Tourists

Hmmmm. Telluride was busy today, or at least it seems that way to me. Thanks to tourists, it keeps this small town a float, but you know, I like it when it is a little bit more of a small ski town.

I am looking foward to getting "my" town back....

December Hike Of the Jud Wiebe Trail

As many of you know, I am trying to hike the Jud Wiebe Trail once every month. Today was my December entry.




I brought along my new GPS (Garmin eTrex Vista C) so I could gps stamp my photos.




I then downloaded and purchased RoboGEO to write the latitude, longitude and altitude to the image's EXIF headers. In otherwords stamp the GPS coordinates into the image itself.

I added descriptions and keywords using Adobe Bridge to the images I liked.

I then uploaded the images to my Blog Gallery on Smugmug.

Here is the really COOL part. Since the images have been stamped with GPS info, you can "map this" and it will create a Google Map with the photos. Note, you will probably have to zoom out a bit, because Google does not have images for the area. Cool ...

My first "professional" photo shoot

I was requested by a friend to take photos for her Christmas Cards. The hardest part of this "shoot" was trying to make the dog smile. Woof...

Anyway, it was fun none the less.

2005 Holiday Bazaar was a Success!!

For those that did not know, I had a booth at the TCAH 2005 Holiday Bazaar. This was my first major splash for Michael Mowery Media in Telluride. Over the 3 days in Early December, I sold $644 worth of stuff. The screen savers and calendars where the biggest sellers.

SLog down, 75,349 feet of descent

My server went down last week, which hosted my Ski Log. Not sure what is wrong with it. Been skiing too much to figure it out.

Anyway, in order to try to reach my 1 million feet goal, I needed to ski hard the last three days.
Sunday: 12,510 feet (Alpine)
Monday: 25,506 feet (Telemark)
Tuesday: 37,333 feet (Alpine)
Total: 75,349: I am a little sore today.

Grand total for year is 193,841 which is 19% of my goal.
It will be interesting to see if I make it.

Think Snow (we sure need it).

-mtm

SLog (Ski\Ride Log)

Ok yes, I am geek!! :)
Not that anyone really cares how much I skied or rode, but I am putting together a spreadsheet that logs my activity this year.

I use the Garmin eTrex C to record my daily decents.

My Slog is located At http://www.photofetch.com/skilog/skilog.html

A sample charts from my Slog:

My new favorite cereal...

There is a reason why some of my friends call me berry boy. No, not because I am "fruity", but I have a thing for Blueberrys. Anyway, this cereal was an impulse buy. When I had some this morning, I thought, hmmmm, this is really good.

Ok, slow day in the blog world.

Marvin (The Marmot) never looked so good!

Oh yeah!!!
I got my 24 inch Flat Wide Screen Panel from Dell today.

Marvin was chosen to do the honors of showing it off. Very cool....


Also being shown off is all the finger prints on my laptop.

But anyway this thing is awesome!

My "big" 21" CRT monitor is put on hold until I get another video card that can support dual monitors.


very nice.....

On Fire!!!

This past weekend I was on telemark skis for the very first time here at Telluride.

I took a morning clinic both days and had a blast.

Yes, I am a little sore today, but I probably would have been just as sore on Alpine skis.

Anyway, with a whopping 17 inch base (now 22) and 2 runs open, I am glad for a change of pace.

THINK SNOW!!!
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p.s. Thanks Frank for the skis.

New Blog Mission Statement

Hello all!

Ok, so I have decided to use this blog more as a blog, and not as a picture gallery. My new picture gallery will be posted sometime this week on smugmug.com (GREAT Service, and will be a blogged at a later date).

My Blog Mission Statement.
Blog the things I am most passionate about in a fun, informative, interesting and sometimes CRAZY way.

Future Blog Topics:
Skiing/Riding/Free-heel (Think Snow)
Bars/Drinking (and the results from it)
Techie stuff (Geek on)
Events (things I want to promote)
"#$%@!#^" (Rants)
I might even throw in a few entries about the opposite sex (no one reads blogs in Telluride, so I think am safe????)

November Hike of the Jud

Click on the photo for a couple shots from my November Hike of the Jud.

October 28, 2005

All dressed up as Zorro ready to go to the KOTO annual Halloween bash. Boo....

In Denver at my "remote" office, I caught the window washers on the 42 floor of The 1999 Broadway buildingl

October 20, 2005

A few photos of my monthly hike of the Jud Wiebe.

Ajax Mountain and a fiery red aspen.

Early snow on Top of 9 from the Jud.

A few remaining Aspens on the Jud Wiebe trail

Vertical lines everywhere on this evening hike of the Jud Wiebe.

October 15 and 16

The following two days in Arches National Park were incredible. For me it was one of the most see places.
Enjoy...

On my to the Arches National Park entrance, I took these photos of the Colorado River in the morning.

On my to the Arches National Park entrance, I took these photos of the Colorado River in the morning.

Fins in Devils Garden

Sometimes Love can be a little prickly

Towering Fins in Devils Garden

The lighting in Arches National Park is very dramatic.

There were tons of these little guys.

This is actually the primitive Loop trail in Devils garden that goes goes over lots of these fins.

Crossing one of the fins on the Primitive Loop Trail

A double arch looking at toward the sun.

Double O Arch looking out onto the flats

Lookup up and thru the Wall Arch in Devils Garden

At first I thought this was in the Fiery Furnace, but it is in Devils Garden.

Looking up and out of the Furnace

Looking up and out of the narrow fins in the Fiery Furnace

The Skull Arch in the Fiery Furnace, however the skull is hard to see in these photos.

Looking up and out of the Fiery Furnace onto an Azul color sky.

Kising Turtles Arch in the Fiery Furnace

Following the Ranger led group thru the Fiery Furnace

One of the many narrow parts of the Ranger led trail thru the Fiery Furnace

As the story goes, a ranger looking for a route thru the Fiery Furnace, was surprised when he looked up and saw that he was under an arch.

Trees growing in "hole" on the way to the Delicate Arch. The opening is probably 100 feet or more across.

Watching the colors shift on Delicate Arch at Sunset

Watching the colors shift on Delicate Arch at Sunset

Watching the colors shift on Delicate Arch at Sunset

Landscape Arch: One of the Worlds longest stone spans, stretches 306 feet yet is only about 11 feet at its center.

I was excited about going on my ranger led hike into the Fiery Furnace the next day. Photo taken from across the Salt Valley.

Full Moon just entering into the North Window Arch

Watching the full moon rise thru the North Window Arch was very spectacular.

I turned around and took this picture of Turret Arch taken while photographing the moon rise thru North Window Arch

Top of 9: Taken from the Jud.

Frank, I guess I could ski this, but a little light on coverage. :)

Oct 12, 2005 Moon rising over the ridge.