I wanted to title this post "Ultimate Sl*t", but figured that would give my blog some unwanted attention.
As was obvious from the previous post, I was in Canada recently, meaning my position at Yellowstone is over. Now begins a month of visiting friends, applying for jobs, studying for the GRE, researching grad schools, and of course, playing ultimate.
Where I'll be/where I was
Sept 12/13: Big Sky Mixed Sectionals with the Bozeman Bozos
Sept 14-20: Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks
Sept 21-22: One last trip through Yellowstone and Grand Teton
Sept 26: Avon, CO hat tournament
Oct 3/4: Hucktoberfest with Mad Udderburn in Whitewater, WI
Oct 10/11: Potentially Central Club Regionals, spectating and learning to use twitter
Oct 17/18: Black Eyed Peas and U2 in Concert in my hometown!
Oct 24/25: Fright Flight in Ft. Collins, CO with an Avon/Breck group.
Nov: Frozen Disc of Death in Hanover, NH, with M.U.T. gotta keep the win streak going...
My new car (now designated 'Roo') will be racking up the miles, but it should be a good time, provided my job search, GRE studying, and grad school investigations go well. More on that later.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Observation
This thought occurred to me as I was being interviewed by Canadian customs on my way to Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta:
You are at an interesting stage of your life when the questions "where do you live?" and "what do you do for a living?" are difficult questions to answer.
Luckily customs still let me through, albeit after I gave them a short autobiography.
Tonight I'm off to Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park, after that it's back to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons followed by Colorado. Hopefully I'll still have money left. Canada was expensive. The exchange rate isn't what it used to be.
You are at an interesting stage of your life when the questions "where do you live?" and "what do you do for a living?" are difficult questions to answer.
Luckily customs still let me through, albeit after I gave them a short autobiography.
Tonight I'm off to Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park, after that it's back to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons followed by Colorado. Hopefully I'll still have money left. Canada was expensive. The exchange rate isn't what it used to be.
Monday, September 07, 2009
Tetons
When south again for my 4 day Labor Day weekend, and this time went hiking as opposed to playing ultimate.
No mountain since the Matterhorn has induced such compulsive picture taking as Grand Teton did during my hike on Saturday. I think my total for the day was around 100 photos. I did the Paintbrush Canyon to Cascade Canyon loop from the String Lake trailhead. It's 20 miles and 5,000 vertical feet, and one of the most spectacular hikes I've ever done. I topped it off my scrambling up a small peak next to the pass the trail crosses to I can that I've been on top of a Teton. I was amazed by the number of other people doing the same day hike too. I figured I'd be the only one nuts enough to do that long of a hike, but apparently the Tetons attract a lot of crazy hikers. I even ran into 3 women doing the entire 35 mile Teton Crest Trail in one day.
No mountain since the Matterhorn has induced such compulsive picture taking as Grand Teton did during my hike on Saturday. I think my total for the day was around 100 photos. I did the Paintbrush Canyon to Cascade Canyon loop from the String Lake trailhead. It's 20 miles and 5,000 vertical feet, and one of the most spectacular hikes I've ever done. I topped it off my scrambling up a small peak next to the pass the trail crosses to I can that I've been on top of a Teton. I was amazed by the number of other people doing the same day hike too. I figured I'd be the only one nuts enough to do that long of a hike, but apparently the Tetons attract a lot of crazy hikers. I even ran into 3 women doing the entire 35 mile Teton Crest Trail in one day.
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