First, Sierra Journal was the TypePad Featured Weblog. Now my fellow outdoor bloggers have started following and covering the moves of Sierra Journal. Check out SierraDescent's coverage of my recent debut. Super cool! Thanks SierraDescents!
From SierraDescents:
One of the blogs I enjoy reading on a regular basis is SierraJournal.com, run by Matthew DiPietro, a Bay Area tech and communications specialist.
Matt seems to have a knack for finding interesting and news-worthy backcountry tidbits to write about, and does a far better job staying on topic than I ever could.
He also runs occasional climbing and backcountry skiing trip reports, like skiing Matterhorn Peak’s East Couloir.
Matt’s site used to be called sierra-alpinist.com, but he wanted to branch out to cover environmental and alpine news as well as offering climbing TR’s, so he nabbed the SierraJournal domain and hit the ground running.
SierraJournal is one of a very few active Sierra-themed blogs I know about. If you haven’t already visited, browse on over and check it out.
Testing testing... just testing Six Apart's new facebook app...
I've been talking about this for years (seriously... ask my Dad, the science guy, about how many times I've bugged him about the practicality of the idea) and now the NY Times is picking up on the act. What a great idea. Can you imagine a thousand square miles of solar panels in orbit pointed directly at the sun... then beaming down pure, clean, constant energy for all the world to use? Can someone please make this happen? If I were an electrical engineer or a rocket scientist or something, I'd make it happen. As I am, I can only do the marketing... :)
Sierra Journal! How cool is that?! Can you believe that sierrajournal.com was available?!
Now I've really made it. Sierra Alpinist is today's "Typepad Featured Weblog." I'm famous I tell ya! ;)
I'm generally not much of a photographer, but every now and again I strike gold (at least I think it's gold - if you're an actual photography critic, well, pipe down). This shot was taken Sunday morning at about 6:00 am just as I woke up. It's Matterhorn Peak in the Eastern Sierra. Climbed it later that morning. See below that for the summit shot.
Happy Father's Day to all fathers in the world and especially the best Dad on the planet.... mine! (He's the one second from the left) Then again, maybe Grandpa (on the right) must be the best Dad on the planet since he raised my Dad. John's pretty good too I suppose. ;)
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Matthew said:
It's not like they were all strikes. And the ball was coming FAST from one of those pitching machine thingamajigs...... read more
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moopdog said:
You honestly swung and missed at 6 pitches? Yikes... read more
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Matthew said:
The giants brought me up from AAA, dude. Pretty sweet, huh?Sry, this was a mobile post from an industry mixer... read more
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Oh, it wasn't live BP? Trying to hit balls fired from a machine is a totally different thing. Although, you... read more
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