Forest Park - St. Louis

Marley and Moses

Ozark Highlights

48 hours in the Ozarks

Here comes the party boat.  Nate and my Dad bringing back the pontoon.  What I didn't catch on film was my brother almost knocking my Dad with a quick change of direction in to reverse. 

 Mom and Dad chillin out on the front of the boat.  Me and Nate  hanging out in the  pee warm water .  And yes that was the winning fish for the  fishing derby .

THE OZARKS

Just have time to post this one picture.  I'll post more later tonight.

Tell It On the Mountain

Dewey's Photoshoot

Dewey Miller posed for several pictures this week for the Famous Pets of Wyomissing Calender 2008.  Copies will be available at Noble Barnes, Borders and Nutricurean this Fall for $8.99.

Humming Birds (Really small fast birds)

   

Even though I sat by the humming bird feeder for about an hour and took
almost 100 pictures, I only came out
with a few decent ones.  I'll be taking my camera out to st. louis soon in search of giant Cat Fish on the Mississippi with my brother.

Since you couldn't be here.

Not this...or that!

Searching on the internet can be a dangerous thing.

Roger Mcguinn - Colorado Trail

Hopefully my trip is more exciting than that and not quite as exciting as this Bear Attack! (Warning - Graphic Pictures)  Don't worry it was a polar bear in the arctic.  No polar bears in Colorado.  Not even griz, just some black bear. 

 

Colorado Trail - Pretrip

Finished sorting, packing and organizing all my gear for my 485 mile Colorado Trail trip.  I am going to be doing resupplies in Twin Lakes and Creede (photo below of the two resupply boxes).  Some final decisions of
the trip were whether to go shorts and tshirt with sunscreen or long pants and top without much spf.  I decided with the heat of late June and July to go with shorts (Patagonia Long Haul Runners) and short sleeve top (Smartwool SS zip).  Everything is pictured below except for some stuff sacks, pack liner, montrail hardrock shoes and toothbrush and sunscreen which i still need to pick up.

Some of my favorite items for this trip are the Platypus Sports bottle with red spout cap for my fuel (denatured alcohol), Patagonia Puffball jacket and Nanatuk Ghost down quilt.   

New items I am trying out are Sportslick (antifungal/antibacterial creme to prevent chaffing) and ULA's Conduit pack.  I have been using ULA's old P-2 pack which is larger with great success during the past year.

Livin Easy

       

Juls took most of these pictures. The fishing and trail shots were taken along Wyomissing Creek and the Wiffle Ball Championships were held in Sea Isle, NJ on 28th street.
   

Upcoming Summer Schedule

So I have been home for almost 2 weeks now, but have been too busy to post.  In the past few weeks I went to the New River Gorge for AMGA Top Rope Site Manager training, gone to Wyomissing for a few days, been at the beach and also got some fishing in.  I'll post some pictures soon.

I am almost finish packing my food for my Colorado Trail (485 miles) trip later this June.  I'll also be posting my gear list and some photos too.

Summer Schedule

June 14-22nd St. Louis / Ozarks
June 23-24 Driving out to Winter Park
June 25 Begin Colorado Trail
July 4 Arrive Twin Lakes to resupply
July 10 Arrive Creede to resupply
July 18 Arrive Durango TRAIL END
July 19-22 Relax in Colorado
July 23-August 1 Packing for Cross Country Road Trip
August 1-23 3 WEEKS with Julie driving across AMERICA!

Obviously dates could change slightly depending on my mileage on the trail.

I'll be posting some new photos from the past few weeks by tomorrow.