Ryan and Debi

Tag: travel

  • MT-Granite Peak

    Summit Date August 19th, 2012; around 4:00 pm Summit Party Ryan Cragun and Tom Triplett Trip Report Granite Peak isn’t the tallest highpoint (McKinley in Alaska is; Granite is number 10) nor the most remote (Gannett Peak in Wyoming is more remote), but many people have claimed that it is the most difficult highpoint to…

  • visit to California – Silicon Valley tour

    When we decided to visit my sister, there were just a few things we wanted to do.  We obviously wanted to visit them, but in addition to that, we wanted to visit Stanford University, eat at The Giant Artichoke (she blogged about that, which is how I knew about it), and visit companies in Silicon…

  • visit to California – light house and artichokes

    On the 13th we drove into San Francisco, crossed the Golden Gate, and stopped for lunch in Sausalito.  We then went for a nice walk to the Point Bonita lighthouse.  Toren carried his cousin’s Woody doll (from Toy Story) on his shoulders the whole way (I carried Toren most of the way, in effect carrying…

  • visit to California – Stanford University

    During our trip to Utah we took a side trip to California to visit my sister, Wendy, her husband, Mario, and their two kids, Ethan and Xander.  Mario has a fellowship at Stanford for the next couple of years and they are living near there in Campbell, CA.  We drove through the night on August…

  • hiking from Monte Verde to the Highlands

    I spent the previous evening playing video games with my brother Josh, some of his friends, and some nephews.  Josh’s wife, Jessica, stuffed us with delicious food.  I needed another hike just to work dinner off, so I put Toren in the pack again and headed out, hoping to find a route from Monte Verde…

  • walk by the Weber River

    Feeling like I had eaten too much the previous day, we decided to go for a walk with my mom by the Weber River.  There is a very nice, paved trail that starts in Riverdale and runs along the Weber River.  We followed it to its end (and past the end a bit) headed south,…

  • hike to Beaver Ponds

    Toren has a new favorite animated kids show on PBS – Wild Kratts. It’s about two brothers who have adventures with different animals.  In one episode they explore what beavers do.  When we planned our trip to Utah and were going to be staying with my parents for a few days, I remembered that there…

  • Scotland Adventure – Day 6

    And that’s pretty much it. I slept in a bit this morning, finished packing everything up, and drove the van in to drop it off. Here’s a Google Map of my travels in Scotland (driving, not hiking). I covered a lot miles: View Larger Map After I dropped the van off, I was looking at…

  • Scotland Adventure – Day 5 – Loch Ness and Stirling Castle

    I woke early in the middle of nowhere and headed out.  I wanted to stop by Loch Ness just to say I had.  Turns out, there isn’t a great place to just stop and say you saw Nessie.  Oh, and Loch Ness is freaking enormous (it’s a lake)!  I did see a Loch Ness exhibit…

  • Scotland Adventure – Day 4 – Castles

    So, after all my whining about my heels, how bad were they, really?  Glad you asked: Really, they did hurt. Anyway, with my hiking complete, it was off to visit some castles.  I had originally only planned to visit one castle, Stirling Castle, one of the more famous castles in Scotland.  But with an extra…