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During the summer and fall of 2004 and the early winter of 2005, my brother and I built the house where I now live in Missoula. The only things we didn't do were the excavation, carpet and gutters. It was brutal. If you'd like to learn about it and see some pictures, check out this journal entry.
Land
We are lucky enough to own some land on the Dearborne River, between the Missouri River and Highway 200, near Wolf Creek, Montana. For some pictures see here.
Travel
Starting August 1, 2006, my family and I lived in Helsinki, Finland for one year. During that time, I wrote an electronic weekly journal. They can all be found here. The entries deal primarily with our day-to-day life in Helsinki, but they also address our various travel excursions within Europe. Each entry includes a number of pictures. I also wrote articles for the UM Math Department newsletter (download Spring 2007 issue here) and the UM Office of International Programs newsletter "Expanding Horizons" (download September 2007 here).
Adventure
My family and I love to ski. Our hill of choice is Discovery near Anaconda, Montana, where we've had season passes for the last couple of years. But my wife and I also enjoy nordic skiing. Here's a skiing blurb for the 2007-08 season PDF and one for the 2008-09 season PDF.
During the summer of 2009, we started mountain bike racing. Actually, Ellie isn't quite old enough yet (at 9 years), but the rest of us are doing it. Here are some journals on the races we've done: Unravel the Scratch Gravel, May 2009, Two Laps Aint Enough, June 2009, Homestake Pass Mountain Bike Race, June 2009, Butte 50/100, August 2009.
Here are a few journal entries on hiking trips and the like:
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Other Travel: Cleveland, November 2008, Denver, July 2009.
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Missoula Area:
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Various: Moon-Randolph Homestead Gathering, Fall 2007, Cha-paa-qn (Squaw) Peak, Sept 2008, Jerry Johnson Hot Springs, October 2008,
Day of the Dead Parade, 2008, To Surprises, January 2008.
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Bitterroot Wilderness: Trapper Peak, September 2008, Lolo and Sweeney Peaks, September 2008, Bear Mountain Lookout, Bitterroot, Idaho, October 2009.
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Rattlesnake Wilderness: Finley Creek to Missoula, August 2007, Missoula to McKinley Lake, August 2007, Missoula to Stuart Peak, October 2008, Finley Lake Basin, October 2008, Point 6 and Murphy Peak, September 2009, Mineral Peak, Rattlesnake Wilderness, October 2009.
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Butte/Anaconda Area: Storm Lake and 4 Mile Basin, Pintlar Wilderness, July 2008.
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Glacier Park: Floral Park Traverse, September 2007.
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Bozeman Area: Emigrant Peak, Fall 2005, Hyalite Peak, September 2007.
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Rocky Mountain Front: Head Waters of the Dearborn River, Aug 2008
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Family Backpack Trips: Needles District of Canyonlands, May 2008, Trapper Peak, September 2008, Coyote Gulch, Spring Break 2009, Pintlers with the kids, late-September 2009.
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Trips with Dave Sumner: our trips include a winter ski trip in the Oregon Cascades in the winter of 1999, the Sawtooth Wilderness in Idaho in the summers of 2001 and 2005 (pictures), the Dark Canyon of the Colorado River in southern Utah in the summer of 2002, the Eagle Cap Wilderness in Oregon in the summer of 2006 and 2008 (PDF Journal), and our epic traverse of Utah's Uinta Mountains in the summer of 2009 (PDF Journal).
In March of 2007, I participated in the Rajalta Rajelle-hiihto, which is translated from Finnish as "from border to border cross country ski". The route was over 400 kilometers, or 250 miles, from the Russian to the Swedish border across Finland, and we skied it over 7 days. It was a truely great trip. For more detail on my experience see PDF.
In the summer of 2005, I ran the Bridger Ridge Run, which I highly recommend if you're in to that kind of thing.
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