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| Dec 2001 |  Sunrise in Borrego. We had a lot of good sunrises and sunsets this season. Lost the straight doubles tournament in Borrego. Partner was Fred Dow. We won first match, but then lost the next 2. We came from behind when down 7-1 in last match, and caught up, making it 7-7, before losing. Mom took off for a trip to Bangalore, India, to go to a wedding, also on the 1st. Drove twice to Palm Springs area for the Linkroums in the first half of the month. Dick was the first mass media producer for Jack Lemon and Walter Mathau while with NBC, and Olga was one of the main writers for All in the Family, the Jeffersons and 3's Company. Dick Linkroum took me to a Rotary Club meeting on the 19th. Alex and Barbara Szabo dropped by to say hi on the 19th, as well. Went geo-caching with Grace on the 20th. We found our first 1st GeoCache in San Felipe Valley, and placed our 1st GeoCache on hilltop south of Culp Valley. On the 23rd, someone found our cache, and again on the 1st.
Visited my dad in LA from the 23rd to the 25th, where I feasted with dad, Leny, Joanne and Rich. Helped my dad do a 3'x4' section of wall. He is still recovering from an operation, so I hauled up the mortar.
On the 29th explored 2 more washes coming from Palm Peak. One slot canyon there apparently had the Indian Jones spherical boulder stuck in it. It appeared to be on the order of 20' in diameter. On the 31st had a New Years party. 8 of us (the Linkroums, Walkers, Kathy O'Mear, Hank, Carl and I) stayed until Borrego midnite(9pm). Hank serenaded us with a few songs at that time. Only Hank and I stayed up for the fireworks at midnite. La Casa put on an excellent display this year. | ||||||||
| Nov 2001 |
On the 11th went over with mom to  Old Borego, where the growing Founder's Day celebration was going on. Looked like over 100 people there, and a band was playing. We toured the buildings.
| On the 19th, interviewed at Peregrine. Interviewed with Darren, and met Sal James again. Haven't seen her since 1989. I understand Ann Patterson, another Emerald alumni, is also at Peregrine.
An old timer:
talked with us for a while. Also met Bill Jackson and Bev Kurtz. Bill mentioned that he bought gas and a 7-up at old Borego in 1947. |
Mom invited her friend, Ann, for Thanksgiving, and we had a nice dinner featuring lamb. Spent a lot of time cleaning up the lot, doing a lot of trimming of vegetation. Set up the xmas decorations, mom got another tree. | ||||||
| Oct 2001 |
Went to cannon party, on weekend of the 6th, at the homestead. Paco showed up with cannon, and may have nicked the target. Smallest turnout ever. Only total of 7 vehicles, and 13 people, and that includes the neighbors, who came over and did a couple of BBM shots. Weather was perfect. Cassidy tried and failed to launch a weather balloon. |
 Cannon Party
NOTE: power lines appearing on this photo cross my property in my front yard. What a nuisance. | Won only 1 set in BSTC tournament playing with Francis on the 27th.
 Craig tested the super string for Torrey's Halloween party on me at poker game. No... that's not a logo on my shirt. | ||||||
| Sep 2001 |
Mom left Socorro on the 5th, but returned and visited Socorro from the 14th to the 19th. She was in San Clemente on the 21st and visited Virginia on the 28th. Polished off the remaining trail snippets in the Cuyamaca Project including: On the 5th, did a 6 mile hike on Merigan fire road from Descanso trailhead, hitting Descanso Falls. On the 10th did a 12 mile hike from Trout Pond hitting Fletcher Island and tried finding any unmapped trails around the Paso Picacho campground. On the 12th, did 8.5 mile hike trying to find any missed trails around the Kelly Ditch, completing the Cuyamaca project. During week of 23rd to 29th, did a Sierra trip with Dyer, hitting Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite. During 7 days, we averaged about 6 miles of hiking per day. On the 23rd, drove from Borrego to Balch Park and camped.
On the 24th, drove to Mineral King area of Sequoia NP, set up camp and did a quick hike (7.5 miles) up to Eagle Lake before it got dark.
On the 25th, drove to Montecito Sequoia Lodge outside the national park, but stopped and hiked Moro Rock and around Parker Group on the way.
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On the 26th, hiked around the park and dropped down to check out King's Canyon and camped there.
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On the 27th, drove to Wawona Hotel in Yosemite, hiking around big trees near there - a total of about 7 miles. On the 28th, checked out area around Glacier Point, drove to Hetch Hetchy to check it out, and, and then drove straight over the mountains and stayed in Mammoth at Bryan's condo. We hiked a total of about 6 miles this day.
On the 29th, drove down to McGee Creek and hiked about 10 miles before driving back to Borrego.
