Shane (a fellow mathematician at MSU) and I took a nice hike up thru the Spanish Peaks by Ted Turners Flying D Ranch. It's a beautiful drive and it's right out of town off from Montana's most dangerous and deadly road, US Highway 191. It was a nice little ride in to the full parking lot of the Spanish Creek trail head and a short 3.5 mile hike up to the Spanish Creek water fall. Despite the large amounts of vehicles in the parking lot, we encountered no hikers on the way up to the falls, and only one train of [View Full Entry]

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Well two weeks ago I took a trip, a financially irresponsible, but personally rewarding trip across country to see some friends and attend a wedding. Here is a little synopsis of this crazy off the cuff, seat of my pants adventure. First, the wedding was on Saturday the 10th of June. I decided to go that Monday. Amtrak by far had the best deal with the most dependable (given the circumstances) travel (aka, no Greyhounds breaking down often, and no four digit prices like the airport). So round trip couch in a Amtrak across the country day before you leave (450 [View Full Entry]

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I took a four day jaunt down to Grand Teton National Park and took a nice three day tour of some of the glacial lakes at the base of the Teton range and Two Oceans lake in the Northeastern part of the Park. Day 1: Two Oceans Lake and Hermitage Point The first day started out very bland and overcast with threats of drizzly doom intermittent thru-out my hike around Two Ocean's lake. The whole day I saw hardly a soul except for the occasional coyote, moose cow, and a whole herd of elk doing their thang out in the willy [View Full Entry]

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