A brief review of what gear worked when camping in the snow, what didn't, and what just wasn't necessary.

Applied for my PCT permit today... and a twinge of plantar fasciitis.

How to get on and off the trail in the southern Sierra

Playing in the snow with an ice ax

A bit of snowshoeing and snow hiking in the mountains on a bright blue day.

Hitting the trail for two days of snow camping in the Sierra

Heading off to Tahoe to go camp in the snow... and learn a few things.

Meeting up with another thru-hiker for the first time

A run through of my gadgetry

My current biggest worries about hiking the PCT

There's a long ways to walk in the Sierras without resupply.

A brief overview of my PCT hiking plans.

Getting excited--and nervous--about a class next week to teach me how to camp and hike in the snow and cold.

A decent day hiking around San Miguel Mountain

Friends are very curious about my plan to hike the PCT. Here are three questions from David in London.

What happens when you don't specify a date in a post or filename??

Short version for index and feeds

Using the path to set metadata, rather than including it in a post's metadata header.

First Post to blog

Specifying metadata in an article (post) always takes precedence over filename or filepath.

How little metadata can an article get away with?

Back from New Zealand.

Coastal view

Leaving Auckland, again

It's hot here... maybe 26C/78F, not the 18C/66F we had every day on the North Island. It's humid. We saw a bit of Australia 500km out, blowing across the Tasman, dust from the drought flying away.

And Sydney is... annoying, without having to be. Quarantine inspector power tripping. No toilet paper in our upper-range hotel.

And weird taxi drivers.

Taxi driver from Sydney Airport asks us "how do we want to get to our hotel at Liverpool and George?" Mind you, this is one block from what I consider …

Depart Sydney 6:00pm, Thu 24/10/2002
Arrive Auckland 11:55pm, Thu 24/10/2002

Depart Auckland 6:00pm, Wed 30/10/2002
Arrive Sydney 8:00pm, Wed 30/10/2002

Staying at the Grand Chancellor Auckland Airport Thursday night
Staying at the Crowne Plaza, Auckland CBD, Friday and Saturday night
Doing a road trip and hoping for a nice place on Sunday
Monday, Tuesday: probably Taupo one of the nights, then who knows? Must do The Bach (http://www.thebach.co.nz/) there.

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jcoldrey

October 22 2002, 16:10:24

Hey, have a great trip to New …

Nothing like the travel industry and government bureaucracy to make your head spin.

The short of it: since we ~~decided not~~ can't to go to Bali because of the bombings, we'll be overstaying our visas for our departure date of November 7th by five days if we don't do anything.

So now we have three choices:

1. Catch a Thursday afternoon flight to New Zealand and hang out there for five days before returning. Cost is $100 each for taxes, plus 30,000 frequent flier miles each.

2. Go to the Australian Department of Immigration, explain the situation, and apply …

My we have vacation fatigue, though today lessened it a bit.

Today's events: visited Clonakilla winery. Visited Dan Murphy's which has really good wine prices. Walked around the Australian National Botanic Gardens for an hour or so. Checked in to the hotel, cracked open the bottle of malbec I bought at Dan Murphy's. Ooooh, bad stuff. Convinced Chris that we need better wine, and to drive to the Vintage Cellars in Manuka to get some to go with our room service pizza and Scooby Doo, showing at 7:39pm

So we picked the wine. I can't even remember what it …