Gettin' Dirty at the Tri-Loppet
A bunch of us got together on Saturday morning to run the 4th Annual
City of Lakes Tri-loppet. It's a summer event hosted by the local nordic ski club,
and is run like a off-road triathlon, with paddling replacing swimming.
I also put together a photo montage of the MNOCers that did the event. (All photos are from the gallery at
Skinnyski).
View 2009 Tri-Loppet Course in a larger map
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Wild Summer Race Video
Posted Fri, June 26, 2009 - 10:09 PM
video, advracing
Here's the promised summer race video. I did a little more with the soundtrack than in previous videos, as I'm slowly learning the ropes
in Soundtrack Pro. This is also the first time I've done a video that includes original music, in addition to the stock clips; and the first
use of an animation, showing the control locations on the bike loop.
Click on the still frame to play.
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Earthscenes I
Posted Fri, June 26, 2009 - 8:23 PM
video, art
I'm a curious fellow. Over the years, I've spent a lot of time using Google Earth, to look at anything or everything on the planet. Along the
way, I've noticed how surprisingly beautiful and complex those aerial and satellite images are - even in places with sparse human habitation -
everything from the false-color splashes of Landsat images to the subtle grays and browns of aerial reconnaisance photos. As time went on, I
started to placemark some of the more interesting ones. Every image could be considered a work of art, and in my opinion, some are more
interesting and evocative than things I've seen hanging on museum walls.
So I present a first introduction, paired with music by one of favorites from the 18th century. It's titled with latitude-longitude so
you can find the images for yourself.
Click on the still frame to play.
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Pete Meets Bear
Posted Thu, June 25, 2009 - 6:40 PM
minnesota, wildlife
Don't you want to just hug him?
I've been a little quiet on the online front lately. Annie was in town from Saturday through Thursday before her big move to Hawai'i,
and we spent Sunday and Monday canoeing
down the St. Croix from Rush City, camping at one of the canoe sites on Sunday night. On the way down, we surprised a large animal on the west
side of the river, and based on the noises it made back as it fled into the woods, it was probably a black bear. So I guess it's appropriate to
follow up on my previous post and talk about my bear encounters!
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First Storm of the Season
This has been a dry spring and early summer, as we all know. But this evening around 9:30 PM a line of thunderstorms formed over southern
Dakota county and then trained for about an hour and a half. I saw the lightning to the south on the way back home and headed over to
the bluff at Linwood Park with the camera. It turned out to be a great view, and more and more people started to arrive and watch the show.
A lightning show
Click through for the rest of the photos.
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Wild Summer Race
Posted Sat, June 13, 2009 - 11:17 PM
advracing
I shot some video today at the Wild Summer race. The weather was perfect - a sunny, 80 degree at William O'Brien
State Park and surrounding areas. The race
format was interesting - there were three basic loops, one for each of the three major disciplines: trekking, biking, and
paddling. Teams could choose to do the loops in any order, and had to come back to the central location and check in
before going out on the next loop. Each loop had a separate set of maps and passport that the racers would pick up
at the time they left.
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Wild Spring 12 hour Teaser Video
Posted Sat, June 13, 2009 - 11:11 PM
video, advracing
Just for completeness... this is the teaser video for the Wild Spring 12 hour on May 10, 2009. It's an edited
version of the long video, but with a little more of the rapid scene-to-scene
cuts that seems to be so popular in TV and movies these days. It's posted on Youtube and embedded on the
Wild Adventure Race site - but this version is
higher resolution.
Click on the still frame to play.
MIX Race Report - Part III
Part II of the MIX race report ended with a paddle down the Manistee River, ready to go
into a nighttime trekking section before we'd see our support crew again.
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