tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268230322274565742011-11-27T18:58:01.756-06:00A look into the day to day adventures of life.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16228082290656496371noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526823032227456574.post-63547006253510548082010-01-24T22:20:00.002-06:002010-01-24T22:21:51.465-06:00

1/17/10 Awaking this morning sometime before sunrise, after a restful nights sleep, the first thing I thought to do was walk back over to the rim and watch the sun rise over the desert, and I made it just in time.  After that I had breakfast, which was just granola and tea; packed up camp, and was on the trail again. With about 6 miles to go today, I continued down the south rim for about

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Intro: This trip kind of snuck up on me, I had been wanting to hike to the south rim in Big Bend NP for awhile, but never had a good opportunity.  Then having a 3-day weekend for MLK Jr. Day, couldn't have been better, but I didn't realize that specific weekend was approaching until 2 days before.  So I spent the first of those 2 days deciding if I still wanted to go and then the other planning

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(I apologize for the lack of photos, I didn't bring a camera along but you can read Hannah's account of the trip at asuperioradventure.com and she included a few photos) So, since I was back in Wisconsin visiting family for my Christmas vacation, I decided to take some time and go back up to Houghton, MI (where I went to school) to visit some friends that I hadn't seen in a while.   A couple of

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After departing Corpus Christi it was about a 5 hour drive to Lake Amistad where i decided to stay that evening.  After all the driving I had done in the last 2 days I was beginning to hate being in the car, but it seemed Tess dreaded it even more then I did, as she became more reluctant to even get into the car.  But 5 hours later at about 5 pm we arrived at lake amistad where I began to set up

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Departing San Antonio, it was about a 2 and a half hour drive down to the coast, but after the long drive the day before it went pretty quick.  With a few pit stops along the way stocking up on food, we arrived at Padre Island National Seashore around 4:30pm.  Initially my plan for this trip was to spend Thursday in San Antonio then then Friday and Saturday on the coast, driving back to Alpine on

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Since I live so far from home, I was not able to make it there this thanksgiving, so I decided instead to tour Texas a little.  First on the itinerary was San Antonio, I had heard a lot about this city including how nice the river walk is, as well as how there is a ton of crime.  Well, the first aspect turned out to be true, and I was fortunate enough to not experience the second aspect, although

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Well it's official, I've given her a name: Tessa or Tess for short. She has been an amazing dog so far, being only 14 weeks old, she is pretty much already house trained and crate trained.  But she is a puppy, and therefore when she's not in her crate needs to be watched constantly.  Which was only reinforced in my mind when Thursday morning, while I was taking a quick shower she decided it

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Sorry for the delay in finishing this trip details, New dog is quite a handful and keeping me busy. Most of Day 3's climbing of Maroon Peak can be read here View Larger Map ...After getting back into Aspen we stopped once again at the most affordable place in town, McDonalds, grabbed a quick bite to eat and then I began my trek home. After going over Independence pass again I bid farewell to

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View Larger Map When I woke up in the next morning, after a semi restless night of trying to keep warm, it was a chilling 27 degrees and it turned out that all the few other people in the camp area had left shortly after the sun went down.  So, first thing was breakfast, which required the filtering of some more water, which is not a fun activity in freezing water.  Once I had the water the next

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I know I promised to finish posting the rest of the Colorado trip, and in due time I will, but first... Well, after a year of going back and forth on getting a dog I finally did it... She is a brown lab mixed with something to be determined (possibly German Shepard) and is 3.5 months old. I have yet to name her, the name the humane society gave her is Katie but I plan to change that once I

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From Pic of the Day

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I was so excited to post the trip report about the climb on North Maroon Peak that I left out everything about the rest of the trip, so following this post will be the other days of the trip, Enjoy... Day 1 View Larger Map Having to work on Friday, I devised a scheme to get me CO bound a little quicker.  For work we had set up two forest inventory plots in north Hudspeth CO here in Texas,

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In addition to bringing you all posts about my recent adventures, I also had this idea I like to call pic of the day.  With this I plan on trying to post a picture every day (although I can't guarantee it will be every day, it may very well be every few days, or less) that I took, showing something cool I saw.  And since I travel a lot for my job here with the TX forest service, I thought it

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So to really kick this site off right, here's the trip report from last weekends attempt on North Maroon Peak. After getting into Aspen relatively late Saturday night and meeting up with the rest of the party (Matt, Chris, Andy and 2 Dogs), we drove up to the trail head to camp for the evening.  After a little confusion about fees and where to camp we set up in the parking lot, and began

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Hello all, Today marks the beginning of my documentation of my adventures in life.  From now on I will hopefully be able to keep you all updated with the great adventures in my life, but that's not all, I will also try to, from time to time, add posts about interesting things that happen while going about life. Also, you can view photos from my latest adventures, through the picasa links on the

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