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keep left!: the Crown Range cometh.

Posted June 21, 2009

The Crown Range Road is as good a place as any to get comfortable driving a right hand drive car. It is New Zealand’s highest paved road topping out at a sky high 1067m, a full 2 meters higher than its nearest competitor. It bullies its way up to its height with a series of progressively steeper and tighter turns and switchbacks. To say that I didn’t enjoy myself would be a lie, I had a marvelous time, it was simply accompanied with the feeling of certain impending doom with each oncoming car. The mantra that both Corrie and I continually repeated was simple yet effective: KEEP LEFT! keep left, keep left, please keep left. It was just a matter of time before my brain made the switch and everything felt proper again. I think that I am less of a hazard to myself and others now, it’s great to have personal progress.

Posted July 27, 2008

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The Guerrilla Gardening Homepage

The idea of improving urban spaces in small but poignant ways such as by installing illicit plant life is an an excellent way of re-engaging civic life in today’s modern cities.

I think that urban gardening should be looked at as having parity with Urban Art projects where by both have similar aims of creating spaces that are better for the human soul.

Vail Mountain Bike Race Series

Posted May 22, 2008

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Mountain Bike Race Series: Racing for All Ages and Abilities mountain biking kidThe VRD is proud to offer mountain bike racing for all ages and abilities this summer with the Vail Mountain and Beaver Creek Challenge Bike Series. The mountain bike series will kick off May 28 with the Eagle Classic in Eagle Ranch followed by the Mike Janelle Memorial Race on June 18. The series will then return to Vail for the 25th Anniversary Davos Dash on June 25. On July 9, the series heads toward Red Cliff for the Camp Hale race and then back to Vail where on July 23 racers will head up Vail Mountain for the challenging Vail Mountain Grind. Rounding out the season, the final race of the series will head to Beaver Creek for the Beaver Creek Blast on Aug. 6. Click here for course maps, start times and registration or call 970-479-2280.

News from Vail Recreation District

I’m really excited.

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Vail Trail Running Series

Posted May 22, 2008

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Trail Running Series: “Best Race Series in Colorado” runNamed Colorado’s “Best Race Series” by Colorado Runner Magazine, the VRD’s annual trail running series kicks off June 7-8 with the 10k Spring Run Off and 5k Mud Run as part of the Teva Mountain Games at Vail. New this year, the La Sportiva Summer Solstice Twilight 5k and 10k trail run and kids run will take place June 21 in Beaver Creek and include an after party with music, food and drinks. The Summer Solstice will be followed by the La Sportiva Vail HillClimb on July 6, La Sportiva Vail Half Marathon and Berry Picker trail run on July 20, La Sportiva 10k at 10,000 Feet on Aug. 10, Beaver Creek Vertical Ascent on Aug. 23 and La Sportiva Mountain Cup Vail Trophy Challenge on Aug. 31. The series ends with the La Sportiva Evergold 10k on Sept. 7. Click here for course maps, start times and registration or call 970-479-2280.

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I am excited.

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U.S. General Apologizes for Desecration of Koran

Posted May 19, 2008

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Again it seems to me that the thing that we should be focusing on here is that the Koran is becoming more of a central aim of the US military. We have to remember at all times that what’s important is the “hearts and minds” argument of our imperialist strategy. What better way to let the locals know that we are on their side than to literally have our sights set on their religion? Maybe they would be more receptive if that sight wasn’t on the barrel of our guns, but as far as a step in the right direction we’re certainly on the right path. Religious tolerance after all is the bed rock of a healthy democratic society. WE ARE THE CHANGE we want to see in the world.

The apology came quickly after the military confirmed that a soldier in Iraq had used a Koran for target practice.

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U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan

Posted May 17, 2008

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I think that the tendency of the U.S. to shift unamerican activities abroad is a great change from what we have done in the past. I for one would be terrified if there was a prison in my back yard that held people who had not been charged with any crime but still were thought to be a danger to society. It would obviously be flagrantly in opposition to common American values. But thankfully Afghanistan is not in my back yard, it is in the back yard of people whose common values have become accustomed to such tyrannical practices for thousands of years. And afterall we are trying win there hearts and minds, what better way to do that then to give them something they can relate to, let them know we are in this together. before you know it we’ll be hugging it out.

Officials are scaling back plans to shift prisoners into Afghan custody in a stark acknowledgment that the U.S. is likely to hold prisoners overseas for years.

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avon

Posted November 19, 2007

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I have recently made the move to avon, CO. I will be working at the Beaver Creek Ski school. Come get your vacation on.

Marathoning

Posted September 2, 2007

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So I am doing the Breckenridge Crest Mountain Marathon on Sunday September 2nd, 2007. If you are in the area you should come and see me. It is bound to be a good time.