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:

Año Nuevo Visit

February 12, 2013April 19, 2019 ChrisLeave a comment

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

Wicked

February 11, 2013April 12, 2019 ChrisLeave a comment

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

Snowshoeing in Lassen

January 29, 2013May 5, 2024 ChrisLeave a comment

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

Moon-Jupiter Conjunction

January 21, 2013June 11, 2013 ChrisLeave a comment

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: