<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459</id><updated>2011-07-31T02:40:44.731-04:00</updated><category term='Harvard'/><category term='Northfield'/><category term='université'/><category term='voiture'/><category term='basketball'/><category term='NYC'/><category term='élections'/><category term='cuisine'/><category term='cascade de glace'/><category term='France'/><category term='océan'/><category term='Cape Cod'/><category term='musée'/><category term='surf'/><category term='skate ski'/><category term='boulot'/><category term='Boston'/><category term='Winchester'/><category term='200 Swanton Street'/><category term='santé'/><category term='divers'/><category term='ski'/><category term='quebec'/><category term='Montréal'/><category term='Hiver'/><category term='préparatifs'/><category term='Road trip'/><category term='Canada'/><category term='White Mountains'/><category term='histoire'/><category term='baseball'/><category term='VTT'/><category term='TV'/><category term='randonnee skiing'/><category term='automne'/><category term='Lafayette'/><category term='météo'/><category term='us et coutumes'/><category term='UML'/><category term='Mt Washington'/><category term='Monadnock'/><category term='cinéma'/><category term='MIT'/><category term='voyage'/><category term='soirée'/><category term='girmpe'/><category term='Cardigan'/><category term='jardinage'/><category term='cross country skiing'/><category term='administration'/><category term='voile'/><category term='randonnée'/><category term='Newburyport'/><category term='grimpe'/><category term='poterie'/><category term='Lowell'/><title type='text'>Hello from Boston, MA</title><subtitle type='html'>Prêts pour la vie Made in USA ?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>222</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-5884155416431675246</id><published>2009-11-13T14:37:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T15:10:53.379-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='200 Swanton Street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><title type='text'>Last week in the USA...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tout ou presque est dans le titre…&lt;br /&gt;Même si faire les sacs, vendre la voiture ou finir de nettoyer l’appart sonnait la fin des vacances, on n’en a pas moins profité pour faire quelques bonnes bouffes et revoir une dernière fois avant de partir les amis… qu’on espère bien recroiser à l’occasion !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything or almost everything is in the title…&lt;br /&gt;Although packing, selling the car or cleaning the apartment definitely meant the holidays were over, we did enjoy some very good dinners and saw people another time before leaving… we hope to see you again!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Good luck pour la Californie Ren !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27I0q0q9I/AAAAAAAADZk/MJfaeRNH16I/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011805.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27I0q0q9I/AAAAAAAADZk/MJfaeRNH16I/s400/Boston+the+end-0011805.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403680888166067154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et oui, on aura bien bu et bien mangé ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27IsKBm5I/AAAAAAAADZc/R9prBh1dXhc/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011807.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27IsKBm5I/AAAAAAAADZc/R9prBh1dXhc/s400/Boston+the+end-0011807.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403680885881019282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27IY2YE3I/AAAAAAAADZU/PTBHju_rbiA/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011810.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27IY2YE3I/AAAAAAAADZU/PTBHju_rbiA/s400/Boston+the+end-0011810.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403680880698332018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27IJoCxrI/AAAAAAAADZM/bAiEHUq_tDA/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011811.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27IJoCxrI/AAAAAAAADZM/bAiEHUq_tDA/s400/Boston+the+end-0011811.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403680876611684018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last pics from Winchester et le Parkview avant de rendre les clés...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25hbgyDKI/AAAAAAAADZE/QpkbgJ7bf1c/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011826.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25hbgyDKI/AAAAAAAADZE/QpkbgJ7bf1c/s400/Boston+the+end-0011826.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403679111886539938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25hBBm40I/AAAAAAAADY8/4fx2Cd-LY-8/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011828.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25hBBm40I/AAAAAAAADY8/4fx2Cd-LY-8/s400/Boston+the+end-0011828.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403679104776463170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25gzOWBlI/AAAAAAAADY0/V0kQxd34duI/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011831.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25gzOWBlI/AAAAAAAADY0/V0kQxd34duI/s400/Boston+the+end-0011831.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403679101071787602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25gj7Z1PI/AAAAAAAADYs/FtYJ9uLmjDo/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011833.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25gj7Z1PI/AAAAAAAADYs/FtYJ9uLmjDo/s400/Boston+the+end-0011833.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403679096965813490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And our last american pic... Such a symbol ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25gl_jsZI/AAAAAAAADYk/mk0xE9ai_98/s1600-h/Boston+the+end-0011838.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 163px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv25gl_jsZI/AAAAAAAADYk/mk0xE9ai_98/s400/Boston+the+end-0011838.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403679097520107922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-5884155416431675246?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/5884155416431675246/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=5884155416431675246&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5884155416431675246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5884155416431675246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/last-week-in-usa.html' title='Last week in the USA...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv27I0q0q9I/AAAAAAAADZk/MJfaeRNH16I/s72-c/Boston+the+end-0011805.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-2669734626738933510</id><published>2009-11-13T10:54:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T15:11:41.132-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Driving back, from Colorado to Massachusetts</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv2E5jNM5NI/AAAAAAAADYc/ro5dDBu1xmY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1087.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 207px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv2E5jNM5NI/AAAAAAAADYc/ro5dDBu1xmY/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1087.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403621252152485074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trois jours de route vendredi, samedi et dimanche pour traverser Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvanie, New York et Massachusetts, afin de rentrer à Winchester et retrouver la pluie sur la fin…&lt;br /&gt;Presque 10 000 miles pour boucler la boucle...&lt;br /&gt;Les paysages ont bien changé, les arbres commencent à prendre leurs couleurs d’automne et nous, on a des images et des souvenirs plein la tête… Toutes les bonnes choses ont donc une fin, ça se vérifie à chaque fois ;-)&lt;br /&gt;On a maintenant quatre jours pour finir de tout emballer, envoyer nos colis, vendre la voiture, … ce qui ne va pas être de tout repos !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three days in the car Friday, Saturday and Sunday to cross Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts and finally be back in Winchester, MA with the rain at the end…&lt;br /&gt;Almost 10,000 miles...&lt;br /&gt;The view is quite different; trees start to change color and become red, orange, yellow, and our heads are full of images and souvenirs… Every good thing comes to an end, it is always true ;-)&lt;br /&gt;We now have four days to finish packing, ship our boxes, sell the car, … no more holidays!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-2669734626738933510?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/2669734626738933510/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=2669734626738933510&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2669734626738933510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2669734626738933510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/driving-back-from-colorado-to.html' title='Driving back, from Colorado to Massachusetts'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv2E5jNM5NI/AAAAAAAADYc/ro5dDBu1xmY/s72-c/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1087.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-5212586614230571849</id><published>2009-11-13T09:48:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:54:12.175-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Arches National Park, the last one...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Quelques heures de route plus tard, le rocher rouge se fait à nouveau omniprésent : nous voilà à Arches National Park. Plus de 2 000 arches ont été répertoriées dans le parc, plus ou moins grosses, plus ou moins formées… puisque tout peut changer assez vite !&lt;br /&gt;Pour notre dernier parc, le camping du parc est cette fois-ci complet, on va donc aller se poser à Moab, la petite ville voisine, avant de monter voir le coucher du soleil sur Delicate Arch (4,829 ft – 1 474 m), la fameuse arche qui semble posée au milieu de rien. On n’a pas pensé à prendre une bière et des cacahuètes, sinon ça aurait été parfait pour l’apéro !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few hours later, the red rock is again everywhere: we are in Arches National Park. More than 2,000 arches have been identified in the park, big or small, more or less shaped… as things can change quickly!&lt;br /&gt;In our last National Park, the park campground is full and we therefore put our tent in Moab, the neighbor city, before watching the sunset over Delicate Arch (4,829 ft – 1 474 m), the famous arch…&lt;br /&gt;We forgot to take a beer and peanuts, otherwise it would have been perfect!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv129twbs7I/AAAAAAAADYU/9piV6F1FeLQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv129twbs7I/AAAAAAAADYU/9piV6F1FeLQ/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403605930541298610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Hello!!&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv129u-eAsI/AAAAAAAADYM/lnBLivrXac0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv129u-eAsI/AAAAAAAADYM/lnBLivrXac0/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403605930868605634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1238yUkFI/AAAAAAAADYE/6Tpv0p_G6P8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1238yUkFI/AAAAAAAADYE/6Tpv0p_G6P8/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1037.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403605831496536146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv123kee9CI/AAAAAAAADX8/vrSvoiW4hPI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv123kee9CI/AAAAAAAADX8/vrSvoiW4hPI/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1040.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403605824970880034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le lendemain (jeudi 24 septembre), on part tant qu’il fait encore un peu frais (et oui, on est de retour dans les désert…) découvrir le Jardin des Diables et ses multiples arches au bout du parc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day (Thursday, September 24), we go to discover the Devils Garden and its arches at the end of the park. Now that we are in the desert again, we enjoy the cool morning ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Courthouse Towers, on our way to Devils Garden&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv123a-HwEI/AAAAAAAADX0/bHuhYEH6Hys/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv123a-HwEI/AAAAAAAADX0/bHuhYEH6Hys/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1044.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403605822419222594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv123Qeio_I/AAAAAAAADXs/WHaIdqSMlG8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv123Qeio_I/AAAAAAAADXs/WHaIdqSMlG8/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1045.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403605819602412530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Landscape Arch, une partie s'est cassée il y a une dizaine d'années&lt;br /&gt;Landscape Arch, a part collapsed about 10 years ago&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv123IxirYI/AAAAAAAADXk/_I0UtAvB5Y0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 166px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv123IxirYI/AAAAAAAADXk/_I0UtAvB5Y0/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403605817534623106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11qezdqkI/AAAAAAAADXc/gwU27213Fl8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11qezdqkI/AAAAAAAADXc/gwU27213Fl8/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403604500598336066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En allant à Navajo Arch, un peu de bloc... - On our way to Navajo Arch, some bouldering...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11qdxKhiI/AAAAAAAADXU/9Q7Xf1S5h4E/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11qdxKhiI/AAAAAAAADXU/9Q7Xf1S5h4E/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1052.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403604500320257570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11qKPBimI/AAAAAAAADXM/8FcLhggMGRI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1055.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11qKPBimI/AAAAAAAADXM/8FcLhggMGRI/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1055.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403604495076788834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vue sur la vallée à l'est - Overview on the east side&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11p-eCRhI/AAAAAAAADXE/9lr5jdAOVkk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 189px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11p-eCRhI/AAAAAAAADXE/9lr5jdAOVkk/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1057.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403604491918525970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Double O Arch, vu d'en bas et vue d'en haut - Double O Arch, from both angles&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11pgiooYI/AAAAAAAADW8/tv97qcPDRZ4/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv11pgiooYI/AAAAAAAADW8/tv97qcPDRZ4/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1065.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403604483884753282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10tkWNuuI/AAAAAAAADW0/70lNgtetddc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10tkWNuuI/AAAAAAAADW0/70lNgtetddc/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1067.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403603454114249442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cactus :-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10tQHX0nI/AAAAAAAADWs/mMt3cD-S8mQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1076.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10tQHX0nI/AAAAAAAADWs/mMt3cD-S8mQ/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1076.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403603448683287154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petit pic nique de retour à la voiture… avec le spectacle d’une dame belge qui ferme la porte de sa voiture en laissant les clés à l’intérieur alors que son mari était allé se promener… Je vous laisse imaginer sa tête lorsqu’il est revenu !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunch back at the car… and a Belgium woman forgot her keys inside her car before locking it while her husband went hiking… You can guess his expression when he came back! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Balanced Rock&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10tW7jVHI/AAAAAAAADWk/P99GhSGFGVs/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10tW7jVHI/AAAAAAAADWk/P99GhSGFGVs/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1079.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403603450512757874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaving Utah: Castle Valley&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10tEDU7XI/AAAAAAAADWc/y4B5T80zbP8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1083.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10tEDU7XI/AAAAAAAADWc/y4B5T80zbP8/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1083.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403603445445094770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10s6SmjYI/AAAAAAAADWU/I0Vlza2vE4k/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1084.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv10s6SmjYI/AAAAAAAADWU/I0Vlza2vE4k/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1084.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403603442824809858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je crois qu’on peut le dire, notre voyage touche à sa fin et il faut commencer à faire la route jusqu’à Boston :-(&lt;br /&gt;6 semaines, c’est à la fois court et long, en tout cas il n’aurait pas fallu moins pour faire autant de choses…&lt;br /&gt;On commence donc notre retour à la maison ce jeudi après-midi – avec une grosse boulette de ma part puisqu’on aurait pu s’arrêter le soir chez un ami à Aspen si je n’avais pas donné un mauvais numéro de téléphone :-( A la place, on dormira dans la voiture un peu plus loin, faute d’avoir trouvé un camping ouvert dans le Colorado fin septembre…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have to admit it, our trip comes to an end and it’s time to drive back to Boston :-(&lt;br /&gt;6 weeks, it’s both short and long –in any case it was the minimum to see all these places…&lt;br /&gt;We start our driving home this Thursday afternoon – with a big mistake from me :-( We could have stopped at a friend’s in Aspen if I didn’t give him a wrong phone number… Instead, we sleep further in the car as we couldn’t find a campground open in Colorado end of September… Another good reason to come back!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-5212586614230571849?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/5212586614230571849/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=5212586614230571849&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5212586614230571849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5212586614230571849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/arches-national-park-last-one.html' title='Arches National Park, the last one...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv129twbs7I/AAAAAAAADYU/9piV6F1FeLQ/s72-c/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1028.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-7678420546857832186</id><published>2009-11-13T08:59:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T09:58:40.968-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Bryce Canyon National Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Après s'être fait courser par un hélicoptère, une Lamborghini jaune et une voiture de police dans une gorge étroite où passait l'autoroute (on n'a pas su si c'était pour un film ou s'il se passait vraiment quelque chose...), on arrive donc à &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/brca/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Bryce Canyon National Park&lt;/a&gt; en milieu d’après-midi mardi (22 septembre). Là encore les campings sont bien pleins mais on arrive à trouver un emplacement à notre deuxième tentative.&lt;br /&gt;On profite ensuite de la lumière du soir pour aller marcher dans l’amphithéâtre et faire « the world’s best 3 mile hike » aka Queens Garden &amp;amp; Navajo trails. Je ne sais pas si c’est la meilleure du monde, mais on est d’accord pour dire que la ballade vaut le détour, surtout avec cette lumière !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a weird situation where an helicopter, a yellow Lamborghini and a police car followed and passed us in a narrow gorge on the highway (we don't know if it was for a movie or if there was really something happening), we arrive in &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/brca/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Bryce Canyon National Park&lt;/a&gt; mid afternoon on Tuesday (September 22). Again, the campgrounds are quite full but we manage to find a spot during our second try.&lt;br /&gt;We then enjoy the evening light to gi hiking in the Amphitheatre and do « the world’s best 3 mile hike » aka Queens Garden &amp;amp; Navajo trails. I don’t know if it is the best of the world, but we agree to say that the hike is worth it, especially with this light!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Vue sur les hoodoos... en perpétuel changement - Overview of the hoodoos, always changing&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rc_rJtFI/AAAAAAAADWM/1mii2b-r_dI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0011801.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rc_rJtFI/AAAAAAAADWM/1mii2b-r_dI/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0011801.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403593273787397202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeu d'ombre...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rcto2GdI/AAAAAAAADWE/2Iq5P_UyZSA/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0974.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rcto2GdI/AAAAAAAADWE/2Iq5P_UyZSA/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0974.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403593268945885650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...Et de lumière&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rcsh1LGI/AAAAAAAADV8/Z1OVp4kyB4s/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0975.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rcsh1LGI/AAAAAAAADV8/Z1OVp4kyB4s/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0975.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403593268648029282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rcap-POI/AAAAAAAADV0/K2xlN3uv6Kc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0976.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rcap-POI/AAAAAAAADV0/K2xlN3uv6Kc/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0976.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403593263850339554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJ9Ev9XI/AAAAAAAADVs/A2fDuVP_-go/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0979.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJ9Ev9XI/AAAAAAAADVs/A2fDuVP_-go/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0979.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403592946671940978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJ_w8geI/AAAAAAAADVk/1IROHpEaNIQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0987.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJ_w8geI/AAAAAAAADVk/1IROHpEaNIQ/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0987.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403592947394183650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJlHTzwI/AAAAAAAADVc/iexSL_yNeYc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0989.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJlHTzwI/AAAAAAAADVc/iexSL_yNeYc/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0989.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403592940240228098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJmDtXbI/AAAAAAAADVU/n9xYrpoZnKk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0992.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJmDtXbI/AAAAAAAADVU/n9xYrpoZnKk/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0992.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403592940493561266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJfHjlFI/AAAAAAAADVM/dygTwIHLA9o/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0993.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rJfHjlFI/AAAAAAAADVM/dygTwIHLA9o/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0993.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403592938630648914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois le soleil couché, retour au camping… Les étoiles et la voie lactée illuminent le ciel comme on a rarement la chance de voir ! Bryce Canyon est un des endroits privilégiés pour observer le ciel, la pollution lumineuse étant quasi inexistante ici…&lt;br /&gt;Sinon, on est presque à 3 000m d’altitude, je vous laisse donc imaginer qu’il ne fait pas chaud la nuit, même dans le désert ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the sunset over, we go back to our tent… The stars and the Milky Way are so bright compared to what we are used to see! Bryce Canyon is famous for its night sky and the lack of artificial light help to highlight this.&lt;br /&gt;Other than that, the rim elevation is between 8,000 to 9,100 feet; you can imagine it is not super warm at night, even in the desert ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mercredi matin (23 septembre), on fait les touristes de base (au grand désespoir de Dav…) en empruntant la route scénique avant de continuer notre route à l’est en direction de Arches National Park…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Wednesday morning (September 23), we do the same as every tourist: we take the scenic road before driving on again towards Arches National Park…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Depuis Rainbow Point&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qK_LNp3I/AAAAAAAADVE/mTQJ_sdY130/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0998.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qK_LNp3I/AAAAAAAADVE/mTQJ_sdY130/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0998.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403591864904165234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agua Canyon&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qK8gbpsI/AAAAAAAADU8/8DPduYCp4PY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qK8gbpsI/AAAAAAAADU8/8DPduYCp4PY/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403591864187856578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Natural Bridge&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qKhHWnBI/AAAAAAAADU0/LEIFmVUfvdc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qKhHWnBI/AAAAAAAADU0/LEIFmVUfvdc/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403591856834911250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qKRPZMdI/AAAAAAAADUs/QJcgNMhYTZc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qKRPZMdI/AAAAAAAADUs/QJcgNMhYTZc/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403591852573667794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Navajo Trail&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qJ3y91OI/AAAAAAAADUk/6fh4QJSZ1ow/s1600-h/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1qJ3y91OI/AAAAAAAADUk/6fh4QJSZ1ow/s400/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-1021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403591845743547618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-7678420546857832186?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/7678420546857832186/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=7678420546857832186&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7678420546857832186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7678420546857832186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/bryce-canyon-national-park.html' title='Bryce Canyon National Park'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1rc_rJtFI/AAAAAAAADWM/1mii2b-r_dI/s72-c/TripUSA-Bryce-Arches-0011801.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-7063564701212645513</id><published>2009-11-13T08:14:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T08:56:53.757-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Zion National Park: Angel's Landing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mardi (22 septembre), on profite encore un peu de Zion en allant faire Angels Landing, une des ballades aériennes non recommandées pour les personnes sensibles…&lt;br /&gt;On commence par faire une petite pause photo à la « cour des Patriarches », les trois sommets blancs ont été nommés après les rois mages : Abraham, Isaac et Jacob.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Tuesday (September 22), we enjoy a bit more Zion by hiking to Angels Landing, one of the airy walks not recommended for sensible persons…&lt;br /&gt;We start with a short stop at the Court of the Patriarchs, the three white summits named after the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1c3r0EJ_I/AAAAAAAADUc/dfSCc7a8d9o/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0931.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 217px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1c3r0EJ_I/AAAAAAAADUc/dfSCc7a8d9o/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0931.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403577239638124530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On reprend ensuite la navette jusqu’au point de départ d’Angles Landing, pas loin du départ des Narrows.&lt;br /&gt;Le chemin n’est pas difficile, par contre la dernière partie pour monter au sommet est assez gazeuse et certaines personnes s’agrippent bien au câble… Ca fait donc quelques bouchons ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then take the next shuttle up to Angels Landing starting point, not too far from the Narrows’ start.&lt;br /&gt;The path is quite easy, however the last part to climb to the summit is airy and some people are holding the cable hard… Therefore, there are some traffic jams ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Depuis le sommet, vue sur le temple de Sinawava et le début des Narrows au fond&lt;br /&gt;From the summit, overview of the Temple of Sinawava and the beginning of the Narrows at the back&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1c3XmsB-I/AAAAAAAADUU/Gh_0hzmpYgg/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0941.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1c3XmsB-I/AAAAAAAADUU/Gh_0hzmpYgg/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0941.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403577234213308386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Going down...&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1c3NH67wI/AAAAAAAADUM/HtpJ56Nop88/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0947.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1c3NH67wI/AAAAAAAADUM/HtpJ56Nop88/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0947.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403577231399907074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un peu à notre surprise, on a aussi vu une belle bête en plus des biches dans la vallée… Ce n’est pas un ours mais un &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor_de_Californie" target="_blank"&gt;condor de Californie&lt;/a&gt; qui attendait peut être qu’un gentil touriste fasse un faux-pas et tombe par terre ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Il a fait un petit vol devant nous avant de revenir se poser sur son arbre pendant un long (très long) moment. Et un peu après qu’on soit reparti, il a repris son envol, forcément !&lt;br /&gt;Entre ours et condor mon cœur balance…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quite surprisingly for us, we also saw a beautiful animal on top of the deer in the valley… It wasn’t a bear but a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Condor" target="_blank"&gt;California Condor&lt;/a&gt;, maybe waiting for somebody to fall from the cliff ;-)&lt;br /&gt;It did a small flight in front of us before landing again on its tree for a long (very long) period. He flew again just after we left… of course!&lt;br /&gt;Ahhh, I’m torn between bears and condors…&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1cjxNlBfI/AAAAAAAADUE/5tva0gOOpLE/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0955.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1cjxNlBfI/AAAAAAAADUE/5tva0gOOpLE/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0955.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403576897489929714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1cjmJxupI/AAAAAAAADT8/KpqD8ca49BM/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0958.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1cjmJxupI/AAAAAAAADT8/KpqD8ca49BM/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0958.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403576894521195154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1cjSKrIHI/AAAAAAAADT0/DlMCuzXsjzA/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0963.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1cjSKrIHI/AAAAAAAADT0/DlMCuzXsjzA/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0963.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403576889156247666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et en fin de matinée, on reprend notre route en direction de Bryce Canyon… &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before lunch time, we take the car again towards Bryce Canyon…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-7063564701212645513?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/7063564701212645513/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=7063564701212645513&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7063564701212645513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7063564701212645513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/zion-national-park-angels-landing.html' title='Zion National Park: Angel&apos;s Landing'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sv1c3r0EJ_I/AAAAAAAADUc/dfSCc7a8d9o/s72-c/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0931.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3103472903343803807</id><published>2009-11-12T10:04:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T11:09:00.215-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Zion National Park: The Narrows</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Zion, ou la fraîcheur retrouvée ;-)&lt;br /&gt;On arrive en fin d’après midi dimanche (20 septembre) à &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Zion National Park&lt;/a&gt;. Contrairement aux vallées désertiques traversées les deux derniers jours, il y a ici de l’eau et donc de la végétation… Le vert tranche avec le rouge ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Les campings sont bien plein et on trouve une place « par chance » d’après le gars à l’accueil… enfin, si tout le monde n’avait pas un RV (camping-car super size) il y aurait peut être plus de place ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Petite promenade autour du camping pour le coucher du soleil… Bleu rouge vert, c’est la classe !