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60-year-old grandmother hikes to top of jagged Sierra Buttes

Yup. Linda and I hiked to the top of a very dramatic-looking, craggy mountain peak in Northern California known as Sierra Buttes. It was a lovely day, and a lovely hike. Here are some photos:

Sierra Buttes from the road, on our way to the trailhead: Photo Close-up shot of summit — note there is

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When you’re single, you have a lot of free time to decorate ward activities…

Adam and I met two years ago when he was rappelling from a skylight into the gym dressed as Batman for the annual Singles Ward Film Festival. They asked Adam to host this year’s Tim Burton themed event as Willy Wonka even though we graduated from being singles. I went as the White Queen from

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Does this make us yuppies?

Yep, that’s me on the trainer just before I beat Lance Armstrong who was racing on the TV in front of me. After beating Lance a few times on the new bike I got for my birthday (I love you Adam!), we set out for two 25 mile rides along the beach and are taking

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On the Local News

Juice’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu school is opening this month and the local Fox affiliate’s morning show featured him, his partner Rafael, and two very small special guests!

 

62-year-old man climbs to top of Half Dome

Yup. It’s me. I went to the top today. It was a magnificent day in Yosemite. This is the 11th time I’ve done this hike, and it was as thrilling as always.

For those of you who haven’t done this hike (i.e., everyone except my family), the hike is roughly 16 miles round trip from

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DHB is first to complete Las Trampas Challenge Geocache

About one week ago, “Alamogul” (the world’s #1 geocacher, with over 45,000 registered “finds”) published a new “challenge geocache” (for other geocachers). To successfully “find” this challenge geocache, one must hike to, find and log every one of the 80 geocaches within the boundaries of the Las Trampas Regional Park, a large rugged open space

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A bit of shameless bragging

My dad is the best. Its true. And I can prove it.

Check out my father’s day ode to my dad at our bog, the monkey’s arm.

Graduation

Though I defended last June, I missed the deadline to walk in graduation by 2 weeks, so today I finally got my chance. Jusok, Linda, David, Rachelle, Jonas, Michelle, Jusok’s parents, Jusok’s sister, brother in law and two nieces were in attendance. After the ceremony we had refreshments at our house with friends and family.

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Linda and David in Spain

Here are photos of Linda and David in Spain. Click to enlarge.

La Rambla — a long (and very popular) pedestrian mall in downtown Barcelona

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