Hikes and Bikes

Hikes and Bikes goes dark

It's bike season and I've got a day job.  Something's gotta give, and it's the blog.

going to Duke

This fall I will enroll in Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment to study environmental economics.

So, looks like I'll be hanging up the skis. 

Unless my powder skis work on water.  They're pretty big.

Belle on high alert

Belle and I took advantage of a warm, sunny day to go exploring in the Uinta mountains.  I was in no danger of being surprised by anything that smelled like a stick as she was on high alert.

Just another day in Paradise

Pics from skiing Wolverine with Billy on Jan 23.

Billy, looking out over Alta.  That's Mount Superior center-right and the SLC valley inversion in the distance.

The cirque looking pretty bony.

Another pic of Little Cottonwood and Superior. 

Just a mundane slog out over that ridgelet.

Wolverine Cirque

I skied Wolverine yesterday. 

That is all.

Banff area pics

A few pictures from the area around Banff, Alberta.  Mostly from Kootenay NP and Kananaskis Country.  All pics were taken in early July 06.

Heading towards the Rockwall.

Looking back a couple miles later.

Unknown mountain.  Somebody probably knows, but I don't.

Avalanche debris.  In July.  Travelling down that canyon, we passed over several debris fields that were still more than 10 feet deep.  Everything's bigger in Canada, eh?

Looking across from Mt Baldy, Kananaskis.  We found this hike by my tried-n-true method of asking around in the local bar.  Worked all summer.

Alta, baby, Alta

Alta is open for the season.

The weather has been gorgeous.

While cover was sparse, we found some turns.  Here's the roommie making her way down Punch Bowl.

A few of this season's ski pictures are on flickr.

A worse joke

I decided that my last joke was too funny and not reliant enough on arcane knowledge.  So, I give you a tale from Greg Mankiw's blog.

A group of macroeconomists are sitting on a panel at a conference discussing developments in the discipline.

In a heated exchange, the New Keynesian says to the Real Business Cyclist: “You guys have put macroeconomics back twenty years with this nonsense!”

The Real Business Cyclist smiles and says “So you DO believe in negative productivity shocks after all.”

Joke of the Day

What happens when you combine a mountain climber and a mosquito?

Nothing; you can't add scalars and vectors.

A couple Alberta pics

A couple pics:

Canmore, Alberta, from near camp in Kananaskis Country.

Who's crossing the River Ochre?  This guy!

Our hero, in front of unknown falls.  (Creed, you remember the name? )

The Rockwall and Rockwall Trail, Kootenay NP, Alberta.