Plant Stuff

Somehow I've become a plant person? I'm working on a CA native plant garden, an avocado cultivar collection, and an orchard of exotic subtropicals on a 2 acre lot in Palos Verdes. The database below is very much a WIP. It is linked via QR code from permanent botanical signs in my garden.

• Middleridge garden database

Trip Reports

One day I'll accept that YouTube videos are the new long-form trip reports, but today is not that day.

• An Anarchic Alta (Parker and Hamik, 10/2025)
  A wintry first summit and multiday backpack for Parker during a government shutdown.

Ancient Trip Reports

Ramblings that I'm migrating from the near-defunct SuperTopo and SummitPost sites. Perhaps I will eventually migrate (surprisingly nostalgic) comments too.

• A Muy Peligroso Chacraraju (Vitaliy M. and Hamik, 7/2013)
  Not my proudest exercise in risk management.