Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
On the Summit
I’m back from my backpacking trip to the Wind River Mountain range in Western Wyoming. You can read a full trip report and see lots of pictures at www.jercore.com
The highlight of the trip for me was clinging to the summit of Fremont Peak:
At 13,745 feet, Fremont Peak is the 3rd highest peak in Wyoming. It’s only 59 feet lower than the highest peak, Gannett Peak, also in the Wind Rivers. I don’t use the term ‘clinging’ lightly either. The wind was gusting over 40 MPH, and there was a sheer cliff just below me. But I wanted to make sure I touched the highest point on that mountain.
This was a big personal accomplishment for
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Jercore Adventures
I’ve found a system that works well to keep me going 110 miles an hour. (should that be 110%? – either way I guess it means going and going all out)
I take at least one, sometimes two, 4-6 day long trips a year. I’ve negotiated with my wife and family so that I can make these trips work. I look forward to these trips as a way to recharge and regroup very much. I purposefully plan trips that long so that I can disconnect from the world, from Doba, from everything really.
One way I make sure that I can really disconnect is that I head out into the middle of nowhere. Places where cell phones don’t work. Dark Spots
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Adventure Buddies: Backpacking with a 3 year old
Three weeks ago I launched out on an Adventure Buddies trip with my daughter Kaitlin. I took her backpacking for the first time and she absolutely loved it. We drove up the Mirror Lake Highway into the High Unitas about 90 minutes from where we live and we backpacked 1 mile into Wall Lake.
Did I learn anything from her on this trip? You bet. The mosquitoes were bad on this trip. As bad as I’ve ever seen. We had only hiked 1 mile. If I were alone, I would have bailed. But she wanted to have the ‘sleep over’ part of the trip so bad. So we stayed by the lake in the sun and with our repellent and a
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AWOL in Italy
Some of you may have figured that I’d fallen back in my old habits of posting about every three months, but I was just AWOL for 2 weeks with my wife in Italy. This time, I left the laptop and cell phone home and it was a very nice break from work and a great time with my wife.
It’s the first trip we’ve gone on a vacation since having kids without the kids. We spent our time there in Venice, Verona, the Dolomites (Italian Alps), Florence, and Pisa.
I’m back now (for 8 days anyway until I leave next Thursday to India, more on that later). Here’s a couple of pictures from Italy:
Overlooking Florence from atop the Duomo.
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Steve Jobs
I hope you watched that interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs from Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference.
While I watched it, there were 2 things that Steve Jobs said that I liked so much I typed them out so I could share them with everyone. Steve and Bill were asked by an attendee what advice they could give him to continue to find success at his 100 employee new digital media company. Steve said:
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing, and it’s totally true and the reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s
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Apple and Microsoft
Whether you hate Apple and love Microsoft, or hate Microsoft and love Apple, or hate them both (I don’t think many people would love them both), you need to watch the joint interview of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that they did at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference a few weeks ago.
Here are two guys that have such a history together. They have changed the world and the lives of Billions of people. I watched this last night and I found myself thinking back to when I got my first computer, a Franklin PC 8000. I remembered when the computer lab at Burley Jr. High was full
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Dark spots = no people
Last August I posted about A Dark Spot on the Map.
This photo is one of my all time favorites:
(You can see a full size image of this here.)
Anyway, I read Backpacker magazine every month cover to cover. This past month, they had an article called Crusaders of Darkness. The article is about the National Park Service Night Sky Team. This group has the following focus:
People and Lightscapes
The national parks were established “to conserve the scenery, the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations…”
Perhaps for
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