Monday, September 5, 2011

Bears and Flowers in Riprap Hollow and on Moormans River

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For as much as we hike in the North and Central Districts of Shenandoah National Park, we rarely make it down to the South District of Shena...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Help Me Choose

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The building where I work has an employee art and photography exhibit for which they periodically call for submissions.  The theme this time...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Lancaster Covered Bridges Metric Century

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We rode the Covered Bridges Metric Century in Lancaster, Pennsylvania yesterday.  This was our third year participating in this ride, and on...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Summer Flowers: Jewelweed or Touch-Me-Not

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Impatiens capensis (and its closely-related sibling, Impatiens pallida , or Pale Touch-Me-Not) has a split personality.  According to Wildf...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Summer Flowers: Tall Bellflower

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Campanulastrum americanum (Tall Bellflower) is a relatively common flower, but its appearance is unusual because of  its large, curved styl...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Compton Gap to Manassas Gap on the Virginia Appalachian Trail

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Back to hiking:  We got a late start on Sunday. By the time we were on trail, it was 11:30 a.m., but none of us had anywhere to be in the e...
Friday, August 5, 2011

RAGBRAI: More Pictures and a Few Other Thoughts

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This is my last post on RAGBRAI.  I had a few other random thoughts about the experience: The food was awesome.  We had more pie and ice cr...