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zion, here we are in a cooler place again ;-)&lt;br /&gt;We arrive late afternoon on Sunday (September 20) in &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Zion National Park&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Unlike the desert region valleys we went through during the last two days, there is water and therefore vegetation… Green and red mix perfectly ;-)&lt;br /&gt;The campgrounds are quite full this evening and we are lucky to find a spot according to the ranger… well; if everybody had a tent instead of an RV, there would probably be more spots ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwoFcFmueI/AAAAAAAADSE/r5n6u0Yg46o/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0843.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwoFcFmueI/AAAAAAAADSE/r5n6u0Yg46o/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0843.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403237726841911778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwoFNzIJ_I/AAAAAAAADR8/BrOY_Bkgz_I/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0849.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 146px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwoFNzIJ_I/AAAAAAAADR8/BrOY_Bkgz_I/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0849.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403237723006314482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwoEzAduXI/AAAAAAAADR0/0nk5zt7iIpk/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0853.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwoEzAduXI/AAAAAAAADR0/0nk5zt7iIpk/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0853.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403237715814496626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la vue des falaises, on peut deviner qu’il y a de la grimpe sur ce grès rouge, mais ça nous donne pas vraiment envie d’aller s’y engager…&lt;br /&gt;Par contre, lundi (21 septembre), on va s’engager dans The Narrows, canyon creusé depuis quelques millions d’années par la Virgin River : 16 miles de long, jusqu’à 600m de hauteur et parfois seulement 5 à 10m de largeur…&lt;br /&gt;Un bus nous amène au départ de ce canyon, puisqu’il est interdit de prendre la route du parc autrement – voilà une très bonne idée qu’ils devraient appliquer dans tous les parcs !&lt;br /&gt;L’idée des Narrows, c’est de remonter la rivière autant que possible, en un voire deux jours pour les plus motivés (peu de permis de camper sont délivrés chaque jour). Le jeu, c’est que le niveau d’eau est plus ou moins haut selon la période et selon les endroits… Et l’eau est plutôt fraîche !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you see the cliffs, you can guess there is some climbing possible on this sandstone, but we don’t really feel like trying it…&lt;br /&gt;Instead, on Monday (September 21), we go to The Narrows, canyon carved by the Virgin River for several billion years: 16 miles long, up to 2,000 feet  (600m) deep, and at times only 20-30 feet wide (5-10m)...&lt;br /&gt;A bus drives us to the starting point, as it is now forbidden to drive your car in the park – that’s a really good idea to apply in all the other parks!&lt;br /&gt;The idea for the Narrows is to walk along the river as far as possible, in one or two days if you can (only a few overnight permits are delivered every day). Of course, the water level is more or less deep depending on the time you go and on the spot you are in the canyon… And the water is a bit cold!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Règle numéro 1 : ne pas oublier son bâton. On a pris nos bâtons, mais il est aussi possible d'en louer ou d'emprunter ceux posés au début du canyon, qui peuvent s'avérer un peu courts en fonction des endroits...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rule number 1: don't forget your walking stick. We took ours, but you can also rent one or borrow one of these, waiting for you at the starting point -they can be a little short in some places...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqPYgwuKI/AAAAAAAADTk/IgyEwZiwG14/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0856.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqPYgwuKI/AAAAAAAADTk/IgyEwZiwG14/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0856.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403240096704018594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est parti pour quelques heures les pieds dans l'eau... Il est encore tôt et le soleil n'est toujours de la partie !&lt;br /&gt;Here we go for a few hours in the water... It is still early and the sun is not always with us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqPDy_uPI/AAAAAAAADTc/t8qDhbqJ5hc/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0861.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqPDy_uPI/AAAAAAAADTc/t8qDhbqJ5hc/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0861.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403240091143354610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqCmPSNeI/AAAAAAAADTU/PeiStdMhpPs/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0877.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqCmPSNeI/AAAAAAAADTU/PeiStdMhpPs/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0877.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403239877050512866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqCWs6IqI/AAAAAAAADTM/6NlEwfAlboY/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0880.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqCWs6IqI/AAAAAAAADTM/6NlEwfAlboY/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0880.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403239872879796898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqCAmUTYI/AAAAAAAADTE/xAGOMN9dXHk/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0897.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqCAmUTYI/AAAAAAAADTE/xAGOMN9dXHk/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0897.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403239866946571650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqCG8bXyI/AAAAAAAADS8/kqm1F6taa1o/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0898.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqCG8bXyI/AAAAAAAADS8/kqm1F6taa1o/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0898.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403239868649922338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On fait demi tour après quelques heures, et aussi parce que pour aller plus loin il faut soit faire l'araignée et grimper un peu, soit faire le castor et se mouiller jusqu'à la poitrine voire plus pour moi... Et on n'a pas été joueur avec le matos photo ;-) (OK, l'excuse est petite !)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We walk back a few hours later, also because to go further you need to be either a spider and climb a bit, or a beaver and get wet up to the chest -or more for me... Unfortunately, we did not want to play with the camera gear ;-) (OK, that's not an excuse!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqB1HIU2I/AAAAAAAADS0/J0oQ5_VjP-w/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0901.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqB1HIU2I/AAAAAAAADS0/J0oQ5_VjP-w/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0901.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403239863862973282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les formations sont halucinantes... - Amazing rock...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpJQdhC5I/AAAAAAAADSs/9erFuiFr72w/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0903.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpJQdhC5I/AAAAAAAADSs/9erFuiFr72w/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0903.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403238891952081810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpJO-7X7I/AAAAAAAADSk/ynfXgKXPq1M/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0911.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpJO-7X7I/AAAAAAAADSk/ynfXgKXPq1M/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0911.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403238891555348402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpIwvKQfI/AAAAAAAADSc/B2GxzuYbcZs/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0913.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpIwvKQfI/AAAAAAAADSc/B2GxzuYbcZs/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0913.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403238883436151282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tous les moyens sont bons pour avancer ! - Anything can be used to progress!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpI_n93bI/AAAAAAAADSU/Y9F-6AfTTo4/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0917.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpI_n93bI/AAAAAAAADSU/Y9F-6AfTTo4/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0917.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403238887432510898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpIpQKPcI/AAAAAAAADSM/8kVqIcGXPtg/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0924.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwpIpQKPcI/AAAAAAAADSM/8kVqIcGXPtg/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0924.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403238881427078594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqPTX955I/AAAAAAAADTs/4nt9BIfx9tM/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0925.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwqPTX955I/AAAAAAAADTs/4nt9BIfx9tM/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0925.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403240095324956562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En milieu d’après-midi, on est de retour à l’entrée du canyon… on aura croisé pas mal de monde, plus ou moins bien équipé et motivé à se mouiller ! En effet, au bout de 5-10 minutes il fallait se mouiller jusqu’à la taille pour continuer…&lt;br /&gt;Perso, je suis bien contente de retrouver le soleil et de me réchauffer –on n’est jamais satisfait avec ce qu’on a ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Enfin, on profite de Springdale, la petite ville en bordure du parc pour aller reprendre des forces…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mid afternoon, we are back at the canyon entrance… we saw quite a few people, more or less equipped and motivated to get wet! Actually, after 5-10 minutes you had to get wet up to your waist if you wanted to keep going… &lt;br /&gt;On my side, I am happy to find the sun again and to warm up –you’re never satisfied with what you have ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Finally, we take advantage of Springdale, next to the park, to enjoy a nice diner…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3103472903343803807?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3103472903343803807/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3103472903343803807&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3103472903343803807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3103472903343803807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/zion-national-park-narrows.html' title='Zion National Park: The Narrows'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvwoFcFmueI/AAAAAAAADSE/r5n6u0Yg46o/s72-c/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0843.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-7272211019842167132</id><published>2009-11-12T06:09:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T06:46:34.005-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvtLmL_RGI/AAAAAAAADRs/1-T0-wqbWG4/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0834.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvtLmL_RGI/AAAAAAAADRs/1-T0-wqbWG4/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0834.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403172961446216802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas... c’est pas de moi, c’est le panneau qui le dit ;-)&lt;br /&gt;En fin de matinée, nous voilà donc là où je voulais passer au moins une fois pour boucler la boucle… mais où je n’ai pas forcément envie de retourner !&lt;br /&gt;Après plusieurs semaines passées au plus près de la nature, tout ça parait encore plus superficiel et démesuré, irréel et inimaginable, et pourtant plein de touristes… et sûrement de joueurs aussi !&lt;br /&gt;Vous en rêviez peut être mais on ne l’a pas fait, on n’est pas rentré dans un casino et on n’a pas mis le sous, tiré la manette et mangé le pop corn, pas plus qu’on a joué une partie de poker (il fallait bien que je place le mot !). Il faut dire qu’on n’aurait peut être pas pu rentrer très facilement vu notre tenue ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas... it’s not from me, the sign says so ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Late morning, here we are where I wanted to be at least once to come full circle… but where I probably don’t want to come back again soon!&lt;br /&gt;After several weeks spent in the countryside, everything seems to be even more superficial and excessive, unreal and unthinkable, yet there are so many tourists… and of course gamblers too!&lt;br /&gt;You maybe dreamt it but we did not do it, we did not go inside a casino to gamble or play poker (I had to say it!). Well, we must say that we weren’t really dressed properly for that ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvtLVdo-bI/AAAAAAAADRk/chN5mQIPjMw/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0836.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvtLVdo-bI/AAAAAAAADRk/chN5mQIPjMw/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0836.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403172956956850610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le centre (Strip) est peut-être « fabulous », par contre dès qu’on s’en éloigne un peu, on a l'impression qu'il y a pas mal d’espoirs déçus qui errent dans les rues et tentent de survivre dans des mobil home en faisant des petits boulots… Le revers de la médaille en quelque sorte.&lt;br /&gt;On quitte donc Vegas pour continuer à l’est en direction de Zion National Park, notre prochaine étape… On laisse le Nevada et fait une petite incursion en Arizona avant d’entrer dans l’Utah pour quelques jours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Strip may be fabulous, however when you go further we feel that there are some “might-have-been” in the streets, living in trailers and having odd jobs… the other side of the coin.javascript:void(0)&lt;br /&gt;Well, we leave Vegas and keep going east towards Zion National Park, our next stop… After Nevada, we drive a few miles in Arizona before entering Utah for a few days.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-7272211019842167132?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/7272211019842167132/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=7272211019842167132&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7272211019842167132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7272211019842167132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/welcome-to-fabulous-las-vegas.html' title='Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvtLmL_RGI/AAAAAAAADRs/1-T0-wqbWG4/s72-c/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0834.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-6945951868837181616</id><published>2009-11-12T05:46:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T06:08:20.804-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>A few more hours in the Death Valley</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dimanche matin (20 septembre), on se lève très tôt pour essayer de fuir la chaleur avant qu’elle nous écrase… mais il fait toujours aussi chaud quand on met la tête dehors, surtout après une bonne nuit au frais ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Sunday morning (September 20), we wake up really early to try to escape the heat before it kills us… but it is already hot outside, especially after a cozy night with the AC ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Les explorateurs avaient bien du courage de s'aventurer là dedans...&lt;br /&gt;Explorers had a lot of courage to come here…&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoNcj0ZgI/AAAAAAAADRU/Fogfs2Hyodc/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0802.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoNcj0ZgI/AAAAAAAADRU/Fogfs2Hyodc/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0802.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403167495663412738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le soleil illumine petit à petit la vallée - The sun slowly floodlights the valley&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoNBlqjNI/AAAAAAAADRM/7893p9Yj9Ag/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0810.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoNBlqjNI/AAAAAAAADRM/7893p9Yj9Ag/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0810.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403167488423398610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoMxThfVI/AAAAAAAADRE/ssGvAyfEwEU/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0814.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoMxThfVI/AAAAAAAADRE/ssGvAyfEwEU/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0814.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403167484052340050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello from Artists Drive :-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoMxw44gI/AAAAAAAADQ8/1cpBmo7D0K0/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0816.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoMxw44gI/AAAAAAAADQ8/1cpBmo7D0K0/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0816.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403167484175507970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoLgnCtLI/AAAAAAAADQ0/q1dVska0vao/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0819.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoLgnCtLI/AAAAAAAADQ0/q1dVska0vao/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0819.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403167462390936754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Golden Canyon, 1 mile seulement mais il fait déjà bien chaud à 8h du matin !&lt;br /&gt;Golden Canyon, only 1 mile but it is already super hot at 8am!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvnxOPNuPI/AAAAAAAADQs/HtFQeTnaEzQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0823.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvnxOPNuPI/AAAAAAAADQs/HtFQeTnaEzQ/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0823.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403167010782558450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et oui...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvnxMs-l9I/AAAAAAAADQk/51H4fS9iNB8/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0827.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvnxMs-l9I/AAAAAAAADQk/51H4fS9iNB8/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0827.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403167010370525138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La vue depuis Zabriskie Point - Overview from Zabriskie Point&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvnwwlwnkI/AAAAAAAADQc/KNVVftO_Bis/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0828.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvnwwlwnkI/AAAAAAAADQc/KNVVftO_Bis/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0828.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403167002824056386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svvnwlo-yuI/AAAAAAAADQU/cvVw0iv-Wao/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0830.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svvnwlo-yuI/AAAAAAAADQU/cvVw0iv-Wao/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0830.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403166999884778210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvnwDLwROI/AAAAAAAADQM/-6GkXScSCYA/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0831.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvnwDLwROI/AAAAAAAADQM/-6GkXScSCYA/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0831.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403166990635386082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bye Bye Death Valley!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvpDHokUAI/AAAAAAAADRc/6OUU5zhQ6EA/s1600-h/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0832.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvpDHokUAI/AAAAAAAADRc/6OUU5zhQ6EA/s400/TripUSA-LV-Zion-0832.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403168417759121410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On continue notre route en direction de la capitale du péché, Las Vegas pour ne pas la nommer… et on quitte la Californie pour passer dans le Nevada. Il fait toujours bien chaud…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We keep going towards Sin City aka Las Vegas… and we leave California for Nevada. It is still hot…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-6945951868837181616?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/6945951868837181616/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=6945951868837181616&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6945951868837181616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6945951868837181616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/few-more-hours-in-death-valley.html' title='A few more hours in the Death Valley'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvoNcj0ZgI/AAAAAAAADRU/Fogfs2Hyodc/s72-c/TripUSA-DeathValley-0802.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-6754764441717625615</id><published>2009-11-12T04:05:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T05:44:30.831-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>From the mountains to the desert</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Après presque une semaine, notre petit séjour dans le parc national du Yosemite touche à sa fin… Samedi (19 septembre), on quitte Tuolumne après quelques dernières voies tranquilles à Pothole Dome, le dôme à touristes ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Les nuages commencent à faire leur apparition mais ils ne nous suivront pas par la suite… et le thermomètre va monter rapidement au fur et à mesure de la journée !&lt;br /&gt;On rejoint en début d’après-midi Bishop et les premiers signes du désert… Il faisait 5 degrés ce matin au camping et dans les 35 degrés autour de Bishop. Ca ne « s’arrange » pas au fil des heures, puisqu’on va droit en direction de la vallée de la mort qui porte plutôt bien son nom ;-)&lt;br /&gt;La &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/deva" target="_blank"&gt;Death Valley&lt;/a&gt;… c’est chaud, c’est sec, c’est très chaud et c’est pas la voiture qui nous dira le contraire !&lt;br /&gt;Des routes bien droites, des &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_brevifolia" target="_blank"&gt;Joshua Tree&lt;/a&gt; qui poussent dans le désert, du sable, une palette de couleurs exceptionnelle… le désert c’est quand même beau même si c’est invivable !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After almost a week, our stay in Yosemite National Park ends… On Saturday (September 19), we leave Tuolumne after a few last pitches on Pothole Dome, the tourist dome ;-)&lt;br /&gt;The clouds start to appear but they won’t follow us… and the temperature is going to rise quickly all over the day!&lt;br /&gt;We arrive in Bishop and the first desert places early afternoon… it was 5 degrees C (41 °F) this morning at the campground and around 35 °C (95 °F) around Bishop. And it’s not going to be better later as we are driving towards the Death Valley…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/deva" target="_blank"&gt;Death Valley&lt;/a&gt;… it’s hot, it’s dry, it’s super hot and the car is not going to contradict us!&lt;br /&gt;Straight roads, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_brevifolia" target="_blank"&gt;Joshua trees&lt;/a&gt; growing in the desert, sand, an amazing color palette… the desert is quite amazing even if it is unbearable!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;On quite notre emplacement et notre boite à ours...&lt;br /&gt;Leaving our campsite and bearbox...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvXOVdNuPI/AAAAAAAADOc/Bx98_e1hORQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0762.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvXOVdNuPI/AAAAAAAADOc/Bx98_e1hORQ/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0762.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403148819238861042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depuis Pothole Dome - From Pothole Dome&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvXOLNJmmI/AAAAAAAADOU/vFGa9FEd42E/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0763.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvXOLNJmmI/AAAAAAAADOU/vFGa9FEd42E/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0763.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403148816487127650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En entrant dans la Death Valley - Entering Death Valley&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvbRbded9I/AAAAAAAADPU/d5jnK5LLIKQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0767.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvbRbded9I/AAAAAAAADPU/d5jnK5LLIKQ/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0767.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403153270436689874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvbRB4iR-I/AAAAAAAADPM/_4Uxvfe8hUs/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0768.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvbRB4iR-I/AAAAAAAADPM/_4Uxvfe8hUs/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0768.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403153263570864098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vue sur la Panamint Range &amp; Panamint Dunes depuis Father Crowley viewpoint&lt;br /&gt;Overview of the Panamint Range &amp; Panamint Dunes from Father Crowley viewpoint&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva8wwpKjI/AAAAAAAADPE/_p6e3ENGUAA/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0773.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva8wwpKjI/AAAAAAAADPE/_p6e3ENGUAA/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0773.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403152915376974386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva8ipvMZI/AAAAAAAADO8/Ey48fR6gjFc/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0775.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva8ipvMZI/AAAAAAAADO8/Ey48fR6gjFc/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0775.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403152911589912978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva8RNPwrI/AAAAAAAADO0/sjgKLA47CTc/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0778.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva8RNPwrI/AAAAAAAADO0/sjgKLA47CTc/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0778.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403152906907009714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En descendant sur Panamint Springs, premier lieu de "vie" croisé (une station essence...)&lt;br /&gt;Driving down to Panamint Springs, first place with "life" on our road (a gaz station...)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva8IKpwSI/AAAAAAAADOs/fqoH87RqZu8/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0782.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva8IKpwSI/AAAAAAAADOs/fqoH87RqZu8/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0782.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403152904480211234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remontée sur Towne Pass (1 511m - 4,956ft), on devra s'arrêter pour laisser refroidir la voiture...&lt;br /&gt;Driving up to Towne Pass (1 511m - 4,956ft), we'll have to stop to let the car cool down...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva77OO_QI/AAAAAAAADOk/d7qfkRu6KWk/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0783.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svva77OO_QI/AAAAAAAADOk/d7qfkRu6KWk/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0783.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403152901005573378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alors qu’on est épuisé par la chaleur sans rien faire, on croise à notre grande surprise des… vélos ! Une course de vélos même ! Probablement amicale, mais les cyclistes se donnent du mal malgré tout à remonter cette ligne droite qui n’en finit plus pour arriver au col… On ne sait pas où et quand ils sont partis, mais dans tous les cas on leur tire notre chapeau !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we are exhausted without doing anything due to the heat, we surprisingly see some… bikes! A cycling race! Probably not an official race, but still, the cyclists are working hard to climb this straight road up to the pass… We don’t know where and when they started, but in any case congratulation to them!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Poor guy -not the one driving, the one biking ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgMTVDbqI/AAAAAAAADQE/dOjpNgVxFbM/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0784.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgMTVDbqI/AAAAAAAADQE/dOjpNgVxFbM/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0784.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403158679912672930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le soleil commence doucement à descendre, mais pas la température...&lt;br /&gt;The sun slowly disapear, but the temperature is still high...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgCImuN7I/AAAAAAAADP8/BnY_y2pJBKk/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0789.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgCImuN7I/AAAAAAAADP8/BnY_y2pJBKk/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0789.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403158505235298226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgBy7nqrI/AAAAAAAADP0/9XKAuv-3Ah0/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0793.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgBy7nqrI/AAAAAAAADP0/9XKAuv-3Ah0/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0793.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403158499417369266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgByYRMnI/AAAAAAAADPs/k_XUUhB9fWQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0796.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 209px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgByYRMnI/AAAAAAAADPs/k_XUUhB9fWQ/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0796.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403158499269096050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il fait bientôt nuit mais encore plus de 100°F (38°C)...&lt;br /&gt;It is almost dark but the temperature is still over 100°F (38°C)...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgBulc9II/AAAAAAAADPk/qJs_oTKBacU/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0799.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgBulc9II/AAAAAAAADPk/qJs_oTKBacU/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0799.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403158498250650754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgBeWYOxI/AAAAAAAADPc/gx-fWK4ehYI/s1600-h/TripUSA-DeathValley-0801.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvgBeWYOxI/AAAAAAAADPc/gx-fWK4ehYI/s400/TripUSA-DeathValley-0801.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403158493892459282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La chaleur aura raison de nous pour la nuit, on n’ira donc pas au camping mais on va se payer une nuit au frais dans l’hôtel de luxe du parc, &lt;a href="http://www.furnacecreekresort.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Furnace Creek Inn&lt;/a&gt;… C’est 10 fois plus cher que le camping, mais c’est le prix à payer pour dormir (au moins…) 10 fois mieux puisqu’on n’a pas d’autres choix ;-) Rassurez-vous, on a plus que profité de la douche et du King-size bed !&lt;br /&gt;Par contre, on n’est pas allé à la piscine ni au golf… Gros paradoxe de voir tant d’eau utilisée pour ça au milieu du désert et en parallèle pleins de petits panneaux expliquant les gestes faits pour sauvegarder la planète !&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;The heat overcomes us for the night, we do not go to the campground, we end up in the Park luxury hotel, &lt;a href="http://www.furnacecreekresort.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Furnace Creek Inn&lt;/a&gt;… It’s 10 times more expensive than the campground, but it’s the price to pay to sleep (at least) 10 times better as we do not have other alternatives ;-) Don’t worry, we more than enjoyed the shower and the King-size bed!&lt;br /&gt;However, we did not try the swimming pool or the golf course… Huge paradox to see on one side so much water used for that in the desert and on the other side many signs explaining what they do to protect the planet!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-6754764441717625615?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/6754764441717625615/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=6754764441717625615&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6754764441717625615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6754764441717625615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/from-mountains-to-desert.html' title='From the mountains to the desert'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvXOVdNuPI/AAAAAAAADOc/Bx98_e1hORQ/s72-c/TripUSA-Yosemite-0762.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-5134131530463042868</id><published>2009-11-12T03:30:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T04:02:54.721-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Matthes Crest: a true knife-edge ridge!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Après notre belle journée de la veille et toujours avec le soleil, on retourne vendredi (18 septembre) dans le même coin un peu plus au sud faire une arrête qui n’est pas visible par celui qui ne s’éloigne pas trop des routes. Tant mieux ou tant pis – c’est une super arrête.&lt;br /&gt;L’approche est assez longue (3h), du coup on part une heure avant le lever du soleil… les journées commencent à raccourcir sérieusement en ce mois de septembre !&lt;br /&gt;Le boulet d’or du jour – parce qu’il y en a un… - c’est l’appareil photo, qui n’a plus vraiment de batterie :-( et forcément, il n’y a pas d’électricité au camping et la petite superette n’est ouverte que de 9h à 17h, forcément. Du coup chaque photo a été mûrement réfléchie avec les moyens du bord, un peu lorsque dans le temps il ne vous restait que 3 photos sur votre pellicule tenir jusqu’au soir ;-)&lt;br /&gt;En tout cas, ce fut une journée grandiose, entre la marche d’approche, la recherche d’itinéraire, la grimpe/marche sur l’arrête facile mais aérienne, les 2-3 longueurs un peu plus dures… et la vue !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following our beautiful day yesterday and still under the sun, we go back to the same area on Friday (September 18) to climb a ridge invisible by people who don’t go far away from the road. Good or bad – that’s a wonderful ridge.&lt;br /&gt;The approach is quite long (3h), so we leave an hour before dust… days start to shorten seriously in September!&lt;br /&gt;The loser of the day – yes, there is one… - is the camera, without much battery left :-( and of course, there is no electricity in the campground and the little store is only open from 9 to 5. Therefore, each picture was taken after a long thinking process, as you used to do when you had only 3 photos left on your film for the day ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, it was a perfect day, between the approach, the route finding, the scrambling on the ridge –easy but airy, the 2-3 harder pitches… and the view!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;En passant pas loin de Cathedral Peak, sous les premiers rayons du soleil...