The Weather’s Good
at 6900 feet, roughly 6600 feet above Claremont.
It’s been a while, but here’s the update — Italy was indeed great with Berky and Folu. I had the best meal of my life (salmon, but 5x better than any other salmon I’ve ever had… and Walter’s serves good salmon) in Venice. We drank a lot of Pilsner in Prague and saw some pretty sick gothic architecture and the beginning of World Cup. We flew home as the US soccer team got schooled by the Czechs. Did some working and some playing in Claremont, and then strapped my brand new (used) mountain bike on my car and drove to Park City, UT for the Park City Math Institute. I’ve been here doing some working (hyperbolic geometry) and some playing (the usual, but with stricter liquor laws and a 1 minute walk to high mountain singletrack instead of a 1-5 hour drive). Last weekend I drove to Carbondale and Aspen to visit friends and my fly-fishing guide cousin, whose advice landed me an 8 foot seabass my first time out (picture coming soon). And we saw a wacky laser light show at Snowmass.
Eventually all the Europe photos will find their way to flickr. I haven’t really taken any pics in Park City. It’s beautiful, of course. Coming up after this last week in Utah will be my favorite roadtrip once again – the west coast. I’ll be in Portland until late July visiting all the ladies and gents I worked with last fall (what’s up busfolk?!) and a bunch of schoolmates and family and then heading down through SF back to sunny SoCal for August.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:16 AM
Which of our cousins is that?
(And, why is something found in Colorado called a “seabass”? Aren’t there several dams in between there and the sea?)
We had fun on our trip down the west coast from Portland – first time I’d actually made it to Yosemite and Sequoiah – and then down the length of 40.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:39 PM
Tyler, the one who’s about to help his buddy run a hotel in Costa Rica. Our cousins are cool.
Technically, nothing in Colorado is called a “seabass.” And I don’t think there are many 8 foot things in their rivers, either. But if you catch a fish I think you’re entitled (obligated, really to exaggerate.
Yeah Yosemite’s crazy… you know their forest-fire control is as concerned with which monuments are being obscured by smoke during tourist season as it is with forest ecology? And Sequoia is beautiful. You shoulda backpacked :P Highway 40 is less exciting… oh well.
July 16th, 2006 at 4:29 PM
Yeah, I kinda skimmed over the “8 foot” part until I re-read it just now.
And yeah, Yosemite is hella crowded on the main road and the uber-short paths to good views. But surprisingly (or maybe not so), you only have to walk for like 15 minutes on most trails before it’s almost as quiet and pretty as any other good day-hike. Which was good, since we only had time to get in 4 hours or so of walking of walking. We actually mostly walked backwards along the valley so we could catch a shuttle back eventually. Worked out. Though if I ever go back with real time I wanna do the trail up halfdome or something. Going straight up the valley also looked intriguing but I noticed on the map that area was “not reccommended for hiking”. Too many rockslides maybe?