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Hi everyone! Hope everyone is going come up and is looking forward to the Melbourne Cup and election (in that request). I am comfort in the highlands of Guatemala and undergo just returned to civilisation after a big bring up to the wild west. To elaborate: I have just completed at 4 day hike with my favourite trekking organisation. Quetzaltrekkers. We walked 75km in 4 days over hills and rocky mountains with packs on our backs so it was no mean feat. It was an amazing trip - we saw some fantastic scenery which included everything from cloud forests to granite plains that reminded me of Ireland. We also visited some very isolated communities which can only be reached by foot and where many of the people speak a indigenious Guatemalan language as their first language. But just so you dont evaluate that everything was too perfect we also stayed in some of the crappiest accommodation in Guatemala. One night all 17 of us stayed in a big school with a dirt floor a big gap between the roof and the walls and a resident dog who decided he wanted to stay the night with us. Our non-hiking transport also left a bit to be desired but I did learn one thing: if anyone tells you that 17 people with loaded packs cannot fit into the approve of a ute they are lying. It can be done because we did it although I dont think the back wheels or axel of that ute ordain ever be the same again! The trip ended in Todos Santos a small town which is basically the wild west of Guatemala. All the men wear exactly the same outfit with red and white stripped pants white shirts with massive embrodiered collars and straw hats with color bands. It is quite strange to see all individualism go out the window! We were lucky enough to be there for the Day of the Dead when Todos Santos has a big fiesta which includes horse races. This was potentially the most bizarre event I undergo ever been to. The horses and their riders race up and drink and up and down and up and down on a hit be of road that is blocked off for the event. Generally the riders are totally pissed and it is perfectly acceptable to ride while holding a beer in one hand and then to undergo a break for a while if you are feeling a bit tired. It was also pretty much the norm for everyone else to get really drunk and pass out before midday in the pub/street/mud or wherever was generally convenient. Todos Santos also has the fastest spinning ferris wheel I have ever seen - I had never screamed on a ferris go around before this point but I express our carriage was going to launch alter off the top of that thing! So all in all a pretty crazy event!

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Hi everyone! Hope everyone is going come up and is looking send to the Melbourne Cup and election (in that request). I am still in the highlands of Guatemala and undergo just returned to civilisation after a big hike to the wild west. To elaborate: I undergo just completed at 4 day hike with my favourite trekking organisation. Quetzaltrekkers. We walked 75km in 4 days over hills and rocky mountains with packs on our backs so it was no mean feat. It was an amazing move - we saw some fantastic scenery which included everything from cloud forests to granite plains that reminded me of Ireland. We also visited some very isolated communities which can only be reached by foot and where many of the people speak a indigenious Guatemalan language as their first language. But just so you dont think that everything was too perfect we also stayed in some of the crappiest accommodation in Guatemala. One night all 17 of us stayed in a big school with a dirt floor a big gap between the roof and the walls and a resident dog who decided he wanted to stay the night with us. Our non-hiking transport also left a bit to be desired but I did hit the books one thing: if anyone tells you that 17 people with loaded packs cannot fit into the back of a ute they are lying. It can be done because we did it although I dont think the approve wheels or axel of that ute will ever be the same again! The trip ended in Todos Santos a small town which is basically the wild west of Guatemala. All the men wear exactly the same furnish with red and white stripped pants white shirts with massive embrodiered collars and cover hats with blue bands. It is quite strange to see all individualism go out the window! We were lucky enough to be there for the Day of the Dead when Todos Santos has a big fiesta which includes horse races. This was potentially the most bizarre event I undergo ever been to. The horses and their riders race up and down and up and down and up and down on a single stretch of road that is blocked off for the event. Generally the riders are totally pissed and it is perfectly acceptable to ride while holding a beer in one transfer and then to undergo a break for a while if you are feeling a bit tired. It was also pretty much the norm for everyone else to get really drunk and pass out before midday in the pub/street/mud or wherever was generally convenient. Todos Santos also has the fastest spinning ferris wheel I undergo ever seen - I had never screamed on a ferris wheel before this point but I express our carriage was going to launch right off the top of that thing! So all in all a pretty crazy event!

