my friends - or the unbelievably cheap microbrews ($2 a pint!) - long enough to tackle anything too deep in the Adirondacks.
Luckily, the Saratoga Springs Spa State Park was easily walkable from my hotel room. While the park doesn’t have any supremely challenging trails, I did manage to stumble on a cross-country skiing path that led to some pretty thick forests.
Continue reading ‘Back in Town’
I’m heading to the Adirondacks for a friend’s wedding and will be without Internets until next week.
I’ve still got a few hikes to write up - and may pick up a new one near Lake George, if all goes according to plan. Until then, use the sidebar to find another friendly neighborhood hiking blogger, or find yourself a hike and hit the trail.
W00t!
Still nothing on Tom breaking the one-thousand mark, but hey - a guy’s gotta start somewhere.
If all goes well, I should hit my 100th hiked mile for the year this weekend, too.
Thanks to everyone who’s reading!
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“No hiking for two weeks.”
That is one bad-tasting prescription. But if it’ll get my knee back in working condition and help me avoid some of the nasty medical problems that snagged some of my hiking-blogging brethren, then so be it.
I will continue to update and write until I can get back on the trail, so stay tuned. I still have last week’s misadventures to post.
My Annual Hiking Odometer just hit 99 miles of distance for 2007. I guess this’ll make mile 100 a bit more special. But man, that wait’s not going to be fun.
*** update ***
According to the doc, it appears to be a simple ‘repetitive stress injury.’ I’m getting a precautionary x-ray tomorrow, but hoping this is just one of those things that fixes itself if I chill out … ’cause I’ve been eyeing some long distance backpacking trails and I’d hate to miss out. I’ll keep you posted.
So I’m going to be in Saratoga Springs this May for a wedding, and noticed the city is tantalizingly close to the Adirondack Park.
Anyone out there have any trail suggestions in the southeastern part of the park, should I happen to sneak away from the wedding party for a few hours?
The 60% Geek in me has been wrapped up in work and the exploding Aqua-Gate scandal. I’ll be back with some hikin’ news soon.
Promise.
Due to the holiday weekend, and me being back at work tomorrow, it may take slightly longer for me to get the next hike write-up ready for viewing.
Right now, the story is that I fought off an angry bobcat with my bare hands.
…
In reality, the story is not quite that exciting, but it’s still pretty good. I’ll go as quickly as possible.
But my hands hurt.
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