&lt;br /&gt;Not far away from Cathedral Peak, with the first sunbeams...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMtsfcrjI/AAAAAAAADOM/4qaSpaVwInM/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011794.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMtsfcrjI/AAAAAAAADOM/4qaSpaVwInM/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011794.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403137263370284594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dav, serein sur l'arrête ! - Dav, calm on the ridge!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMtt29xdI/AAAAAAAADOE/vrhJNqV_Prs/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011795.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMtt29xdI/AAAAAAAADOE/vrhJNqV_Prs/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011795.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403137263737357778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMjemkN9I/AAAAAAAADN8/6T5yFB35LLs/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011797.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMjemkN9I/AAAAAAAADN8/6T5yFB35LLs/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011797.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403137087843350482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avant de redescendre un peu pour faire la dernière partie de la journée... Nos suiveurs arrivent.&lt;br /&gt;Before down climbing to the last part of the day... Our followers are arriving.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMjLgK_hI/AAAAAAAADN0/edqIpWtBUvQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011798.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMjLgK_hI/AAAAAAAADN0/edqIpWtBUvQ/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011798.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403137082716257810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12h plus tard, de retour à la voiture... 12h later, back at the car...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMil8X6PI/AAAAAAAADNs/WzCWRCKnvvM/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0750.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMil8X6PI/AAAAAAAADNs/WzCWRCKnvvM/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0750.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403137072633997554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Derniers rayons de soleil sur les domes alentours et petit lavage à la rivière avant qu'il ne fasse trop froid !&lt;br /&gt;Last sun lights on the surrounding domes and little cleaning in the river before it gets too cold! &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMibWi0UI/AAAAAAAADNk/YOepMSpxw7A/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0752.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMibWi0UI/AAAAAAAADNk/YOepMSpxw7A/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0752.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403137069790974274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMiGhT_BI/AAAAAAAADNc/j3PhZ141WLk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0757.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMiGhT_BI/AAAAAAAADNc/j3PhZ141WLk/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0757.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403137064198994962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-5134131530463042868?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/5134131530463042868/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=5134131530463042868&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5134131530463042868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5134131530463042868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/matthes-crest-true-knife-edge-ridge.html' title='Matthes Crest: a true knife-edge ridge!'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvMtsfcrjI/AAAAAAAADOM/4qaSpaVwInM/s72-c/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011794.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-35498420579143904</id><published>2009-11-12T03:16:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T03:29:46.182-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>On top of Cathedral Peak</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Jeudi (17 septembre), on part pour Cathedral Peak (10,940 ft – 3 335 m), décrit dans le topo comme une des meilleures voies alpines en 5.6… Et on ne sera pas déçu !&lt;br /&gt;Après un mini fourvoyage dans l’approche, on arrive au pied de la face sud de 250m. Comme on pouvait l’imaginer, on n’est pas les seuls à avoir eu cette idée –heureusement il y a plusieurs variantes possibles.&lt;br /&gt;De belles longueurs variées – sans trop de fissure cette fois-ci nous amènent au sommet… La dernière longueur est très facile mais très aérienne, ya du gaz comme diraient certains ! Petite pensée pour John Muir, qui est monté là haut le premier en 1869 par la voie normale et qui a fait cette dernière longueur sans équipement et sans trop savoir ce qui l’attendait pour aller en haut…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Thursday (September 17), we go to Cathedral Peak (10,940 ft – 3 335 m), described in the guidebook as one of the best 5.6 alpine rock climbs anywhere… And we won’t be disappointed!&lt;br /&gt;Once at the base of the 700 feet south face, we’re not the only ones to be there, as we could imagine – luckily, there are several variations available in the face.&lt;br /&gt;Few really nice pitches –without many cracks this time- bring us to the summit… The last pitch is easy but super airy, “ya du gaz” as some people say in French! Our thoughts to John Muir who first climbed to the top in 1869 via the easiest way – he did this last pitch with no gear and without knowing exactly what would be next…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Cathedral Peak vu d'en bas - Cathedral Peak from the base&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvFmUrkJhI/AAAAAAAADNU/B1-d7zq0-Hg/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011772.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvFmUrkJhI/AAAAAAAADNU/B1-d7zq0-Hg/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011772.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403129440138176018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Premières longueurs... Le vent nous fera remettre la polaire !&lt;br /&gt;First pitches... We soon put back our fleece!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvFmZHPWfI/AAAAAAAADNM/98NGQDT0qhU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011774.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvFmZHPWfI/AAAAAAAADNM/98NGQDT0qhU/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011774.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403129441327995378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEwFp1buI/AAAAAAAADM8/2dbHXxXv4Ew/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011786.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEwFp1buI/AAAAAAAADM8/2dbHXxXv4Ew/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011786.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403128508391452386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our neighbors on the route&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvFmDvfEEI/AAAAAAAADNE/AxTtZa3rUtQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011784.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvFmDvfEEI/AAAAAAAADNE/AxTtZa3rUtQ/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011784.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403129435591217218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEv1P35pI/AAAAAAAADM0/xEHrYrkFSRU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011789.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEv1P35pI/AAAAAAAADM0/xEHrYrkFSRU/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011789.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403128503987594898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEvj8LOhI/AAAAAAAADMs/BWhuhRT-yvc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011791.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEvj8LOhI/AAAAAAAADMs/BWhuhRT-yvc/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011791.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403128499341572626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEvZRHrQI/AAAAAAAADMc/FIXkwF-TCOc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011793.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEvZRHrQI/AAAAAAAADMc/FIXkwF-TCOc/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011793.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403128496476630274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En face de Cathedral Peak, Eichorn’s Pinnacle est une des aiguilles les plus spectaculaires du coin… Une ou deux longueurs en 5.4 ultra gazeuses permettent de monter au sommet pour être les rois du monde l’espace d’un instant… On aura une raison (parmi tant d’autres) de revenir pour faire ça, deux gars plutôt lents sont partis devant nous et on n’a pas eu le courage ni l’envie d’attendre notre tour…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In front of Cathedral Peak, Eichorn’s Pinnacle is one of the most spectacular spires of the area… One or two pitches graded 5.4 but with a lot of exposure bring you to the summit to be king of the world for a second… We need to come back for that. Two guys quite slow were on their way in the first pitch and we did not feel like waiting for them to finish…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEvhtDA2I/AAAAAAAADMk/-I-SJnWI4Rw/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011792.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvEvhtDA2I/AAAAAAAADMk/-I-SJnWI4Rw/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011792.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403128498741248866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Descente repérage pour l’approche du lendemain en direction de Matthes Crest, un autre des must-do du coin ;-) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we return to the campground, we have a look at tomorrow’s approach to Matthes Crest, another must-do in the area ;-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-35498420579143904?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/35498420579143904/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=35498420579143904&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/35498420579143904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/35498420579143904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-top-of-cathedral-peak.html' title='On top of Cathedral Peak'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvvFmUrkJhI/AAAAAAAADNU/B1-d7zq0-Hg/s72-c/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011772.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-6545042133865763425</id><published>2009-11-10T10:50:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T11:42:14.100-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Leaving Yosemite Valley to Tuolumne Meadows</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mercredi (16 septembre), on quitte pour de bon Camp 4 en direction de Tuolumne, le plateau qui est au dessus de la vallée qu’on nous a recommandé d’aller voir… &lt;br /&gt;On libère donc 2 places au camping, ce qui fera probablement le bonheur de certains qui attendaient bien en ligne (et depuis probablement quelque heures pour certains…) que le bureau des réservations ouvre…&lt;br /&gt;Avant de quitter la vallée, on s’arrête quand même pour regarder le lever du soleil sur El Capitan (7,569 ft – 2 307 m), le Nose tant convoité des grimpeurs… Certains sont en train de recommencer une nouvelle journée après un bivouac plus ou moins confortable, on ne saura pas ;-) En tout cas ils doivent apprécier les premiers rayons de soleil encore plus que nous !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Wednesday (September 16), we leave for good Camp 4 to go to Tuolumne, the plateau above the valley people highly recommended us to go to…&lt;br /&gt;We leave 2 spots at the campsite, this probably makes 2 guys happy to have a spot for the next night(s)… The line was already formed and you could guess some people have been there for a couple of hours…&lt;br /&gt;Before leaving the valley, we stop to watch the sun rises on El Capitan (7,569 ft – 2 307 m), the Nose every climber is dreaming of… Some people are starting another day on the wall after a bivy more or less comfy, we never know ;-) At least they must appreciate more than we do the first sunbeams!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmQNU39LLI/AAAAAAAADMU/u2QjJXQOWqI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0712.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmQNU39LLI/AAAAAAAADMU/u2QjJXQOWqI/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0712.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402507786623724722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmQNCuPRKI/AAAAAAAADMM/V0rtgsM8pQE/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0714.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmQNCuPRKI/AAAAAAAADMM/V0rtgsM8pQE/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0714.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402507781751129250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le paysage sur le plateau est complètement différent de celui de la vallée : tout est beaucoup plus ouvert, la visibilité et plus importante, et de petits « dômes » remplacent les falaises imposantes des jours précédents.&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir reposé notre tente au camping de Tuolumne Meadows, plus calme et plus vide que ceux de la vallée, on part grimper au soleil de la face sud de Daff Dome -et de la fissure s’il vous plait avec du « tape » sur les mains !&lt;br /&gt;On commence par « coincer » dans les Guide Cracks en 5.5 / 5.8, puis dans les deux longueurs de Alimony Crack en 5.8. Et c’est bien sympa (si si, il n’y a pas d’erreur, j’ai bien dit sympa –même si ça fait un peu mal quand même…) !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The landscape on the plateau is totally different from the valley : everything is more open, the view larger, and small domes replace the huge vertical faces from the previous days.&lt;br /&gt;After setting up our tent in Tuolumne Meadows campground, more peaceful and emptier than the ones from the valley, we go climbing in the sunny south flank of Daff Dome –and it is crack climbing, with tapped hands!&lt;br /&gt;We start to jam in the Guide Cracks (5.5 / 5.8) and then in the two pitches of Alimony Crack (5.8). And that’s cool (yes, I said cool –even if it hurts…)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmQM_XpczI/AAAAAAAADME/zTLcVipzJFw/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0721.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmQM_XpczI/AAAAAAAADME/zTLcVipzJFw/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0721.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402507780851069746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmP2034kAI/AAAAAAAADL8/Frn_vQuiwU8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0725.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmP2034kAI/AAAAAAAADL8/Frn_vQuiwU8/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0725.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402507400076365826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmP209oRcI/AAAAAAAADL0/5HAkt3_ytYI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0729.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmP209oRcI/AAAAAAAADL0/5HAkt3_ytYI/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0729.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402507400100464066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'irai même en tête refaire une voie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmP2u8PulI/AAAAAAAADLk/Y0XwavDUDYU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0737.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmP2u8PulI/AAAAAAAADLk/Y0XwavDUDYU/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0737.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402507398484048466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alimony Crack&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPdt_tJDI/AAAAAAAADLM/dbyclpbv1BM/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011765.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPdt_tJDI/AAAAAAAADLM/dbyclpbv1BM/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011765.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402506968733393970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le rack de base - The minimum rack&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPdVcxHBI/AAAAAAAADLE/pJB4oJd-Vp4/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011768.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPdVcxHBI/AAAAAAAADLE/pJB4oJd-Vp4/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011768.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402506962144402450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nos jolies petites mains ;-) - Our nice and cute little hands ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPdCkyKZI/AAAAAAAADK8/ZgYEub6L684/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011770.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPdCkyKZI/AAAAAAAADK8/ZgYEub6L684/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011770.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402506957077752210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPdLn-DuI/AAAAAAAADK0/qfkW8dxQr5c/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011771.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPdLn-DuI/AAAAAAAADK0/qfkW8dxQr5c/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011771.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402506959507033826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gros plan et vue d'ensemble sur le dôme, avec des endroits plus ou moins polis par les glaciers quelques millions d'années plus tôt...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zoom and overview of the dome, with some spots more or less polished by the glaciers several billion years earlier...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmP2UGq-cI/AAAAAAAADLc/0WK-5Rqg3t8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0740.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmP2UGq-cI/AAAAAAAADLc/0WK-5Rqg3t8/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0740.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402507391280019906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPd9meAyI/AAAAAAAADLU/1rfwv7sy-k8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0744.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmPd9meAyI/AAAAAAAADLU/1rfwv7sy-k8/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0744.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402506972922512162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On apprécie de plus en plus le feu et le duvet en plume le soir… On est mi-septembre et Tuolumne est à 2 627 m (8,619 ft) d’altitude, il fait donc frais quand le soleil n’est plus là !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We enjoy more and more the campfire and the down sleeping bag at might… It’s mid-September and Tuolumne is 2 627 m (8,619 ft) high, therefore is it cold when the sun disappear!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-6545042133865763425?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/6545042133865763425/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=6545042133865763425&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6545042133865763425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6545042133865763425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/leaving-yosemite-valley-to-tuolumne.html' title='Leaving Yosemite Valley to Tuolumne Meadows'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvmQNU39LLI/AAAAAAAADMU/u2QjJXQOWqI/s72-c/TripUSA-Yosemite-0712.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-1980080716602791563</id><published>2009-11-10T04:18:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T04:43:51.692-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>"Nath, ya un ours..."</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;De retour de Half Dome en milieu d’après midi, on se motive pour aller grimper  juste à coté de Camp 4 (Swan Slab). L’idée, c’est de trouver une voie facile pour que je grimpe un peu en tête, tout en posant camalots et coinceurs…&lt;br /&gt;Me voilà donc partie dans un 5.6 (bizarrement plus dur que lorsqu’on est en second !), et au milieu de la deuxième longueur, j’entends Dav, au relais, me dire « Euh…. Nath, ya un ours en bas… »&lt;br /&gt;Un ours !!! Ca y est, on voit enfin un ours en vrai !! Belle bête, pas vraiment farouche et plutôt tranquille à ce moment là, mais on imagine sans difficulté qu’elle peut en deux coup de griffe casser la portière d’une voiture… ce qui arrive tous les ans…&lt;br /&gt;Une chance pour nous, c’est que l’ours devait avoir le nez bouché, ou alors nos barres de céréales restées au pied de la voie (ce qui est interdit par les rangers... on ne laisse pas de la nourriture sans surveillance ailleurs que dans une boite à ours ou sur son dos) ne sentaient pas assez fort… Nos sacs n’ont donc pas été déchiquetés ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Par contre Dav, qui avait l’appareil photo, n’a pas eu l’idée de l’utiliser pour immortaliser la bête :-( Pour toute plainte adressez-vous directement à lui ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once back from Half Dome in the afternoon, we go climbing next to Camp 4 (Swan Slab). The idea is to find an easy route for me to lead it…&lt;br /&gt;Here I am in a 5.6, and while in the second pitch, I hear Dav, belaying me, saying: “Ehh… Nath, there’s a bear bellow…”&lt;br /&gt;A bear!!! Finally we see a real bear!! Beautiful animal, it doesn’t seem to be aggressive at this moment but you can easily imagine it breaking a car… and this happens every year…&lt;br /&gt;Lucky we, the bear did not smell our cereal bars in our backpacks and therefore it did not destroy them ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, Dav, who had the camera, did not take a picture of this nice bear :-(Please see  him directly if you want to complain ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour notre dernière nuit à Camp 4, on ne reverra pas d’ours, et nos voisins sont tous partis ou s’apprêtent à aller dormir dans El Capitan… Mention spéciale à Christina et à l’autrichien qui partaient chacun (comme d’autres sûrement) en solo autoassuré pour une semaine… une autre dimension !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For our last night in Camp 4, we won’t see another bear and our neighbors are gone or about to go on El Capitan… Special mention to Christina and the Austrian guy who planned to solo climb (as many other climbers probably) a big wall for a week… that’s another story!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-1980080716602791563?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/1980080716602791563/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=1980080716602791563&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1980080716602791563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1980080716602791563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/nath-ya-un-ours.html' title='&quot;Nath, ya un ours...&quot;'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-630821853699477</id><published>2009-11-10T03:21:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T04:13:20.292-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>On top of Half Dome</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mardi matin (15 septembre), on se lève avant le soleil pour partir faire une des randonnées majeures de la vallée, Half Dome (8,836 ft – 2 693 m). Sur le guide, c’est une rando indiquée comme très longue (16-17 miles =&gt; 26 km) et très dure (1 000m de dénivelé), fortement conseillée en 2 jours (12h de marche) et décrite comme aérienne.&lt;br /&gt;En partant vers 6h du matin, on devrait quand même revenir avant la nuit…&lt;br /&gt;On n’est pas les seuls à avoir eu la même idée, il y a du monde sur le sentier – jeunes, moins jeunes, groupes plus ou moins importants, … on double du monde.&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir remonté Vernal Falls (5,044 ft – 1 538 m) et Nevada Falls (5,907 ft – 1 801 m) sur un chemin taillé dans le rocher, on arrive sur un premier plateau avec le soleil qui nous réchauffe, et une foret toujours aussi belle.&lt;br /&gt;4-5h après être parti, on arrive au pied du tant convoité Half Dome et de son échelle qu’on devine…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Tuesday morning (September 15), we wake up before the sun rises to do one of the best valley hikes, Half Dome (8,836 ft – 2 693 m). The guidebook says it is a long (16-17 miles) and strenuous (1,000 m elevation) hike, strongly recommended on a 2-day trip (12h total) and described as airy.&lt;br /&gt;By leaving at 6am, we should manage to be back before dark…&lt;br /&gt;We’re not the only ones with this idea, there are some other hikkers too – young, elders, groups of various sizes, … we pass several people.&lt;br /&gt;After climbing up Vernal Falls (5,044 ft – 1 538 m) and Nevada Falls (5,907 ft – 1 801 m) on a path carved in the rock, we arrive on a first plateau with the sun warming us up and a beautiful forest.&lt;br /&gt;4-5h after we started, we are at the base o Half Dome and its ladder…&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjiVwoeyI/AAAAAAAADKU/IMOhZIi-SSg/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0659.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjiVwoeyI/AAAAAAAADKU/IMOhZIi-SSg/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0659.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402388300871269154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjiX1etLI/AAAAAAAADKc/Vb98UA8DcI0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0662.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjiX1etLI/AAAAAAAADKc/Vb98UA8DcI0/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0662.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402388301428470962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjiJm8LnI/AAAAAAAADKM/uOLTdo_W-Ig/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0667.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjiJm8LnI/AAAAAAAADKM/uOLTdo_W-Ig/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0667.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402388297609391730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C’est donc parti pour une escalade sur barreaux, un peu comme à Ayers Rock en Australie…Le rocher commence à être un peu patiné là où il y a l’échelle, les gens s’agrippent autant qu’ils peuvent au câble et sont parfois bien stressés lorsqu’ils croisent quelqu’un. &lt;br /&gt;Une autre solution, si on avait voulu éviter la foule, était de faire la voie Snake Dike (5.7), qui suit une faiblesse du rocher dans la dalle. Le seul problème, c’est qu’à part les relais, on ne peut pas protéger grand-chose…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we start the ladder climbing, as I did on Ayers Rock in Australia a couple of years earlier… The granite tends to be a bit polished where the ladder is, people hold the cable as much as they can and some are really stressed when they have to share the path with someone in the other direction.&lt;br /&gt;Another solution we had, to avoid the crowd, was to climb Snake Dike (5.7), following a natural passage on the dome. The only issue is that there are really long runouts between the anchors…&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjO44_VqI/AAAAAAAADJ8/EUZaQW0i9kc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0672.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjO44_VqI/AAAAAAAADJ8/EUZaQW0i9kc/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0672.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402387966704178850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svkjh-ICldI/AAAAAAAADKE/9rVsmwBRhzw/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0668.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svkjh-ICldI/AAAAAAAADKE/9rVsmwBRhzw/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0668.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402388294526997970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkqXAB2tGI/AAAAAAAADKs/AfBYoKXkQa0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011754.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkqXAB2tGI/AAAAAAAADKs/AfBYoKXkQa0/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011754.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402395802640757858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkqW_BD0MI/AAAAAAAADKk/pTndz2zPdfY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0674.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkqW_BD0MI/AAAAAAAADKk/pTndz2zPdfY/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0674.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402395802368987330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois au sommet, la vue est loin d’être moche… on a un beau panorama à 360 degrés sur le parc, avec un gaz non négligeable lorsqu’on regarde à certains endroits… c’est assez photogénique !&lt;br /&gt;On passe une bonne heure au sommet pour profiter de tout ça et d’un pic nique mérité – il faut faire très attention aux chipmunks qui sont vraiment pas peureux ici ! &lt;br /&gt;Les gens commencent à arriver quand on commence à redescendre, ça bouchonne pas mal dans l’échelle !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once on the top, the view is amazing… we can enjoy a 360 degree panoramic view on the park, with quite an airy view when we look in certain directions… it’s quite a place to take pictures!&lt;br /&gt;We spend more than an hour on the top to enjoy the view and our lunch – you need to be extra careful with chipmunks, they are everywhere and are not afraid of you at all! &lt;br /&gt;People start to arrive when we start to climb down, there are some traffic jams on the ladder!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjOq9PpRI/AAAAAAAADJs/ih2YYNk_fJw/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0675.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjOq9PpRI/AAAAAAAADJs/ih2YYNk_fJw/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0675.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402387962963928338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjOVR0c9I/AAAAAAAADJk/fwqxverFIqc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0682.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjOVR0c9I/AAAAAAAADJk/fwqxverFIqc/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0682.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402387957144646610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et c’est reparti pour la longue descente… Le soleil commence à taper, on est content d’être parti tôt !&lt;br /&gt;Les cascades, à l’ombre ce matin, sont maintenant au soleil, on a presque envie d’aller prendre un bain massant ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we start the long way down… The sun starts to be quite strong, we’re glad to have left early this morning!&lt;br /&gt;The waterfalls, in the shade this morning, are now bright and sunny, we almost want to go under them for a massage ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjOGre40I/AAAAAAAADJc/drbCFQ2CTjk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0686.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjOGre40I/AAAAAAAADJc/drbCFQ2CTjk/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0686.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402387953225753410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svki5tCtwEI/AAAAAAAADJU/UtA8KTPDY1I/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0687.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svki5tCtwEI/AAAAAAAADJU/UtA8KTPDY1I/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0687.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402387602746490946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svki5ZotpyI/AAAAAAAADJM/soERgDaBIZc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0691.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svki5ZotpyI/AAAAAAAADJM/soERgDaBIZc/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0691.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402387597537158946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svki5EGncYI/AAAAAAAADJE/uYFF9n4kBp0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0696.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svki5EGncYI/AAAAAAAADJE/uYFF9n4kBp0/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0696.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402387591757001090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svki4zjkrbI/AAAAAAAADI8/5bdx9em7d4E/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0702.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svki4zjkrbI/AAAAAAAADI8/5bdx9em7d4E/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0702.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402387587315051954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neuf heures plus tard nous voilà de retour à la voiture… et le GPS indique qu’on n’a marché que 11 miles ! On nous aurait volé 5 miles, info ou intox ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nine hours later, we are back at the car… and the GPS says we only hiked 11 miles! Who stole us the last 5 miles??&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-630821853699477?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/630821853699477/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=630821853699477&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/630821853699477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/630821853699477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-top-of-half-dome.html' title='On top of Half Dome'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvkjiVwoeyI/AAAAAAAADKU/IMOhZIi-SSg/s72-c/TripUSA-Yosemite-0659.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-2061426716057543735</id><published>2009-11-09T08:22:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T08:42:14.299-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Rock climbing in Yosemite Valley</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Certains viennent du bout du monde pour grimper ici, toujours est-il que ce n’est pas donné à tout le monde et qu’il faut être bien équipé…&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir étudié le topo et sélectionné les voies pas trop longues, pas trop engagées et ne nécessitant pas de gros friends (pour la protection), le choix était assez restreint pour nous ;-)&lt;br /&gt;On commence donc le lundi matin (14 septembre) notre escalade Yosemitique pas loin des Yosemite Falls, dans le secteur Five Open Books. 3 longueurs en 5.6 pour Munginella, pendant lesquelles nous avons « gagné » sur la pluie, les gouttes ayant failli nous faire faire demi tour après la première longueur…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people come from all over the world to climb here, although it is not an easy place and you need a lot of gear…&lt;br /&gt;After studying the guidebook and selecting routes not too long, not too runout and not needing big cams (for the protection), the choice was quite narrow for us ;-)&lt;br /&gt;We start on Monday morning (September 14) our Yosemite climbs next to Yosemite Falls, in the Five Open Books area. Three 5.6 pitches for Munginella, a nice route where we “won” over the rain; we were about to stop after the first pitch…&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgZQPsZZnI/AAAAAAAADIs/5O3I7_ypklc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011740.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgZQPsZZnI/AAAAAAAADIs/5O3I7_ypklc/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011740.