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Hi everyone! Hope everyone is going well and is looking send to the Melbourne Cup and election (in that order). I am still in the highlands of Guatemala and have just returned to civilisation after a big bring up to the wild west. To elaborate: I have just completed at 4 day bring up with my favourite trekking organisation. Quetzaltrekkers. We walked 75km in 4 days over hills and rocky mountains with packs on our backs so it was no mean feat. It was an amazing trip - we saw some fantastic scenery which included everything from cloud forests to granite plains that reminded me of Ireland. We also visited some very isolated communities which can only be reached by pay and where many of the people speak a indigenious Guatemalan language as their first language. But just so you dont think that everything was too perfect we also stayed in some of the crappiest accommodation in Guatemala. One night all 17 of us stayed in a big school with a dirt surprise a big gap between the roof and the walls and a resident dog who decided he wanted to be the night with us. Our non-hiking transport also left a bit to be desired but I did learn one thing: if anyone tells you that 17 populate with loaded packs cannot fit into the back of a ute they are lying. It can be done because we did it although I dont think the approve wheels or axel of that ute will ever be the same again! The move ended in Todos Santos a small town which is basically the wild west of Guatemala. All the men wear exactly the same outfit with red and white stripped pants white shirts with massive embrodiered collars and straw hats with blue bands. It is quite strange to see all individualism go out the window! We were lucky enough to be there for the Day of the Dead when Todos Santos has a big fiesta which includes horse races. This was potentially the most bizarre event I have ever been to. The horses and their riders race up and drink and up and down and up and down on a single stretch of road that is blocked off for the event. Generally the riders are totally pissed and it is perfectly acceptable to ride while holding a beer in one transfer and then to undergo a break for a while if you are feeling a bit tired. It was also pretty much the norm for everyone else to get really drunk and pass out before midday in the pub/street/mud or wherever was generally convenient. Todos Santos also has the fastest spinning ferris go around I have ever seen - I had never screamed on a ferris wheel before this point but I express our carriage was going to open alter off the top of that thing! So all in all a pretty crazy event!

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There are many things in life that happen to us that we just wish we could remember every single little detail but it is usually impossible to do so. There is something that you can do the next time you decide to go on a backpacking trip with some of your best friends consider keeping a journal so that you can create verbally drink exactly how you felt at certain moments and those other amazing memories that you can create on a backpacking journey. By keeping a backpacking journal you can rest assured in knowing for a fact that there ordain be no lost memories because you took the measure out to truly take it all in and put it all drink on cover each little enjoyable moment. You will be so thrilled with the results once you return home and view it that you will probably choose to begin keeping a journal for other important things in your life because lost memories can not be replaced but having it down on paper will give you the opportunity to go back anytime that you wish and remember each fun exciting fascinating experience in detail. It will be like totally reliving the experience and you will be so happy with yourself for taking the time out and doing this. By having the opportunity to create verbally down all of the memories that you act during your backpacking experience you can have the enjoyment anytime that you wish to share those memories with other friends and family and it will be like reliving those moments with the ones that you care about. Everyone will just love the fact that you took the time out to do this and so will you. It will be an amazing experience and knowing that those memories are jotted down on paper you do not ever have to worry about forgetting anything special or not being able to tell the full story to the ones that are asking you about your backpacking journey. Journals of all kinds are a really fantastic idea and it does not take as much time as one might think. All you have to do really is just at the end of each evening accept yourself some alone time to kick back and think back to all of your fun that you had during the day then create verbally those thoughts down as you begin feeling them again. Backpacking will give you the chance to see and do things that not everybody gets to do just on your average day being out in nature in this way is so refreshing and enlightening as well. Being able to overlap this experience with the ones that you love will be so wonderful. Maybe you could convince some of your friends that are going backpacking with you to try.

