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Articles: Finally, some riding!
Posted By: Billy on Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 04:20 PM
Well, it may have taken until October... but I finally managed to get out on the boat a few times and do some riding. It's funny to think that I did more riding in October than any of the summer months - but it's true. A bit of an indian summer hung around, a the crew put in several nice days of riding during the month. I've been spreading my sets equally between the wakeboard and the skate - they both appeal to me in different ways. Here I'm actually starting to get a little air on the skate - still far from making it wake2wake, but hey: it's a start! Most of all, it was just great to be out on the boat with the crew, enjoying the sun, the water, and taking a few pulls. Next summer seems so far away - especially since it hasn't started snowing yet!
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Articles: Dingo's Nose Knows...
Posted By: Billy on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 04:20 PM
... a little pain and suffering! Rexy and I went out for a hike after a new cache placed in our honor in Briones one night, and right at the trailhead, Dingo had a sneezing fit the likes of which I'd never seen. It went on for almost a minute, and by the time he was done, he was covered in snot and dirt up and down his legs and all over his face. As we marched on, Dingo would stop from time to time for another sneezing fit - some not as long as the first, but each just as violent, shaking his entire body from nose to tail stub. We couldn't decide if something had bit him, or he snorfed something up his nose, or... ? Either way, being the irresponsible dad I am, I hoped that everything would magically just work out. To make a long story short - here's what the vet eventually pulled out of his nose! Read on for all the gory details...
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Articles: Autumnal Equinox
Posted By: Billy on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 04:20 PM
Where did Summer go? It got off to a slow start with a weird spring, late rains, and I never DID get much wakeboarding in. I've spent most of my time since mid-summer doing a lot of geocaching, when I'm not working . . . and time has just flown by. So Fall is officially here: time to stop shaving, and start thinking about the SNOW! I think there may still be a few more days out on the water, before we're done for the season - but I'm definitely shifting mental gears and looking forward to getting back to my home away from home in the mountains!
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Articles: Lake Cushing CROSSING
Posted By: Billy on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 06:01 PM
Or: Hey, wait a minute... I'm DRY! This year marked my third attempt at Squaw's annual Lake Cushing Classic pond crossing event. I decided it was worthy of a "permanent" page, so I created one, with a lenghty write-up, a few thumbnails, and every link imaginable. So here I'll limit myself to simply saying "I MADE IT!!", and that it was a whole lot of fun. There are both still images as well as a 14MB video for those of you with a fast connection or a lot of patience. For more information, see my Lake Cushing Classic page here. Enjoy -- I did!
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Articles: Break Stuff
Posted By: Billy on Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 04:30 PM
Or: Why Roger is my motocross idol So, with just days to spare, I finally got my bike out of the garage, cleaned up, and out for a few days of riding. Yep - Carnegie shuts down on May 1 for us red sticker types. So, I got a couple good days in at Carnegie - even if I discovered that my geocache there had been plundered. Lots of good riding, great conditions, and terrain I was comfortable with. Then I decided to hook up with Roger and Steve the following day at Cow Mountain. After almost 3 hours of driving, I finally arrived at the OHV area, and found some parking. Unloaded my bike, hooked up with the boys, and off we went... to check on a couple geocaches in the area, and just have some fun riding. Read the extended text below for all the gory details and find out why Roger deserves some sort of award. Check out the following teaser image for a hint...
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Articles: Second Anniversary
Posted By: Billy on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 04:20 PM
Or: Two years and no signs of slowing... So, this date marks my two-year anniversary with this little obsess... errr, hobby, we call geocaching. I thought that perhaps after the first year, having well exceeded my initial goal of averaging one find a day, that I might taper off a bit. Quite the contrary: I've actually significantly picked up the pace, bumping that average up to well over 2 finds per day - racking up 1714 finds, and 125 First-To-Finds. I have discovered the Bay Area Geocaching Leaderboard after being kindly "nominated" by TeamAlamo and added to the list. Now I can see graphs, trends, and more stats! I'm not even going to make any predictions or forecasts about year 3 - just because my life is in such a state of flux right now. I'm trying to find time for caching and other activities - but am working on controlling the obsession and finding a work-life balance with the insanity of the job.
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Articles: Got Spring?
Posted By: Billy on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 07:35 AM
Or: Winter Storms During the Vernal Equinox That's right - spring is here, ushered in with a nice winter storm - one last "hurrah", as it were. Years of experience have definitely taught me to realize that the snowboarding season comfortably extends into May each year -- but the number of powder days drastically declines as winter draws to an end. But these were no spring conditions (which have been the norm for the past month) - but rather a brutal, and bitter winter storm, yielding LOTS of that good old "white gold". It was definitely 3 days of powder, on all different parts of the mountain. Editor's Note: Those camo pants work almost TOO good!
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Articles: Bay Area Backroads Goes Geocaching
Posted By: Billy on Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 12:35 AM
Or: How long will a cache last after its location is shown on TV? Some time ago, I rang TeamAlamo for some help, and he mentioned that he was out filming with Doug McConnell of Bay Area Backroads. Every once in awhile since then, I would ask him when the show was supposed to air -- but it kept being delayed or just unknown. Well, the time is here - is just aired this evening on SF Bay Area station KRON4. Here's the story associated with the show, which those of you in the Bay Area can catch again on Sunday night at 8PM on KRON4. Congrats to local cachers Team Alamo, WorkerofWood, Team Jiffy, Fisherwoman, Bthomas, and Hemlock on their "15 minutes of Fame" as the crew that escorted Doug to a variety of caches around the city. I even spotted my favorite SF cache to date: Sounds of the Bay. I even got 2-3 seconds of (indirect) fame of my own, as I spotted a signature Gotwake thermometer-compass on the hood of the Jeep in a couple of shots. So, my question is: How long will the various featured caches last? Only a couple showed the actual hiding location - most notably Lombard Street. Be sure to tune in Sunday night at 8pm on KRON4 - or, just show up at the BADGES event cache Sunday in Cupertino. See you there!
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Articles: Adding Insult to Injury… to Insult to Injury!
Posted By: Billy on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 08:00 PM
This past weekend was President’s Day, which represents the single most-crowded weekend of the ski (or in my case, snowboard) season. If I have a good excuse, I’ll often take this weekend off, “leaving it to the amateurs” – in other words, not having to deal with the total mob scene from the roads to the slopes to the grocery store in town… As it turns out, I would have been better off skipping this weekend – but we’d had some much-needed snowfall the preceding week, with a forecast of more over the weekend… so I made my way up to Tahoe (along with everyone else) Friday night. At least I did a bit of geocaching along the way, which breaks up the monotony of a slow, heavy-traffic drive. I left late, and arrived even later… and slept in Saturday morning, in no rush to get out and join the crowds. The story that follows reads a little like an Internet hoax email, where a guy is working on the roof with a ladder a pully and a bucket of bricks. ;-) Read the extended details below to learn how I sprained/strained my back and things just kept snowballing from there…
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Articles: Concurrent Milestones
Posted By: Billy on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 04:20 PM
WooHOO -- FTF... times 100!! Just the other day, I scored my 100th FTF (first-to-find) and my 1500th overall find... all with one little cache. Thanks to TeamAlamo for placing Higher atop Mt. Diablo and enabling this double bonus find. I can't believe this one lasted well over a month without a find - while OTHER caches around the peak were being logged?!? Oh well - works out nicely for me!! 2000, here I come...
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