SIERRA TRIP ALBUM | ||||||
| Aug 2001 |
Continued the  Cuyamaca Project On the 1st, did an 11 mile hike from Oakzanita to the southern terminus of the park in Descanso, hitting Descanso Falls. On the 6th, hiked 10 miles from East Mesa trailhead, circumnavigating Oakzanita Peak, hiking on East Mesa to Dyar Spring, and returning along Sweetwater River under thunderstorming skies. On the 8th, did 12 mile hike from Oakzanita, going to Descanso Falls via Dead Horse trail and back. On the 13th, did 15 mile hike from East Mesa trailhead doing Harvey Moore trail and Deer Spring. |
This was a hotter than average August for Borrego. Average high was about 110, but normal average is only 106. On the weekend of the 19th, drove to Tucson & we drove up to Canyon de Chelley on the 19th. Visited Mission San Xavier in Tucson the next day. I believe I was still working at Contigo at this time. Mom continued her Newfoundland adventry. She was in Digby NS on the 15th, but headed south reaching NY on the 19th, West Virginia on the 22nd, and stayed in Mansfield from the 23rd to the 29th. On the 30th, she was in Roswell, probably stopping by Socorro on the way west. On the 15th, hiked 10 miles from East Mesa Trailhead over to the Airplane monument on the west Mesa. On the 20th, hiked 14 miles from East Mesa hiking over to Saddleback trail & 5 miles of the CR&H trail reached Arroyo Seco Primitive camp behind Green Vally campground. |
On the 22nd, did an 8.5 mile late afternoon hike up Oakzanita Peak.
On the 27th, hiked 7.5 miles from East Mesa hitting Pine Ridge & Green Valley Falls. On the 29th, hiked 5 miles from Trout Pond exploring trails around Milk Ranch road. | ||||||
| Jul 2001 | The high in Borrego July 1: 118°F, the low on July 3: 90°F. A bit of rain fell on the 4th. Rest of month was pretty average, that is sunny, with high averaging 107°.
Continued the  Cuyamaca Project On the 1st, continued Cuyamaca mapping project, did a 20 mile hike from Trout Pond, reaching all the way to Green Valley campground. On the 4th, hiked from Trout Pond along lake to the Sunrise Highway, crossed it and continued east and crossed the PCT, before heading back. Even checked out the Stonewall Mine museum. On the 10th, hiked 11 miles from Trout Pond, circumnavigating Middle Peak. On the 12th, hiked 8 miles to near the peak of Middle Peak, then Azalea Glen, and hitting Los Caballos.  Driving in LA My nephew, Thor, visited me for a few days in the middle of the month. We saw Jurassic Park III on opening day, visited the beach 3 times, including doing a 5 mile hike at Torrey Pines on the last day. Spent last day with him at grandpa's place in LA.
|  Pyro Thor on Fiesta Island prior to fireworks  Mission Beach was cleaner  Statue on Fletcher Island at Lake Cuyamaca
| Mom spent the entire month in Newfoundland. On the 16th, hiked 15 miles from Trout Pond trailhead, going around Stonewall Peak down to Upper Green Valley and up to the Lagunas all the way to the Sunrise Hwy, mapping the whole route..
 Met Sara, Sherry, Joe, Eric F, Tina, and Lantz at Gordon Biersch on the 19th On the 23rd, did a 12 mile hike from Trout Pond, going up Milk Ranch, doing a loop on Middle Peak on the fireroad before going on E side of Cuyamaca and descending to Cold Stream trailhead and then back up around W side of Stonewall. On the 26th, did a 12 mile hike from West Mesa trailhead, mapping west mesa, including the Airplane monument. Interviewed at Quantum Magnetics on the 27th. On the 29th, did an 11 mile hike from West Mesa trailhead, mapping Cold Stream trail to Harper Canyon and mapping part of East Mesa on the Harvey Moore trail. | ||||||
| Jun 2001 | On the 3rd hiked up Yaqui Peak during a break from the heat -- high was only 90°F. Hiked up in 2h 47m.
Continued seeing about a movie a week. For example, on the 15th, saw Memento, and on the 26th, saw The Road Home, and also saw "With a Friend Like Harry", all at La Jolla Village. Also saw Shrek in Mission Valley. this month. Mom continued her trip to Mansfield on the 1st, staying to the 2nd before continuing driving east on her way to Newfoundland where she stayed for a number of weeks. | After 4 hikes on the Kelly Ditch Trail, decided to start the
On the 14th, met Flaco at the Trout Pond trailhead and we did a 9 mile hike to the edge of William Heise Park via the Kelly Ditch trail.
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On the 24th, hiked about 12 miles and 2200' vertical, mapping trail snippets arount the Trout Pond trailhead in Cuyamaca, hitting Azalea Glen, Cuyamaca Peak and looped back on Conejos trail and down Milk Ranch Road.