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402095519912257138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retour à Camp 4 sous les nuages... Les japonais sont en train de préparer leurs affaires pour partir plusieurs jours sur un big wall...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to Camp 4 under the clouds... The Japanese are getting ready to for several days on a big wall...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgZP19mwGI/AAAAAAAADIk/WrvGUN40QvI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011744.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgZP19mwGI/AAAAAAAADIk/WrvGUN40QvI/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011744.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402095513005113442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgZPjfSKJI/AAAAAAAADIc/qnwz563ICTI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011747.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgZPjfSKJI/AAAAAAAADIc/qnwz563ICTI/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011747.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402095508046096530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'après-midi, le soleil revient timidement et on va découvrir un autre secteur à Royal Arches : Church Bowl. Dav s'emploie dans un 5.8, Black is Brown, belle envolée de 50m, avant de faire un essai non concluant dans Uncle Fanny, 5.7, décrit dans le topo de la façon suivante : "A prelude to a valley of demanding cracks". Comme quoi, on a encore du boulot ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Alors qu'on range tout, un grand bruit fait courir tout le monde... ce n'est pas un ours, mais un bout de la falaise d'à coté qui s'écroule à nouveau...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the afternoon, the sun slowly comes back and we go to discover another area in Royal ARches: Church Bowl. Dav takes some energy in a 5.8, Black is Brown, a nice and long 50m route. Then he takes an unsuccessful look in Uncle Fanny, 5.7, described in the guide book as "A prelude to a valley of demanding cracks". We still have some work to do ;-) &lt;br /&gt;While we are packing everything, a strong noise makes everybody run... it's not a bear, but another rock slide on the next crag...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-2061426716057543735?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/2061426716057543735/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=2061426716057543735&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2061426716057543735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2061426716057543735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/rock-climbing-in-yosemite-valley.html' title='Rock climbing in Yosemite Valley'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgZQPsZZnI/AAAAAAAADIs/5O3I7_ypklc/s72-c/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011740.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-5878199772302076928</id><published>2009-11-09T08:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T08:19:59.233-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Discovering Yosemite Valley</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Après une nuit à Mariposa, on arrive le dimanche matin (13 septembre) dans le mythique &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;parc national du Yosemite&lt;/a&gt;… A l’entrée du parc, tous les campings sont indiqués « Full », mais on trouvera quand même une place moyennant un peu de queue à Camp 4, le camping des grimpeurs où il n’y a pas de réservation possible. Une fois la tente montée et la boite à ours remplie (on ne rigole pas avec ça ici !), on commence notre découverte du parc…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a night in Mariposa, we arrive on Sunday morning (September 13) in mythic &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Yosemite National Park&lt;/a&gt;… At the entrance gate, all campgrounds are marked as Full, but we find a spot after a little wait in Camp 4, the climber campsite where you cannot book in advance. Once the tent set up and the bear box full (you do not laugh with that here!), we start the park discovery…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Les chutes du Yosemite, mais elles sont à sec :-(&lt;br /&gt;Yosemite Falls, it's all dry...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOd-8WNbI/AAAAAAAADHE/9n1Zbz-V-kk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011723.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOd-8WNbI/AAAAAAAADHE/9n1Zbz-V-kk/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011723.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402083661306017202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sentinel Rock&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgPdvb7lXI/AAAAAAAADIU/MwpQIoggtug/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0616.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgPdvb7lXI/AAAAAAAADIU/MwpQIoggtug/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0616.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402084756655150450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Meadow, avec Royal Arches d'un coté et Half Dome de l'autre (tout se grimpe, bien entendu !)&lt;br /&gt;The Meadow, with Royal Arches on one side and Half Dome on the other (you can climb everywhere, of course!)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgPdr9BfFI/AAAAAAAADIM/4MmnoOHxDFk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0617.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgPdr9BfFI/AAAAAAAADIM/4MmnoOHxDFk/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0617.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402084755720207442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half Dome, pendant l'après-midi et au coucher du soleil...&lt;br /&gt;Half Dome, during the afternoon and for sunset...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO1n_SOwI/AAAAAAAADIE/E5fNfhWtoaw/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0628.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO1n_SOwI/AAAAAAAADIE/E5fNfhWtoaw/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0628.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402084067461184258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOeIgTePI/AAAAAAAADHM/qIAtP_UirUU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0657.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOeIgTePI/AAAAAAAADHM/qIAtP_UirUU/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0657.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402083663872751858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et... le Nose, plus de 1000m à la verticale, et des cordées dedans !&lt;br /&gt;And... the Nose, more than 1,000 vertical meters and some people there!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO1Lx57jI/AAAAAAAADHs/bbuPQ-IOvJo/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0645.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO1Lx57jI/AAAAAAAADHs/bbuPQ-IOvJo/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0645.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402084059888873010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO06nHXlI/AAAAAAAADHk/pIKwujGmOJQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0646.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO06nHXlI/AAAAAAAADHk/pIKwujGmOJQ/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0646.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402084055280213586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOeYoBObI/AAAAAAAADHU/J8naTziKz7g/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0650.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOeYoBObI/AAAAAAAADHU/J8naTziKz7g/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0650.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402083668200077746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sans compter la faune bien présente, avec le &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geai_de_Steller" target="_blank"&gt;Geai de Steller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the wildlife is all aournd, with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller%27s_Jay" target="_blank"&gt;Steller's Blue Jay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO1cyR28I/AAAAAAAADH8/hLIr-SgMNOQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0630.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO1cyR28I/AAAAAAAADH8/hLIr-SgMNOQ/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0630.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402084064453843906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bambi et sa famille...&lt;br /&gt;Bambi and its family&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO1eWqUHI/AAAAAAAADH0/uXxuOXpe7Wg/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0636.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgO1eWqUHI/AAAAAAAADH0/uXxuOXpe7Wg/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0636.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402084064874877042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et un wapiti...&lt;br /&gt;And a deer...&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOd3CCEdI/AAAAAAAADG8/RZt04GBWjCs/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011734.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOd3CCEdI/AAAAAAAADG8/RZt04GBWjCs/s400/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011734.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402083659182379474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De quoi nous mettre en appétit pour les jours à venir !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-5878199772302076928?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/5878199772302076928/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=5878199772302076928&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5878199772302076928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5878199772302076928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/discovering-yosemite-valley.html' title='Discovering Yosemite Valley'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgOd-8WNbI/AAAAAAAADHE/9n1Zbz-V-kk/s72-c/TripUSA-Yosemite-0011723.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3120949212164465684</id><published>2009-11-09T07:10:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T07:28:29.815-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>From San Francisco to Yosemite</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Samedi 12 septembre, on reprend la voiture pour quitter San Francisco, mais pas la brume côtière… On descend le long de la route 1 jusqu’à Monterey en longeant les fameuses plages de surf de Santa Cruz. Dommage pour nous, tout est dans la brume, mais ça n’empêche pas les surfeurs de sortir !&lt;br /&gt;A Monterey, on profite de l’&lt;a href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/" target="_blank"&gt;aquarium&lt;/a&gt;, un des plus grand du monde… Effectivement il y a de quoi faire et de quoi voir, entre les requins, les hippocampes, les manchots, …&lt;br /&gt;Tout au long de la cote, il y a également une multitude de cultures, les fruits et légumes Made in California, on sait d’où ils viennent maintenant !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday, September 12, we drive to leave San Francisco, not the fog… We keep going south on Road 1 up to Monterey via the famous Santa Cruz and its surf beaches. Unfortunately, the fog covers everything -however some people are surfing!&lt;br /&gt;In Monterey, we visit the &lt;a href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/" target="_blank"&gt;aquarium&lt;/a&gt;, one of the biggest in the world… There is a lot to see, sharks, sea horses, penguins, …&lt;br /&gt;All over the coast, there are also many cultivated lands; we now know where all the fruits and vegetables Made in California come from!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgG4cI04GI/AAAAAAAADG0/4hRikX901nY/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgG4cI04GI/AAAAAAAADG0/4hRikX901nY/s400/TripUSA-SF-0608.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402075319726563426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et on commence ensuite notre long retour vers l’est… On retrouve le soleil et des paysages plus secs en direction du parc du Yosemite, comme ici vers San Luis Reservoir State...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then start our long way back East… We find again the sun and some drier landscapes towards Yosemite park, as here around San Luis Reservoir State...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgG4OdAy8I/AAAAAAAADGs/1CBDK2IDtsI/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0613.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgG4OdAy8I/AAAAAAAADGs/1CBDK2IDtsI/s400/TripUSA-SF-0613.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402075316053134274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3120949212164465684?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3120949212164465684/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3120949212164465684&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3120949212164465684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3120949212164465684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/11/from-san-francisco-to-yoseite.html' title='From San Francisco to Yosemite'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SvgG4cI04GI/AAAAAAAADG0/4hRikX901nY/s72-c/TripUSA-SF-0608.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-6453348654546950951</id><published>2009-10-15T12:22:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T07:09:15.720-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Back to blogging... so, San Francisco, here we are !</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Honte à moi de ne pas avoir mis à jour le blog plus tôt... mais chose promise, chose due, voici la suite (et bientôt fin) de notre voyage !&lt;br /&gt;Petit rappel : nous sommes maintenant à Grenoble depuis un mois, Dav a repris une activité « normale » et moi je cherche, un peu comme quand on est arrivé à Boston !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shame on me, I did not update the blog earlier… but as I promised, here is the blog report from our trip!&lt;br /&gt;Remember: we have now been in Grenoble for one month, Dav started again a “real” activity and I am looking for a job, as when we arrived in Boston!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a donc quasiment 2 mois maintenant (jeudi 10 septembre), nous arrivions à San Francisco… Après s’être posé à l’hôtel dans le quartier de South Market (SOMA), on est parti se balader en direction de la baie, en passant par Union Square, le Financial District, Chinatown et North Beach (Little Italy). Tout ça pour arriver à Fisherman’s Wharf, the place to be pour manger :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.franciscanrestaurant.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Franciscan&lt;/a&gt; comblera nos papilles et notre estomac… le crabe (et la lobster quand même !), il n’y a que ça de vrai !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been almost 2 months now (Thursday, September 10) since we arrived in San Francisco… After stoping by the hotel in South Market (SOMA), we walked towards the bay, through Union Square, the Financial District, Chinatow and North Beach (Little Italy). And we ended up in Fisherman’s Wharf, the place to be for dinner :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.franciscanrestaurant.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Franciscan&lt;/a&gt; delights us… Crab (and lobster...), that’s what it is all about!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf9Ub_g8-I/AAAAAAAADGk/k842KRdJZEU/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0525.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf9Ub_g8-I/AAAAAAAADGk/k842KRdJZEU/s400/TripUSA-SF-0525.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402064805607568354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf75brCtYI/AAAAAAAADGc/KueW8ce9NXA/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0528.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf75brCtYI/AAAAAAAADGc/KueW8ce9NXA/s400/TripUSA-SF-0528.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402063242153604482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour rentrer à l’hôtel, on profite du mythique &lt;a href="http://www.sfcablecar.com/" taret="_blank"&gt;Cable Car&lt;/a&gt; et de la gentillesse du gars qui bloque ou débloque le câble à l’arrière pour passer les multiples collines… Sans compter qu’il faut retourner manuellement le cable car au terminus !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To go back to the hotel, we enjoy a ride on the mythical &lt;a href="http://www.sfcablecar.com/" taret="_blank"&gt;Cable Car&lt;/a&gt;… And you have to manually turn the cable car at the end of the track!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf75HkX8bI/AAAAAAAADGU/ETrfyhwtQXA/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0530.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf75HkX8bI/AAAAAAAADGU/ETrfyhwtQXA/s400/TripUSA-SF-0530.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402063236756926898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf74zZQa0I/AAAAAAAADGM/_z8RfVS5gic/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0538.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf74zZQa0I/AAAAAAAADGM/_z8RfVS5gic/s400/TripUSA-SF-0538.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402063231341587266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf746xViII/AAAAAAAADGE/_CaB9-h-nW4/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0541.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf746xViII/AAAAAAAADGE/_CaB9-h-nW4/s400/TripUSA-SF-0541.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402063233321633922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf74i57e_I/AAAAAAAADF8/mELzW7ktfEo/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0543.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf74i57e_I/AAAAAAAADF8/mELzW7ktfEo/s400/TripUSA-SF-0543.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402063226915224562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7gLiRGrI/AAAAAAAADF0/jWMCNe-G5N4/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0546.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7gLiRGrI/AAAAAAAADF0/jWMCNe-G5N4/s400/TripUSA-SF-0546.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062808325102258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le lendemain (Vendredi 11 septembre), on loue des vélos pour aller pédaler sur le Golden Gate Bridge… La brume finira par se dissiper plus ou moins, par contre le vent ne semble jamais s’arrêter et les vestes sont de rigueur toute la journée !&lt;br /&gt;On longe la baie en passant devant Marina Bd (et ses maisons de luxe !) et le parc Presidio avant de monter (attention, montée raide !!) sur le pont… De l’autre coté, on descend tranquillement se poser à Sausalito, petite ville tranquille et à l’abri du vent (ce qui change tout !). Beaucoup de gens rentrent à SF en ferry mais on remonte sur nos vélos pour profiter une nouvelle fois du pont ! Les voiliers du matin ont fait place aux planches à voile, il faut quand même être courageux pour aller dans l’eau ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day (Friday, September 11), we rent two bikes to ride the Golden Gate Bridge… The fog tends to disappear during the day, however the wind seems to never stop and we wear our jackets the whole day!&lt;br /&gt;We bike along the bay and Marina Bd (with its luxury houses!) and Presidio Park before climbing (careful, steep road!) on the bridge… On the other side, we climb down to Sausalito, nice little place protected from the wind. Many people go back to SF with the ferry but we ride our bikes to enjoy the bridge again! The windsurfers now replace the morning sailing boats – although the water is quite cold ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7gLk9YvI/AAAAAAAADFs/c8T3ukoMk_Q/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0552.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7gLk9YvI/AAAAAAAADFs/c8T3ukoMk_Q/s400/TripUSA-SF-0552.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062808336392946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7f3cRFmI/AAAAAAAADFk/tF1lYDzJKJs/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0554.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7f3cRFmI/AAAAAAAADFk/tF1lYDzJKJs/s400/TripUSA-SF-0554.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062802931226210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7fj-7UnI/AAAAAAAADFc/aNk1mrSlxos/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0556.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7fj-7UnI/AAAAAAAADFc/aNk1mrSlxos/s400/TripUSA-SF-0556.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062797707891314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7flyT0yI/AAAAAAAADFU/xiJKAyL7VXg/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0566.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7flyT0yI/AAAAAAAADFU/xiJKAyL7VXg/s400/TripUSA-SF-0566.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062798191842082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7Ijzw4wI/AAAAAAAADFE/89l_w1nwors/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0577.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7Ijzw4wI/AAAAAAAADFE/89l_w1nwors/s400/TripUSA-SF-0577.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062402524078850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7ILWhh7I/AAAAAAAADE0/j42mRAeBSsY/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0581.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7ILWhh7I/AAAAAAAADE0/j42mRAeBSsY/s400/TripUSA-SF-0581.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062395958986674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Alcatraz and SF bay from the bridge...&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7ImAbXBI/AAAAAAAADFM/Z1DqyTMwOho/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0568.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 182px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7ImAbXBI/AAAAAAAADFM/Z1DqyTMwOho/s400/TripUSA-SF-0568.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062403114064914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7IYlnhBI/AAAAAAAADE8/2ZwU0Ocfxzw/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0579.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 161px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7IYlnhBI/AAAAAAAADE8/2ZwU0Ocfxzw/s400/TripUSA-SF-0579.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062399511954450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir rendu les vélos, on retourne sur les « piers » voir les crabes et les lions de mer… Les deux font le bonheur des touristes, mais les crabes attendent d’être mangés alors que les lions de mer sont protégés et viennent se reposer ici ! Notez que le lion de mer défend son territoire parfois à coup de dent !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we brought back our bikes, we go back on the piers to see the crabs and sea lions… Tourists enjoy both of them, but crabs are here to be eaten whereas sea lions are protected and come to rest here!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7H_ELnwI/AAAAAAAADEs/DB58n1DSZq8/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0589.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf7H_ELnwI/AAAAAAAADEs/DB58n1DSZq8/s400/TripUSA-SF-0589.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062392660827906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6yUsNuEI/AAAAAAAADEk/SnWLJUBT2FE/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0590.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6yUsNuEI/AAAAAAAADEk/SnWLJUBT2FE/s400/TripUSA-SF-0590.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062020508760130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6ybgaRxI/AAAAAAAADEc/tNCU48Kmv_k/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0591.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6ybgaRxI/AAAAAAAADEc/tNCU48Kmv_k/s400/TripUSA-SF-0591.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062022338299666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6xpPdI5I/AAAAAAAADEE/yOdLQqz0GHE/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0011718.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6xpPdI5I/AAAAAAAADEE/yOdLQqz0GHE/s400/TripUSA-SF-0011718.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062008845411218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On remonte enfin la partie bien raide de Lombard St avant que la nuit ne tombe complètement… Ce doit être un bon challenge d’optimiser ses trajets à vélos d’un point à l’autre de SF !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We finally climb the steep part of Lombard Street (the Crookedest St) before dark… It must be challenging to optimize the bike rides from one point to another in SF!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6yDj0Y5I/AAAAAAAADEU/fy4NPFRPahg/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0599.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6yDj0Y5I/AAAAAAAADEU/fy4NPFRPahg/s400/TripUSA-SF-0599.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402062015910142866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf6x2KSKFI/AAAAAAAADEM/768Ra0uLjBE/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0604.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Svf9Ub_g8-I/AAAAAAAADGk/k842KRdJZEU/s72-c/TripUSA-SF-0525.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-5786827026800612724</id><published>2009-10-15T12:14:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T12:21:52.821-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>From Washington to California</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mercredi (9 septembre), on longe la Columbia River et on prend la direction du sud pour la Californie… qui sera aussi notre point le plus à l’ouest du voyage.&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir descendu tout l’Oregon, on entre en Californie et on va rejoindre la route 101. Surprise, lorsqu’on rentre dans l’état il y a un poste de « douane » pour contrôler les fruits, légumes, … qu’on a. Les cerises, par exemple, ça ne passe pas – mais les tomates ou courgettes oui.&lt;br /&gt;On entre ensuite dans Redwood National Park, là où se trouvent les arbres les plus haut (le plus haut est à 379 ft – presque 115 m). Ils sont aussi bien résistants aux feux, aux insectes, aux maladies, … bref, ils sont probablement là depuis bien longtemps aussi !&lt;br /&gt;La route longe également une partie de la cote, malheureusement la brume est arrivée avant nous du coup on ne verra pas grand-chose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday (September 9), we drive along the Columbia River and head south to california… which is also going to be the western point of this trip.&lt;br /&gt;After driving down Oregon, we arrive in California to join Road 101. Surprise, when you enter the state there is a “custom” gate to check fruits, vegetables, … Cherry, for example, cannot enter – but tomatoes or zucchinis can.&lt;br /&gt;We then enter in Redwood National Park, where you can find the tallest trees (the highest is 379 ft tall – almost 115 m). They resist to fires, insects, diseases, … and they have probably been here for a long long time!&lt;br /&gt;The road also goes along the coast on some sections; unfortunately, the fog came before us so we cannot see much of it.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLK4ftW2I/AAAAAAAADD8/vIPPf7GKQ8M/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0501.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLK4ftW2I/AAAAAAAADD8/vIPPf7GKQ8M/s400/TripUSA-SF-0501.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392861729135614818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLKZUfoFI/AAAAAAAADD0/ppp9QxzQZ6s/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0506.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLKZUfoFI/AAAAAAAADD0/ppp9QxzQZ6s/s400/TripUSA-SF-0506.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392861720767078482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLKEBjwMI/AAAAAAAADDs/skJ0nxeKLS8/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0510.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLKEBjwMI/AAAAAAAADDs/skJ0nxeKLS8/s400/TripUSA-SF-0510.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392861715050512578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le soir, ce sera notre première « loose camping », on va atterrir dans un camping miteux à Ferndale après avoir raté la bonne sortie d’autoroute :-( On aura droit en prime à la sirène des pompiers vers 1 ou 2h du matin, semble-t-il à cause d’un feu dans une des caravanes ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The evening is going to be our first « camping loose », we end up in a “rotten” campground in Ferndale, CA, after missing the right highway exit :-( We even have the firemen music around 1 or 2 am, apparently because of a fire in one of the trailers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le lendemain (jeudi 10 septembre), direction San Francisco par la 101 et un bout de la route 1 au niveau de Point Reyes National Seashore. Les paysages changent radicalement entre l’intérieur des terres, très sec et chaud, et le bord de mer qui est beaucoup plus vert et frais (logique…).&lt;br /&gt;Après un pique-nique à Stinson Beach, on arrive par le Golden Gate Bridge, le fameux… qui en plus n’est pas complètement dans la brume !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following day (Thursday September 10), we head to San Francisco via Hway 101 and a part of Rd 1 around Point Reyes National Seashore. The landscape is radically different depending on where you are: on the hills inside it is totally dry and hot whereas it is greener and cooler on the seashore -you could have guessed ;-)&lt;br /&gt;After a lunch break in Stinson Beach, we eventually enter San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge…, which is not fully in the fog!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLCBjOEuI/AAAAAAAADDk/zRFPmpqV94A/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0511.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLCBjOEuI/AAAAAAAADDk/zRFPmpqV94A/s400/TripUSA-SF-0511.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392861576947438306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLBrnyeYI/AAAAAAAADDc/h16YjpWtn54/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0517.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLBrnyeYI/AAAAAAAADDc/h16YjpWtn54/s400/TripUSA-SF-0517.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392861571061021058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLBHBUOfI/AAAAAAAADDU/sg0oLnGuPIU/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0520.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 217px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLBHBUOfI/AAAAAAAADDU/sg0oLnGuPIU/s400/TripUSA-SF-0520.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392861561235978738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLAvF9XzI/AAAAAAAADDM/8i1qkXL1ICE/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0522.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLAvF9XzI/AAAAAAAADDM/8i1qkXL1ICE/s400/TripUSA-SF-0522.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392861554813001522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLAQ5RMcI/AAAAAAAADDE/TWCXaFFJRu0/s1600-h/TripUSA-SF-0524.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLAQ5RMcI/AAAAAAAADDE/TWCXaFFJRu0/s400/TripUSA-SF-0524.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392861546706710978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-5786827026800612724?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/5786827026800612724/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=5786827026800612724&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5786827026800612724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5786827026800612724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-washington-to-california.html' title='From Washington to California'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/StdLK4ftW2I/AAAAAAAADD8/vIPPf7GKQ8M/s72-c/TripUSA-SF-0501.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-2864854601188100067</id><published>2009-10-02T09:17:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-02T09:25:31.219-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><title type='text'>Quick Update</title><content type='html'>As you may know, we came back to Boston on Sunday night, packed everything, shipped half of it, sold the car, gave back our apartment keys... And will board on the plane in less than 9 hours now... Kind of a weird feeling though... Leaving Boston after a year and a half, we can say this is it, end of a journey!&lt;br /&gt;I will update the last part of the trip in the coming days, I promise, and depending on the mood there will be more - or not ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, stay tuned for the San Francisco, Yosemite, Death Valley, Zion, Bryce &amp; Arches parts!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme vous le savez probablement, nous sommes rentrés à Boston dimanche soir, on a fini nos valises, shippé la moitié, vendu la voiture, rendu les clés de notre appart... Et on va embarquer dans moins de 9h maintenant... Ca fait quand même bizarre je dois dire... Partir de Boston après un an et demi, on peut dire que c'est la fin d'une aventure!&lt;br /&gt;Je mettrai à jour la dernière partie de notre voyage dans les prochains jours, promis, et ensuite on vera en fonction de l'envie ;-)&lt;br /&gt;En tout cas, San Francisco, Yosemite, Death Valley, Zion, Bryce &amp; Arches sont à venir !!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-2864854601188100067?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/2864854601188100067/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=2864854601188100067&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2864854601188100067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2864854601188100067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/10/quick-update.html' title='Quick Update'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3723825954190756648</id><published>2009-09-25T17:53:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T18:04:01.844-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Mt Adams, to the summit!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lundi (7 septembre), une fois de retour du Mt Hood, on reprend la route en direction du nord pour aller faire le Mt Adams (12 276 ft / 3 720 m) le lendemain… Le ciel s’est bien dégagé et les vues du coucher de soleil nous donnent de l’espoir pour le lendemain ! D’autant plus qu’on a trouvé des pêches à Hood River qui rivalisent presque avec celles de Sisteron ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir pris notre permis à Trout Lake (comme en Himalaya, il faut un permis pour monter au-delà de 7 000 ft ici !), on monte le long de la piste au « camping », qui en fait est simplement un parking aménagé avec des toilettes, des tables… mais pas d’eau ! Il nous reste de quoi faire un peu de soupe et de semoule… et le lendemain matin on fera fondre de la neige un peu plus haut !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday (September 7), once back from Mt Hood, we drive again further north to the base of Mt Adams (12 276 ft / 3 720 m) … The sky cleared and the sunset views give us hope for the next day!&lt;br /&gt;We take our permit pass in Trout Lake (as in Himalaya, you need a permit to climb above 7 000 ft!), and then we drive on the unpaved road to the “campground”, which is actually a parking with toilets, tables… but no water! We still have enough to cook a soup and semolina… and the next day we will melt some snow higher!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08Yx04mJI/AAAAAAAADC0/5B8zZH3_vxk/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0460.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08Yx04mJI/AAAAAAAADC0/5B8zZH3_vxk/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0460.