Sunday, February 14, 2010
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Crew Alumni Row
A little pre-row warmup on the boathouse ergs.
TU Crew alumni ladies.
TU Crew alumni men.
Max, the architect of the event, holds forth.
Sunday, April 05, 2009
More Glaciares!
Lago de Los Tres, at sundown.
Poincenot on the left, Fitz Roy on the right shrouded in clouds.
Fitz Roy, reflected in a puddle.
Glaciares National Park, Argentina
This is a pocket-sized park that surrounds Monte Fitz Roy.
Our bus broke down on the way there, stranding us for three hours or so. I and a few others entertained ourselves by pegging rocks at a large stone from the berm that lined the road (three hits in about twenty minutes... not easy). Eric, who I hiked with later, cracked open a bottle of wine with his wife.
This is the glacier on the back (west) side of the Poincenot needle and Fitz Roy. The is a lake cupped by enormous piles of loose galcial scree, which was very difficult to hike around to get adjacent to the glacier. It was intensely windy on the way back, enough so to move you a foot or two sideways each time you took a step.
Close up of the seracs at the foot of the glacier.
Lago de los Tres, at the foot of Fitz Roy. It's about a hour's hike from the campsite. This photo was taken near sunset; another hiker loaned me a trekking pole to help me get out to this rock without taking a tumble into the lake.
This is the view on the way out of Los Piedras camp site. There are a lot of brooks of utterly clear glacier meltwater, with duckboards and small bridges over them.
Our bus broke down on the way there, stranding us for three hours or so. I and a few others entertained ourselves by pegging rocks at a large stone from the berm that lined the road (three hits in about twenty minutes... not easy). Eric, who I hiked with later, cracked open a bottle of wine with his wife.
This is the glacier on the back (west) side of the Poincenot needle and Fitz Roy. The is a lake cupped by enormous piles of loose galcial scree, which was very difficult to hike around to get adjacent to the glacier. It was intensely windy on the way back, enough so to move you a foot or two sideways each time you took a step.
Close up of the seracs at the foot of the glacier.
Lago de los Tres, at the foot of Fitz Roy. It's about a hour's hike from the campsite. This photo was taken near sunset; another hiker loaned me a trekking pole to help me get out to this rock without taking a tumble into the lake.
This is the view on the way out of Los Piedras camp site. There are a lot of brooks of utterly clear glacier meltwater, with duckboards and small bridges over them.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Torres del Paine Trek
Me and Kate up towards the top of Valles Frances. The Cuernos are to our left.
Los Cuernos del Paine.
Kate is exhausted, and taking a nap on the afternoon of our third day of hiking. We're on the lawn at Lago Pehoe, on our way to Camp Italiano at the base of Valles Frances.
Above Glacier Grey, leaning into the wind as a passerby snaps our photo.
Kate above Glacier Grey on Day 2.
Leaning into the wind, at a lookup about two hours north of Lago Grey overlooking Glacier Grey. It must've been about a 70 mph wind or so.
Overlooking Glacier Grey. By the short shorts, you can see that we had really great weather for the first few days of our hike.
Kate is not amused by the prospect of the ladders which were lashed to the sides of the steeper hillsides on our hike from our campsite on the beach at Lago Grey up towards Campomento Los Pasos.
Glacier Grey. There were lots of fire-denuded hillsides, and a high hot sun that made me glad I'd packed shorts.
Kate above Lago Grey.
Torres del Paine on the right, above an unknown lake on the way towards the park entrance.
Cuernos on the right, Cumbre Principal and attendant peaks on the left. Shot from the catamaran that brought us from the park entrance to Lago Pehoe, where we started our hike.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Penultimate Game at Yankee Stadium
The final day game at Yankee Stadium, with the team moving across the street for 2009. I went with Michael, on a whim, picking up tickets from StubHub about 50 minutes before game time.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Last Opening Day at The Stadium
The new Stadium going up across the street at River and 161st.
The field and mostly empty stadium 40 minutes before the game.
Chien-Ming Wang, starter and winner for the first game of the last season in the old park, walks to the bullpen to warm up.
The Blue Jays and Yankees lining up along the first and third baselines for introductions and colors.
Joba gets in his warmup tosses prior to starting the eighth inning.
Spring!
Tree in the courtyard behind Waverly Inn on the coner of Bank and Waverly Place.
Magnolia tree in bloom in Sheridan Square park.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Snow at last!
First snowstorm of any size for the winter.
I like the smiley face that someone has scribed on the passenger-side window.
View from the roof of my office building at 1440 Broadway.
I like the look of this granite rail covered in snow, along 40th street heading east towards Fifth Avenue.
The New York Public Library looks great all the time, but even a bit better in a snowfall.
This is the right-hand lion, so I think it's Lenox. (Astor is the other one.)
I like the smiley face that someone has scribed on the passenger-side window.
View from the roof of my office building at 1440 Broadway.
I like the look of this granite rail covered in snow, along 40th street heading east towards Fifth Avenue.
The New York Public Library looks great all the time, but even a bit better in a snowfall.
This is the right-hand lion, so I think it's Lenox. (Astor is the other one.)
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