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        A brilliant day hike to take friends on.  A significant 8 hour hike up but fairly shallow slope; to a wonderful uplift overlook into the valley.  After the hike you can walk into Banff for Buffalo Burgers.<br/>Tags: hiking, canada, easy, banff, rundle<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32532">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Miyajima in Hiroshima Prefecture OTorii Gate</title>
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        Russ and I wound our way up this sacred mountain after a fierce storm; downed trees crushed temple roofs and blocked our path.  Returning to the base I captured this image of Otorii before the sun set.<br/>Tags: japan, hikes, otorii, tourist<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33038">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Boarding somewhere around Shasta in a blizzard</title>
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        Hard to describe.  Extremely soft.  I think I'm boarding... or dreaming or something.<br/>Tags: boarding, shasta, outdoors<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33052">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Beatiful climb; see landscape healing.  Also checkout ant caves if here.<br/>Tags: peak, climb, st, helens, bagging<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2619">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        This is a fun little park hike<br/>Tags: park, hike, beach<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2925">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Surreal glacial blue rivers and alpine meadows near Lillooet</title>
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        Each of the homes we passed was a window. Behind each window was a soft explosion; a set of places and possibilities. Even at a distance it was like being stroked by thistles and weeds. Somebody reached up and held a child; growing up in those spaces. People simply working, playing, eating, smoking. Somebody was putting away laundry off a clothesline; I imagined the snick snick of pegs being pulled. There was this business of living, this thing that was long forgotten. The inescapable grasp of all things. Racing away from between clenched hands, speeding away ever faster. Lives not lived, loves not had, unborn families. I travelled more and more in those days; going faster and faster. Escaping the motion of the world.<br/>Tags: lillooet, surreal, alpine, roadtrip<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32772">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A little day run up a mountain with my friend Theo.<br/>Tags: hiking, mountain, canada, peak, bagging<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32774">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        After several days of hiking; fueled by El Gato Negro, chocolate and willpower.  There are places you cannot remember, places bigger than the mind, but must visit again to stand and wonder how did I ever forget?'.<br/>Tags: hiking, world, fitzroy, argentina, tramps, patagonia<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32775">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        This was intended to be a short 3 day solo trek but got snowed in; weather was so severe I couldn't solo the peak. Ended up hanging out in Oturero or Wathohonu hut with a fluke assortment canucks all from my home town Calgary of all places. There are incredibly surreal rock formations on the backside of this system; worth the effort. Also watching the storm blow off the back of this beast was amazing.<br/>Tags: new, hiking, solo, tongariro, ngauruhoe, zealand, tramp<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33023">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A scenic tourist town with easy access to significant peaks. Similar to North America's Rocky Mountain district drawing a close parallel to Banff. Did a wonderful hike here to Lago Jacob and hooked up with some new friends.  As you walk past people here everybody says hola; waaay friendlier than Chile and cheaper too.  No back-country services but then again not trashed like Camp Italiano was near Torres del Paine.<br/>Tags: patagonia, argentina, hiking, hola, bariloche<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33025">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Taco, Theo, Scott, Michelle, Andrew and others from the Alberta Speleological Society did an expedition here to map Aire Fresco and other new subterranean systems.  The local mayor wanted to buy our underground water system maps.  Also there were numerous run-ins with Zapatista Rebels who simply could not understand why people would want to explore cave systems.  Some of the pitches here were well over a hundred feet.

http://www.psc-cavers.org/articles/Chiapas98.html

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exvoopop.html

The Soconusco is located within the strip of flat-lying land that lies along the western edge of Chiapas, Mexico and adjacent Guatemala (fig. 1.1). This corridor begins on the north at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a low-lying, narrow waist of the North American continent in Oaxaca, Mexico. It angles southeastward, toward Central America, widening from approximately 25 km in the vicinity of the town of TonalÃ¡ to nearly 50 km at its southeastern end.<br/>Tags: spelunking, travel, chiapas, caving<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33046">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Mahabalipuram near Chennai Madras India</title>
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        A well known tourist destination but not far from here is a small town of stone cutters who have carved even the natural rocks of the mountains into temples and complex forms; on this hike each rock you pass has been altered into the shape of a beast or creature or some kind. Here I stayed on MathEngine's dime with a retired chess grandmaster turned stock market analyst who was helping raise funds for MathEngine.  Ostensibly tasked with staffing up a team of 300 engineers from scratch ultimately this failed horribly but it was a fun trip and listening to the blaring marley in the air conditioned mercedes as we cruised past horrible traffic accidents and kids shitting in the streets was quite british and appropriately imperial.<br/>Tags: hiking, india, travel, chennai<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33047">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Camp at Yosemite; Tristan was conceived </title>
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        Explored all day and then cuddled up for the eve together.<br/>Tags: hiking, yosemite<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33058">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Mauna Kea Temple near Keck Observatory on big island Hawaii</title>
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        Came across a curious temple floating above the cloud layer.<br/>Tags: temple, hawaii, hiking, mauna, kea<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33190">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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