Bike Touring Travelers

This couple from Germany came in to the ranger station and were doing a bike tour. They started in Alaska and are ending in LA. Their Blog. You can translate it from German by copying and pasting the link into various tools online.

Someday I want to do a big bike tour. I have no interest in biking across America, even if it is for charity. Ever since I worked at Rose Bicycle in Maine, and thanks to Jim, I've wanted to do Cape Bretton or the main part of Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island. The Beal Family and I did a quick car tour of Nova Scotia. I'd rather tour the Western side I think, then tie in a canoe trip somehow in their Kemjimkujik Seaside Adjunct National Park. Or another canoe trip in Algonquin Provincial Park deeper into the park would be amazing... or the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (right Jen?).



Last summer at Onion River Sports we had Furtemba Sherpa, stop in our shop before we closed for a quick repair. I think Dean-o was there too to help. Furtemba speaks little English, from my encounter, but he is a man from Nepal who has been sponsored by his country since 2003 to cycle to every country promoting world peace and environmental protection. Mayor Blumberg even wrote him a letter. whoa.

Time Lapse Yosemite

So it's pretty boring sometimes at work, and after I finish entering visitor statistics (I think today we had 109- counting me playing with the counter).

I found this time lapse of Yosemite. Watch for the people climbing.

People in Yosemite: A TimeLapse Study from Steven M. Bumgardner on Vimeo.

Skis are Beautiful

Design Inspiration – Brianna’s Skis

There's a lot of handmade ski companies like the more low-key 333 Skis out of wherever they disperse camp or Herwiggy out of Carson City... to some bigger ones like Moment or Folsom out of Reno.

But I think these skis on the Poppy Gall (founder of Isis for Women- yeah VT) are pretty sweet. I love the graphics.

It's Fall! It's Snowing-Oct.7th

So it snowed on October 7th or so. Last night I had some pumpkin ale and it was delicious. The only thing is that the leaves here are, well, not in town really. It'd rained and flurried all day in Mammoth today. Tioga Pass closed (it is now open until next time it closes). That causes problems with foreign tourists, retired peoples, and those LA people traveling now. Only the LA people melt in the rain.

Kyle and I went to Bishop in hopes of scoring some perfect cider and pumpkins. We found NO pumpkins anywhere. We went apple picking south of Bishop. Strangest place to pick apples. Desert, pond, and mountains?

Hiking Mono Pass - 09/30/10

Steven, Paula and I hiked Mono Pass out of Little Lakes Valley a few weeks ago. It is also known as Rock Creek, Toms Place, etc. You start at the trailhead "Mosquito Flats", which is also the end of the road and the backpackers camp.

We had the goal of doing over 2000' total of elevation to get to 4th Recess Lake. This is what we wanted to see, but did not: