FUN STUFF

Here are some of my pictures from trips to interesting places,
together with a lot of funny stuff that I got from my friends
on the Net. Enjoy!

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Trip Photos/Links: | Old | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |

visitors since September 2, 1996.

Favorite Pix from the Infiltec Fun Pages:

Monument Valley Sunset (Arizona)

Climbers on Popo (Mexico)

Hiking the Zion Narrows (Utah)

Dawn - Mount Rainier (Washington)

Sea of Clouds - Mount Rainier (Washington)

Crevasse escape (Chamonix France)

Argentier Valley (Chamonix France)

All photos copyright by .

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Here is some funny stuff that we got from our friends on the Net.

Funny Web sites and Email lists you can subscribe to:

Programming Quotations and Humor.
Museum of Hoaxes.
Centre for the Easily Amused - the ultimate guide to wasting time.
Urban Legend Generator. Start your own Urban Legend.
Complaint Letter Generator. Got someone you want to complain about? Let the computer do it!
THIS is TRUE. Subscribe to free weekly email list compiled from funny stuff actually found in the news. Samples.
Annals of Improbable Research. Subscribe to free occasional email list mini-AIR, a funny look at scientific research. Samples.
News of the Weird. Subscribe to free weekly email list that keeps you in touch with all the weird news you'll ever need. Samples.
Amusing Facts.

Adventures:

Join the BOINC distributed computing project and use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy.
Here are my latest BOINC CPU processing statistics for my team "Dickster"! New members welcome.
Join the Folding@home distributed computing project and use the idle time on your computer to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
Here are my latest Folding@home GPU processing statistics as VA_Dave!
Old Climbing Expeditions.
- Photos of climbing in the Alps, Mount Rainier, Mexican volcanos, Gunks, etc.
Fun in 1994:
- Rafted the Grand Canyon with Canyon Explorations.
Fun in 1995:
- September: Flying like a bird! Photos of para-gliding lessons in September 1996 and soaring lessons in September 1995.
Fun in 1996:
- November: Exploring Death Valley. Photos of desert mysteries.
Fun in 1997:
- July: Vacation in Southwest. Photos of Zion, Bryce, Lake Powell, and Monument Valley.
Fun in 1998:
- July 11: Climbing 14,000' peak in Colorado - Status Report
- May 19-June 13: The Grand Tour: Berlin>Leipzig>Prague>Budapest>Tuscany>Rome
  In Tuscany, my family rented the top floor of Convento Santa Chiara in Sarteano, and explored Italy with the help of the most excellent Rick Steve's Guidebook.
  Pictures: hanging out in a Tuscan villa, making a wish on the Charles Bridge in Prague, and old door in Prague.
Fun in 1999:
- July 10: Climbing Mt Washington in NH
- September 18: Brother in law's 50th birthday party in NC
Fun in 2000:
- May 27-June 21: Hiking in Peru with the help of SAE and Inca Explorers in Cusco. Picture: 4 days of rain to Manchu Picchu!
- July 8: Hiking in the Canadian Northwest plans
Fun in 2001:
- February 7, 6:13:02 p.m. EST, flew to Florida to watch the STS-98 Space Shuttle launch. This may have been one of the most beautiful all the 102 launches so far!! You can order launch viewing tickets (~6 miles away) here. Also went scuba diving in Key Largo with Ocean Divers.
- February 20: Prospecting for Gold Near Washington, DC
- September 29: Climbed Mt Whitney in one day 14,497 ft high, 22 miles RT, ~6500 ft altitude gain. For more info on climbing the highest point in the lower 48, see GORP, NPS PeakWare DayHike, WebCam.
Fun in 2002:
- June 5-June 25: Prospecting for Gold in the Yukon: The Snake Pit or Bust!.
- September 15-October 12: Scuba Diving in Okinawa: Diving with Whale Sharks!.
Fun in 2003:
- November 18-December 19: Adventures in Tanzania:
  - Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro with help from the Marangu Hotel near Moshi.
  - Safari to Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Norongoro and Tarangeri game parks with help from Sunny Safaris in Arusha.
  - Scuba Diving in Zanzibar. with help from OneOcean: Zanzibar Dive Center in Stone Town.
Fun in 2004:
- January 1: Climbed Old Rag Mountain. A great way to start the New Year!
- July 7: Climbed the Grouse Grind in Vancouver, BC in 70 minutes (the record is 24m18s!) for the 853 metres (2,800 feet) altitude gain in a 2.9 km (1.7 mile) trail .
- July 13: attempted to climb the cable route on Half Dome in Yosemite but rangers turned us back half way up because of forest fires.
- October 2-17: trekking in Ladakh and Uttranchal in the Northern India Himalayas with the help of our friends at Wisdom Adventures.
  - Trek: Lakakh: Lamayuru to Alchi over 16,000 ft pass. Nice Lakakhi house. Current Leh, Ladakh weather.
  - Trek: Uttranchal: Source of the Ganges. Avalanche at ice cave source of Ganges.
Fun in 2005:
- January 1: Climbed Old Rag Mountain. Temp: ~60F!, Time: 1:35 up, 3:05 back at parking lot. A great way to start the New Year!
- February 26: Climbed Cathedral Peak near Santa Barbara, CA. With Christine, Mary, Meg and Marc. The rains let up for a perfect day to climb. No records broken: about 3 hrs up and 3 hrs down. Read some interesting entries in the summit Geocache
- August: exploring Panama and visiting with Angel and Carla and Honey and Larry.
Fun in 2006:
- January 1: Climbed Old Rag Mountain. Temp: ~40F, Pretty icy on the way down!. A great way to start the New Year!
- February: Skiing in Zermatt. Stayed at the wonderful Schlosshotel Tenne and took a helicopter ride around the Matterhorn.
Fun in 2007:
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Fun in 2009:
- Searched for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Arkansas ?.
- January: Searched for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Arkansas ?.
- May: Went to Napflion, Greece and explored Delphi and the Mani. ?.
- July 4: Climbed Telescope Peak in Death Valley, NV. ?.
- July: Flew Flight Simulator at the Air and Space Museum in Dulles, VA. ?.
- September: Attended wedding in Beverly Hills, CA. ?.
- December: Christmas in California and Rhode Island. ?.
Fun in 2010:
- January 1: Only made it half way up Old Rag Mountain due to deep snow and poor crampons. ?.
- February: Survived Snowpocapolipse! ?.
- March: Went Geocaching in Albany, NY and found 3 of 3 geocaches! ?.
- April: Business trip to Brazil? ?.

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