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Heart Lake, Lolo National Forest, Superior MT

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:16:06 +0000

Heart Lake Trail number 171 is reported to be an easy but long hike to the largest lake on the district located in an area proposed as a part of the Great Burn Wilderness. Heart Lake is in the Lolo National Forest and the largest alpine lake in the western Montana portion of the Bitterroot Mountains.

The lake is listed anywhere between 1.3 and 3 miles, unfortunately I could not get a GPS signal with the Motorola Droid and it was difficult to get a signal with the Garmin GPS as well. I did get some pictures tho.

Glacier Park Part 2 using the Motorola Droid, Google Maps, and Picasa

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:40:40 +0000

The Motorola Droid doesn’t take the best pictures but its sync ability between picasa and ‘my tracks’ makes things fairly easy. Currently the steps required are to sync the pics from my phone to the picasa web album, download the picasa map for google earth then import this file into a new map within Google Maps ‘My Maps’. Then I upload my tracks to the new map. This provides me with my tracks and geotagged pictures all within google maps, make sense? Got an easier way? I like the simplicity and clean look with the seperate slide show and gps track of the previous posts but then again i like the pictures placed on the map where they were taken as I attempted in this post.
testing testing

This trip involved a stay at Lake Five Resort just south of the West Glacier Entrance. Tracks show the first days trip from Lake Five Resort through West Glacier, into Apgar Village, then on to St. Marys and back to Lake Five. Tracks also show the second days trip from Lake Five Resort, to St Marys, then on to Many Glacier and back.

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Sweeny Ridge to Peterson Lake, Florence MT

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:01:00 +0000

start: 7/17/2010

length: 4.5 miles (one way [in])

time: 4:46 mins (one way [in])

difficulty: strenuous

avg speed: .9 mph

elevation gain: from 5669ft to a max of 7426ft down to 6541ft

comments: stats including packing approximately 50lbs

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Blodgett Overlook, Hamilton MT

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:43:33 +0000

start: 7/2/2010

length: 1,1 miles (one way [out])

time: 34 mins (one way [out])

difficulty: easy

avg speed: 2.0 mph

elevation gain: from 5042ft to 5524ft gaining 482ft

comments: easy hike, good views of Blodgett Canyon

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Wildwood Fireworks over Morey’s Pier

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:45:37 +0000

Fireworks in Wildwood NJ over the 156′ tall Ferris wheel on Morey’s Pier.

deck progress, striving for 1/16″ measurements

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:39:41 +0000

this time (as opposed to the old deck);

the ledger is flashed and lagged into every [house] joist, hangars were used
solid (glue lam?) 30′-ish beam
deck joists hurricane strapp-ed to the beam
upped the posts from 4×4 to 6×6, 6′-ish on center, off the concrete, with brackets to secure to the posts
went with messmer’s natural to stain the doug fir

still have to head off and install the stairs, we have about 600sqft of IPE waiting …

don’t mind the big ugly house or the mess in the work area

4th of July 2009

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:26:49 +0000

Another excellent 4th of July, good friends and good times.

22 tubes screwed down to a trailer in the front yard.

Some fireworks in the back of the truck.

Happy 4th of July

We’re touchy, feely, sensitive guys

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:15:05 +0000

From my picture perfect drawings, to my heavily published photo, to the daily art I perform at my job; My son has followed in my footsteps of being a true ar-teest. The following are some poems and artwork;

Bacon explosion recipe for the oven

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:11:25 +0000

Weave 1lb thick cut bacon

Add one layer 2lbs of Italian sausage

Add another layer of weaved thick cut bacon

Cook at 375F for 90 minutes-ish, ensure internal temp is 170 and the bacon is how you prefer; (chewy/crispy)

get a drink and remove from oven

eat, enjoy

dog sprayed by skunk

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:06:29 +0000

notice the touches of yellow and red, he is usually white. the skunk didn’t stand a chance