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.

Guanacos grazing in sight of the Cuernos del Paine.

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.

Patagonia!

Patagonia

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.

Alaska!

Alaska

Hiking and Getting Lost

Breakneck Ridge Hike

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!

A nice arch of blooming trees on the northern end of Waverly Place.

Tree in the courtyard behind Waverly Inn on the coner of Bank and Waverly Place.

Magnolia tree in bloom in Sheridan Square park.

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.)

MapMyRun.com

I love this site.

Homeward Bound

Puerto Jimenez in the early morning. We were on our way to catch our flight back to San Jose.

I made a friend with one of the many, many stray dogs in town. This pup actually followed us to the airfield and tried to clamber up the stairs to the plane to come with us.

National Park: Day Three

A big ol' spider making her home in the Sirena ranger station.

A white-face coati.

I like this tree clinging to the cliff above the beach. The tide is way in, which made the hike back a bit sporty in some places.

A spider monkey.

This was about as close as we got to spider monkeys... maybe twenty feet, vertical.

This is behind a smallish waterfall on the hike back, where we stopped for a late lunch. There were a few deepish pools to swim in, and I took advantage.

Coconut milk.

Riding back to town in the collectivo.

The airstrip at dawn.

Stranglemonkey trees. I love the exposed root systems.

Tapir tracks in the sand.

Crocodile footprints!

Kate's smiling, but I'm not acting like I'm having a good time. I am! Really!

Lianas climbing the trees in the rain forest.

A macaw.

Crocodile sunning itself along the Rio Sirena.

Looking for sharks. They could be see as the tide comes in, filling the mouth of the river. You could see their fins poking out of the water when the wave troughs rolled past them.

A tapir, with a radio collar, sleeps in a mud wallow during the mid-day heat.

A medium sized skink.