Tracks of Oliver's Bear, Playing with Elliot. Kate's birthday cake
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
All, or nearly all, of the mountains in this photo are in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest (including Mount Shasta, in the haze on the right side) and not too much of the forest is outside of the scope of this photo. The photo is taken from the southwest corner of the forest, looking east-northeast. All the haze is mostly from the accumulation from the summer's forest fires.
Medicine Lake is north of everything in the above photo.
Medicine Lake is north of everything in the above photo.
Rachel and I spent the weekend in the Medicine Lake Highlands (north, in the Modoc National Forest). This area is a large shield volcano: the largest volcano in the Cascades by area and volume, just not height.
We went to Glass Mountain, which is comprised of a lot of obsidian (black, shiny volcanic rocks) and pumice (gray, course volcanic rocks), which result from catastrophic volcanic eruptions and extremely fast cooling of lava. We spent some demonstrating some feats of strength with said rocks as we continue our training for the world's strongest person competition:
This is a photo looking north from Glass Mountain. In the distance is Lava Beds National Monument, Tulelake, and Oregon:
No actual pictures of Medicine Lake, where we camped. It is a big, cold lake fed by snowmelt in the main crater of the Medicine Lake Volcano.
We went to Glass Mountain, which is comprised of a lot of obsidian (black, shiny volcanic rocks) and pumice (gray, course volcanic rocks), which result from catastrophic volcanic eruptions and extremely fast cooling of lava. We spent some demonstrating some feats of strength with said rocks as we continue our training for the world's strongest person competition:
This is a photo looking north from Glass Mountain. In the distance is Lava Beds National Monument, Tulelake, and Oregon:
No actual pictures of Medicine Lake, where we camped. It is a big, cold lake fed by snowmelt in the main crater of the Medicine Lake Volcano.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Martha's Vineyard
Cyndy with her Patron Highcroft Racing shirt in Martha's Vineyard.
Cyndy eating lobster ice cream in Martha's Vineyard.
Cyndy returning from Martha's Vineyard.
Cyndy bought a whale belt in Martha's Vineyard.
Cyndy was inspired by team Transport's Porsche in ALMS GT2 in 2007. The advertising worked but the team is long gone.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Burke Lakefront Airport from hotel room.
Cleveland GP SUV at MO
"Mid Ohio is funtastic"
The viewing mound on the inside of madness offered the best close view of the cars, we sat for most of the race in the stands on the outside with a great view from turn one through the key hole all the way to the end of madness. Nearly 1.5 miles of visible track.
Teeth
First turn lap one, hit by Martin Snow who blamed Van der Steur car (Pecorari)
Cyndy remembered that we never went to the Risi paddock to check for Spikey Haired Risi Guy. So we stopped by before the Atlantic race (which was a good battle between Summerton and DeSilerstro, only incident was on the first lap when Tonis Kasemets tried to join us on the hillside at the keyhole)
Yay, they are as loud as ever, just not quite as mean looking.
Van der Steur, got the shirt.
View from pit garage balcony.
Posted on railing on pit garage balcony, mechanics to follow. Saw very few IRL drivers (was looking for Servia, who got robbed by TKs yellow, he was on a very fast lap) Only saw Helio, Briscoe, Dixon, Wheldon, Conweasel, RHR, Matos, and Dario. Did see Meira and Schecter.
Brian Barnhart eating.
Van der Steur did not win (seconds before I was going to tell Cyndy how I was suprised they were still running with an hour to go).
Saturday, August 08, 2009
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