Archive for the ‘Traveling’ Category
Lake City Ice
This morning Pete and I headed out to Lake City to sample some of the new ice in the Lake City Ice Park. It’s not a very large park, at least compared to Ouray, but it’s a very chill setting. When we arrived in town at about noon, there was absolutely nobody out on the [...]
Ouray Ice Festival 2010
As you all know by now, we start every year by attending the Ouray Ice Festival with our friends Andy and Gretchen. We’ve often climbed a bit of ice around town before the festival, but this November and December were just crazy with other trips, and I can’t climb because I can’t wear my harness [...]
Baby Shower 1
The first baby shower is in the books, so I guess baby Gribble is official. Of course, we still don’t know if it’ll be a he or a she. As you may well know, we are planning to wait to find out when s|he is finally born sometime around the end of March or the [...]
Christmas: Part 1
Jess and I are on a lovely Christmas vacation. We left after work on Friday, and after picking up a rental car in Boulder, we stopped off at home and headed for Ohio. While packing up the car, we checked out the weather report. The forecast was for pretty low temperatures (15–20 °F) across most [...]
Oh Canada!
After crossing the border into Canada (see the previous post), we headed north past several small towns. Interestingly, many are much cleaner and more affluent in appearance then their counterparts just south of the border. I wonder if the Canadians think of this part of Canada as the “Deep South”? At any rate, we continued [...]