
April 21, 2025
Emilie Phillips
The weather and our schedules kept not lining up for a good day of spring skiing. I finally said the heck with it and took this Monday off work. Isaac was stuck going to school, so he couldn’t come skiing. Monday was a gorgeous sunny day. Overnight had been clear and below freezing, but by […]
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Written April 24, 2025

October 5, 2024
Emilie Phillips
This weekend I was still recovering from being sick. I didn’t have any big plans. The next two weekends are booked. So it seemed like the right time to make my annual applesauce. The local farm store didn’t have much selection in B grade apples. Plenty of Cortlands and McIntosh’s which would have made an […]
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Written October 8, 2024

We have been doing a bunch of fun things, but I am not keeping up with the posts. For now, I have some photos uploaded Emilie hiked Mt Avalon, Field, and Tom The whole family hiked Bald Peak and then Lafayette via Greenleaf trail Franconia gliding day 1 and Franconia ridge soaring
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Written September 4, 2024
February 27, 2024
Emilie Phillips
We decided to take a rest day at the cottage in Basalt. According to the original schedule, Tuesday would have been our rest day at Friends Hut.
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Written March 21, 2024, updated May 5, 2024

It’s applesauce season again. Some of you probably wonder why I bother to make applesauce every year. And some of you probably wonder why applesauce is the only food I preserve.
The answer is flavor. Store bought applesauce is inedibly bland compared to my home made applesauce. After one taste of fresh hot applesauce, even […]
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Written September 27, 2023
September 16, 2023
Emilie Phillips
Hurricane Lee passed offshore last Saturday. The forecast wind and rain prohibited gliding Saturday and were marginal for Sunday. The waves were forecast to be 15 second period (nice for surfing), but 16 feet tall (a bit out of our league). The last time we paddled waves from a hurricane was back in 2010 when […]
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Written September 20, 2023
We didn’t do anything blog worthy this past weekend. However, I have a backlog of notes about old trips. So for this week, I wrote up last hike on our 2019 trip to Utah and Idaho: Indian Creek and Grays Peak
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Written May 11, 2022

October 23, 2021
Emilie Phillips
Time to make applesauce again. We have some applesauce left over from last year. That meant both we didn’t need as much to eat, and that I had fewer jars available for new applesauce. On a normal year, I could have just bought more jars in the store. But this year, jars have been hard […]
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Written October 25, 2021