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| May 2001 | Went to Bob's 5 de Mayo party in del Mar, on the 5th. Nice seeing how the other 0.01% of people live. Good salsa. Played a little pool, and met some of Bob's associates from his band and a few companies he's associated with. New band members played great at the impromptu concert. Great weather and views. Chip and Joe also showed up.
 DEL MAR PIC ALBUM
JOB HUNT RESULTS SO FAR
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My search for San Diego Java positions has resulted in this LIST OF JOB SEARCH ENGINES  Borrego flowers declining in early May Next hike, on May 24, was the Kelly Ditch trail, which started on the far side of Lake Cuyamaca, with turnaround at William Heise County Park. Turns out this was an astounding hike, with awesome views, a lot of shade, the best fern meadows I've ever seen, nice wildflowers in the grassy meadows, the Kelly Ditch, itself, and more. Had some pesky gnats, though.  Craig, Bryan, Fred; my Friday tennis group Gradually increasing level of tennis. By the 10th, up to 3 times a week, but still playing mainly left handed. Maybe up to 70%.  Played last match with Jerry for year Went to an exciting baseball game with Joe and Todd on the 10th. The Padres came from behind and beat the Braves. We saw game from about 5 areas of the stadium. Hiked Mission trails again. Awesome flowers this year. Slipped and fell into river, so wound up just walking across main river, to see what it's like. That pushed me into new shoes. (it was due, anyway).  Some projects finished in May: painted panels, erected structure around vege garden, rabbit palace (orange roof) for nephews, bridge for Ann (recycled from Craig's old lawn chairs). Mom was up in Torrance visiting Virginia on the 7th. She dined on the OB Pier on the 18th. On the 31st, mom drove to Socorro on her way to TX. | |||||||
| Apr 2001 | Hiked Tierrasanta, visitor center loop. Nice with all the green and flowers. Also did other loop there. Both of these on days I came in to interview.
Last tennis tournament of season. Nice weekend, although saturday rain really cut down on tennis play. On saturday walked with Harold, Harriet, and Susan Dow over to visitor center. It was very nice. Lots of painted lady butterflies that day (I collected a bunch on my windshield).
Attended cannon party on the weekend of the 7th. Weather was cold and rainy until Sunday. Did Astroburger twice. Steve slashed 2 tires on a rock on Sunday. 5 bowling balls, 2 cannons, new cannon carriage was delivered to Steve.  Papa Don sitting at my camp - took mom's truck |
 Mark, Steve & Papa Don looking over Mark's cannon   APRIL 2001 CP ALBUM On sunday, the 22nd, mom, me, Betty Minkel, and Harriet went to Mine Wash, old Borego, and Glorietta Canyon. When mom's friend, Ann, came out, we went to Glorietta again.  |
 Well..... I pulled a muscle again while playing tennis on Friday the 13th, and am a gimp for the rest of this month, I guess. It's better at the end. I played a little tennis on the 29th. Foothills are extremely colourful and fragrant, so I did some geolocations. I located some strange things in my back yard: | ||||||
| Mar 2001 | Julie, Doug, Thor, and Logan visited
during the week of the 10th.
 Borrego and LA
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|  We may have visited visitor center on Julie's visit After soaking rains at start of month, flowers are coming out. Best time to come out should be end of this month and start of next. Per mom's CC rcpts she was up visiting Virginia on the 6th. | ||||||
| Feb 2001 | So far, just taking it easy on my legs. Think I pulled a muscle playing against the tennis pro. Played baseball with Joe and Todd for a couple hours. That doesn't help my tennis elbows and sore knee, though. | Still looking for a job... 2 interviews in January, but none so far this month. Got to drive thru snow again. We had another dusting of snow in mountains. Almost down to Ramona! Santa Ysabel sure was pretty when I drove thru there on the 8th. |  Went to Mammoth Lakes for the last weekend of this month, staying in Bryan's condo. Did a half day of skiing in June Lake. It was awesome! Brian wiped out, and had to be transported to ski lodge, tho. He won't be playing tennis for a month or 2. | ||||||
| Jan 2001 |  
Candles stayed up until mid month. Completed 1 year stint with Evoke Communications. Now moving on to other endeavors.
| Engaged in a job hunt for the rest of the month.  Paco & Lizzy by target Went to Pig City near Salton Sea for GD bar-b-que. Paco shot his cannon at my old dryer's door. At a distance of 40 yards, were 6 for 6! Last shot was grape shot at 15 yards, and was also a hit. Broke this 'activity' page into years. Most are unimplemented now, and I'll have to de-commision some pictures to fit into this webspace....
|  Hiked up Alma Wash to Starfish Cove to visit register I placed there 5 years ago. No sign-ins yet. This was a 10+ mile, 6 hour hike. Trying to keep hiking difficulty down, as I have sore knees. This was not quite a wimpy hike, however. 
Per mom's CC rcpts, she visited her sister on the 17th to the 25th in Torrance. | ||||||
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