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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Holding Ground - Peter Ralston

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I love the image and the metaphor, as year's end approaches.  The mastery of Peter Ralston continues to hold my imagination.  We all h...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Temple: goodbye student athletes

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If its name ain't football or basketball, forget it. Whatever happened to mens sana in corpore sano ?- gwc The spirit of amateurism ...

Druid ruins in the Bronx at the winter solstice

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Bound is boatless man

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A man remembers the boat he built, sailed around the world with his wife, raised his daughter aboard, returns to where it lies in ruins. ...

Mt. Rainier from Crystal Mountain

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Jesse took this picture of Mt. Rainier yesterday from the top of Crystal Mountain in the Cascades.

100 Years Ago Congress Flooded Hetch Hetchy - the other Yosemite Valley

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Our "three gorges" were two - Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy.  100 years ago Congress passed and Woodrow Wilson signed the Raker Act...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

The first Whitbread RTW race 1973-1974 Remastered

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Thanks to the Volvo Ocean Race people for this remastering .   The next rendition will be a one-design in the new Volvo 65's.  Makes se...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Poor old cod | TLS

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Another review of University of New Hampshire professor and mariner W. Jeffrey Bolster's award-winning  The Mortal Sea. - gwc Poor old...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Waiting for ice and a cold breeze

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Ah for the good old days. - gwc Waiting for ice and a winter breeze - NY Times by Samantha Storey A century ago, when cold winters coul...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Stanley Paris - 76 y.o. round the world attempt

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I get interested in competitive round the world races - like the Volvo (formerly Whitbread), and Vendee Globe (single-handed, no outside as...