Pictures from outdoor exercise.
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This photo was taken on a walk in my town a few weeks ago. Connecticut foliage!2
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The exciting life you lead Farback 👍1
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I went out for my first day telemarking for the season. Hoodoo Butte is basically a cinder cone, so it doesn't need that much snow to open, at least for the on-piste groomies. The weather was hovering right above freezing. Yuck. There was some stuff falling from the sky that wanted to pretend like it was frozen. Yuck. The light was very flat; very hard to see terrain. Yuck.
But.... I managed to sneak in a dozen runs, and I didn't even get there until noon. I figured I'd just go for a few hours. About 10,000 feet of descent.
And then, all of the sudden.... Well, not all of the sudden. I stopped to tighten a buckle on my boot, and the ladder strap broke in two. The boots are older Scarpa T2 boots with two buckles. The easiest way back was to go ahead and take another lift ride and ski down to the lodge. I hoped that maybe they would have some old parts. I was out of luck as they are getting out of telemark. They actually said they just went through and threw out a bunch of stuff last week. Bummer.
But I was IN luck!
They had some Scott Synergy boots that had never been on the mountain, and they loaned me a pair in my size so I could get a few more runs in. THANK YOU HOODOO!!!! I totally loved them! I would have bought them if (a) they were for sale and (b) I hadn't already ordered some newer boots from Gear Exchange. The new boots I ordered are four-buckle Scarpa T1 boots, similar to the Scott boots I borrowed yesterday. They allegedly have less than ten days on them. They should arrive at my PO box today so I can go back to the mountain tomorrow morning.
I had some trouble with a strap on my old boots last year, and I went by the ski shop a few weeks ago to see if they maybe still had parts. They actually do. I have a lot of faith in the shop as a whole and especially the tech I was working with. He said the shells were in fine shape, and the buckles were actually in good shape, so I didn't replace them. The ratchets that hold them also seemed to be fine, and he said that's what goes first. I was going to order a new liner. I am glad I didn't now that the buckle is broken! Depending on the cost of the parts, I may fix them anyway and keep them for touring or sell 'em cheap.
Anybody need a set of size 26.5 Scarpa T2 boots with a broken buckle?
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Weather today was SO much better.
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Looks like fun!! I've never done downhill skiing but my kids loved it.0
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Hoodoo is a cinder cone. It can have decent conditions with less snow than places with more things that need to get covered up. I'm hoping we get a bunch of snow and they open up the back side and the Hodag lift.
I tried to focus on my telemark turns. It's kind of like doing lunges over and over. I had one pretty good fall going down hill pretty fast. Not sure what grabbed my ski. It could have been my other ski. I had enough inertia that I launched. It was steep enough that it wasn't a hard impact, even with the kind of hard snow. Nice few hours playing with gravity. Logged about 12,000 feet in a little less than three hours.3 -
Absolutely beautiful. But cold weather fun is so not my thing.
If I can't have warm Carribean salt water, I'll take a hot forge in 110 degree (F) heat anyday before I'd bundle up for snow.
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It really wasn't that cold. I took my gloves OFF when I got on the lift so they would stay drier. Modern high-tech fabrics really help dump water vapor and keep you warm but not TOO hot. Well, just don't wear too much or.... whew. It's WAY too hot. It's just when the lift stops and you're only a few hundred feet from the top and the wind is blowing and a cloud comes over.... Yeah, that can be cold
I bought a season pass last spring when they were having a great deal. I plan to get up there quite a lot this year. Y'all might get bored of seeing the images, so I'll keep it to a minimum. Or not and you can just be bored
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Went back to Hoodoo yesterday. Much worse conditions. It rained the day before, so it was steel corduroy on top. Hard to make telemark turns. It was softer down lower. Parking lot was more than full, but not much lift lines. Nice! Still did 14 laps. They were shorter because I wasn’t going to the top. About 11,000 feet of vertical in 8.2 miles.
Highway was closed for a short time on the way home.
Then when I got home, I had
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Today’s outdoor activity was actually inside. It was my volunteer dive shift at the aquarium. I spent the first dive as deck manager.
Then a walk by the piers to see the crab boats waiting to FINALLY get to go set Dungeness pots a month late,
then some pan fried local oysters.
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Did a short hike in Buford Park to celebrate the new year. We were fortunate to see the sun this time of year. Just over four miles to the summit and back. Views of two of the Three Sisters, Diamond Peak, and the Coast Fork Willamette.
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Today's outdoor exercise for me was not photo-worthy. Overnight, we had snow followed by freezing rain. It took more than 30 min to get my truck mostly cleared of frozen gack... then another 90 min to clear the walkway & driveway...
The snow removal company I have a contract with sent an email saying the accumulation was too little for them to bother dealing with... Between my shovels, ice scraper and snowblower, I cleared the worst of it... After I got back inside and had supper, the company sent a second email saying, due to overwhelming response from clients, they were coming out after all. Ugh!!4 -
Lots of new snow on Sunday made for a nice, soft day on Monday. Being Monday after the holidays, there were no lift lines. Like none.
It was pretty tracked out when I got there late morning, but I found some stashes on the back side. Nice day with just some overcast here and there; we even saw the sun some. The new wet heavy snow burned my legs after only a dozen runs.
I should stop posting these. They are going to get boring.
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Please don't stop sharing!2
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Not really anything to do with exercise (yet) but woke up to this...
with more of the same this morning, changing to snow after lunch. At least its not sticking to the ground... yet.
Sure making me look forward to that Cozumel Scuba Trip late next month. (And there is the link to outside exercise.)2 -
Damn, that's unpleasant. We're in Jamaica in March. I should get 10 dives or so under my weight belt.1
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@d_thomas02, that's beautiful: One of the variants of what I call "waking up in a Christmas card". Unless/until it causes real damage, it's lovely and magical.1
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Oh yuck. Ice is such a pain. I hope you don't have too much tree damage. And yeah, Cozumel will be great. Good thing this happened before you went so you can make sure to keep after anything that needs kept after before you go. Yuck.
