Thursday, October 10, 2024

Re-read: The Snow Queen

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 After A Fire Upon The Deep and A Deepness in the Sky , I was so impressed that I decided to go back to re-read The Snow Queen , the 1981 Hu...
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Capitola Weekend Trip

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  For labor day weekend we decided to ride to Capitola and back for the Saturday and Sunday. The kids were pretty happy about going to th...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

MTB Whistler Day 6 & Epilogue

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  On Saturday Bowen was too hurt to keep riding, so I rode by myself. This time I resolved to ride every lift in the park except Fitzsimmo...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Review: Veken Temperature Control Kettle

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 The Veken Kettle was $17 on Prime Day, and I've been looking for a temperature control kettle for a while but never could justify the ...
Friday, October 04, 2024

MTB Whistler: Days 4-5

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  On Thursday we spit our time between technical trails and flow trails again, this time riding Call Me Maybe (too hard) and Palm Corners ...
Thursday, October 03, 2024

Timemore C3 Coffee Grinder

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 I bought the C3 Coffee Grinder as a travel grinder, and it turned out that I never brought it on any trips for the 3 months I've had i...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Whistler MTB: Rest Day

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  On our day off, we took the bus to Whistler Village and the shuttle to Lost Lake, where we jumped into the lake for a good swm and then...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Whistler MTB Trip Index Page

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 I took Bowen to Whistler in August this year. This is the index page for the trip report. Prologue Days 1-2 Day 3 Rest Day Day 4-5 Epilogue
Monday, September 30, 2024

Review: The Second Shot

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 The Second Shot was an Amazon Prime giveaway, covering mostly Gene Yu's autobiography upto and including the rescue of Evelyn Chang  f...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Whistler MTB: Day 3

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  On Tuesday we worked on more technical intermediate trails like Funshine Rolly Drops, Blueseum , World Cup Single Track, and more flow t...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Review: REI Link Seat Bag

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 We were planning an overnight trip to Aptos, and we wouldn't have had enough saddlebags for if all 4 of us were riding singles. I liked...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Whistler MTB: Day 1-2

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  We had painstakingly picked out a recommended instructor but events intervened and Whistler assigned us Tommy Steele instead. Rat...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Whistler MTB Trip: Prolog

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  After last year's Canadian trip, Bowen really enjoyed his time at the Whistler MTB park I told him it was very expensive , but he sa...