Scary (a little late)

Emergency “Food”

This is one of the scariest photos I have taken. I was going to publish it for Halloween, but got distracted. While there are a couple of empty cans in this group, there are also several than are unopened. I found these in the Boulder Shelter on the Upper Dungeness trail (in the Olympic National Forest) … they were left there for emergency food. Who knows how long they have been there. Notice there are a couple cans of Dinty Moore Beef Stew.

I would be scared to open any of these, let alone eat them. We had discussions about what opening them would be like and whether it would be an actual explosion or not.

I am going to be doing some posting when I have something worth posting, for now. We’ll see how that works.

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Update

Sierra Nevadas from the East in Spring

Greetings, Blog Followers.

I wanted to provide an update. I have recovered from my bicycle crash of August 25th much quicker than I was led to believe by the medical staff at the time. This is not due to any personal healing power of my own, but rather, I believe, due to the location of my rib injury: lower back rather than center front (like people get from deploying air bags).

Regardless, I an pleased to say that I am almost back to normal health and have been able to sell one of my two e-bikes … the other one (actually, the one I crashed), I’m keeping. I haven’t climbed back on it yet, but will soon.

I’m still reassessing my blog activity. After over 10 years of posting every other day, I am looking at changing the frequency of my posts. On that, I wil keep you … (ahem) posted.

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What’s Going On?

Dosewallips Falls

Hello All. Those of you who are regular followers of my blog may have noticed an interruption in my regular every-other-day posting schedule. The day of my last post (August 25th) my wife and I rode our eBikes up the Dosewallips River Road past the washouts and up to the old Dosewallips Campground. The image above shows the Dosewallips falls that sits about a half mile from the campground and is one of the attractions of that area.

We had a nice ride until the return trip when just after departing the campground, my bike hit a rock and the front tire kicked sideways and I left the road. Fortunately, I was only traveling 3 mph (5 kmph). However, the ground was not level and I dropped down a few feet (with the bike following on top of me) before stopped by a small alder tree and cracking 3 ribs on my lower right back. It was painful and I spent a few days in hospital.

I’m on the road to recovery, but am taking this time to reflect. My blog schedule is subject to review. I will let you all know what the result is. In the meantime, I will spend some time healing up.

Thank you all for you support. It means a lot to me.

PS Does anyone want to buy an eBike?

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Shovel Collection

Shovel Collection

I have taken more than one image of this collection of shovels. My dad would have thought that someone was using their shovel as a pry-bar to break that many handles out. Of course there are composite handles these days that are almost impossible to break, but they also are not as comfortable to use as a shovel with a wood handle. The wood has some flex to it that the composite does not. It’s pushing that flex too far that breaks the handle, of course.

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