31 Jan 2010 | 1 comment »
For anyone contemplating on coming out here this winter… we got 7+ feet of snow in the mountains last week. I’ve been stuck on nightfloat so haven’t enjoyed much of it (other than the faceplant). I plan on getting in a lot more XC these next 2 weeks. It’s hard to fit alpine skiing in without a season pass since most the resorts close at 4 PM. Maybe next year. Megan and I still need to hit up Alta and Solitude this year. Pic at left is from Bryce. I’ll try to get a panorama stitched sometime soon. Then I’ll get off this Bryce kick.
24 Jan 2010 | 1 comment »
We have vacation coming up in 3 weeks. Just bought tix to Cancun. Will be a bit of a change from the mountains and snow. It has dumped a couple of feet of snow up in the mountains and Megan and I went up to Brighton resort last night to get in on the powder. It was pretty fun, but my skis are not powder skis. I hit a deep powder pocket on a flat area, sunk to my waist in it, popped out of my skis and face planted. Good times. The pic at left is from Capitol Reef National Park. No face plant pics exist…
23 Jan 2010 | no comments »
I’ve been on night float for the past week and have one more week to go. Basically means I work from 1830 to 0630 admitting patients to the hospital and covering all the patients that are already there while the rest of my fellow residents go home for some sleep. Megan and I are trying to plan our next vacation which comes up in 3 weeks after I take my last board exam. Not sure where we are headed yet. The pic at left is from our Bryce trip… sunset shot taken from sunrise point. You’ll see a couple more Bryce shots popping up on here before too long.
18 Jan 2010 | 2 comments »
I was checking up on SenorJason today and found that my last update over there was 5 months ago. Too long. So I added a new gallery from a November hike up Grandeur Peak accessed from Mill Creek Canyon. Check it out here. Megan’s friend Lindsay was in town visiting. We were commenting about the air quality being bad in the valley back then. It was amazingly clear compared to what it has been the last couple weeks. With the week of snow in our future hopefully the inversion will be gone until next year.
I spent some of the day looking back through photos over the last 6 months. I think I have enough for about 6 new galleries. So if there is anyone out there wanting new photos, maybe I’ll be able to get a couple up a week for the next little while.
The pics at left are from our trip to Bryce and Capitol Reef a week ago. The top one is a pano of Capitol Reef from Hwy 12 as the park came into view. The Henry Mountains are in the background. The bottom pic is of Megan looking at some petroglyphs at Capitol Reef.
14 Jan 2010 | 2 comments »
The pic to the left is near the park entrance to Capitol Reef National Park. That spot is touted as having the cleanest air in America. A couple of hours later we were back in Salt Lake which has had the dirtiest air in America the last couple of days due to a huge inversion which has trapped freezing air and smog in the valley. We might be getting a little snow tonight which should help clear the air out with the changing weather. We’ll see. Anyway, Capitol Reef was awesome. It’s still on our list for more extensive future exploration.
12 Jan 2010 | 3 comments »
Megan and I finally had a weekend off together so we spent it down at Bryce Canyon National Park. We drove down early Saturday morning and spent the afternoon cross-country skiing to the canyon and then around part of the rim. It was great. The next day we got up early again and drove to Bryce Point to watch the sun rise and light up the canyon. We then hiked down into it along Queen’s Garden trail and up the Navajo trail passing through ‘The Wall’. Megan wanted to see some petroglyphs so we drove over to Capitol Reef National Park for a quick trip and then headed back to Salt Lake for The Man to stick it to us for another week. More pics to follow.
01 Jan 2010 | 6 comments »
Well, Megan and I are ready for the new year. My schedule has been pretty front-loaded, with 4 ward months and 1 ICU month in the first 6 months. Only 4 more thirty-hour shifts for the whole rest of intern year (Not counting the one I’m about to do in the morning). I still haven’t been downhill skiing this year, but hopefully that will change soon. We’ve got about a total of a foot of snow on the ground around the house, and tons more up in the mountains. I have my first weekend off in 3 months (next week) and I think some skiing is in my future. At left is my birthday present from Megan. He still needs a name.
20 Dec 2009 | 3 comments »
Megan and I have been ridiculously busy the last 2 weeks with work and other things. Her family was out here for a week for an early Christmas which was fun. I also took up cross country skiing. I never thought I would do it again after going on trips with my dad back in the day. It was not the most enjoyable thing… falling every 30 seconds got old really quick. I took Megan out to Mountain Dell Nordic park to get her on cross country skis for the first time. Groomed trails are a lot of fun. Megan also got the xmas tree decorated. Here is one of her new ornaments.
04 Dec 2009 | 3 comments »
We’ve had very little snowfall out here this winter which has been a bit disappointing. Steph came out to visit last week and Megan and her hit up the slopes for some skiing. It sounded like it was fun. We are supposed to be getting some more snow on Saturday and then the days following. Maybe I’ll finally get up to the mountains for some skiing.
In the meantime there is enough snow in the mountains to start doing a little snowshoeing. Steph and another friend of mine hit up Lamb’s Canyon for a snowshoeing trek up to Mt. Aire. We didn’t make it to the top of the mountain, but we found a better looking one nearby and decided to climb to the top of it. The pics at left are from that excursion. The sun set on us while we were still up near the top…
Megan and I went on another snowshoeing expedition this week with one of my friends with the goal being Mt. Aire again. We were going to hit it from Mill Creek Canyon, which is on the other side of the mountain. We fell short again. My friend’s dog came with us and ended up getting a cut on her foot which ended our trip when we were near the top. We’ll make it for sure the next time. We’ll just wait for more snow.
26 Nov 2009 | 1 comment »
Megan’s friend Lindsay came to visit a week or two ago and we made the trek up Grandeur Peak. This is probably one of my favorite hikes now. Not too hard, with some good views. The shot at left is of the Oquirrh Mountains, which make up the west edge of the Salt Lake Valley. The circle is from some plane that was doing figure 8s. More pics from Grandeur to come in the following days.
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