Sometime around the winter solstice of 2009, I got the unignorable feeling that I needed to go hiking. Using Google maps I located a likely state park near the coast, which had a mountain with a trail to hike up. It was a wonderful seven hour hike up a 1,700 foot mountain, and being that [...]

My friend Phyllis came up to Portland for a visit, and we decided a trip to Crater Lake and a journey up the Oregon coast would be a great way to spend the time.

These are photos from a trip I took to the Large Binocular Telescope. They consist primarily of shots taken on the trip up or back, with few of the telescope itself. This is entirely for two reasons: first, the thing is so large that even with a 5mm lens and digitally stitching multiple photos together, [...]