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385527125794658450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08Tli-j_I/AAAAAAAADCs/9wFLBKkdtSo/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0464.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 199px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08Tli-j_I/AAAAAAAADCs/9wFLBKkdtSo/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0464.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385527036598980594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08TUYTXGI/AAAAAAAADCk/GZLGIgSRpKI/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0466.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08TUYTXGI/AAAAAAAADCk/GZLGIgSRpKI/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0466.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385527031990803554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mardi (8 septembre), départ un peu après 6h du matin après une nuit bien fraîche…&lt;br /&gt;A la sortie de la foret, on trouve de la neige et dès qu’on est au soleil on s’arrête 1/2h pour faire fondre de la neige (merci le réchaud !) pour la journée.&lt;br /&gt;La neige fraîche des jours précédents fait bien ressortir le volcan, tout comme les Mt Hood et St Helens au loin. Entre, la forêt et les vallées contrastent.&lt;br /&gt;On monte à vue là où cela semble le plus facile et le plus pratique jusqu’au « False Summit », où on croise d’autres gens qui se demandent si le sommet est encore loin. Ils sont partis à 3h du matin, il est midi et ils se demandent s’ils arriveront à leur voiture avant la nuit…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday (September 8), we leave the tent shortly after 6am after a cold night…&lt;br /&gt;When the forest ends, we find some snow and we melt some for the day once in the sun.&lt;br /&gt;The fresh snow from the previous days emphasize the volcano, as well as Mt Hood and Mt St Helens further. In between,  forests and valleys contrast.&lt;br /&gt;We climb up where it seems the easiest and most practical up to the False Summit, where we meet some other guys wondering how far is the real summit. They left at 3am, it is midday and they worry about making it back to the car before dark…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Mt St Helens&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08TGelXGI/AAAAAAAADCc/uBx50-D_N1c/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0470.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 176px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08TGelXGI/AAAAAAAADCc/uBx50-D_N1c/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0470.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385527028259052642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melting the snow&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08SjYnTZI/AAAAAAAADCU/pa6ZDSU8YWU/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0474.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08SjYnTZI/AAAAAAAADCU/pa6ZDSU8YWU/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0474.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385527018838773138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mt Hood in the back&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08SXIsOXI/AAAAAAAADCM/oXeE89ccEeE/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0479.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08SXIsOXI/AAAAAAAADCM/oXeE89ccEeE/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0479.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385527015550761330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une heure plus tard, on arrive au sommet en faisant la trace et le Mt Rainier (14411 ft / 4 392 m – le plus haut des volcans de la chaine) apparaît enfin, comme le nez au milieu de la figure ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Le vent souffle mais le paysage en vaut la chandelle, premier volcan pour moi et un peu plus pour Dav après ceux du Chili !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An hour later, we are at the summit after doing the track and Mt Rainier (14411 ft / 4 392 m – the highest of the volcanoes in the range) stands up, as the nose in the middle of your face ;-) (there may be a real expression in English for that… that’s the French litteral translation!)&lt;br /&gt;The wind is quite strong but the scenery is worth it, first volcano for me and a bit more for Dav avec the ones in Chile!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Summit!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08JdN1RTI/AAAAAAAADCE/dknMph-6Lt0/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0490.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08JdN1RTI/AAAAAAAADCE/dknMph-6Lt0/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0490.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385526862564115762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08ITfzd5I/AAAAAAAADBs/zESUpANOZwE/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0495.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08ITfzd5I/AAAAAAAADBs/zESUpANOZwE/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0495.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385526842775271314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08IoggvoI/AAAAAAAADB0/vOO0yAq-0rM/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0493.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08IoggvoI/AAAAAAAADB0/vOO0yAq-0rM/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0493.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385526848415383170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mt Rainier&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08IzuXneI/AAAAAAAADB8/rE4p0CRm5ow/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0492.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08IzuXneI/AAAAAAAADB8/rE4p0CRm5ow/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0492.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385526851426295266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le soleil va taper toute la journée et il fait chaud pour la descente… on arrive vers 17h à la voiture le visage bien cramé malgré les multiples couches de crème solaire !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sun is burning the whole day and it is quite hot on the way down… we are back at the car around 5pm with a nice red face, despite all the sunscreen layers! &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08IL1dOZI/AAAAAAAADBk/e--4qMBN7qg/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0499.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08IL1dOZI/AAAAAAAADBk/e--4qMBN7qg/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0499.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385526840718604690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3723825954190756648?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3723825954190756648/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3723825954190756648&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3723825954190756648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3723825954190756648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/mt-adams-to-summit.html' title='Mt Adams, to the summit!'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr08Yx04mJI/AAAAAAAADC0/5B8zZH3_vxk/s72-c/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0460.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-2656323011693477047</id><published>2009-09-25T17:47:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T17:53:16.682-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Mt Hood, between clouds and sun…</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dimanche (6 septembre), on quitte Smith Rock pour remonter au nord et tenter de nouveau les volcans, la météo annonçant du beau pour les jours à venir. Après 1h de route, c’est la pluie qui nous accueille pour la soirée et une partie de la nuit…&lt;br /&gt;L’idée est d’aller d’abord au Mt Hood (11 249 ft, 3 429 m), et ensuite un peu plus au nord, au Mt Adams.&lt;br /&gt;Lundi matin, au camping du Mt Hood, le réveil est pluvieux et le ciel couvert, mais on va quand même aller à Timberline Lodge (un hôtel – station de ski d’où part la rando) voir ce qu’il en est. La pluie ayant cessé, on commence à monter, sans trop savoir où aller parce qu’on ne voit pas grand-chose et qu’on a trouvé aucun topo décrivant la voie – qui est connue pour être ultra parcourue et facile. En route un gars nous dira approximativement par où passer, mais on ne parlait pas des mêmes arrêtes dans la discussion !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday (September 6), we leave Smith Rock to drive north again and give another try to volcanoes, as the weather forecast seems to be better for the coming days. After 1h driving, we find the rain for the evening and part of the night…&lt;br /&gt;The idea is to go first to Mt Hood and then further north to Mt Adams.&lt;br /&gt;On Monday morning at the Mt Hood campground, we wake up under the rain and the sky is all cloudy, but we still go to Timberline Lodge (a hotel – ski resort where the climb starts) to see how it looks like. The rain being over, we start climbing without knowing exactly where to go as we don’t see much and we didn’t find any guidebook to have a look at the route – known to be over hiked and easy. On the way, a guy tells us where to go, but we weren’t talking about the same ridges during this talk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bref, à la 1ère éclaircie, on y voit un peu plus clair et on monte en direction du cratère, en évitant le glacier sur notre droite. L’éclaircie sera de courte durée et le soleil joue à cache-cache avec les nuages, ce qui nous permet de quand même se repérer au fur et à mesure.&lt;br /&gt;Les chutes de neige de la veille donnent une ambiance particulière qui est plutôt sympa… mais au cratère ça se complique un peu pour monter au sommet avec les nuages, du coup on va tranquillement faire demi-tour et suivre les traces du GPS… toujours pas de volcan de coché ;-(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first time we see the sun, we can see where to go toward the crater, avoiding the glacier on our right. The view was short and the sun is hiding with the clouds, which helps us to see where we go…&lt;br /&gt;The previous snow storm give a special atmosphere, pretty nice… but at the crater it gets more difficult to climb up with the clouds, therefore we are reversing the way and follow the GPS tracks… still no volcano ;-(&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07PMkzMZI/AAAAAAAADBc/rKD-XYYwCUg/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0415.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07PMkzMZI/AAAAAAAADBc/rKD-XYYwCUg/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0415.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385525861664633234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07Oo_Z7GI/AAAAAAAADBU/-YT5-0u9X-k/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0419.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07Oo_Z7GI/AAAAAAAADBU/-YT5-0u9X-k/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0419.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385525852112546914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07OfBRDwI/AAAAAAAADBM/Mpqcrd5lyV4/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0423.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07OfBRDwI/AAAAAAAADBM/Mpqcrd5lyV4/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0423.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385525849436000002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07GPPbKgI/AAAAAAAADBE/zum0I-tO3-E/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0427.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07GPPbKgI/AAAAAAAADBE/zum0I-tO3-E/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0427.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385525707761461762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et en descendant, on profite des pistes de ski qui –pour certaines- sont damées (ils arrivent à peu près à skier toute l’année ici !) pour descendre… et ça va vraiment bien !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way down, we take advantage of the ski pist as some of them are still groomed (they manage to ski almost all year round here!) to come down… so easy!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07F8vjYNI/AAAAAAAADA8/005fFaB18u4/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0439.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07F8vjYNI/AAAAAAAADA8/005fFaB18u4/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0439.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385525702795944146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07FuBrXEI/AAAAAAAADA0/fmYgh_-pbK0/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0446.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07FuBrXEI/AAAAAAAADA0/fmYgh_-pbK0/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0446.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385525698845432898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07FLit1QI/AAAAAAAADAs/NnE7KlzgZtI/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0456.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07FLit1QI/AAAAAAAADAs/NnE7KlzgZtI/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0456.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385525689588765954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07Et28CZI/AAAAAAAADAk/wHHWZYEQOdQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0458.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07Et28CZI/AAAAAAAADAk/wHHWZYEQOdQ/s400/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0458.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385525681620519314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-2656323011693477047?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/2656323011693477047/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=2656323011693477047&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2656323011693477047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2656323011693477047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/mt-hood-between-clouds-and-sun.html' title='Mt Hood, between clouds and sun…'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr07PMkzMZI/AAAAAAAADBc/rKD-XYYwCUg/s72-c/TripUSA-HoodAdams-0415.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-7067975019120903420</id><published>2009-09-25T17:37:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T17:47:28.157-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Rock Climbing in Smith Rock, OR</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Comme la météo dans la chaîne des Cascades était pessimiste pour les jours à venir, on descend jeudi (3 septembre) un peu plus au sud dans l’Orégon, pour grimper à Smith Rock, petit coin où il fait bon grimper à peu près toute l’année et destination prisée des « sport climbers ».&lt;br /&gt;3 jours de grimpe qui vont bien user nos doigts malgré l’alternance entre bacs, knobs et  dalles ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the weather forecast in the Cascade Range was pessimistic for the coming days, we drive south down to Oregon on Thursday ( September 3), to climb in Smith Rock, nice place where you can climb almost all year round and also famous place among the sport climbers.&lt;br /&gt;3 climbing days that are going to use our fingers despite the alternance of buckets, knobs and slabs ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr049yof_5I/AAAAAAAADAc/K_Tcu_A7E7s/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0331.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr049yof_5I/AAAAAAAADAc/K_Tcu_A7E7s/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0331.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523363619798930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De là, on peut également voir Mt Jefferson (10 497 ft / 3 199 m), un autre volcan de la chaîne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From there, you can see Mt Jefferson (10 497 ft / 3 199 m), another volcano from the range.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr049n-VNbI/AAAAAAAADAU/GW7cJ9RLFzU/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0334.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr049n-VNbI/AAAAAAAADAU/GW7cJ9RLFzU/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0334.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523360758576562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Smith Rock, the main area… &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr044m5iQWI/AAAAAAAADAM/0b7IzhUtLtE/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0339.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr044m5iQWI/AAAAAAAADAM/0b7IzhUtLtE/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0339.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523274570678626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morning Glory Wall – Zion Buttress, Five Gallon Buckets (5.8) &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr044eorpCI/AAAAAAAADAE/iDCfzOXXoyA/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0345.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr044eorpCI/AAAAAAAADAE/iDCfzOXXoyA/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0345.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523272352506914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mesa Verde Buttress, Moons of Pluto (5.10d) &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr044FkLrlI/AAAAAAAAC_8/twJweS2VxSA/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0348.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr044FkLrlI/AAAAAAAAC_8/twJweS2VxSA/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0348.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523265622748754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morning Glory Wall – Overboard area, Magic Light (5.11a)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04tv7QOoI/AAAAAAAAC_k/2kv7n0rrU_Q/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0367.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04tv7QOoI/AAAAAAAAC_k/2kv7n0rrU_Q/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0367.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523088015243906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asterisk Pass and some other nice rock and bird ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04tHGbRXI/AAAAAAAAC_c/0efSZFXxcg0/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0375.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04tHGbRXI/AAAAAAAAC_c/0efSZFXxcg0/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0375.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523077056251250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr043k-IYAI/AAAAAAAAC_0/M7y1wl_pPAs/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0350.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr043k-IYAI/AAAAAAAAC_0/M7y1wl_pPAs/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0350.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523256873213954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr043SZVg0I/AAAAAAAAC_s/JASmoyfliyU/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0357.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr043SZVg0I/AAAAAAAAC_s/JASmoyfliyU/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0357.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523251887047490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morning Glory Wall – Zion Buttress, trad route &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04syxNIAI/AAAAAAAAC_U/xp1qxlzlVsU/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0389.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04syxNIAI/AAAAAAAAC_U/xp1qxlzlVsU/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0389.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523071598534658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christian Brothers – Testament Slab, Revelations (5.9) &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04sgrQzUI/AAAAAAAAC_M/KxiYbdA9t-Q/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0411.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04sgrQzUI/AAAAAAAAC_M/KxiYbdA9t-Q/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0411.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523066741771586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morning Glory Wall – Overboard area, Nine Gallon Buckets (5.10c) =&gt; Note the stick clip from the guy ;-)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04sZP3VPI/AAAAAAAAC_E/pQnR2940XJY/s1600-h/TripUSA-SmithRock-0414.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr04sZP3VPI/AAAAAAAAC_E/pQnR2940XJY/s400/TripUSA-SmithRock-0414.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385523064747807986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-7067975019120903420?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/7067975019120903420/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=7067975019120903420&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7067975019120903420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7067975019120903420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/rock-climbing-in-smith-rock-or.html' title='Rock Climbing in Smith Rock, OR'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr049yof_5I/AAAAAAAADAc/K_Tcu_A7E7s/s72-c/TripUSA-SmithRock-0331.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-2864603153041402421</id><published>2009-09-25T17:31:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T17:37:42.330-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Hiking around Mount Baker, WA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Après avoir roulé et repassé la frontière mardi (1er septembre) –on est maintenant officiellement touristes aux USA- on arrive le soir au pied du Mont Baker (l’endroit qui détient le record de neige mesuré, 30 mètres, en un hiver !) avec l’espoir de faire l’ascension de ce volcan les jours suivants. Peine perdue, la route qui mène au départ de la course est fermée pour travaux d’une part, et d’autre part la météo annonce de la pluie pour les jours suivants…&lt;br /&gt;On se contentera donc d’approcher le sommet par un autre coté le lendemain, sans en être bien loin à vol d’oiseau, mais avec un glacier qui ne fait par rigoler on se contentera du paysage vu d’en bas…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After driving and going back to the US on Tuesday (September 1) –we are now officially tourists in the US- we arrive in the evening near Mount Baker (the place where there is the most snowfall recorded, 30 meters, in one winter!), hopefully to climb this volcano the next days. Bad luck, the road to go to the base of the climb is closed because of roadwork and the weather is forecasted to be rainy for the next days…&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, we get closer to the summit from another side the next day, without being far away from it in distance but with a glacier in the middle, you don’t want to step on and you enjoy the view from there…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Mt Baker, 10 778 ft / 3 285 m and its glaciers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03P81s9KI/AAAAAAAAC-8/e5nNOF_AnqE/s1600-h/TripUSA-Baker-0295.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03P81s9KI/AAAAAAAAC-8/e5nNOF_AnqE/s400/TripUSA-Baker-0295.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385521476573918370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03Pl1L9tI/AAAAAAAAC-0/96LYWMdcnfk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Baker-0297.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03Pl1L9tI/AAAAAAAAC-0/96LYWMdcnfk/s400/TripUSA-Baker-0297.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385521470397740754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03IZm9B5I/AAAAAAAAC-k/sZMxdE40zOY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Baker-0307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03IZm9B5I/AAAAAAAAC-k/sZMxdE40zOY/s400/TripUSA-Baker-0307.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385521346857731986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03IAgwV9I/AAAAAAAAC-c/-yAwYo1gUhM/s1600-h/TripUSA-Baker-0311.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03IAgwV9I/AAAAAAAAC-c/-yAwYo1gUhM/s400/TripUSA-Baker-0311.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385521340120848338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mt Shuksan, 9 131 ft / 2 783 m&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03I7OssGI/AAAAAAAAC-s/ASRWVvAtGmY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Baker-0305.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03I7OssGI/AAAAAAAAC-s/ASRWVvAtGmY/s400/TripUSA-Baker-0305.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385521355882803298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03HSbPD_I/AAAAAAAAC-M/7aUfOhEBnPo/s1600-h/TripUSA-Baker-0329.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03HSbPD_I/AAAAAAAAC-M/7aUfOhEBnPo/s400/TripUSA-Baker-0329.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385521327749664754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can't believe how fat this marmot was!&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03HkfuDiI/AAAAAAAAC-U/c_jVG0SuDhg/s1600-h/TripUSA-Baker-0320.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03HkfuDiI/AAAAAAAAC-U/c_jVG0SuDhg/s400/TripUSA-Baker-0320.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385521332600311330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-2864603153041402421?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/2864603153041402421/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=2864603153041402421&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2864603153041402421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2864603153041402421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/hiking-around-mount-baker-wa.html' title='Hiking around Mount Baker, WA'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr03P81s9KI/AAAAAAAAC-8/e5nNOF_AnqE/s72-c/TripUSA-Baker-0295.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-1008080053196085094</id><published>2009-09-25T17:23:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T17:31:43.189-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Climbing around Nelson, British Columbia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vendredi (28 août), on continue un peu plus au nord et au Canada pour retrouver Cam et Geneviève à Nelson, en Colombie Britannique… puisqu’on n’ira pas l’hiver prochain, on y passe donc cet été !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday (August 28), we keep going north towards Canada to meet Cam and Geneviève in Nelson, British Columbia… as we’re not going to go next winter, we stop by this summer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il fait bien chaud quand on arrive et on commence par aller piquer une tête dans le lac pour se rafraîchir… avant de finaliser les plans du week-end !&lt;br /&gt;Samedi (29 août), on part avec Cam et Nelson pour une session trad (terrain d’aventure) couennes, histoire de se préparer pour la grande voie du lendemain. Direction Castlegar à Kinnaird Bluffs pour ce qu’on appellera la grimpe sanglier à la fin de la journée ;-) La grimpe est belle (mais pas donnée pour certaines cotations), mais l’approche, malgré (et aussi à cause) qu’on soit juste au dessus d’un lotissement, est intéressante…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is quite hot when we arrive and we start with a swim in the lake to cool down… before finalizing the plans for the weekend!&lt;br /&gt;Saturday (August 29), we go with Cam and Nelson for some short trad climbs, to get ready for the next day’s multi-pitch route. We head to Castlegar in Kinnaird Bluffs for some climbs on the wall as well as in the bush ;-) The climbing is good (even if some grades are tough), but the scrambling (groveling would say Greg Child) to get there is quite interesting…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Hail Mary, 5.8&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01sFX4RsI/AAAAAAAAC-E/G6Nv2NRKa04/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011648.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01sFX4RsI/AAAAAAAAC-E/G6Nv2NRKa04/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011648.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519760877831874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après un bon barbecue le soir en rentrant, on se lève tôt dimanche (30 août) pour aller faire le meilleur du coin : Mt Gimli, dans les Valhallas, par la South Ridge. 8 longueurs entre 5.5 et 5.10a et un peu de scrambling à la fin sur du gneiss qui tiennent toutes leurs promesses ! On a aussi appris grâce à Cam et Nelson à coincer avec nos mains « tapées » (ie protégées avec du strap, on s’est rien cassé !!), utile notamment pour la 1ère longueur…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a good BBQ the evening back in Nelson, we wake up early on Sunday (August 30) to do the best in the area: Mt Gimli, in the Valhallas, via the South Ridge. 8 awesome pitches between 5.5 and 5.10a and some scrambling at the end on gneiss! We also learned thanks to Cam and Nelson how to jam with our tapped hands, especially useful for the 1st pitch…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Hikking up to the base of Mt Gimli and its south ridge &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01oJJVFII/AAAAAAAAC98/aeRSy1vE0xg/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011655.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01oJJVFII/AAAAAAAAC98/aeRSy1vE0xg/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011655.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519693171070082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nelson and his pink magic gloves… &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01n38I2YI/AAAAAAAAC90/oMwDiA2ELrk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011658.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01n38I2YI/AAAAAAAAC90/oMwDiA2ELrk/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011658.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519688552339842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01ncu-GeI/AAAAAAAAC9s/NYJbTLqMU3E/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011662.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01ncu-GeI/AAAAAAAAC9s/NYJbTLqMU3E/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011662.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519681249352162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cam jamming at the end of pitch one&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01mgZMYoI/AAAAAAAAC9c/BdZWf5gEQUo/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011669.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01mgZMYoI/AAAAAAAAC9c/BdZWf5gEQUo/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011669.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519665051886210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01dD6r4yI/AAAAAAAAC9U/jfnFXOmycPg/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011671.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01dD6r4yI/AAAAAAAAC9U/jfnFXOmycPg/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011671.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519502788911906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01c9d89bI/AAAAAAAAC9M/OL4BE0dPGkk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011677.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01c9d89bI/AAAAAAAAC9M/OL4BE0dPGkk/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011677.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519501057783218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summit and its “Paye ta Gueule”&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01cTjTu7I/AAAAAAAAC9E/sRfJiw3PuP4/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011688.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01cTjTu7I/AAAAAAAAC9E/sRfJiw3PuP4/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011688.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519489805958066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01cC69gNI/AAAAAAAAC88/-BThd9tm39g/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011693.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01cC69gNI/AAAAAAAAC88/-BThd9tm39g/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011693.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519485341761746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The local mountain goat&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01buAKgdI/AAAAAAAAC80/_WAAORleAPc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Nelson-0011699.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01buAKgdI/AAAAAAAAC80/_WAAORleAPc/s400/TripUSA-Nelson-0011699.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385519479726440914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lundi (31 aout), on en profite pour faire quelques courses, préparer la suite du voyage, et surtout aller au resto le soir ;-) Par contre on n’a pas pris de photos de Nelson, voilà donc une bonne occasion pour revenir bientôt !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday (August 31), we take time to buy some stuff, prepare the next days of the trip and most of all go to the restaurant in the evening ;-) However, we did not take any pic from Nelson, that’s a very good reason to come back soon!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-1008080053196085094?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/1008080053196085094/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=1008080053196085094&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1008080053196085094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1008080053196085094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/climbing-around-nelson-british-columbia.html' title='Climbing around Nelson, British Columbia'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sr01sFX4RsI/AAAAAAAAC-E/G6Nv2NRKa04/s72-c/TripUSA-Nelson-0011648.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3889711745758206841</id><published>2009-09-12T04:10:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T04:23:33.484-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Hiking in Glacier National Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Après avoir passé la nuit à Missoula (Montana), on part jeudi (27 aout) matin en direction de Glacier National Park.&lt;br /&gt;Malgré le nom, il ne reste plus vraiment de glaciers de « taille » et le réchauffement climatique est bien parti pour les faire tous disparaître d’ici quelques dizaines d’années…&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir posé la tente au camping, on monte à Logan Pass, le col accessible en voiture, et accessoirement en travaux comme beaucoup de routes dans le pays (les sous d’Obama pour relancer l’économie ?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After spending the night in Missoula (Montana), we leave Thursday (August 27) to Glacier National Park.&lt;br /&gt;Despite its name, there are no many glaciers left and the global warming process will probably kill them all in the next decades…&lt;br /&gt;After setting up the tent in a campground, we drive to Logan Pass, accessible by car and also busy with some road work as many other roads in the country (Obama’s stimulus package?).&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYmclvIsI/AAAAAAAAC8s/WPxusAPwZWE/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYmclvIsI/AAAAAAAAC8s/WPxusAPwZWE/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380491597356933826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’idée de départ, c’est d’aller à Piegan Pass puis de faire un petit sommet à coté. Sauf que 5 minutes après être parti, on croise un gars qui a fait demi-tour à cause d’un « mature grizzli » qui est un peu plus loin… Mon envie de voir les ours ne l’emporte pas et on fait donc demi tour pour aller un peu plus loin… et partir de Sunrift Gorge pour aller à Siyeh Pass. On fera aussi notre premier sommet à coté pour avoir une meilleure vue sur les alentours.