Trip Reports by Alan Silverstein

My home page, and email address: ajs@frii.com
Last index file edit: November 20, 2023; last rebuild: Mon Nov 27 20:05:00 2023

Contents:

  North America from Apollo 17, April 16, 1972

Introduction

This website contains many "trip reports" I wrote and shared publically in various ways, non-commercially and just for fun, beginning in 1979, mostly about outdoor travel adventures, such as hiking, backpacking, boating, and skiing, mostly in Colorado.

Note about style: I originally wrote these reports in plain text, and later converted many of them (in the 1979-97 range) to troff -mm, a now-obsolescent formatter at the early heart of the UNIX operating system. Later (mainly 2023) converted all troff + plaintext reports to HTML. [231113 still in progress.] I also have 16.5 volumes (at 144 pages each, as of 231007) of handwritten journals of my "outdoor adventures." Often I wrote up the same trip (somewhat differently) both ways. Also, my handwritten journals include many adventures never described in a public "trip report".

List of Trip Reports

Unless otherwise noted, all locations are in my home state of Colorado.

  1. 1978_0407, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins, Colorado, 30th Anniversary

  2. 1979_0226, Total Solar Eclipse, Lewiston, Montana

  3. 1986_0628, Flying the Colorado Fourteeners
  4. 1986_0720, Redcloud Peak (14034') and Sunshine Peak (14001'), Colorado

  5. 1987_0509, Second Colorado Fourteeners Flight
  6. 1987_0621, The 55th Fourteener
  7. 1987_0717-20, Challenger Point, Colorado, Plaque Placing

  8. 1988_0905, Grizzly Peak, 13988', Colorado
  9. 1988_0917-18, Milner Mountain, 6881', Colorado
  10. 1988_0924, Pagoda Mountain, 13497', and Storm Peak, 13326', RMNP, Colorado
  11. 1988_1008, Crosier Mountain, 9250', Colorado
  12. 1988_1030-31, Mauna Kea, 13796', Hawaii

  13. 1989_0506-20, Three Adventures: Horsetooth, Greyrock, Palisade
  14. 1989_0604, Quandary Peak, 14265', Colorado
  15. 1989_0617, Chiefs Head Peak, 13579', Rocky Mtn NP, Colorado
  16. 1989_0701-01, Mount Antero, 14269', Colorado
  17. 1989_0701-02, Mount Princeton, 14197', Colorado
  18. 1989_0702-04, Huron Peak, 14005', Colorado
  19. 1989_0715-16, Mummy Mountain, 13425' and Hagues Peak, 13560', Colorado
  20. 1989_0722, Poudre River, Fort Collins, Colorado
  21. 1989_0729-0805, Lake Powell, Utah, 3678', First Visit
  22. 1989_0816, Lake Powell Reprise
  23. 1989_0818-20, Lake McConaughy, Nebraska
  24. 1989_0828-29, Uncompahgre Peak, 14309', Colorado
  25. 1989_0831, Challenger Point, 14080'+, and Kit Carson Mountain, 14165', Colorado
  26. 1989_1007-08, Boulder Brook, Rocky Mountain NP, Colorado

  27. 1990_0513, Bear Peak, Colorado, 8461'
  28. 1990_0908-15, Lake Powell, Utah, 3639'

  29. 1991_0318, Grand Canyon Bottom and Back
  30. 1991_0705-14, Hawaii Eclipse and Adventure
  31. 1991_0818, Capitol Peak (Nearly Fatal) Attempt

  32. 1992_0712-19, Five Men, One Woman, and Two Parents on a Houseboat
  33. 1992_1003, A Long Day on the High Divide

  34. 1993_0903-05, Hayden Gorge, Rocky Mountain National Park
  35. 1993_0926-1003, Lake Powell, Utah

  36. 1994_0514, Horsetooth Mountain, 7255', Loop the Long Way
  37. 1994_0521-22, Grand Canyon, North Rim to River
  38. 1994_0701-0103, What I Did on My Mid-life Vacation

  39. 1997_0323, Horsetooth Mountain, 7255', Eclipse and Comet
  40. 1997_0708, Across the High Divide

