Well, I went up a mountain again, it being the weekend in Aspen and all. (Ah, there goes my audience!) Buckskin Pass, perhaps a little too fast, and with a long detour up some rather remarkable scree fields. This is one of the trails you can get to using the bus, and on the way I stopped at Aspen Highlands to change buses. It’s a sort of twee shopping mall-ette, but during the Winter it is an access point to some of the ski slopes, I understand. What do people do there during the Summer? Not sure, but there were people there polishing their cars obsessively. Really obsessively. Have a look. (There was a hand-written sign saying “Car Expo”, so I guess later on people were to come and gawp at them.)
Anyway, there were some nice sights, and I chose to go on my own to get some time to think. I’m rather stuck on a computation, and am a bit frustrated, and so walking semi-aimlessly helps. Actually, I wasn’t on my own all the time – I chatted with my buddy Humphrey a bit (picture right and up ). But somehow the conversation kept turning to food, and so I had to walk away.
As a result of my exertions, now my body (legs especially – negotiating scree, you see) is not cooperating, and I’m stuck on the sofa until I recover, or until I get so hungry I’ll drag myself to the kitchen. So I’m going to write a post or two for the blog – and oh! – there’ll be some science. In preparation for physics I’ll tell you about next, do look at the pictures of the pretty mountains, etc (one is of the famous Maroon Bells with Maroon Lake in foreground.).
-cvj
August 14th, 2005 at 12:44 am
Clifford,
After my ordeal, I found that a nice warm bubble bath helps alot. But, nonetheless I am presently sitting on a sofa….
August 14th, 2005 at 12:50 am
Ah! Bubble bath. Good idea, but none in this apartment. Still on sofa writing mammoth blog post instead… Hope the hike down was not too terrible!
-cvj
August 14th, 2005 at 2:03 am
[...] So I promised in my most recent post that this would have something to do with mountains. Let’s have a look at the picture I took up near the Maroon Lake earlier today: [...]
August 14th, 2005 at 2:28 am
Wow, these stories really make me feel sorry for you guys up in the mountains. I do wonder what the next hardship will be. Masseuse too chatty? Champagne insufficiently chilled?
August 14th, 2005 at 2:32 am
No bubble bath. Major hardship.
I forgot to mention that it briefly snowed on me while up there. (I got hit by oh….. ten flakes or so!).
-cvj
August 21st, 2005 at 12:17 am
[...] I’d like to share with you a theory that I formulated some years back. I kept wondering why Aspen, (despite some of the things that I’ve mentioned in previous posts), is a place where I love spending time. Well, I’ve shown you (here and here) some photos of things I’ve seen on excellent hikes in the area, and that would be enough evidence for most people. The fact that the physics atmosphere at the Aspen Center for Physics is fantastic, and that I get a lot of good work done there every year, (facts I’ve mentioned before) and that the administrative staff there are so welcoming, friendly and helpful, all adds to one’s feeling of warmth to the place. [...]