&lt;br /&gt;Le paysage ressemble bien aux Alpes, avec quelques bouts de glaciers et névés, des lacs, des jolies petites fleurs, des marmottes… Curieusement les marmottes sont toutes petites ici au pays où tout est immense !&lt;br /&gt;On va également croiser une poule et un chèvre de montagne dans leur tenue de camouflage, ainsi qu’un elk le soir en redescendant…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first idea was to hike to Piegan Pass and then climb a summit next to it. Except that 5 minutes after leaving, we see someone who turned back because of a “mature grizzli” a bit further on the path… The fact that I want to see bears doesn’t win and we walk back to do another hike further, from Sunrift Gorge to Siyeh Pass. We’ll also climb our first summit next to the pass to have a better view around.&lt;br /&gt;The landscape looks like the Alps with some glaciers and snow patches, lakes, cute flowers, marmots, … interestingly enough, these marmots are so small here where everything is huge!&lt;br /&gt;We also saw a “wild chicken” and a mountain goat, as well as an elk on the way back in the evening…&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYmJK0PII/AAAAAAAAC8k/7_jJixd2l8k/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYmJK0PII/AAAAAAAAC8k/7_jJixd2l8k/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380491592143748226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX27Lhh3I/AAAAAAAAC7E/x9GKkk--v_Q/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-Ricoh-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX27Lhh3I/AAAAAAAAC7E/x9GKkk--v_Q/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-Ricoh-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380490780934768498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYM0ZQqqI/AAAAAAAAC78/RBti2Jc6j8E/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYM0ZQqqI/AAAAAAAAC78/RBti2Jc6j8E/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380491157070457506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYMZVgQyI/AAAAAAAAC70/OYofPmlHLjU/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYMZVgQyI/AAAAAAAAC70/OYofPmlHLjU/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380491149806945058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX2jeJzUI/AAAAAAAAC68/q09GXTLJacg/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-Ricoh-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX2jeJzUI/AAAAAAAAC68/q09GXTLJacg/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-Ricoh-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380490774570454338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYk-mDOYI/AAAAAAAAC8M/wD2VoezKPbI/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYk-mDOYI/AAAAAAAAC8M/wD2VoezKPbI/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380491572125317506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYLi7LqrI/AAAAAAAAC7k/1wb0Qrxh1oM/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYLi7LqrI/AAAAAAAAC7k/1wb0Qrxh1oM/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380491135201028786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX4OYhoYI/AAAAAAAAC7c/mkruPN8qqqs/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX4OYhoYI/AAAAAAAAC7c/mkruPN8qqqs/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380490803269443970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least, on a trouvé des vraies myrtilles (huckleberries) en masse !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least, we also found real huckleberries –and not blueberries, tons of them!! Yummy ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois de retour à la voiture, le soleil était bien bas, on arrive à distinguer la route qui descend du col...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once back at the car, the sun was almost gone, we can nearly see the road going down from the pass...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX3hytrnI/AAAAAAAAC7U/-jaS8VlZx2c/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-31.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX3hytrnI/AAAAAAAAC7U/-jaS8VlZx2c/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-31.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380490791299690098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX3e0K2rI/AAAAAAAAC7M/nCcPW15v6yo/s1600-h/TripUSA-GlacierNP-33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtX3e0K2rI/AAAAAAAAC7M/nCcPW15v6yo/s400/TripUSA-GlacierNP-33.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380490790500489906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3889711745758206841?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3889711745758206841/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3889711745758206841&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3889711745758206841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3889711745758206841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/hiking-in-glacier-national-park.html' title='Hiking in Glacier National Park'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtYmclvIsI/AAAAAAAAC8s/WPxusAPwZWE/s72-c/TripUSA-GlacierNP-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-111907715019528563</id><published>2009-09-12T03:59:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T04:08:58.110-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Yellowstone National Park – Mammoth Hot Springs</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Mercredi (26 aout), dernier jour à Yellowstone pour aller voir Mammoth Hot Springs, au nord su parc. On passe par la plaine des bisons et ses … bisons ;-) et par un coin un peu moins exploité du parc, le Mont Washburn. On retrouve des orgues, moins massifs qu’à Devils Tower mais des orgues quand même…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday (August 26), last day in Yellowstone to see Mammoth Hot Springs, north of the park. We go again through the bison plaine with its… bisons ;-) and also through a less crowded side of the park, Mount Washburn. We find again some hexagonal shaped rocks, smaller than at Devils Tower, but still…&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVrpglC2I/AAAAAAAAC60/cVYyFd4nOao/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-213.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380488388189424482" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVrpglC2I/AAAAAAAAC60/cVYyFd4nOao/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-213.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVrIsKcCI/AAAAAAAAC6s/1YO27F41y9o/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-214.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380488379379642402" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVrIsKcCI/AAAAAAAAC6s/1YO27F41y9o/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-214.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je dois dire qu’après ce qu’on a vu les jours précédents on a été un peu déçus (n’exagérons rien quand même !!) parce qu’une partie des sources est en fait « asséchée » (j’imagine) et donc toute blanche (un peu comme les coraux morts).&lt;br /&gt;La « navette touristique » est, quant à elle, bien jaune !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must admit that after all we saw the previous days, we have been a little bit disappointed (just a little bit!!) as some of the springs are actually “dry” (I guess) and therefore all white (similar to the dead corals).&lt;br /&gt;The “tourist shuttle” is, indeed, yellow!&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVqvIbpQI/AAAAAAAAC6k/jLs4THCS9H0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-219.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380488372518888706" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVqvIbpQI/AAAAAAAAC6k/jLs4THCS9H0/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-219.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVfzMfjuI/AAAAAAAAC6c/YMVaShzq5jk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-222.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380488184631103202" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVfzMfjuI/AAAAAAAAC6c/YMVaShzq5jk/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-222.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVfavbpcI/AAAAAAAAC6U/3PhJd8EILkA/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-223.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380488178066761154" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVfavbpcI/AAAAAAAAC6U/3PhJd8EILkA/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-223.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVfLf7goI/AAAAAAAAC6M/FbdEkSvoXUw/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-224.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380488173975208578" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVfLf7goI/AAAAAAAAC6M/FbdEkSvoXUw/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-224.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunch dans le parc à coté des elk (OK, ça fait pas très naturel, mais ils sont bien à brouter le gazon des maisons des employés du parc…), et on part pour le nord dans l’après midi.&lt;br /&gt;Gardner, la « ville » à la sortie a déjà des airs de far-west !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunch in the park next to the elks(OK, it’s not fully wild, but they really mow the grass of the employees’ houses…) and we head north in the afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;Gardner, the “city” at the park exit already looks like the far-west!&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVeovOtnI/AAAAAAAAC6E/6h0nvfFYTHA/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-225.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380488164644140658" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVeovOtnI/AAAAAAAAC6E/6h0nvfFYTHA/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-225.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVePVau7I/AAAAAAAAC58/sZEVbYK0dvw/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-227.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380488157824990130" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVePVau7I/AAAAAAAAC58/sZEVbYK0dvw/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-227.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-111907715019528563?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/111907715019528563/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=111907715019528563&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/111907715019528563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/111907715019528563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/yellowstone-national-park-mammoth-hot.html' title='Yellowstone National Park – Mammoth Hot Springs'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtVrpglC2I/AAAAAAAAC60/cVYyFd4nOao/s72-c/TripUSA-Yellowstone-213.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-8604918215142334326</id><published>2009-09-12T03:52:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T03:59:54.675-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Yellowstone National Park – Canyon Area</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Mardi (25 aout), on part découvrir la région des canyon, là où la Yellowstone River fait plusieurs chutes dont une belle d’une centaine de mètres. Mieux vaut ne pas être un petit saumon perdu dedans ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Sur la route, on traverse la plaine des bisons et on voit donc une multitude de bisons tranquillement en train de paître… ou de traverser la route !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday (August 25), we go to the Canyon Area, where the Yellowstone River does big falls including one of about 100 meters. Better not to be a small salmon lost here ;-)&lt;br /&gt;On the road, we go through the Bison Plaines and we therefore see many of these in the grass or crossing the road!…&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtUCfLPMXI/AAAAAAAAC50/kEU934-jgRQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-157.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtUCfLPMXI/AAAAAAAAC50/kEU934-jgRQ/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-157.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486581529293170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A l’est du parc on rejoint le Canyon et ses chutes d’eau de 100m qui ont vraiment de l’allure depuis les différents points de vue. Un escalier descend sur un des cotés du canyon pour voir les chutes de plus près, il y avait avant un guide qui emmenait des clients dans le canyon simplement à l’aide d’une corde et de quelques marches taillées, ça devrait être une autre aventure !&lt;br /&gt;Un peu plus loin, Artist Point offre une vue plus large, présenté comme le plus photographié de tout le parc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the east side of the park we go to the Canyon area and its 100 meter waterfalls. Some stairs climb down the canyon to see the falls from a closer look – a guide used to bring people down there only with a rope and some handmade stairs, it was probably another story!&lt;br /&gt;Further down the canyon, Artist Point offers a wider view, supposed to be the most photographed from the park...&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtUB5uUgJI/AAAAAAAAC5s/ePlYlbmnsng/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-164.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtUB5uUgJI/AAAAAAAAC5s/ePlYlbmnsng/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-164.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486571475894418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtUBj_xRyI/AAAAAAAAC5k/HRxEfbrGx4Y/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-167.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtUBj_xRyI/AAAAAAAAC5k/HRxEfbrGx4Y/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-167.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486565643503394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT2vCmLcI/AAAAAAAAC5c/qUfPYECgxfA/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-176.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT2vCmLcI/AAAAAAAAC5c/qUfPYECgxfA/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-176.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486379629587906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On quitte ensuite la foule pour aller se promener vers Seven Mile Hole (où des ours semblent se promener d’après le panneau). De retour au parking, Dav ne manquera pas d’essayer Glacier Rock…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we leave the crowd to hike towards Seven Mile Hole (where some bears seem to be according to the signs). Back at the parking lot, David doesn’t miss a try on Glacier Rock…&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT2GNRHmI/AAAAAAAAC5U/zQY5in7kSoc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-192.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT2GNRHmI/AAAAAAAAC5U/zQY5in7kSoc/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-192.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486368668491362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et en rentrant au camping, les bisons sont toujours là, tout comme un elk…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And on the way back to the campground, bisons are still there, as well as an elk next to the lake! &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT1utbXQI/AAAAAAAAC5M/8s5JkiawMhM/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-196.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT1utbXQI/AAAAAAAAC5M/8s5JkiawMhM/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-196.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486362360929538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT1QZq_WI/AAAAAAAAC5E/Q2z47N5rTaE/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-202.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT1QZq_WI/AAAAAAAAC5E/Q2z47N5rTaE/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-202.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486354225003874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT03Q_aDI/AAAAAAAAC48/xJdgAU4bkDk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtT03Q_aDI/AAAAAAAAC48/xJdgAU4bkDk/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-203.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486347477706802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-8604918215142334326?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/8604918215142334326/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=8604918215142334326&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/8604918215142334326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/8604918215142334326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/yellowstone-national-park-canyon-area.html' title='Yellowstone National Park – Canyon Area'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtUCfLPMXI/AAAAAAAAC50/kEU934-jgRQ/s72-c/TripUSA-Yellowstone-157.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3571330326495503762</id><published>2009-09-12T03:26:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T03:52:45.041-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Yellowstone National Park – Old Faithful Area</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Une fois la tente posée, on part faire les touristes à Old Faithful, pour voir un des plus grands geysers, qui a l’avantage de s’érupter toutes les 90 minutes environ, pratique !&lt;br /&gt;Autour du plus célèbre des geysers, il y en a une multitude d’autres, qui entrent en éruption plus ou moins souvent, plus ou moins haut, plus ou moins chaudement… Les couleurs proviennent des thermophiles, petites bêtes microscopiques qui aiment beaucoup la chaleur : chaque couleur correspond à une température, le bleu étant la plus chaude (dans les 100 degrés C).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the tent set up, we go to Old Faithful to see one of the biggest geysers, which erupts once every 90 minutes or so, easy for tourists! Around the most famous of the geysers, there are many other ones, erupting more or less often, more or less high, more or less hot… The colors come from the thermophils, small microscopic elements who like heat a lot: each color corresponds to a temperature, blue being the hottest one (around 100 degrees C).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Chipmunk to start with ;-)&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPNR596RI/AAAAAAAAC40/p1SYaBYAMEo/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380481269387618578" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPNR596RI/AAAAAAAAC40/p1SYaBYAMEo/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The different options to see...&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO5DE8LwI/AAAAAAAAC38/_64IR0C8DZ4/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-63.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480921809727234" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO5DE8LwI/AAAAAAAAC38/_64IR0C8DZ4/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-63.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Old Faithful en éruption&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPM9TNgXI/AAAAAAAAC4s/scnHDwHGHr0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380481263856353650" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPM9TNgXI/AAAAAAAAC4s/scnHDwHGHr0/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solidude Geyser&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtNyaZVYoI/AAAAAAAAC2U/JWn3AwqdeIw/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-Ricoh-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380479708298568322" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtNyaZVYoI/AAAAAAAAC2U/JWn3AwqdeIw/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-Ricoh-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morning Glory Pool&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPMkI7-8I/AAAAAAAAC4k/HB8cwqphmV8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-25.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380481257102375874" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPMkI7-8I/AAAAAAAAC4k/HB8cwqphmV8/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-25.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPMEFN_LI/AAAAAAAAC4c/0fRBlZGRQyU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380481248496843954" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPMEFN_LI/AAAAAAAAC4c/0fRBlZGRQyU/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-26.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO6TOo9PI/AAAAAAAAC4U/UB-nepv8jY0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-32.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480943325246706" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO6TOo9PI/AAAAAAAAC4U/UB-nepv8jY0/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-32.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO54I6XcI/AAAAAAAAC4M/NSChtkbCAss/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-49.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480936053464514" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO54I6XcI/AAAAAAAAC4M/NSChtkbCAss/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-49.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtNxy05qeI/AAAAAAAAC2M/aOXfkAZ6jog/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-Ricoh-16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380479697676773858" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtNxy05qeI/AAAAAAAAC2M/aOXfkAZ6jog/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-Ricoh-16.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO5ifXJ_I/AAAAAAAAC4E/SGbv1gDPjcc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-62.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480930242045938" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO5ifXJ_I/AAAAAAAAC4E/SGbv1gDPjcc/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-62.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO4okSD4I/AAAAAAAAC30/NLxtMv2aeSU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-67.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480914693427074" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtO4okSD4I/AAAAAAAAC30/NLxtMv2aeSU/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-67.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOh2jM46I/AAAAAAAAC3k/HB_HopKrctE/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-89.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480523309999010" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOh2jM46I/AAAAAAAAC3k/HB_HopKrctE/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-89.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOhi_vmlI/AAAAAAAAC3c/UopaoeJ81yM/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-90.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480518061005394" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOhi_vmlI/AAAAAAAAC3c/UopaoeJ81yM/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-90.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mud Pools...&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOhEr8foI/AAAAAAAAC3U/9Lt6-0_xAWU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480509924900482" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOhEr8foI/AAAAAAAAC3U/9Lt6-0_xAWU/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-103.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOgtxxnOI/AAAAAAAAC3M/XxDUid2Z-uQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-106.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480503775337698" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOgtxxnOI/AAAAAAAAC3M/XxDUid2Z-uQ/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-106.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOJ8-5BLI/AAAAAAAAC3E/L-n6rlJdWko/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-113.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480112719889586" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOJ8-5BLI/AAAAAAAAC3E/L-n6rlJdWko/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-113.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prismatic Pool vue du bas, et vue d'en haut... From the bottom and from the top of the hill&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOitxVcrI/AAAAAAAAC3s/aTJVMv3tQ3Q/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-81.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480538133230258" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOitxVcrI/AAAAAAAAC3s/aTJVMv3tQ3Q/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-81.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOJUv6N_I/AAAAAAAAC28/pknQjbqLa_g/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-128.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480101919635442" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOJUv6N_I/AAAAAAAAC28/pknQjbqLa_g/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-128.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOI43UAVI/AAAAAAAAC20/VR7VFVM8jP8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-130.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480094434492754" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOI43UAVI/AAAAAAAAC20/VR7VFVM8jP8/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-130.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOIO2IrDI/AAAAAAAAC2k/zWGtVb_tgP8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-141.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480083155266610" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOIO2IrDI/AAAAAAAAC2k/zWGtVb_tgP8/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-141.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtNyjTVdyI/AAAAAAAAC2c/6X9pfC9rnqk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-142.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380479710689326882" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtNyjTVdyI/AAAAAAAAC2c/6X9pfC9rnqk/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-142.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Première rencontre avec des bisons le soir, avant d’aller en manger un peu pour le dîner :-) &lt;p align="justify"&gt;First encounter with bison in the evening before going to eat some for dinner!&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOIm2-YzI/AAAAAAAAC2s/569Dl7fXOpE/s1600-h/TripUSA-Yellowstone-134.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380480089601237810" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtOIm2-YzI/AAAAAAAAC2s/569Dl7fXOpE/s400/TripUSA-Yellowstone-134.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3571330326495503762?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3571330326495503762/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3571330326495503762&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3571330326495503762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3571330326495503762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/09/yellowstone-national-park-old-faithful.html' title='Yellowstone National Park – Old Faithful Area'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtPNR596RI/AAAAAAAAC40/p1SYaBYAMEo/s72-c/TripUSA-Yellowstone-5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-4945865997426721401</id><published>2009-08-31T20:46:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T03:25:59.415-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Sleeping with the bears and (almost) climbing Disapointment Peak</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Après être passé au Rangers Station prendre la météo et quelques conseils la veille, on prend le chemin de Surprise Lake samedi après midi (22 aout).&lt;br /&gt;On commence à monter au bivouac sous le soleil et il fait encore bien chaud… Ca faisait longtemps qu’on n’avait pas monté autant de poids aussi ;-) Les paysages ressemblent un peu plus aux Alpes mais il n’y a toujours pas de vrai génépi, que du faux !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After going to the Rangers Station to get the weather forecast and some tips the day before, we head to Surprise Lake on Saturday afternoon (August 22).&lt;br /&gt;We start to hike to the bivy place under the sun and it is still quite hot… It has also been a while since we had so much weight ;-) The scenery looks like more to the Alps but there is still no real “génépi”, only fake one! (for those who never tasted génépi, you need to stop by the French Alps to taste it!!)&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKgJ4IYMI/AAAAAAAAC1M/Fi9-nmw45U8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-33.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476096091807938" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKgJ4IYMI/AAAAAAAAC1M/Fi9-nmw45U8/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-33.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKf_PnPaI/AAAAAAAAC1E/pMO5tFgFCps/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-35.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476093237509538" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKf_PnPaI/AAAAAAAAC1E/pMO5tFgFCps/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-35.jpg" /&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On est tout seul au bivouac au dessus du lac (entre Surprise Lake et Amphitheater Lake en fait) – tout seul avec les ours en fait haha !!&lt;br /&gt;Petit repas face à face, prêt à spotter les ours et on met tout dans la fameuse boite à ours, ça ne rigole pas ici… avant d’aller au lit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’re the only ones at the bivy above the lake (between Surprise Lake and Amphitheater Lake actually) – the only ones with the bears in fact haha!!&lt;br /&gt;Dinner facing each other, ready to spot the bear, then we put everything in the famous bear box, you don’t laugh about that here… and then go to bed.&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKfQuYGpI/AAAAAAAAC08/9igqXZTUzYo/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476080750074514" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKfQuYGpI/AAAAAAAAC08/9igqXZTUzYo/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-3.jpg" /&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dimanche matin (23 aout) le temps est plus que gris mais a l’air assez stable, du coup on part pour l’arrête sud de Disappointment Peak, après avoir croisé deux biches et un renard au petit dej – mais toujours pas d’ours !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday morning (August 23) the weather is more grey than anything else but seems to be quite stable, therefore we head to the South Ridge of Disappointment Peak, after seeing 2 deers and a fox during breakfast – but still no bear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bien que quelques gouttes de pluie nous font hésiter dans la première longueur, on continue jusqu’au bout, mais on ne poussera pas jusqu’au sommet puisque le rocher est bien mouillé une fois les 7 longueurs terminées… En tout cas la voie était bien jolie et le rocher super sculpté. Dommage que le ciel ne soit pas bleu pour les photos !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although some rain drops make us hesitate during the first pitch, we keep going up to the end of he route but not to the summit as the rock is pretty wet once the 7 pitches done… Anyway, the route was a cool one and the rock was dam good. It’s a pity that the sun wasn’t blue for the pictures!&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKe0F3RBI/AAAAAAAAC00/BxkH2MZyb6Y/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476073063957522" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKe0F3RBI/AAAAAAAAC00/BxkH2MZyb6Y/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKejGc8NI/AAAAAAAAC0s/NUUfvYTa6wQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476068503023826" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKejGc8NI/AAAAAAAAC0s/NUUfvYTa6wQ/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK2GNYu3I/AAAAAAAAC10/PLThUFUM9wo/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476473064340338" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK2GNYu3I/AAAAAAAAC10/PLThUFUM9wo/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK1k92g9I/AAAAAAAAC1s/3ml1zA_Vnqo/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476464140813266" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK1k92g9I/AAAAAAAAC1s/3ml1zA_Vnqo/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-Ricoh-13.jpg" /&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lundi matin (24 aout) le temps ne s’est toujours pas amélioré, comme en témoignent ces quelques photos des Tetons prises depuis Signal Mountain, au dessus du camping…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday morning (August 24), the weather is still not that great, as you can see on the pictures from Signal Mountain, just above the campground…&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK1d5dNjI/AAAAAAAAC1k/uHBmbSg1lPk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-42.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 190px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476462243329586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK1d5dNjI/AAAAAAAAC1k/uHBmbSg1lPk/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-42.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Mt Moran (12,825 feet / 3 842m)&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK08rX1GI/AAAAAAAAC1c/jgZ4E04zRqY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-44.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476453325886562" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK08rX1GI/AAAAAAAAC1c/jgZ4E04zRqY/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-44.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grand Teton (13,770 feet / 4 197m)&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK0R_9jAI/AAAAAAAAC1U/OA8U7XaTylQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-48.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380476441869519874" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtK0R_9jAI/AAAAAAAAC1U/OA8U7XaTylQ/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-48.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-4945865997426721401?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/4945865997426721401/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=4945865997426721401&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4945865997426721401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4945865997426721401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/sleeping-with-bears-and-almost-climbing.html' title='Sleeping with the bears and (almost) climbing Disapointment Peak'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SqtKgJ4IYMI/AAAAAAAAC1M/Fi9-nmw45U8/s72-c/TripUSA-Tetons-33.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-4841081932098716283</id><published>2009-08-31T20:31:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-31T20:46:06.196-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Arriving in Grand Teton National Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After a night in Greybull (I love the name!) we finished crossing Wyoming to head to &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/Grand%20Teton%20National%20Park"&gt;Grand Teton National Park&lt;/a&gt; via Yellowstone vendredi (21 aout). The scenery was again amazing on the road!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après une nuit à Greybull (j'adore ce nom !), on a fini de traverser le Wyoming pour aller dans le &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/Grand%20Teton%20National%20Park"&gt;Grand Teton National Park&lt;/a&gt; via le Yellowsstone on Friday (August 21st). Les paysages étaient à nouveau pas mal du tout sur la route !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxs1WnkgJI/AAAAAAAAC0c/tKyx5tl4rBE/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxs1WnkgJI/AAAAAAAAC0c/tKyx5tl4rBE/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376291719033946258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après être passé au bureau des rangers pour préparer notre course du lendemain, on monte à Inspiration Point au dessus de Jenny Lake profiter des derniers rayons de soleil... et aussi de la fraicheur qui revient !