  41. 1998_0614-19, Dark Canyon Wilderness Area, Utah
  42. 1998_0811-17, Four San Juan Range Fourteeners
  43. 1998_0905-07, Wyoming Weekend
  44. 1998_0924, Opening Lines in Past Trip Reports
  45. 1998_1116, Leonid Meteor Shower
  46. 1998_1125-29, Lake Powell Thanksgiving

  47. 1999_0717-25, Green River, Desolation and Grays Canyons, Utah

  48. 2000_0421, Easter Weekend Incident (Hitting an Elk)
  49. 2000_0829, Florida Collecting

  50. 2001_1117-18, Leonid Meteor Shower
  51. 2001_1213, Rock Collecting by Kayak

  52. 2002_0407-13, Death Valley National Park
  53. 2002_0808-11, Cataract Canyon Raft Trip, Utah
  54. 2002_0915-22, Lake Powell Tidbits
  55. 2002_1127-1201, Lake Powell Thanksgiving

  56. 2003_0112-15, Missouri and Back, or Bust
  57. 2003_0404-05, Trinity Site, New Mexico
  58. 2003_0630-0705, Honeymoon in Hawai'i
  59. 2003_0718-0809, Columbia Point, Colorado
  60. 2003_0901-02, How Not to Climb Longs Peak
  61. 2003_0911-17, A Week-Long Rock Hunting Orgy in Colorado and Utah

  62. 2004_0324-31, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado Road Trip
  63. 2004_0508-09, Northwest Nebraska Rockhounding
  64. 2004_0808-15, Lake Powell with a Huge Crew
  65. 2004_1016-17, Cathie's Cabin

  66. 2005_0701, Bell Tower Window, Lake Powell, Utah
  67. 2005_0713-22, Blue Forest, Wyoming and Salmon River, Idaho

  68. 2006_0924, Grays Quarry, Wyoming
  69. 2006_1103-05, A Nice Fall Weekend
  70. 2006_1202-09, Tampa Bay, Florida, Agate
  71. 2006_1221, Colorado Blizzard
  72. 2006_1229-0107, Blizzards of 2006 Versus Snowblower

  73. 2007_0131, It's Snowing Again
  74. 2007_0219, Adventures in Toiletry
  75. 2007_0930-1007, Lake Powell, Utah

  76. 2008_0128-0204, Death Valley, California
  77. 2008_0531-0601, Shirley Basin and Laramie Peak, Wyoming
  78. 2008_0614-15, Rockhounding (by Kayak) in Wyoming
  79. 2008_0817-24, Lake Powell, Utah
  80. 2008_0914-21, Lake Powell, Utah

  81. 2009_0820-22, Two Tough Elk Range Fourteeners
  82. 2009_1205, How Not to Dunk a Camera

  83. 2010_0808-15, Lake Powell, Utah, Final Trip as Owner

  84. 2011_0709-10, Quest for the Ancient Trees
  85. 2011_1130-1217, Panama Canal (and Then Some!) Cruise

  86. 2022_0101-03, Don't Ski on Thin Ice

PS: My Use of Images and Coordinates

A note about my use of images and coordinates here, or lack thereof:

In an increasingly multimedia, higher-bandwidth world, to "grab viewer attention" one needs lots of attractive graphics or images, preferably immediately and quickly presented. In other words, there's a slippery slope from, "story-telling, perhaps spruced up with a little imagery" to, "multimedia slide shows, with a little narration." (For an example of the latter, see my "rolling web album".)

Unfortunately I didn't start regularly adding photos (expandable thumbnails) to my reports until 2008! Long after I'd stopped writing them regularly. Until nearly that time, all of the associated images were/are color prints, not digitized.

Also it would be nice if every geographical location included lat/long coords, perhaps even a link to Google Maps to illustrate it.

If I had a profit motive, or if I cared about "mass market penetration" of my trip reports, I'd do a lot more work to make these reports into virtual slide shows with maps. But that's not why I write them, and it's time-consuming enough to get them all HTMLized and available on the web. I don't care too much if you, dear reader, are hooked into them or not. They are here if you choose to read them, and if you do, I hope you enjoy them (grin).

That said, I do intend to liven up at least any of my new reports with at least a few pictures and/or coordinates...