2017 Total Solar Eclipse Backpacking Trip – Our plans for viewing the eclipse were to go backpacking and watch the eclipse from the Mark Twain National Forest Journal: 11 17
Outdoor Activities
Time spent in the great outdoors hiking, backpacking, camping, fishing, paddling, and shooting. Anything well away from the madding crowd.
It seems that posts about Everyday Carry are all the rage online at the moment. Either that, or maybe Google is just targeting me with them. Whatever, I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon and produce my own EDC list. 2
June 28, 2017 0:20
Beretta PX4 Storm Compact 9mm – Taken for no particular reason except I wanted to take a picture and didn’t have anything else to hand that would fit on my desk that was vaguely photogenic.
June 12, 2017 8:47
An afternoon being taught fly fishing on Lake Taneycomo. After several hours of practice – do I look like a fly fisherman yet? 6 pictures
June 8, 2017 15:44
Liberty: In God We Trust – When I emptied my pockets last night after yesterday’s trip to the range, this is what I found. One-minute read, 2 pictures
March 21, 2017 7:52
Range Time – Notice how you cannot see a target in this picture? There is a good reason for that…
March 20, 2017 18:02
Open Carry and Concealed Carry Holsters – A quick look at my current holsters plus some thoughts on handgun ownership. 9 7
March 18, 2017 18:10
Gary and Lanie go hiking on the Yellow trail at Busiek State Forest and Wildlife area. We took a quick side trip to introduce Lanie to the old panel van 7 pictures
February 11, 2017 14:00
Lanie in the 1930s Dodge “Humpback” Panel Van at Busiek. 2 pictures
February 11, 2017 12:59
Laine wouldn’t get in and pretend to drive – Lanie joined me for a short hike on the Yellow Trail at Busiek. We went off-trail a bit so she could see the old panel van. I wanted Lanie to get in and pretend to drive, but the lack of any sort of solid floor put her off the idea. 2 pictures
February 11, 2017 12:57
Lanie spotted this on the trail, and a fair bit of Googling hasn’t come up with a formal name for this, or an explanation of how it forms. Pretty cool though.
February 11, 2017 12:41
Routine Cleaning – Cleaning and fixing things was not quite my plan for the day, but that is what I ended up doing. +3
February 5, 2017 21:19
A day hike on the Busiek Orange and White trails. +19
October 3, 2016 13:46
July 21 I took Luke for an afternoon kayaking on the James River at Springfield, Missouri +11.
July 21, 2016 17:23
Hathersage and Hope from Higgar Tor. 3
June 4, 2016 12:37
Riverside Walk – Portland Oregon – Having settled in at the hotel I decided to go for an afternoon walk, and headed off towards the river. One-minute read, 8 pictures
April 19, 2016 14:20
Rivets – Detail of the structure of Steel Bridge, Portland, Oregon.
April 19, 2016 14:12
Seen through the structure of Steel Bridge, the motor vessel Ken Mei on the Willamette River, loading grain in Portland Oregon.
April 19, 2016 14:11
Day Hike at Busiek – The weather this weekend has been wonderful (especially considering it is still February). However, we’ve not had a chance to get away backpacking as we had commitments in town on Saturday. Today we went on a short hike at Busiek. 3 pictures
February 28, 2016 20:35
Branch of Brushy Creek off of the Pees Hollow Trail, Hercules Glades – This creek was mainly dry, but near where we camped there was some water. 3 pictures
February 18, 2016 10:02
Camped for the Night at the Hercules Glades Wilderness. 4 pictures
February 17, 2016 16:27
Gary on the Pees Hollow Trail — This truck cab is a bit of a landmark on the trail – it’s just to the south of a spring – so there is water nearby. There is also a fire ring close by.
February 17, 2016 14:57
We had a little navigational problem getting started. The beginning of the western half of the Pees Hollow trail isn’t marked, and the trail isn’t much used. With all the fallen leaves we went past the start of the trail and had to backtrack. The views were well worth the effort.
February 17, 2016 13:21
Jim made me this wonderful ‘bolt-down” gun safe for Christmas. Plenty of room in there for all the ammo I received too.