Just Because

I don’t have anything particularly profound to say today (unlike Aaron’s interesting post and, no, no one proposed, but thanks for asking), but since I won’t get this chance for another four years, I couldn’t resist posting on Leap Day.

Group Avoidance

What would you do if you were planning to do something you love, but had no desire to do it?
It’s funny. I have a hike scheduled for Saturday, a group thing, and I’m not really looking forward to it.
Yeah. I know. Me. Un-thrilled by a group outing. Big huge ‘freakin [...]

Yosemite In Winter Trip Day 4: Mirror Lake & Half Dome

Tuesday dawned bright and cold again. Despite leaving the air on all night, even the hotel room was chilly, at least until either JaG or myself got out of one of our respective beds, ran to the heater and turned it on, and ran back.
We rolled out of our beds Tuesday morning, groggily downed some [...]

I’m Soooooo Not The Target Demographic

(This one’s a bit snarky. You have been warned.)
This is it, I’ve officially crossed into the next age bracket.
Tonight, according to the barrage of advertising, is the premiere of Quarterlife. No way in hell will I give it the dignity of a link.
Seriously, the concept of this one is this: the story of [...]

Yosemite In Winter Trip Day 3: Plans Change

The Plan.
This trip had one. Most of my trips have a general itinerary (“we’ve got to be there by such-and-so time because we have a campsite reserved”) but beyond that, I usually try to keep things a bit more free flowing. Oregon (“oh, hey, that looks interesting, let’s stop”) was the perfect example of this.
The [...]

HIKE: Arroyo Sequit Park

(More vacation posts this week, but I just had to hike today…)
I slept last night to the sound of rain pouring down on the roof, which was continuing into the morning, so I knew today’s hike would be a wet one.
Pouring over my trail maps of the Santa Monica Mountains, I knew I was looking [...]

A Year? Really?

“Let’s see where this door goes…”
I wrote that at the end of my first post, a year ago today. It was a reference to the blog, of course, but also I think a reference to my life as a whole. I’d been stuck in neutral for some time, and the blog was a [...]

Yosemite In Winter Trip Days 0-2: Arrivals, Paintball and Departures

(Finally, eh?)
Day 0
I’m calling the first day “0″ as I spent most of the day at work on that Friday, February 1, desperately trying to finish everything I needed to finish before leaving town for a week.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t helped by the (largely self-imposed) pressure of knowing that good blogger friend Just A Girl had [...]

Skiing Fool

(In which The GeekHiker makes a complete fool out of himself… again…)
Yesterday, for the first time ever, I went up to the mountains, up to the white fluffy stuff, to exchange my trustworthy hiking boots for a pair of ski boots and attempt downhill skiing.
Did I do this because I’m always one willing to try [...]

Different Paths

(Although I should pick up the idea from JaG’s blog today, this one just sorta came to the fore…)
Despite yesterday’s post (which was half tongue-in-cheek anyway), I think this was one of the better Valentine’s Day’s I’ve had in quite some time.
And, yes, I say that being single.