Gord's Trip Reports & Hiking
Reports
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2007 Big trip to California, Hopiland, Glacier National park and
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For my webpage
of High Resolution Landscape Photography, please click here
Landscapes
Yosemite, Mahogany Flat, the Panamints, Zion, Monument
Valley, Grand Canyon...
Hi. I'm Gordon MacKenzie. With the links below,
you can go to various camping, hiking and travel trip reports.
When I travel, I like to spend time doing landscape photography,
and I like to travel whenever I can.
.. If your spirit seeks time in the outdoors, I
think you will find some encouragement here. (and yes, there is
life after KAO Infosystems...)
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***NEW*** April 2007 Round trip into California and Southwest
Deserts
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September 2006 Zion and Southern Utah, then a big hike up Mount Whitney
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September 2005 backpacking trip into the Clark Range of
Yosemite...a round trip of 50 miles to Red Peak and back
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May
2005 Into the Southwest deserts: Death Valley mountains,
Zion, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon ...
8. October 2003: A 45 mile round trip
into the Cathedral Range of Yosemite, for a climb up
Vogelsang Peak
7. May 2003: A return trip
up Yosemite Falls with my old friend Tom. Then we travel to up to
Mahogany Flat at 8000' to introduce Tom to astronomical possibilites of
this darksite.
6.
October 2002: miles and
miles up out of Yosemite Valley into the backcountry, to Cloud's Rest
and Sunrise Lakes.
And then camping and hiking again in the mountains of Death Valley.
5.
May 2002:
trip up Yosemite Falls during the spring runoff, then over to Indian
Ridge above North Dome. Camping in Thorndike campground in
Panamint Mountains.
4. May 2001 Trip to San
Francisco, wine country, Big Sur, Yosemite, Sequoia, and Death Valley
3. October 2000: Up Half Dome with two friends
2. Ohio & Pennsylvania trip in 1999
1. Huge camping trips all around the Southwest, then across to
New York (8000 miles)
Background
For many years amidst the frenetic pace of 24/7 hi tech life at KAO
Infosystems, my employer had a policy requiring a detailed
report to be circulated the day following a business trip. Part
of the working culture in Japanese business is to proactively
communicate automatically and in writing, unless there is a specific
reason not to. So naturally, this kind of forward thinking made its way
into subsidiaries. Here in North America however, we seem to
resist this, and usually would never actually write down a detailed
summary! (Sir Humpfrey Appleby of BBC's "Yes,
Prime Minister" fame would be justifiably proud)
Well, I must confess that when working on
my own time, I'm getting a bit slow in doing my Trip Reports.
Yet I still do them, because I think that someone, somewhere, will
enjoy a little bit of what they read. Sure there are lots of sites
and stories out there. Sure there are stories better composed
and written. This time though, perhaps a certain part of these
reports will resonate with you in particular, and cause you to take a
leap of faith and plan a trip. Get
Out More. Or as
the advertising caption says "Just Do It."
Gordon 30 Oct 2007 108
email gmk@diffractions.com