Spirit Lake is, to this day, still choked with floating trees, the handful that floated to the surface after the massive landslide that triggered the 1980 eruption. Elsewhere, bare trees and fallen trunks are everywhere, always pointed away from the mountain.
Category: Outdoors
Weekend on the Cispus River 2
I eventually settled in by the river with a bag of fresh cherries, a bottle of water and more reading about the end of everything.
Weekend on the Cispus River 1
It’s been a while since I last started a charcoal fire, and I was a bit out of practice.
Golden Pass 3: Jungfrau Region
From Lauterbrunnen a bus takes you to the first of four cable cars that eventually arrive at the Schilthorn, or as it is more colloquially known “Piz Gloria” the name given to it by the producers of the original “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
Been offline, working on my tan
Tan lines are just not quite there yet, but should be soon.
NZ Misc.: Sandfly bite update
I hate the little buggers. 3 days later the backs of my hands and my ankles still look like I’ve got some kind of tropical disease.
NZ Day 7-8: Doubtful Sound
Every gully in the surrounding mountains turned into a cascading waterfall. I ended the second day exhausted.
NZ Day 6: Milford Sound
Towards the end of the trip, the boat went nose-in to one of the smaller waterfalls, spraying the two of us with fresh glacier melt while everybody else ran for cover.