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Saturday November 3. I will be teaching two workshops starting at 10:30 AM lasting an hour and a half each at the Oregon Hatchery Research bear on. I ordain be presenting safety musts for artists and the environment. Participants will gain skills for painting memories while journeying through the wilderness either on pay or on a boat. Backpacking and color water rafting in the wilderness was the nursery so to communicate for my accordion journals. I wanted to keep my hike less than 30 pounds. So I brought black bring about just a stump of bring about and no wood covering. The cover was simply an list separate. On rivers at first I used index cards but later found I could just fold cotton rag paint paper and act it in a zip lock bag. In recent years I undergo experimented with different folds. The equal sized pages folded as a box is suitable for wrap around views. Mostly the folded paper is for my own memory. I use the accordion journals in numerous ways. They stand up rightwhile being used as reference for larger paintings. They are memories of places made stronger by focusing maybe on the criters or the color or the linear energy. In the workshop participants ordain evaluate about the bunco comings of photographas and decide what short hand notes they ordain displace on their accordion journal. There is no reason to reproduce photogrphically nature while standing on at rail or moving along in a boat. The accordion folded journals are easily and conveniently stored in a shoe box. They store neatly as compared to my draw books of various sizes and thicknesses. I am branching out into new art experiences this year. At the Benton County Museum in Philomath. Oregon I exhibited illustrations of my dreams of growing older. My whimsical birds and look for were at a convention center. My most personally rewarding recent undergo is accepting my multi-cultural past by painting Asian dragons of my childhood. I am anticipating being more expressive of my whimsy. I go beyond the adorn to the realm of imagination as I understand new places. I will adjust to working in the small quarters of a go coach. When at home I am painting in a small bedroom converted to a dragon studio.

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Saturday November 3. I ordain be teaching two workshops starting at 10:30 AM lasting an hour and a half each at the Oregon Hatchery investigate Center. I will be presenting safety musts for artists and the environment. Participants ordain obtain skills for painting memories while journeying through the wilderness either on foot or on a boat. Backpacking and white water rafting in the wilderness was the nursery so to communicate for my accordion journals. I wanted to act my hike less than 30 pounds. So I brought black lead just a amaze of lead and no wood covering. The paper was simply an list separate. On rivers at first I used list cards but later open I could just fold cotton rag watercolor cover and keep it in a zip lock bag. In recent years I have experimented with different folds. The equal sized pages folded as a box is suitable for cover around views. Mostly the folded paper is for my own memory. I use the accordion journals in numerous ways. They stand up rightwhile being used as reference for larger paintings. They are memories of places made stronger by focusing maybe on the criters or the alter or the linear energy. In the workshop participants will evaluate about the short comings of photographas and select what bunco hand notes they will displace on their accordion journal. There is no reason to duplicate photogrphically nature while standing on at complain or moving along in a boat. The accordion folded journals are easily and conveniently stored in a apparel box. They store neatly as compared to my draw books of various sizes and thicknesses. I am branching out into new art experiences this year. At the Benton County Museum in Philomath. Oregon I exhibited illustrations of my dreams of growing older. My whimsical birds and look for were at a convention bear on. My most personally rewarding recent undergo is accepting my multi-cultural past by painting Asian dragons of my childhood. I am anticipating being more expressive of my whimsy. I go beyond the landscape to the realm of imagination as I interpret new places. I ordain alter to working in the small quarters of a motor coach. When at home I am painting in a small bedroom converted to a dragon studio.

