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Animas River Spill
Last Wednesday, we were on our way to hike the Needle Creek trail. To get to the trail head, you take a really cool ride on the Sliverton to Durango railroad. After about an hour, the train stops, they throw out your backpack and tell you goodbye. You then hike about 7 miles into…
Latest Review of The Vintage Club
It’s always nice when you get an review like this one that was recently posted on Amazon. Christy Curtis reviewed The Vintage Club The Vintage Club hold on to your seats for a non stop ride. May 23, 2015 I hesitantly bought this book because of the Spiritual content. Many Christian writers do little actual research they are…
The Reviver Wipes on Shark Tank
Wipe your body odor away. That was the claim of the inventors of the Reviver Wipes on Shark Tank. The product actually sounds like a good idea and there’s a good summary on The Reviver Web site at http://www.reviver.com/. If you’ve ever gone to the gym and gotten really sweaty and smelly, but didn’t have time…
Titin Weight Shirts on Shark Tank
Halloween’s airing of Shark Tank included the founder of a company called Titin, a maker of weight training equipment. The unique twist is that this is equipment you wear. Founder Patrick Whaley explained that it was a shirt with weights incorporated into the fabric so as to be positioned over the chest. He said this…
Jungle Jumparoo – Certainly Nothing New
We’re into the new season on Shark Tank, but not too many patent issues have come up. Most of the ideas I’ve seen so far really don’t have any patent implications—clothing stores, female golf caddies, etc. But, the Jungle Jumparoo segment last night caught my attention—mostly for the blatant misconceptions about patent law. I always laugh…
Annual Trip to the Big Horn Mountains
Every year we take horses back into the Wilderness Area in the Big Horn Mountains. The trip involves five hours in the saddle, each way, over an almost nonexistent trail. Fortunately, my horse, Dino, had a pretty steady step and I wasn’t too sore when I got to camp. Very few people ever get to…
Arrowhead Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park
Sitting across the canyon from the Alpine Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park is Arrowhead Lake. This is perhaps the most pristine and visually spectacular place in the park. The problem is how to get there. Without any trails and its location in the cliffs, only a handful of hikers get there each…
A New Way to Train for a Tri
I’ve been running Olympic distance triathlons for more than a decade, and my training was getting a little stale. This past winter, I was thinking about stopping altogether. I was pretty tired of just running, swimming and biking, and I was running out of time to train properly. Before throwing in the towel, however, I…
My Book Wins International Book Award
This morning I was combing through my emails, hurrying to get off responses to Europe before their day ended while deleting the hordes of accumulated spam. I was just ready to hit the delete button when I realized this was an important email the I really should read. At first, I thought it was…