Out here where it's not nearly so cold, we had a great day on the river. I finally found a victim, er, passenger last night. He had a great time. Weather was fabulous. We had eight boats. Three inflatable kayaks, four catarafts, and my 15' raft.
I charged my camera last night, but the battery died as I took my third picture. Oh well. I pulled a snapshot off a video I shot after I pulled into an eddy below Mill City Falls. It's a friend rowing his NRS cat.
I'd attach the video, but it's probably too big of a file.
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Freezing rain is lovely to look at... particularly when there's bright sun reflecting through it... but it can be so destructive...0
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The weatherman mentioned that half a degree either way could push the freeze line 20 miles in any direction.
We were half a degree higher than predicted so all the ice melted off and no snow overnight. Temperatures are now below freezing this morning but ground and above ground objects are clear here. Nothing but a few twigs broke off in this one.
Areas a few miles north have 20 inches of snow on top of half an inch of ice with scattered power outages.
Still, nothing like the ice storm of 2007 (to the day today). An inch of frozen stuff and thousands of folks without power, some for six or seven weeks.
(Made enough in OT during that one, birddogging for out-of-town line crews, to buy all my current dive gear.)1 -
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We did a short hike on the edge of town. I hadn’t been to this park in years. They did a nice job removing the Douglas-fir to let the oaks thrive. The fire they’ve been using seems to have reduced a lot of the poison oak. Nice view to the Cascades and also some of the bad air in the valley.
It’s such a short hike, we went down and did a lap on the boardwalk through a local wetland.5 -
Warning: Non-compliant post!
1. No picture.
2. Not outside.
3. Not exercise.
But I have sent pictures of my aquarium diving before. It's exercise, and you can imagine it's outside because there's wild animals and all. But that's not outdoor exercise, either. But I'm posting this anyway because you could have knocked me over with a feather when I was at the annual Volunteer Celebration last night, and I was selected as the Volunteer Diver of the Year!
My award is a nice, artistic glass fishing float on a little mount. I should take a picture
Thanks for letting me gloat in a completely non-humble way. My shift at the aquarium is Monday, so I'm sure I'll get some good feedback from my team and from staff. It's a great job, and after I don't have to go to my day job to earn a check, I'll add at least one more shift at the aquarium.6 -
That sounds like a great volunteer job. I’ve been a diver for many years, but no aquarium here. I’d love to do this.1
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Did DiveQuest at Disney's Epcot center a little over a decade ago. 5.7 million gallon saltwater aquarium, 130 foot in diameter and I forget exactly how deep, something like 20-25 foot. Even had a big sand tiger shark. I can see the appeal of being a volunteer diver for a large aquarium. Not many aquariums that size in the mid-west USA.
(Not my photo.)
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The Oregon Coast Aquarium (OCAq) in Newport is a real gem. It's considered to be in the top ten in the nation, although it's not really that big. That means the aquarists are generalists, which I think would be way more fun than just doing one thing all day every day. One thing I really like about OCAq is that the focus is on animals that live right there offshore. You may remember Keiko. He was an Orca that lived at OCAq for a while. He starred in Free Willy. He was rehabilitated and released in Iceland, and later died.
As volunteer divers, our main focus is Passages of the Deep. This is a three-exhibit series with an acrylic tunnel that leads you through all three. The entire exhibit used to be one giant habitat where Keiko lived. If I recall, the three exhibits are about 300,000, 600,000, and 1,200,000 gallons, but I probably have that wrong. The first exhibit is a near-shore rocky zone called Orford Reef. The next is a sandy bottom mid-water exhibit called Halibut Flats. The pelagic exhibit is where our sharks are. The sharks we have are all what you might see out in the pelagic zone off of Oregon. We have broadnose seven-gill sharks, Soupfin sharks (Tope sharks), spiny dogfish, chimera (ratfish), Leopard sharks, and California Bat Rays. We sometimes are asked to dive in the main building exhibits. Some are really tiny and can be claustrophobic. Main building exhibits include piers & pilings, sandy shores, rocky shores, Oregon kelp forest, California community (OK, not exactly Oregon), Spider crab, jellies, and a number of smaller exhibits. Some really small – less than five gallons. We don’t dive those.
Volunteering at OCAq is very rewarding. I am very fortunate that my team are all great folks who have the volunteer mindset. Without them, I don’t think I would have been honored last night. One of my very least favorite jobs is assigning tasks. I’m a shift captain. My team knows that, and so we work together to strategize what jobs are the biggest priority for the aquarists, then we all work together to choose which jobs we do. Everyone is willing to do ANY job, even the less fun ones. Everyone takes their turn stepping up and doing those jobs. We even have a couple that comes in early and dives the aviary. That’s a challenging job – ‘nuff said. My team feels like an extended family, and we all miss each other when someone has to be absent from a shift. The staff loves our team, too. That feeling is mutual. I’m looking forward to being there on Monday, but not the early morning drive over the mountain.
Next time I'm in Atlanta, I hope to dive the One World Ocean exhibit (Ocean Voyager) at the Georgia Aquarium. Whale sharks!4 -
This time there’s an outdoor exercise picture
On my afternoon walk, I saw daffodils blooming. I SAW DAFFODILS BLOOMING! I checked my watch, and just as I thought, it is mid January. WTF?
No, there’s no climate chaos.....3 -
4 degrees and snowing again...no outdoor exercising for me.
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@StrawberryJam40 -- I'm guessing you aren't going swimming today. Looks beautiful, better get out the cross-country skis.1
