Mount Philo State Park

 

Fine Metals

6 Mile Loop

This is the current loop I am using for training. It's a 6 mile loop around my house. It's not exactly flat, but I enjoy it.

Smugglers Notch Vermont

A few hours at smuggs.

Fine Metals

One of the benefits of my job is the ability to take classes. Click here to view the blog for the class

Santa Monica bike path

Once again I was lucky enough to find myself in California! This time I rented a bike and rode the the bike path from some where north of Santa Monica down to Venice Beach.

You can see the pier in this image, it's about 1/3 the way up from the bottom of the track.


Click here to see a nice image of the pier in Venice beach that I made in November 2005

Burlington Vt, To Portland Me

I recently had the opportunity to travel with Harjit to Portland Maine.

We took two different routes, one route was 5 miles longer than the other, but faster. In the image below, we took US93 North to Route 4 east over to Portsmouth NH. It's a secondary road with a bunch of stop lights and little towns. On the return trip we used 101 West (the lower track), it's longer but faster because it's all highway.



Going south to Portland:
BTV
US89 South
US93 North
NH 4 East
US95 North

250 miles: 65.1 avg m/hr

Going north to Burlington:
Portland
US95 South
US101 West
US93 North
US89 North

255 miles: 71.3 avg m/hr




We went over a couple hills too....

La Jolla Canyon California

I recently had the oppotunity to hike La Jolla Canyon in La Jolla California. It's a pretty easy hike, about 7 miles around the canyon. You start at basically sea level and climb over 1000ft. The views are amazing, well worth the trip.



This is the altitude profile of the hike.



I you have Google Earth installed on your computer Click Here to view the track

I hope to have a few more pictures to post soon.

St. Albans Bay

We went for a walk on the ice today...

 

Shadetree Mechanic

I spent about an 2 hours today fixing the right front window in my VW Jetta. A log time ago in previous life I used to be an auto mechanic. There is something I miss about that job...Click Here to see what I did.

A new blog for technology posts

This would be my "other" blog where I post tech stuff. The first post is a problem I solved over the weekend, where I needed to use a data bound ASP.NET list box, but also have a blank row. Anyway..
Check it out here.

The Barn Today

I took a couple hours and cut my barn up today. Some of the beam were 100+ years old, but they were like cutting a telephone pole. They very solid were also very heavy!















Time for a bon (Barn) fire!!

Training Log

Today was really nice out so I went for a bike ride.This is a link to my training log.Check it out and leave some inspiration.

Visited Countries

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Visited States

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My barn one year ago today!

This photo was taken in 01/05. 

Georgia Vermont to West Danville Vermont

This is a track from Georgia Vermont to West Danville Vermont, in a couple different formats.

The Route...

US Route 7

VT 104A

VT 104

VT 15

VT 2

LandSat photos...












The profile of the track above. It's basically lake Champlain (you can see the lake off to the left) to Joe's Pond (near the end of the track), an altitude increase of about 1500 feet.













US Tiger

Pitless Adapter

Overnight last night the Pitless Adapter on my well casing broke. The connector was fine, but the connection on the distribution line on the outside of the well casing had split. I hired an excavator (my neighbor) and dug up my yard. It was about 20 degrees outside when we were doing this. It took a couple hours to diagnose and repair.

















A couple shots of the excavator work



All cleaned up, just need some grass seed














The broken distribution pipe

Versace on Rodeo Drive

Need I say more!

Stockbridge Massachusetts to Colchester Vermont

This is a track from Stockbridge Ma. to Colchester VT.
We do this quite often, it pretty simple, 160 miles, 3 and a half hours or so.
 

McLean Virginia to Stockbridge Massachusetts

This was our after Thanksgiving drive, 401 miles in 6.25 hours. The route...

US 495 North
US 95 North
US 295/95/New Jersey Turnpike North
US 287 North
US 87 North
US 84 East
NY Taconic State Parkway North
NY 22 East
MA 7 North

Venice Beach California

This is a Garmin Forerunner track I made of the pier at Venice Beach. I stood in the surf for a few minutes, took a walk on the pier, then walked downtown and had an ice cream. A good day but I really wished my wife and kids could have been there with me, they would have loved it!

Griffith Park California

The other day I hiked to Griffith Observatory. It was a nice walk up a very big hill. From the trail you can get a really nice view of the Hollywood sign. This sign was a little more concerning to me though.



The Griffith Observatory with Los Angeles in the background.

Santa Monica Pier

I recently had a chance to visit California. Here is a shot of the pier in Santa Monica at night.

Bowkers Woods Lower Trail

The elevation graph, as you can see it's pretty flat













A GPS plot of the trail






This is another trail maintained by the Laurel Hill Assocition.
It's a nice trail along the Housatonic River in Glendale Massachusetts.


To access this trail, travel on Route 183 out of Stockbridge. In Glendale, past the park turn right and travel down the hill toward the river. Cross the river, and park on the other side of the rail road tracks. Walk to the top of the hill, the trail begins on your left just after the crest of the hill.

The Mary Flynn Trail

We went on a short hike in Stockbridge Massachusetts this past weekend. The Mary Flynn trail is a very easy walk on a crushed stone paved trail.

In another life...

A long time ago in a job far far away I used to be a mechanic. One day I got a call to put a motor in a car. But I had to go there at night after work, it was all hush hush. Well, turns out I had to re-install the motor in this car. They had used the car to film the ride for Universal Studios.

A Fright Pig!