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I'm back from my trip, but I've only just discovered I'm off on another one. Now I'm headed up to Northern California until Tuesday. The same suggestions as before apply now: if you want to read new material between now and Tuesday, you'll have to blog it yourself.

A few photos of what I was up to are below the fold.

This is most of Half Dome, as seen from Glacier Point (on a day that was forecast to be 81 degrees and sunny).

Half Dome in Clouds

Taken earlier on the same hike, this is a slope forested in sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) above the Illilouette River. I like it enough that I'm thinking of posting some larger versions for use as a desktop background.

Forest in the Mist

Update - background versions of the above photo here:

a meme for you

By tony g (not verified) at June 10, 2005 - 9:49am |

i've nominated you for the book meme. couldn't find an email link for you. if you'll email me, i'll send you some details. otherwise check out my posting at to see what's going on:
http://milkriver.blogspot.com/2005/06/com-whoa-handoff-from.html

book meme

By chris at June 16, 2005 - 8:00am |

I just got back from an unexpectedly long vacation (of sorts), but I'd be happy to participate. I've actually been thinking about a quote from a book I'm in the middle of that I wanted to fit on OM somehow, so this should give me an excuse. Only catch is that I'll need a day or so to get my life back in order and collect my thoughts.

New environment radio station on the Net

By Alex Smith (not verified) at June 12, 2005 - 6:27pm |

Her's a tip: check out Radio Ecoshock, the Net's first 24/7 all environment radio station. It's non-profit and commercial free, playing environment news, interviews, features and select sounds of nature.

Hopefully the blogosphere will pick up on this natural alternative to the usual anti-environmental tone of most niche radio broadcasts.
Check it out for yourself at www.ecoshock.org

There's also a handy five minute environment news podcast available on the site. And green groups and bloggers can send in audio mp3s for free broadcast.

Let's spread the word so more people will tune into the developing crisis in the ecosphere - instead of SUV ads and Michael Jackson "news."

your host, Alex Smith
Radio Ecoshock - www.ecoshock.org

You'll forgive my optimism

By Erod (not verified) at June 15, 2005 - 4:59pm |

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/12/nwarm12.xml

Hello Chris, I don't have your e-mail address, but I'd like to hear what you and your brilliant friends and readers think about this article in the telegraph about the benefits of a warmer earth. I wouldn't have given much thought to it if I had found it in almost any other publication, but the telegraph still has my respect, and is not generally known for being a mouthpiece of industrialists and "conservatives".

on an unrelated note, I have in my hand the new California quarter with muir and half dome on the back. How hot is that?!

Thanks for the article Eric,

By chris at June 15, 2005 - 5:55pm |

Thanks for the article Eric, I'll check it out this evening when I have more computer time. Hopefully it will be worth either some small degree of praise or ridicule (thought I admit my suspicion that the latter is more likely), since I'll be on the search for something to publish in order to break the recent blogging-fast.

my take

By chris at June 16, 2005 - 4:49pm |

Update: Here's my take.