Grand Canyon Trip – Day 5 – Capitol Reef NP

[singlepic id=2112 w=240 float=left] Having completed most everything we could do in Zion short of the hikes that require permits, such as the Narrows and Subway.  Our next destination was Capitol Reef.  It was relatively close, something new, and sounded like there might be some interesting hikes there.  It’s not… Continue reading

Grand Canyon Trip – Day 4 – Zion National Park

[singlepic id=2036 w=240 float=left] Clearly, a smart person would have categorized this entire trip as being to Zion with some side hikes.  But, I’m being stubborn and calling it the Grand Canyon trip because that’s what we intended it to be. We had read some of the information on Capitol… Continue reading

Grand Canyon Trip – Day 2 – Zion National Park

As mentioned previously, we decided to get up and head out in the early AM and try our luck getting passes for The Wave at the visitor center in Kanab, UT.  We made two mistakes in this adventure. We arrived at about 8:50, just before the 9:00 lottery, except that… Continue reading

Tankless Water Heater

[singlepic id=1924 w=640] Background I needed to replace a very very old electric tank water heater before the bottom fell out and flooded my basement. I wanted to switch to gas for cost reasons.   I didn’t want to install it close enough to the chimney, which is far from… Continue reading

Lime Island

[singlepic id=1919 w=480 float=left] Second to last of the year (though I noticed that I did miss a few days).  One that I tagged quite a while back but never posted, from a kayaking adventure to Lime Island four or so years ago. Pictures taken with Canon 60D, EF-S 17-85mm… Continue reading

Washington – Day 8 – Mt. Rainier

[singlepic id=1806] Day 7 was partially taken up with our descent from Lake of the Angels, partially taken up with our loitering at the trail head pondering what to do next and partially taken up driving toward Mt. Rainier.  We stopped off at a hotel along the way as it… Continue reading

Washington – Day 6 & 7 – Olympic National Park

[singlepic id=1764 w=480 float=right template=caption] [singlepic id=1725 w=480 float=right template=caption] [singlepic id=1732 w=480 float=right template=caption] We actually got up early and left Aberdeen right around 7AM headed for the Mt. Ellinor trail head which we reached around 9:00.  I think there were two trail heads for Mt. Elinore and we… Continue reading