Yearly Archives: 2013

Another Bobcat Visit

I had another bobcat visit/sighting this morning at my home in the hills above Santa Cruz — and once again a deer drove it off:

  

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Cat and Monk Go Skiing

Pictures from another weekend of skiing in Tahoe with the Outdoor Adventure Club at Squaw Valley.  Darlene and I ended up on our own for most of both ski days:

  

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Skiing/Gaming Week in Tahoe

Here’s pictures and video from a week of skiing and tabletop gaming in North Lake Tahoe with Jon, Stan, Bill, Brin and Lewis. We went to Alpine Meadows, Sugarbowl, Northstar and Squaw Valley over the course of six days.

  

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Another Cute Kitty in the House

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Another Ski Weekend in Tahoe

Just a handful of pictures from another ski weekend in Tahoe with the Outdoor Adventure Club.  The OAC group split up going separate ways this weekend but Noel and I went to Squaw Valley and joined up with Christie and some of her friends.  We also enjoyed checking out the cool snow castle and slides for kids:

 

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Año Nuevo Visit

Some video and pictures from a visit to the Año Nuevo State Park to see the elephant seals.

 

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Wicked

Several pictures from a night out in SF with Darlene to see the musical Wicked – in appropriate costume, of course!

  

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Snowshoeing in Lassen

Pictures from a weekend of snowshoeing in Lassen National Park with the Outdoor Adventure Club and Richard, Fiona, Rachel, Darlene, Colin and Tom:

  

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Moon-Jupiter Conjunction

A nice conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter tonight — meaning that they appear very close together in the sky.  With binoculars, you can see our moon, Jupiter nearby (appearing as a small disc) and several of Jupiter’s moons (several points of light around Jupiter) all at once.  Pretty cool.

I tried to capture what I could see through my binoculars using my 400mm lens plus a 2x teleconverter on my DSLR but I wasn’t able to get a sharp image with my lightweight tripod, even with a delayed shutter release.  (I have been meaning to get a heavy tripod for this sort of thing.)  So this was the best I could do before the sky started to get a little cloudy with moisture — and I never got so far as finding an exposure to catch Jupiter’s moons as well:

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Sailing in the SF Bay

Pictures from a day of sailing with Darlene and her friends from the OCSC Sailing Club on Saturday, January 19th, in the San Francisco Bay:

  

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Tahoe Skiing

Pictures from a couple of days of mid-week skiing (Jan. 16-17) at Squaw Valley with Darlene:

  

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Winter Ride in Fort Ord

Some pictures from a lovely winter ride in Fort Ord (near Monterey, CA) with the San Jose Mountain Biking Meetup Group on January 13th, 2013:

  

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