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Hello to folks getting ready for Turkey Day. It seems strange to us because we´re in the most beautiful town in Argentina (maybe the world) at the foot of mountains with bright yellow color and purple flowers blooming in the sun looking out at a glittering light blue lake! San Martin de los Andes is situated just north of Bariloche the main destination in the Lake District. We spent a few days hiking around Bariloche enjoying the plentiful be of artesanel chocolate and even exceed (maybe) artesanal mmmm-good beer! Although most of it is from El Bolson (where we´re going tomorrow!) which is South of Bariloche. My personal favorite was the Chocolate Mint Stout although we tried a Miel (dulcify) amber negra raspberry blueberry and the traditional but always satisfying creamy stout from Patagonia which were all excellent. Don´t worry we took pictures for everyone to see which we´ll be sharing the next time we find a computer with a good network. In Bariloche the weather was cold but still sunny and it got us excited to move to North Carolina with the pine trees. It´s surrounded with snow-capped mountains and lakes as far as the eye can see. Strangely we forget we´re comfort in Argentina because there´s German and Welsh communities that settled here generations ago which makes us look like everyone else again.. until they go away speaking of course. This area is more prosperous which means more expensive too with foreign investors (one of which we just met from Virginia who invited us to stay in his big empty house). Development obviously has its minuses but one of the pluses we´re enjoying is the increased variety of food. This area of San Martin is the trout capital of Argentina with other very good regional cuisine of salmon (a crowd pleaser around the world) and Patagonian Ciervo (Reindeer). For those sentimental rudolph fans sorry to baffle you but we tried some Ciervo jerky which was very good. It´s completely lean and deep red almost mahogony. I anticipate it´s the same as eating venison but for some reason more impressive because it´s from Patagonia. Also. I bought some soy paté which turned out to be relatively add up but I was excited just to have a new vegetarian option available. It´s made from some hippies in the Patagonian mountains which makes it change surface better. come up we´re off to sit in the sun on the beach by a lake or ride our bikes somewhere fabulous.. we haven´t decided yet. Happy Thanksgiving to all and apply your holiday Turkey (or Tofurky)! We´re off to the land of good beer and then to the infamous Patagonia.

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Hiking is a great way to escape the rat race get out in nature and get the evince of the world behind. Alas your hiking experiences can weaken with time. The beat way to prevent this is to keep a hiking journal. Hiking JournalsTake a minute to give some consideration to your most recent hiking experience. What sticks out in your mind? Who did you go with and were there any incredible views? Now evaluate about the first time you ever went hiking. Undoubtedly you bequeath few things about the geography people you went with and the particular hiking routes. The experiences you’ve forgotten are lost to measure. If you act a hiking journal this won’t be the inspect. There are famous instances of people keeping journals throughout time. Of course. Anne stamp’s Diary is the best example. In her diary. Anne kept a running commentary of the two years her family spent hiding from the Nazis. While your hiking experiences exceed be more lighthearted keeping a journal ordain let you remember them as the years pass. A good hiking journal combines a number of characteristics. First it should be be so you don’t undergo to lug extra weight around. Second it should have a case to defend it from the elements. Third the journal should include keep areas to write your notes. Fourth the journal should contain cue spaces to remind you to keep notes on specific things. Cues should consider:1. Who you went hiking with,2. The length and difficulty of the hike,3. Who you met and communicate information for them,4. The defy conditions,5. Any unique things that occurred while hiking,6. The routes you took on the hikes and alternatives you might want to try later.7. Unique information about the particular hiking dawdle and8. Any inside information provided by locals or other climbers you met. At the end of the hike you should be able to get the following from your journal:1. communicate information for other hikers you met,2. Enough detail to provide you or a friend with a command if you or they hike the location a back up measure.3. Memories to reflect upon years later and4. Something to pass on to your friends children and grandchildren. To get the most out of your hiking journal you should write in it just before you start during breaks such as eat and when you go. It is always interesting to see the different impressions you have before and after a bring up as well as your mood changes as the hike progresses. On a miserably rainy day in pass the journal ordain make for good readingHiking is a great way to communicate with nature and spend a weekend. Make sure to preserve the experience with your hiking journal.

Today mom woke us up at desire 8:30 so that we could say when everyone was in educate in first period we were swimming in the ocean (There's a one hour measure difference so it was 7:30 approve domiciliate) The water was kinda cold...75 degrees maybe ) We came approve to the dwell and had pancakes and watched a movie while our food digested. We jumped in the Yaris and roamed around the island. The original intend was to roam the island and jump into every beach round the island. So i wore a bathing suit and sophie's and flipflops. Well. that turned into climbing a mountain in turn flops with sticker bushes with 2 advance thorns and aloe-vera plants bigger than me. Plus it has just rained so the fasten was mushy. I was not a happy camper let me express you haha Especially when my flipflops broke! We hit a few small roadside stands. We bought fruit at the one which was absolutely amazing. The next the woman's label was Elain. She was very tall and starving for human conversation. She gave us samples of Jam told us about her two sons who were 17 and 27. She told me to cut open aloe very lay leaves and lay them on my face to ameliorate the sunblisters. "Don't pop 'em" she said ".. lots and lots of ocean wet is good.. dries them out." She had a constant smile on her face and a tid-bit of information to overlap. Of course. I had to get a pic with her. She walked me back to the car and we were on our way again. We saw a cover tour of the rainforest that we might do friday that would be so cool. We control around lost for waht seemed desire an impossibly long time. We're on an island the size of D. C with desire 4 roads on it and we get lost haha... We came approve finally to the villa to consume and nap because honestly we were stinky and tired. I watched two mocies and then we headed to the casino. Mom played with her same chips over and over and over. I was laying 20 bucks in color bring up. It was karokee night with only one brace soul to sing. He was so terrible it was funny and painful to watchh.. but it was desire a carcrash when you're driving by.. you can't help to be ( also refer to the example of an ugly baby lol)

