Posts Tagged ‘boulder’

Putting out fires I set

In: Personal

9 Mar 2008

I took the opportunity yesterday to volunteer to help the Sheriff’s office to burn some ditches near IBM in Boulder. We even burned right across diagonal. It was exhausting but good experience in fire behavior. In the middle of diagonal it even got exciting for a few minutes.

Mallory Cave hike

In: Personal

1 Mar 2008

Cassie and I took advantage at some warm weather to do a long hike from NCAR. It was quite icy downhill, as the snow hadn’t melted. Here’s some pictures.
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Thanksgiving snowstorm

In: Personal

22 Nov 2007

Got a wonderful snowstorm (and some not-so-welcome 9 F temperatures) in the early morning on November 21st just in time for Thanksgiving (American, we already celebrated the Canadian one in October in Montreal).
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Bullsnake!

In: Personal

23 Sep 2007

I left the garage door open yesterday for a few minutes while I was putting our recycling in the car (we do not have curb recycling – No curb!). This guy showed up (I reckon, around 6′-7′ long). Click here for the gallery.
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Cat and mouse

In: Personal

23 Sep 2007

We saved the mouse, it came back a couple of days later and was promptly dispatched by Boulder… Click here for the gallery.
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Woodpecker

In: Personal

28 Jul 2007

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Giant bug

In: Personal

28 Jul 2007

Cassie found this giant beetle outside on our porch. I threw a quarter next to it for comparison.
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Windstorm in the mountains

In: Personal

10 Jun 2007

Got the nastiest windstorm (gallery here) come through and sit on us all night on June 6. Up at Carter Lake, the top winds clocked were 101 MPH, but I think we might have beaten that wind speed (120 MPH from the top of Lee Hill).
At midnight, we saw that our arch over the stairway [...]


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David Kabal writes random bits about life, gadgets and computers. David is an engineer living in Boulder, Colorado, up in the mountains, where he's also a firefighter.

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