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a stop at the rangers station to prepare our route for the next day, we go to Inspiration Point above Jenny Lake to enjoy the last moments of sun but also the cooler temperature after a hot day!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxssh52LxI/AAAAAAAAC0U/RBYzIVBSXE8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxssh52LxI/AAAAAAAAC0U/RBYzIVBSXE8/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376291567444569874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxssBuOI6I/AAAAAAAAC0M/7Ln1Ifzi8k8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxssBuOI6I/AAAAAAAAC0M/7Ln1Ifzi8k8/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376291558805873570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samedi matin (22 aout), le Grand Teton (13,770 pieds ou presque 4 200 m) est encore bien dégagé et on va faire un tour en canoé sur Jenny Lake avant de monter au bivouac.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday morning (August 22nd), Grand Teton (13,770 feet) is still fully in the sun and we go for a canoe tour on Jenny Lake before going to put the bivy.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxsrwBlvHI/AAAAAAAAC0E/upFV6iN_r-g/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxsrwBlvHI/AAAAAAAAC0E/upFV6iN_r-g/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376291554055273586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxsrKbAbzI/AAAAAAAACz8/hCoMdAp1GRo/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxsrKbAbzI/AAAAAAAACz8/hCoMdAp1GRo/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376291543961333554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxsq9bwHBI/AAAAAAAACz0/q3vjBPEPwHM/s1600-h/TripUSA-Tetons-27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxsq9bwHBI/AAAAAAAACz0/q3vjBPEPwHM/s400/TripUSA-Tetons-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376291540474797074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-4841081932098716283?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/4841081932098716283/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=4841081932098716283&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4841081932098716283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4841081932098716283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/arriving-in-grand-teton-national-park.html' title='Arriving in Grand Teton National Park'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxs1WnkgJI/AAAAAAAAC0c/tKyx5tl4rBE/s72-c/TripUSA-Tetons-6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-2290197085539251787</id><published>2009-08-31T20:08:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-31T20:25:16.589-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Devils Tower</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Après les Badlands, on a fait un petit crochet pour aller voir la &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Devils Tower&lt;/a&gt; et ses formations hexagonales halucinantes... tout ça au milieu de nulle part ou presque, bien entendu :-)&lt;br /&gt;Des grimpeurs nous ont bien donné envie, mais c'était quand même un peu short au niveau timing... next time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the Badlands, we made a detour to see the &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Devils Tower&lt;/a&gt; and its amazing hexagonal shapes... almost in the middle of nowhere, of course :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxosgZKE9I/AAAAAAAACzk/Pb2l3m24D38/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-28-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxosgZKE9I/AAAAAAAACzk/Pb2l3m24D38/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-28-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376287168992515026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Tout a l'air taillé comme par magie ! Et on voit aussi l'échelle en bois qui a servie pour faire la première ascension... Chapeau les gars !&lt;br /&gt;Everything seems to be cut by magic! And you can also see the wooden ladder who helped to do the first ascent... Good job guys!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxoEC0iDfI/AAAAAAAACzU/MtEMnfV_zhI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-30-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxoEC0iDfI/AAAAAAAACzU/MtEMnfV_zhI/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-30-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376286473859501554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxoDuWlUFI/AAAAAAAACzM/gHjRlBuGL1c/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxoDuWlUFI/AAAAAAAACzM/gHjRlBuGL1c/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-33.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376286468365176914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sans oublier les grimpeurs !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxoDS2B4KI/AAAAAAAACzE/9PW0hHAAjzY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-35.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxoDS2B4KI/AAAAAAAACzE/9PW0hHAAjzY/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-35.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376286460980879522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxoCwzVK7I/AAAAAAAACy8/b91s3qTKQws/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-37.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxoCwzVK7I/AAAAAAAACy8/b91s3qTKQws/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-37.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376286451842755506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et en bas dans la prairie, on a aussi profité des Chiens de prairie (Prairie Dogs), qui semblaient n'attendre qu'une chose, un peu à manger !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Down in the prairie, we also saw some prairie dogs, who seems to expect only one thing, something to eat!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxotBcJSwI/AAAAAAAACzs/FnEIFkphOJk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-41.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxotBcJSwI/AAAAAAAACzs/FnEIFkphOJk/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-41.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376287177863416578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-2290197085539251787?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/2290197085539251787/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=2290197085539251787&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2290197085539251787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2290197085539251787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/devils-tower.html' title='Devils Tower'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxosgZKE9I/AAAAAAAACzk/Pb2l3m24D38/s72-c/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-28-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-336411488635566626</id><published>2009-08-31T19:37:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-31T20:25:41.010-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Badlands National Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Jeudi matin (20 aout) la fraicheur nous a cueillie au levé ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Direction les &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/badl/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Badlands&lt;/a&gt;, formation géologique de canyon inversé et mélange de rocher compact et de terre qui ravine assez originale !&lt;br /&gt;Le nom des Badlands vient du fait que la chasse et l'agricuture est quasi impossible ici vu le relief et la sécheresse du lieu...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday morning (August 20), we discovered the &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/badl/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Badlands&lt;/a&gt;, sort of an inverted canyon and mix of compact rock plus soil quite surprising! &lt;br /&gt;The name comes from the people who discovered the place, as it was a nightmare to hunt or harvest on this kind of land!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiY-EtLbI/AAAAAAAACy0/kyDHD2cz_zA/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-28.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiY-EtLbI/AAAAAAAACy0/kyDHD2cz_zA/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-28.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376280236292648370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiYVtXZqI/AAAAAAAACys/CmU-ezOreX8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiYVtXZqI/AAAAAAAACys/CmU-ezOreX8/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376280225457333922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiYDt3zJI/AAAAAAAACyk/4Eaov7l_SRU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 195px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiYDt3zJI/AAAAAAAACyk/4Eaov7l_SRU/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376280220627618962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiXjnEUZI/AAAAAAAACyc/LUEpiBKd9xE/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiXjnEUZI/AAAAAAAACyc/LUEpiBKd9xE/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376280212009144722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when leaving the Badlands, the average tourist apparently stops at Wall Drugs, a city where there is nothing to do but enjoy (or not!) a 5c coffee (also called jus de chaussette in French!) and buy some fake stuff (according to the Lonely Planet, we did not try...)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiXN1fYkI/AAAAAAAACyU/UGmtEzjplAY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-25-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiXN1fYkI/AAAAAAAACyU/UGmtEzjplAY/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-25-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376280206164058690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-336411488635566626?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/336411488635566626/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=336411488635566626&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/336411488635566626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/336411488635566626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/badlands-national-park.html' title='Badlands National Park'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpxiY-EtLbI/AAAAAAAACy0/kyDHD2cz_zA/s72-c/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-28.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-4519250798531565906</id><published>2009-08-31T19:12:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-31T19:37:42.510-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>From Chicago to the Badlands</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Malgré le mois d’août et les larges autoroutes, on a quand même mis un peu de temps à sortir de Chicago mercredi matin (19 aout)… On a ensuite eu de la pluie diluvienne semble-t-il bien caractéristique des grandes plaines pour aller du Wisconsin au Dakota du Sud en passant par le Minnesota, ce qui ajoutait un petit coté dramatique au paysage ;-)&lt;br /&gt;On a beau dire que les plaines c’est plat, mais on ne s’est pas ennuyé et on a trouvé ça plus intéressant que la forêt de Nouvelle-Angleterre ! Au moins on peut voir au loin :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrivée le soir à la porte des Badlands, premier National Park de notre voyage et première fois aussi où on va mettre le bonnet !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although it is August and the highways are pretty large, it still took us time to leave Chicago on Wednesday morning (August 19)… we then had some crazy rain, apparently really common for the Great Plains to go from Wisconsin to South Dakota via Minnesota, therefore adding something to the scenery ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Even if it is said that the Plaines are flat, we were not annoyed and we found it more interesting than the New England forest! At least you can see far away :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We arrived at night next to the Badlands, our first National Park of the trip and also first time we have to put our beanie on!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;First rocks on the road!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd8a_fgnI/AAAAAAAACyM/pxLk3gqlK7g/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 155px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd8a_fgnI/AAAAAAAACyM/pxLk3gqlK7g/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376275347792691826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a storm...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd8IOjjuI/AAAAAAAACyE/iZaDlFKp1us/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd8IOjjuI/AAAAAAAACyE/iZaDlFKp1us/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376275342755598050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd7mtpnfI/AAAAAAAACx8/_4tjvf_CPw4/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-20.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd7mtpnfI/AAAAAAAACx8/_4tjvf_CPw4/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376275333759213042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crossing Missouri just after sunset&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd7LWVJrI/AAAAAAAACx0/vs3oK_RR6yM/s1600-h/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd7LWVJrI/AAAAAAAACx0/vs3oK_RR6yM/s400/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-22.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376275326413645490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-4519250798531565906?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/4519250798531565906/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=4519250798531565906&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4519250798531565906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4519250798531565906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-chicago-to-badlands.html' title='From Chicago to the Badlands'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Spxd8a_fgnI/AAAAAAAACyM/pxLk3gqlK7g/s72-c/TripUSA-Badlands-devilsTower-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-5188811124848226574</id><published>2009-08-27T00:03:00.013-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-31T19:23:35.108-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Two days in Chicago</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nous voilà de retour à la civilisation dans le Montana ;-) Back to an internet connexion in Montana...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chicago... Let's start with the beginning!&lt;br /&gt;2j et pas mal de jolies choses de vues entre mardi et mercredi dernier :-)&lt;br /&gt;On a commencé par The Loop, au centre de Chicago avec son célèbre Silver Bean (ce n'est pas le nom officiel mais c'est le plus utilisé) dans &lt;a href="http://www.millenniumpark.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Millenium Park&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We began with The Loop, in Chicago Center, with its famous Siver Bean (it's not the official name, but it is the most used) in &lt;a href="http://www.millenniumpark.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Millenium Park&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYThqvF8HI/AAAAAAAACu8/ttDDfzLa6fU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYThqvF8HI/AAAAAAAACu8/ttDDfzLa6fU/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374504674441687154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYThIaCpdI/AAAAAAAACu0/EYG3iPTY3A8/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYThIaCpdI/AAAAAAAACu0/EYG3iPTY3A8/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374504665226585554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La pluie s'invitant de nouveau, on part se cultiver au &lt;a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/" target="_blank"&gt;Art Institute of Chicago&lt;/a&gt;. On ne sera pas déçu même si on n'a pas eu le temps de tout voir...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rain again, therefore we move inside to the &lt;a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/" target="_blank"&gt;Art Institute of Chicago&lt;/a&gt;. It's worth it, even if we don't have time to see everything... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Miro, Personages with star&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYUBsedWMI/AAAAAAAACvk/MCIsoRkVOy4/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 335px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYUBsedWMI/AAAAAAAACvk/MCIsoRkVOy4/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374505224664602818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cezanne, The basket of apples&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYUBKAM9LI/AAAAAAAACvc/3UtomUcz3js/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--48.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 374px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYUBKAM9LI/AAAAAAAACvc/3UtomUcz3js/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--48.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374505215410894002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monet, Water Lilies&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYUA5P7WrI/AAAAAAAACvU/5efvlSKi9LU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--54.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYUA5P7WrI/AAAAAAAACvU/5efvlSKi9LU/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--54.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374505210913446578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Van Gogh, The bedroom&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYUASmknuI/AAAAAAAACvM/DaJOlA63How/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--60.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYUASmknuI/AAAAAAAACvM/DaJOlA63How/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--60.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374505200539442914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pollock, The key&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYT_3-WDFI/AAAAAAAACvE/jYN29DOHN9g/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--64.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYT_3-WDFI/AAAAAAAACvE/jYN29DOHN9g/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--64.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374505193391393874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par contre en sortant, le soleil est de retour temporairement, le temps de faire de nouvelles photos et d'aller jusqu'à &lt;a href="http://www.cpdit01.com/resources/buckingham_fountain.cfm" target="_blank"&gt;Buckingham Fountain&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, when we left, the sun is back for a while, time for us to take some more pictures and to go to &lt;a href="http://www.cpdit01.com/resources/buckingham_fountain.cfm" target="_blank"&gt;Buckingham Fountain&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVAsx4gDI/AAAAAAAACv0/ejQ9GOv7nls/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--70.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVAsx4gDI/AAAAAAAACv0/ejQ9GOv7nls/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--70.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374506307077832754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVAJ0G0FI/AAAAAAAACvs/L0mLIUo87xU/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--72.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVAJ0G0FI/AAAAAAAACvs/L0mLIUo87xU/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--72.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374506297691918418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'appel du ventre se faisant sentir, on remonte Michigan Avenue en espérant trouver une terrasse sympa, mais la pluie aura raison de nous à nouveau :-(&lt;br /&gt;Fin de soirée en musique au Millenium Park toujours, avec un groupe brésilien qui aura lui aussi été un peu victime de la pluie !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time to eat, we go on Michigan Avenue hoping to find a nice terrasse, but the rain beat us again:-(&lt;br /&gt;We end in music at Millenium Park again, with a Brazilian group...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVZOOLoaI/AAAAAAAACwM/HBz2Y1xulH0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--78.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVZOOLoaI/AAAAAAAACwM/HBz2Y1xulH0/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--78.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374506728371757474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVY7EPavI/AAAAAAAACwE/rMQX8MIMiXs/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--92.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVY7EPavI/AAAAAAAACwE/rMQX8MIMiXs/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--92.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374506723229788914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVYWUWkYI/AAAAAAAACv8/ys2IcWUe88c/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--93.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYVYWUWkYI/AAAAAAAACv8/ys2IcWUe88c/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--93.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374506713365254530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mardi direction le centre à nouveau, avec cette fois-ci la découverte du front de lac, les plages aménagées avec palmiers pour certaines (l'eau n'est pas vraiment plus chaude qu'à Boston !), mais aussi du Farmer's Market :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, we head to the center again, with this time the lakeside, the sand beaches with some palm trees for some (the water is not really warmer than in Boston!), but also the Farmer's Market :-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYV-Ylo7JI/AAAAAAAACwU/FPFWov47Ons/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--114.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYV-Ylo7JI/AAAAAAAACwU/FPFWov47Ons/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--114.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374507366809660562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYV-q3P2iI/AAAAAAAACwc/oeMkcDGV18o/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--150.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYV-q3P2iI/AAAAAAAACwc/oeMkcDGV18o/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--150.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374507371715353122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On fera les touristes le long d'une promenade en bateau pour découvrir un peu plus l'histoire derrière tous ces buildings (Chicago étant La ville des gratte-ciel), histoire qui a commencée après le grand feu détruisant la ville à la fin du 19è siècle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then go on a boat trip to better discover the buildings' story, which began after the great fire burning the city at the end of the 19th century.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWVdy8sqI/AAAAAAAACxE/sreh7CqxO2c/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--123.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWVdy8sqI/AAAAAAAACxE/sreh7CqxO2c/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--123.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374507763344650914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWVLb5ZyI/AAAAAAAACw8/JRayiyMja9E/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--126.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 144px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWVLb5ZyI/AAAAAAAACw8/JRayiyMja9E/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--126.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374507758416127778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWUpRBexI/AAAAAAAACw0/lo-8lbNTGOk/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--131.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWUpRBexI/AAAAAAAACw0/lo-8lbNTGOk/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--131.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374507749243714322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWUeQrFfI/AAAAAAAACws/KjNRwRGDDQc/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--142.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWUeQrFfI/AAAAAAAACws/KjNRwRGDDQc/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--142.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374507746289456626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWT3j9sII/AAAAAAAACwk/szlYEOFKGJI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--146.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYWT3j9sII/AAAAAAAACwk/szlYEOFKGJI/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--146.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374507735901384834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fin d'après-midi au &lt;a href="http://www.hancock-observatory.com/en/"&gt;John Hancock Observatory&lt;/a&gt; pour voir la ville d'en haut, avant de finir par LA spécialité culinaire locale, la Deep Dish : une pizza-quiche qui remplit bien le ventre !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;End of day at the &lt;a href="http://www.hancock-observatory.com/en/"&gt;John Hancock Observatory&lt;/a&gt; to see the city from the top, before eating some local food, the Deep Dish: a deep pizza!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW2y90UvI/AAAAAAAACxs/gHQCBO_uwxQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--158.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW2y90UvI/AAAAAAAACxs/gHQCBO_uwxQ/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--158.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374508335963067122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW2Xu-lRI/AAAAAAAACxk/JR5yJwhsXlQ/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--163.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW2Xu-lRI/AAAAAAAACxk/JR5yJwhsXlQ/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--163.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374508328653067538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW2I0xSII/AAAAAAAACxc/OFirPPFrWVs/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--168.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW2I0xSII/AAAAAAAACxc/OFirPPFrWVs/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--168.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374508324650829954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW1zthXQI/AAAAAAAACxU/VJF4UCxmihY/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--176.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW1zthXQI/AAAAAAAACxU/VJF4UCxmihY/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--176.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374508318983281922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW1IsQIxI/AAAAAAAACxM/ycP-wz9CxwI/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--178.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYW1IsQIxI/AAAAAAAACxM/ycP-wz9CxwI/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--178.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374508307435234066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-5188811124848226574?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/5188811124848226574/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=5188811124848226574&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5188811124848226574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5188811124848226574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/two-days-in-chicago.html' title='Two days in Chicago'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SpYThqvF8HI/AAAAAAAACu8/ttDDfzLa6fU/s72-c/TripUSA-Chicago--17.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-2895354035473410194</id><published>2009-08-19T00:22:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-19T00:29:10.680-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road trip'/><title type='text'>Boston - Chicago</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is it!&lt;br /&gt;Leaving Sunday morning at 7am from Winchester, we drove all the way to Ohio where we slept in a campsite before finishing the 1,000 miles in Chicago on Monday morning.&lt;br /&gt;Not much to say, lots of forest and corn fields, as well as wine grapes along the road...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ça y est !&lt;br /&gt;On est donc parti dimanche matin à 7h de Winchester et on a roulé toute la journée pour poser la tente en Ohio dans un camping avant de finir la route 1 000 miles (1 600 km) plus loin à Chicago lundi matin.&lt;br /&gt;De la foret, des champs de mais, mais aussi des vignes tout au long de la route...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sot_YgI8J6I/AAAAAAAACus/N-O801lkn10/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sot_YgI8J6I/AAAAAAAACus/N-O801lkn10/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371527039490467746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sot_XyMxmEI/AAAAAAAACuk/qmE3r8H4yI0/s1600-h/TripUSA-Chicago--5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sot_XyMxmEI/AAAAAAAACuk/qmE3r8H4yI0/s400/TripUSA-Chicago--5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371527027158521922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-2895354035473410194?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/2895354035473410194/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=2895354035473410194&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2895354035473410194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2895354035473410194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/boston-chicago.html' title='Boston - Chicago'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sot_YgI8J6I/AAAAAAAACus/N-O801lkn10/s72-c/TripUSA-Chicago--1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-6291944967158215312</id><published>2009-08-17T14:17:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-17T14:44:57.696-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lowell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><title type='text'>Last days before leaving</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;From now on I have promised to write in English too... so let's at least start ;-)&lt;br /&gt;We left Boston on Sunday morning, but before talking about the trip, here are the last pics from Boston...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme il n'y a pas que des francophones qui lisent le blog, je vais tacher d'écrire en anglais aussi ;-)&lt;br /&gt;On a donc quitté Boston dimanche matin, mais avant de parler du voyage, voici les dernières photos de Boston...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Le Summer Event du boulot, pas pire pour un avant dernier jour...&lt;br /&gt;Summer Event, not bad before leaving the company...&lt;br /&gt;Canobi Lake Park (NH)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Somgi_V1F9I/AAAAAAAACtM/7mfSxaCxN5E/s1600-h/Divers-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Somgi_V1F9I/AAAAAAAACtM/7mfSxaCxN5E/s400/Divers-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371000553595017170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Somgj7YkcII/AAAAAAAACtg/qAs8F11LzQg/s1600-h/Divers-9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Somgj7YkcII/AAAAAAAACtg/qAs8F11LzQg/s400/Divers-9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371000569712636034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeudi soir à Lowell avec les collègues de Dav - Thursday night in Lowell with David's colleagues from UML&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomgjF8dQwI/AAAAAAAACtU/xsz0VmTzUys/s1600-h/Divers-14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomgjF8dQwI/AAAAAAAACtU/xsz0VmTzUys/s400/Divers-14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371000555367645954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vendredi soir à Cambridge - Friday night in Cambridge, serious or wild, you pick!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomgkqG5RNI/AAAAAAAACts/J5ses_ngWgU/s1600-h/Divers-21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomgkqG5RNI/AAAAAAAACts/J5ses_ngWgU/s400/Divers-21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371000582254970066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomglR7rW6I/AAAAAAAACt4/_D7IfnxuuVA/s1600-h/Divers-22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomglR7rW6I/AAAAAAAACt4/_D7IfnxuuVA/s400/Divers-22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371000592945339298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomkPcXHbXI/AAAAAAAACuE/7CBgKY3TTmk/s1600-h/Divers-24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomkPcXHbXI/AAAAAAAACuE/7CBgKY3TTmk/s400/Divers-24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371004615834168690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomkPjP-tUI/AAAAAAAACuM/31g9hDM9Viw/s1600-h/Divers-28.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomkPjP-tUI/AAAAAAAACuM/31g9hDM9Viw/s400/Divers-28.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371004617683285314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomkQJI7OfI/AAAAAAAACuU/7a2z0lO2upU/s1600-h/Divers-32.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomkQJI7OfI/AAAAAAAACuU/7a2z0lO2upU/s400/Divers-32.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371004627854244338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomkQq6Q5BI/AAAAAAAACuc/IUk-ljjlbLE/s1600-h/Divers-33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SomkQq6Q5BI/AAAAAAAACuc/IUk-ljjlbLE/s400/Divers-33.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371004636919555090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-6291944967158215312?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/6291944967158215312/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=6291944967158215312&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6291944967158215312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6291944967158215312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/last-days-before-leaving.html' title='Last days before leaving'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Somgi_V1F9I/AAAAAAAACtM/7mfSxaCxN5E/s72-c/Divers-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-2197384412032898199</id><published>2009-08-12T23:06:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-12T23:22:23.334-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voyage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boulot'/><title type='text'>Ca sent la fin...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Bon... Ça y est... je crois qu'on peut le dire puisque je suis assise par terre et que le PC est sur un carton : on n'a plus de meuble, rien que des cartons et quelques bricoles. On passe progressivement en mode camping, on a même utilisé la popote et sorti les frontales ce soir.&lt;br /&gt;Encore 2 jours de boulot et ce sera les grandes vacances pour nous, ça commençait à manquer !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Départ dimanche matin pour 6 semaines, avec au programme de la route, beaucoup de route (sûrement plus de 15 000km), mais aussi grosso modo dans l'ordre probablement Chicago, Grand Teton NP, Yellowstone NP, Nelson (Colombie Britanique), Cascades NP, Mt Rainier NP, Crater Lake NP, Smith Rock, San Fransisco, Yosemite NP, Death Valley NP, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon NP, Arches NP, ... et retour à Boston fin septembre.