Owl-icious

It is my new habit now when out for my ‘rehabilitation’ walks to stop whenever I hear a new birdsong and try to figure out where the bird is and whether I can identify it. As I was gazing up into a tree last week, the manager at Yosemite Lodge stopped his bike and asked … Read more

Dry spell ends

Funny I should mention this just as the fine, dry, sunny weather is ending, but so far this year the weather has been absolutely fantastic for my rehabilitation. A strong high pressure system settled in, and brought with it perfect weather for me to get out and enjoy the flat Valley trails again. This was, … Read more

Image of the Year

This year, Tom got really into photography (and even sold one to National Geographic as mentioned here somewhere or other), but hands down, without question, that our Picture of the Year is this one:

Theresa in Major Accident – Oct 22

As most people know (it was on the front page of the paper here), Theresa dislodged a boulder about four feet in diameter and it rolled over, causing major spinal damage, broken ribs, 20% pneumothorax (collapsed lung), broken fibula and somme major crush wounds (i.e. muscle and other deep tissue damage) on her legs. Despite … Read more

Ski Season is Over

So miraculously, not only is there someone who actually comes here to read, but Jeff demanded that I put something up here. Hey, it's only been three months! When was the last time that Jeff updated his blog anyway? Okay, so ski season has been over for a while now. Not as long as you … Read more

National Geographic likes me

[Written by Tom] Much to my surprise, National Geographic is buying one of my pictures to use on the cover of one of its Trails Illustrated maps. They are doing a new series of maps of Yosemite that will divide the park into four quadrants and do a high-quality, fairly large-scale map (50′ contour intervals) … Read more

Death Ray Vision

[Written by Tom] Yesterday, I taught Davis, eight years old, from Arizona. First time he’s seen snow. Though this may not seem like a significant detail, because I had left my goggles inside and it had changed from sun to snowstorm in the previous couple hours, I’m wearing dark sunglasses in a snowstorm. Riding up … Read more