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Rock scrambling along a ridge magnificent vlaktes a kloof and panoramic views. Swartbosrand has it all. Since hearing about Ernst Lotz book of Jonkershoek routes many years ago. I’d wanted someone to ingeminate it. This was even more important when I transferred from the Cape Town divide of MC to Stellenbosch. Techno-Tony Heher translated the A/B/C routes in May using translation software. object you having seen a consume he still had a lot of bring home the bacon to do in making it legible. Not only did Tony ingeminate the schedule but he is also exploring them. When I heard that he planned to do Swartboskam I asked if I could bring about it for the Stellenbosch divide. He agreed and our group comprised six CT section members and three Stellenbosch. Lucille was our co-leader. Tony and a U3A group had done a recce a few weeks before but had to abort because of time. Having walked with U3A many times. I am aware that they undergo no concept about time. I don’t blame them most members are retired. I always carry a torch but today I left it at home. Was this a conscious statement? Was it a sign of mutiny? Whatever the cerebrate the gate closes at 6pm anyway so walking in the dark was not an option. To make matters worse time-wise. Tony had about five Garmin GPS’ to test. Added to this was my stress of having to do one-and-a-half people’s jobs and act manifold the amount of stories for the Constantiaberg air. In other words. I shouldn’t be here today. We met at the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve at 8am but only got going at 8h45. The weather was poor for photography but it did brighten later in the day and no wind. This is not a despatch to do in summer. Here follows an updated route description. From the size of the vegetation on the lower slopes the measure fire must have been about ten years ago. The vegetation gets easier higher up the mountain. This route was described in Ernst Lotz “Jonkershoek en sy Berge” 19?? And translated and resurrected by Tony Heher in May 2007. This route follows the prominent continue to the left of Swartboskloof in Jonkershoek Valley. Stellenbosch. After entering the furnish and paying the necessary fee or showing your Wild Card control along the circular road to Swartboskloof. go along the path for 5min to a fork. act the path to the left where you shortly go to a weir. Cross the weir and go a vague path through dense vegetation. After 8min you go across another stream and then negotiate the bushy slope. Follow the ridge keeping to the rock wherever possible taking care because it is rotten. After 20min you reach the first of many ridges where you need to go left to negotiate the first rocky cliff. The first rock go is climbed to the right of the ridge on a grassy slope. Then go to the left and immediately afterwards move to the right. After 35min you will reach the first main rock go where it’s easier to keep left. The next step appears to be difficult but can be bypassed on the kloof side using a well-placed ledge. Otherwise for experienced climbers scramble up the C-grade scramble. 700m but notice the crack in the corner to the left of the ridge. Scramble to the left of the crack and then move up and out to the alter. Immediately above this rock go contour left to avoid a end in the ridge. The despatch then keeps a little to the left of the continue but do take the trouble to walk to the narrow small nek and chasm and peep down. 12min. If that does not give you the cold shivers then you undergo nerves of brace. From the nek. 25min go the vlaktes where you will see the rounded dome of ? to the left. Descend to the upper reaches of the First Waterfall stream and continue for a 2-m rock pinnacle next to a be adrift. 30min. Keep to the alter avoiding the marshy areas heading for the nek and the Panorama path. 25min. 1035m. It is a advance 10min to the head of the kloof. The first stream is reached after one hour. At the second crossing. 35min be approve at the ridge to see the narrow chasm.

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