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Night Sailing by Chicago on Lake Michigan

Josh Hurd — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:49:03 +0000

Posted in Chicago, Sailing, Summer

Chicago Sunset

Josh Hurd — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:58:42 +0000

Sunset over Chicago from the Lake Front Trail, as I biked back to Hyde Park from some shopping on Michigan Ave.

Posted in Biking, Chicago

Fly-Fishing Idaho’s St. Joe’s River

Josh Hurd — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:45:08 +0000

I few weekends ago I went over to northern Idaho to spend a weekend hiking and fishing with some good friends from Dartmouth. Here are a few pictures.

Cedar, river, and hillside

Posted in Fly Fishing, Friends, Hiking, Mountains, Photoblog, Streams, Summer

Glacier National Park

Josh Hurd — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:33:48 +0000

A couple weeks ago I spent a lovely weekend in Glacier National Park with family. T’was lovely, especially an absolutely gorgeous hike up Sunrift Gorge.

Sunrift Gorge, Looking West

Posted in Hiking, Montana, Mountains, Summer

Ireland Photos

Josh Hurd — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:36:08 +0000

Posted in Being a tourist, Biking, Friends, Hiking, Randomness

Were the rivers open and fish plentiful

Josh Hurd — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:25:51 +0000

Lately I have been rather nostalgic for this past year’s backcountry fishing trips. Trout occupy my dreams. I would rather be catching dancing trout than drinking Dancing Trout. The forecast is 50 degrees for this Saturday, and I plan to head down the Bitterroot River to try my luck there. But my heart is yearning for the North Fork of the Blackfoot, Upper Rattlesnake Creek, and South Fork of the Flathead. So until then, two pictures from a backpacking/fishing trip last summer, in the middle of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, two days from the nearest trailhead, but oh so perfectly in the heart of wild cutthroat country.

This wasn't the biggest cutthroat that I caught that day, but it was a fun one. You can see the absolutely amazing hole in the top-left corner of the picture.

“I was fishing just up by the bend. Absolutely wonderful. Crystal clear water, ten miles of the river to myself, and no grizzly bears in sight.

Posted in Fly Fishing, Hiking, Montana, Streams

Grant Teton Backcountry Skiing

Josh Hurd — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:14:24 +0000

This is a belated post with pictures from early February. I visiting some good friends from Dartmouth in Jackson Hole, and one day we went up to the Park to get some backcountry skiing in, on a mountain called 25 Short (because the elevation is 9,975 feet). While most of the time I was either too cold, too tired, or too used to low altitude to snap some pictures, I did take a couple.

On the top of 25 Short, about to ski down. A wonderful blue-bird day.

This is one of the Tetons or some big mountain by them. I forget exactly. Pretty sweet whatever it is.

Posted in Friends, Mountains, Winter

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Josh Hurd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:33:35 +0000

St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, CT

Posted in Being a tourist

From the Archives: Namibia

Josh Hurd — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:31:33 +0000

A lovely tree in Namibia

Missoula is cold. Missoula doesn’t have much snow. I am at work all day cranking out year end reports, and in coffee shops all evening working on graduate school essays. Lately, I have found myself missing my time in Namibia, during which I traveled around sleeping in tents for weeks on end. Ahhh, the simple life. The warm life.

Posted in Africa, Summer

Mountain Biking on Sentinel

Josh Hurd — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:10:08 +0000

Today has been a day of graduate school applications. All day long I have cranked away at my personal statement, making minor tweaks and major overhauls alike. When I saw that today was also one of the last days of the fall when the temperature sneaks above 50, I decided to go for a mountain bike ride. I live right by a trailhead going up Mount Sentinel, and am about 1.5 miles from the main Pattee Canyon Recreation Area trailhead. This makes for a perfect loop, biking up to the main Pattee Canyon trailhead, and then snaking my way across Mt. Sentinel, before decending back to my house. I took a couple pictures – here are two – one of the backside of Sentinel, and the other of a buck that I startled upon rounding a corner.

Posted in Biking, Montana