&lt;br /&gt;Peut être qu'on sautera des étapes ou qu'on en prolongera d'autres, on se laisse le choix au fil du voyage, le seul impératif étant l'avion le 2 octobre en gros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&amp;amp;source=s_d&amp;amp;saddr=Boston,+MA&amp;amp;daddr=Chicago,+IL+to:Gardiner,+MT+to:Nelson,+BC,+Canada+to:Paradise,+Washington+to:San+Francisco,+CA+to:South+Lake+Tahoe,+CA+to:yosemite+village,+ca+to:Las+Vegas,+NV+to:Denver,+CO+to:Boston,+MA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;mra=mr&amp;amp;mrcr=3&amp;amp;sll=42.287015,-97.22223&amp;amp;sspn=37.558429,93.076172&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=42.287015,-97.22223&amp;amp;spn=37.558429,93.076172&amp;amp;output=embed"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;saddr=Boston,+MA&amp;amp;daddr=Chicago,+IL+to:Gardiner,+MT+to:Nelson,+BC,+Canada+to:Paradise,+Washington+to:San+Francisco,+CA+to:South+Lake+Tahoe,+CA+to:yosemite+village,+ca+to:Las+Vegas,+NV+to:Denver,+CO+to:Boston,+MA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;mra=mr&amp;amp;mrcr=3&amp;amp;sll=42.287015,-97.22223&amp;amp;sspn=37.558429,93.076172&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=42.287015,-97.22223&amp;amp;spn=37.558429,93.076172" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left"&gt;View Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilà, si vous avez des recommandations, c'est le moment :-)&lt;br /&gt;(vous ne pourrez bientôt plus poster de commentaires, il est temps de s'y mettre !)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-2197384412032898199?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/2197384412032898199/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=2197384412032898199&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2197384412032898199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/2197384412032898199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/ca-sent-la-fin.html' title='Ca sent la fin...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3204913291587391607</id><published>2009-08-08T14:02:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T15:45:44.534-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Winchester'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soirée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musée'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cuisine'/><title type='text'>BBQ in Swanton Street, ICA, Crabe &amp; Lobster</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Le temps passant vite, on a commencé nos Farewells avant qu'il ne soit trop tard (vous voyez, des fois on n'est pas au pif ou à l'arrache !).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petit barbecue mercredi avec les moustiques et surtout les collègues et les français cambridgiens...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3R4wSWk2I/AAAAAAAACpg/9hK5N48vLxw/s1600-h/farewell-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3R4wSWk2I/AAAAAAAACpg/9hK5N48vLxw/s400/farewell-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367677103860257634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3R4kSVhTI/AAAAAAAACpY/7q3OgQsMre4/s1600-h/farewell-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3R4kSVhTI/AAAAAAAACpY/7q3OgQsMre4/s400/farewell-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367677100638962994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3R4UC7TEI/AAAAAAAACpQ/ZEbFjSvuQZ8/s1600-h/farewell-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3R4UC7TEI/AAAAAAAACpQ/ZEbFjSvuQZ8/s400/farewell-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367677096279362626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeudi soir on a commencé notre farewell avec les lobster et les crabes au Barking Crab, après avoir profité des Free Thursday de l'&lt;a href="http://www.icaboston.org/" target="_blank"&gt;ICA&lt;/a&gt; (Institute of Contemporary Art) et d'une super expo de &lt;a href="http://obeygiant.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Shepard Fairey&lt;/a&gt; (l'artiste à l'origine de l'image de campagne d'Obama Yes we can / Hope) -source Wikipedia.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a9/Barack_Obama_Hope_poster.svg/396px-Barack_Obama_Hope_poster.svg.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 198px; height: 300px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a9/Barack_Obama_Hope_poster.svg/396px-Barack_Obama_Hope_poster.svg.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et en attendant qu'une table se libère, on en a profité pour faire des photos du downtown...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3UuxOVJRI/AAAAAAAACp4/Dam97NUpEKo/s1600-h/boston-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3UuxOVJRI/AAAAAAAACp4/Dam97NUpEKo/s400/boston-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367680230848013586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3UuiEq1BI/AAAAAAAACpw/veqElWL8WEA/s1600-h/boston-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3UuiEq1BI/AAAAAAAACpw/veqElWL8WEA/s400/boston-4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367680226780959762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3UucZUWDI/AAAAAAAACpo/wCjbUr_n1dU/s1600-h/boston-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3UucZUWDI/AAAAAAAACpo/wCjbUr_n1dU/s400/boston-6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367680225256953906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le lobster et les crab legs ont quant à eux tenu toutes leurs promesses...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3204913291587391607?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3204913291587391607/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3204913291587391607&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3204913291587391607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3204913291587391607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/bbq-in-swanton-street-ica-crabe-lobster.html' title='BBQ in Swanton Street, ICA, Crabe &amp; Lobster'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn3R4wSWk2I/AAAAAAAACpg/9hK5N48vLxw/s72-c/farewell-4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-6313449087421971677</id><published>2009-08-07T16:56:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T15:17:30.290-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='océan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='préparatifs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><title type='text'>Surf &amp; cartons ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Le week-end dernier on s'est occupé entre plage, VTT et cartons/tri, je dois avouer que je préfère les 2 premiers choix, comme tout le monde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bref, samedi on a pris de nouvelles couleurs à Hampton Beach avec Renaud et Laure-Anne, l'eau avait gagné quelques degrés par rapport à la &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/hampton-beach.html" target="_blank"&gt;dernière fois&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn254cCC21I/AAAAAAAACnY/Y_V0k6l8Gmo/s1600-h/hampton+beach-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn254cCC21I/AAAAAAAACnY/Y_V0k6l8Gmo/s400/hampton+beach-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367650710144080722" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dommage pour moi, je n'arrive toujours pas à me mettre debout proprement, il va falloir qu'on y retourne dimanche pour améliorer ça... avant qu'il ne soit trop tard (ou que quelqu'un mette des vagues à Grenoble) !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petit resto et fin de concert en plein air au City Hall le soir, pour le "Best Music Poll 2009". On a vu la fin de &lt;a href="http://www6.thebravery.com" target="_blank"&gt;The Bravery&lt;/a&gt; et tout le monde s'en est allé sur le coup des 11h...&lt;br /&gt;Petite vidéo du dernier morceau...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-761cd326e638971" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v1.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D0761cd326e638971%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330294106%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D319859ACDECA258B1FA0A29EC022093DE93FA751.145903F838539C39DB27076A2BC82FA03ECF1EA6%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D761cd326e638971%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D0UgikefRm_jUpR08ahPkT2GUqgw&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v1.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D0761cd326e638971%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330294106%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D319859ACDECA258B1FA0A29EC022093DE93FA751.145903F838539C39DB27076A2BC82FA03ECF1EA6%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D761cd326e638971%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D0UgikefRm_jUpR08ahPkT2GUqgw&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et je vous passe notre série Craigslist / tri / cartons de dimanche qui n'a rien de super drôle... Allez, voici quand même quelques photos en vrac de nos ventes ! Il nous reste plus grand chose à vendre, on commence doucement à passer en mode camping ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn261Na0IzI/AAAAAAAACoQ/NtMKU5OhPOI/s1600-h/moving+sale-24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn261Na0IzI/AAAAAAAACoQ/NtMKU5OhPOI/s200/moving+sale-24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367651754193462066" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn261uW3_8I/AAAAAAAACog/dr4EUko8GU4/s1600-h/moving+sale-49.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn261uW3_8I/AAAAAAAACog/dr4EUko8GU4/s200/moving+sale-49.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367651763035307970" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn26eX1b2qI/AAAAAAAACoI/h6VDthFMC08/s1600-h/moving+sale-19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn261kYnwCI/AAAAAAAACoo/aFGqzrBhp_4/s200/moving+sale-41.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367651760358277154" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais on a toujours nos tomates cerises :-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn254swPV7I/AAAAAAAACng/697soVwCiGI/s1600-h/fleurs-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn254swPV7I/AAAAAAAACng/697soVwCiGI/s400/fleurs-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367650714632804274" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-6313449087421971677?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=761cd326e638971&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/6313449087421971677/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=6313449087421971677&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6313449087421971677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6313449087421971677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/08/surf-cartons.html' title='Surf &amp; cartons ...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sn254cCC21I/AAAAAAAACnY/Y_V0k6l8Gmo/s72-c/hampton+beach-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-4611739057925437649</id><published>2009-07-30T16:39:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-30T17:10:33.742-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voyage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boulot'/><title type='text'>Back to...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;... the origin...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je pense que plusieurs d'entre vous sont déjà au courant, mais l'occasion mérite quand même un post puisque ce n'est pas tout les jours que ça arrive et que ça risque aussi de conditionner l'avenir de ce blog...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc vous l'aurez compris, on a commencé à vendre tous nos meubles, vaisselle et autres trucs qu'on ne pourra pas ramener avec nous (mais pas la poterie, ouf - merci Flo !!), ça commence à partir doucement et d'ici le 15 aout tout doit être soit emballé, soit vendu puisqu'on s'en va :-(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non, on ne prend pas tout de suite l'avion, on commence avec la voiture et en direction l'ouest aussi :-) pour 6 semaines de road trip, de rando, de grimpe, de visites, ...&lt;br /&gt;J'en salive déjà... Yeeppeeee !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et ensuite, début octobre, on rentrera au bercail, c'est un peu le cas de le dire pour moi, puisque la suite de nos aventures nous amènera à Grenoble (il y en a certains qui doivent dire qu'on n'arrête pas de les suivre !).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour rien vous cacher et aussi incroyable que cela puisse paraitre, je dois dire que la saison d'hiver va me manquer... Comme quoi, les voyages ça change les gens, il n'y a pas photo !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-4611739057925437649?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/4611739057925437649/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=4611739057925437649&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4611739057925437649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4611739057925437649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/back-to.html' title='Back to...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-7727097539004045048</id><published>2009-07-27T19:21:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-29T00:07:05.914-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>One more time in Rumney</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un samedi à Rumney bien agréable pour Juillet, à l'ombre des arbres, sans trop de moustiques / black flies et avec un nouveau secteur bien sympa et bien loin : Closenest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a commencé par s'échauffer dans du 5.11c/d, on va dire qu'on a un peu sous-estimé la cotation à vue de nez vu que notre topo est loin d'être exhaustif et que pas mal de choses étaient mouillées... mais bon ce n'était pas moche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direction ensuite le secteur de Jimmy Cliff avec une belle petite traversée (5.10a ?).&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42rAJrLeI/AAAAAAAACb4/oetCG56pI5Y/s1600-h/2009-07+Rumney-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42rAJrLeI/AAAAAAAACb4/oetCG56pI5Y/s400/2009-07+Rumney-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363284318647692770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42qklHamI/AAAAAAAACbw/pYIbqquZ1bk/s1600-h/2009-07+Rumney-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42qklHamI/AAAAAAAACbw/pYIbqquZ1bk/s400/2009-07+Rumney-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363284311246596706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42qZaEh3I/AAAAAAAACbo/qiC5Ej2Bqh8/s1600-h/2009-07+Rumney-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42qZaEh3I/AAAAAAAACbo/qiC5Ej2Bqh8/s400/2009-07+Rumney-6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363284308247480178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et des voies bien class et plus longues au secteur Closenest...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42qUkL6WI/AAAAAAAACbg/IxQ4CXrqu24/s1600-h/2009-07+Rumney-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42qUkL6WI/AAAAAAAACbg/IxQ4CXrqu24/s400/2009-07+Rumney-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363284306947729762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-7727097539004045048?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/7727097539004045048/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=7727097539004045048&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7727097539004045048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/7727097539004045048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-more-time-in-rumney.html' title='One more time in Rumney'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sm42rAJrLeI/AAAAAAAACb4/oetCG56pI5Y/s72-c/2009-07+Rumney-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-1908660006830232597</id><published>2009-07-22T19:44:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T19:52:50.328-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='océan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surf'/><title type='text'>Hampton Beach</title><content type='html'>Dimanche, direction donc Hampton Beach et sa plage de surfers pour rider les vagues... ou pas !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A 10h, il n'y avait déjà plus de planches à louer, forcément c'est un des premiers jours où il fait chaud et beau, c'était un peu prévisible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du coup ce sera ballade, baignade et sieste en attendant le début d'après-midi où quelques planches reviennent. L'occasion aussi de récupérer des combinaisons et pour certains d'arrêter de faire la grimace en mettant plus que le mollet à l'eau !&lt;br /&gt;Surf ou body board, c'est selon...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Smektfb4k0I/AAAAAAAACSc/dP6hayWtMHg/s1600-h/P1040819.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Smektfb4k0I/AAAAAAAACSc/dP6hayWtMHg/s400/P1040819.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361434982847386434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmektM7sV9I/AAAAAAAACSU/14814NmjjQ8/s1600-h/P1040808.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmektM7sV9I/AAAAAAAACSU/14814NmjjQ8/s400/P1040808.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361434977880528850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au retour, on s'est arrêté à Newburyport chez notre copain Bob Lobster, vous aurez deviné pourquoi...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmeknN_JtTI/AAAAAAAACSE/3AXogqKRrnM/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-65.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmeknN_JtTI/AAAAAAAACSE/3AXogqKRrnM/s400/Harbor+trip-65.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361434875084256562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmeknScPvKI/AAAAAAAACSM/1t90SfKS8l0/s1600-h/P1040840.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmeknScPvKI/AAAAAAAACSM/1t90SfKS8l0/s400/P1040840.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361434876280028322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-1908660006830232597?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/1908660006830232597/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=1908660006830232597&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1908660006830232597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1908660006830232597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/hampton-beach.html' title='Hampton Beach'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Smektfb4k0I/AAAAAAAACSc/dP6hayWtMHg/s72-c/P1040819.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3029103800200164065</id><published>2009-07-22T19:28:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T19:43:54.293-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='océan'/><title type='text'>La preuve en images</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Voici quelques photos de Flo et Thomas de ce week-end, pour vous prouver qu'on est bien allé se baigner :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entre les préparatifs du bateau pour partir et s'arrêter et la barre à tenir, on est allé plein de fois à l'eau, avec plus ou moins de rapidité, c'est selon...&lt;br /&gt;Heureusement que dimanche ils ont découvert un truc qui s'appelle combinaison :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejUDxqdvI/AAAAAAAACR8/r8u6O9JP8P8/s1600-h/P1040678.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejUDxqdvI/AAAAAAAACR8/r8u6O9JP8P8/s400/P1040678.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361433446414186226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejT-0E7pI/AAAAAAAACR0/SBTTzv5hJZ0/s1600-h/P1040702.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejT-0E7pI/AAAAAAAACR0/SBTTzv5hJZ0/s400/P1040702.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361433445082132114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejTkj8-KI/AAAAAAAACRs/RRmYwMRITRk/s1600-h/P1040714.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejTkj8-KI/AAAAAAAACRs/RRmYwMRITRk/s400/P1040714.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361433438035179682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejTexX1II/AAAAAAAACRk/3bqBjKrbAU8/s1600-h/P1040727.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejTexX1II/AAAAAAAACRk/3bqBjKrbAU8/s400/P1040727.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361433436480853122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3029103800200164065?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3029103800200164065/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3029103800200164065&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3029103800200164065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3029103800200164065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-preuve-en-images.html' title='La preuve en images'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmejUDxqdvI/AAAAAAAACR8/r8u6O9JP8P8/s72-c/P1040678.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-1031643809638026240</id><published>2009-07-21T16:38:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T13:48:47.118-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='océan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><title type='text'>Harbor Trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Samedi matin, direction le Community Boating pour aller faire un Harbor Trip avec Flo et Thomas pour leur dernier week-end américain et leur première sortie en mer à la barre...&lt;br /&gt;Comme &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2008/07/harbor-trip.html" target="_blank"&gt;l'an dernier&lt;/a&gt; avec Maud et Damien, le ciel est gris pour partir et la brume met cette petite ambiance si particulière...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le vent n'est pas complètement au rendez-vous et certains bateaux en profitent pour mettre le spinnaker et partir au large... Ça pète le spinnaker rouge n'est-ce pas ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMLFlcYxI/AAAAAAAACRE/ccr0MCrYZDo/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 143px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMLFlcYxI/AAAAAAAACRE/ccr0MCrYZDo/s400/Harbor+trip-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126528536830738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boston s'éloigne derrière nous et les bouées sont toujours là pour nous guider et éviter d'aller s'échouer dans les bancs de sable (surtout au retour à marrée basse), toujours rester entre le rouge et le vert. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMCF_Dg9I/AAAAAAAACQ0/LNgI2z9rvWw/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMCF_Dg9I/AAAAAAAACQ0/LNgI2z9rvWw/s400/Harbor+trip-14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126374025429970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMCaWfwCI/AAAAAAAACQ8/AHqhApXFDY4/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMCaWfwCI/AAAAAAAACQ8/AHqhApXFDY4/s400/Harbor+trip-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126379492458530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tranquillement mais surement, on s'approche de notre destination, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovells_Island" target="_blank"&gt;Lovells Island&lt;/a&gt; pour y jeter l'ancre. De part sa proximité avec Georges Island (où on était allé l'an dernier), il reste quelques vestiges de bunkers recouverts de végétation. Il y a aussi une plage pas pire qui donne sur le "Boston Light", encore dans la brume.&lt;br /&gt;Pendant la pause, outre le pic-nique, on va aussi se baigner malgré la froideur de l'eau (on va dire 16-17 degrés ??). Pour ceux qui ne me croient pas, je posterai des preuves bientôt (garanties sans truquage). &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMB-OIUVI/AAAAAAAACQs/l2znJgNGDqg/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMB-OIUVI/AAAAAAAACQs/l2znJgNGDqg/s400/Harbor+trip-18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126371941175634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMBsZksHI/AAAAAAAACQk/U8rlcPmCeO8/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMBsZksHI/AAAAAAAACQk/U8rlcPmCeO8/s400/Harbor+trip-27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126367157334130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le vent ne se lève pas plus lorsqu'on repart, par contre le brouillard s'en donne à cœur joie autour des iles et les plans de navigation sont une nouvelle fois modifiés, ce sera donc un retour direct au grand désespoir de certains. Le vent a tourné, du coup on ne tirera pas de bord pour aujourd'hui... sniff...&lt;br /&gt;Un truc vachement bien sur les bouées quand il y a du brouillard (ou pas), c'est les cloches qui sonnent... avec le vent ça rend pas mal du tout.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMBQrXsoI/AAAAAAAACQc/vK0jIdx6ztM/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-37.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMBQrXsoI/AAAAAAAACQc/vK0jIdx6ztM/s400/Harbor+trip-37.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126359715787394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL6wRstUI/AAAAAAAACQM/ptgkKttjbIE/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-43.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL6wRstUI/AAAAAAAACQM/ptgkKttjbIE/s400/Harbor+trip-43.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126247938962754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL7JdPIAI/AAAAAAAACQU/isu5PwGGRxk/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-40.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL7JdPIAI/AAAAAAAACQU/isu5PwGGRxk/s400/Harbor+trip-40.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126254698242050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pas d'orage cette fois-ci pour la fin et le démâtage, c'est pas désagréable... On passe donc sous le Zakim Bridge et sous le pont du train après avoir attendu qu'il se lève (et accessoirement que le train passe)...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL6cty-mI/AAAAAAAACQE/MH32AvaWhRo/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-47.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL6cty-mI/AAAAAAAACQE/MH32AvaWhRo/s400/Harbor+trip-47.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126242688105058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL6LfjslI/AAAAAAAACP8/4FuxOAmJfGg/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-49.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL6LfjslI/AAAAAAAACP8/4FuxOAmJfGg/s400/Harbor+trip-49.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126238064980562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direction ensuite Quincy Market pour du seafood (hélas, on n'a pas récupéré de lobsters dans la journée...) et retour à la voiture en faisant quelques pauses photo by night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Custom House, de jour et de nuit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMLatlpxI/AAAAAAAACRM/C4jWbnQHKLk/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-52.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMLatlpxI/AAAAAAAACRM/C4jWbnQHKLk/s400/Harbor+trip-52.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126534208136978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMMnEUUfI/AAAAAAAACRc/dBCxnmEyhek/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-59.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMMnEUUfI/AAAAAAAACRc/dBCxnmEyhek/s400/Harbor+trip-59.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126554704564722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Old State House&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMMApL4DI/AAAAAAAACRU/6W__U16qcWE/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-54.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMMApL4DI/AAAAAAAACRU/6W__U16qcWE/s400/Harbor+trip-54.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126544390217778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et le camion de pompiers au WholeFoods pour l'alerte incendie ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL59bDcYI/AAAAAAAACP0/VFcSQcLuBX8/s1600-h/Harbor+trip-64.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaL59bDcYI/AAAAAAAACP0/VFcSQcLuBX8/s400/Harbor+trip-64.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126234287993218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dimanche, on a continué le chapitre océan à Hampton Beach... et ce sera pour le prochain post !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-1031643809638026240?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/1031643809638026240/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=1031643809638026240&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1031643809638026240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1031643809638026240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/harbor-trip.html' title='Harbor Trip'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SmaMLFlcYxI/AAAAAAAACRE/ccr0MCrYZDo/s72-c/Harbor+trip-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-450636894272200436</id><published>2009-07-15T22:26:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T16:38:18.184-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mt Washington'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='White Mountains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>WE grimpe dans les White Mountains</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un des premiers week-end (presque) sans pluie depuis bien longtemps la semaine dernière... Il ne fallait pas s'en priver, direction Conway le vendredi soir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samedi matin, c'est parti pour Hutington Ravine au pied du Mt Washington, direction Pinnacle Gully comme on l'avait fait &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/03/we-around-mt-washington.html" target="_blank"&gt;cet hiver&lt;/a&gt;. Sauf que cette fois-ci il n'y a plus de neige ni de glace, et que le pierrier et les arbustes sont plus longs à traverser...&lt;br /&gt;Toujours est-il qu'on arrive au pied de notre voie montagne du jour : &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Northeast Ridge of the Pinnacle&lt;/span&gt; (5.7), qui grosso modo va chercher au plus raide sur la photo (ça change du "aller au plus facile" !). &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wqz3cQcI/AAAAAAAACPs/3kyowwKnrl8/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wqz3cQcI/AAAAAAAACPs/3kyowwKnrl8/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886268838887874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entre 4 et 7 longueurs selon l'envie et les relais choisis, du beau rocher, des vieux pitons et quelques jolis passages aussi, y compris un peu de gaz à la fin quand Dav a voulu faire une variante. &lt;br /&gt;Ma conclusion, c'est qu'il ne fait pas bon être gros en escalade, parce qu'avec un sac un peu lourd sur le dos, c'est vachement moins drôle que sans, en particulier dans les renfougnes ou quand il faut lever la tête... On travaille pour aller faire la Meije un jour ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WhvbZ3FI/AAAAAAAACPE/CmcN2Y4kBjM/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WhvbZ3FI/AAAAAAAACPE/CmcN2Y4kBjM/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886113028725842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WhN2W90I/AAAAAAAACO8/0cCkguAHRro/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WhN2W90I/AAAAAAAACO8/0cCkguAHRro/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886104014976834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois sorti, on finit tranquillement jusqu'au jardin alpin avant de redescendre par le Lion's Head Trail. Le ciel a été plus ou moins menaçant toute la journée, mais ça a l'air de tenir pour encore quelques heures. Cerise sur le gâteau, on aura la chance de voir un moose tranquillement en train de profiter de la bonne herbe de la piste de ski avant d'arriver. Cool as a moose en tout cas !&lt;br /&gt;Pour la culture, moose = orignal en Amérique du nord. C'est un cousin / frère de l'élan en Europe.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wqm8PfyI/AAAAAAAACPk/sT1ugPqdeJQ/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wqm8PfyI/AAAAAAAACPk/sT1ugPqdeJQ/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886265369362210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wqas4nLI/AAAAAAAACPc/PVvmpDBw7-o/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wqas4nLI/AAAAAAAACPc/PVvmpDBw7-o/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886262083722418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WqAfjeLI/AAAAAAAACPU/9IHpsyaGMiY/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WqAfjeLI/AAAAAAAACPU/9IHpsyaGMiY/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886255048489138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce qui devait arriver arriva ensuite, il a commencé à pleuvoir juste après qu'on ait fini de manger... Du coup on a profité du coffre de la voiture pour le dessert :-) Pas mal non ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WpgiZ4OI/AAAAAAAACPM/Dm1EwJ8RU60/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WpgiZ4OI/AAAAAAAACPM/Dm1EwJ8RU60/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886246470508770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dimanche, le soleil a lentement séché le rocher... mais pas assez pour qu'on fasse ce qu'on avait prévu. On est donc allé aux dalles de Whitehorse Ledge pour faire &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Beginner's Route&lt;/span&gt; (5.5), de la dalle, de la dalle et encore de la dalle, pas très dure, mais pas grand chose pour protéger non plus, sauf à la fin où une fissure a été utilisée à bon escient !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wgz2K4LI/AAAAAAAACO0/of4KDw6eFOI/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wgz2K4LI/AAAAAAAACO0/of4KDw6eFOI/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886097034862770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WgkzHGTI/AAAAAAAACOs/zIg2Tlhkm30/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WgkzHGTI/AAAAAAAACOs/zIg2Tlhkm30/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886092995500338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WgbiA8FI/AAAAAAAACOk/ppi3f7wJFr0/s1600-h/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-34.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6WgbiA8FI/AAAAAAAACOk/ppi3f7wJFr0/s400/Huntington-whitehorse-ricoh-34.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358886090507874386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-450636894272200436?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/450636894272200436/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=450636894272200436&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/450636894272200436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/450636894272200436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-grimpe-dans-les-white-mountains.html' title='WE grimpe dans les White Mountains'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl6Wqz3cQcI/AAAAAAAACPs/3kyowwKnrl8/s72-c/Huntington-whitehorse-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3122180331704312309</id><published>2009-07-14T21:49:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-14T23:28:55.325-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canada'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voyage'/><title type='text'>Les photos de Montréal</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Chose promise chose due, voici quelques photos de Montréal, le week-end du 4 juillet... (je n'ai que 10j de retard...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tout a commencé, il faut le dire, par la poutine (LE plat québécois) qu'on a mangée après avoir passé la frontière chez Ti'Polo. On est 5 à vous recommander cette baraque à frites où tous les locaux (pas mal d'agriculteurs) se retrouvent le midi pour discuter, autour de leur poutine bien entendu. La poutine en fait, c'est des frites (d'où l'importance de la qualité et de la fraicheur des patates), avec du fromage qui fait couic-couic et de la sauce barbecue dessus. Bon, on vous l'accorde, c'est pas notre plat préféré, on préfère la charcuterie du marché Jean Talon :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois arrivé à Montréal, l'appel du ventre se fait à nouveau sentir pour certains et en plus c'est l'heure de manger... et de goûter aux différentes bières... n'est-ce pas Laure-Anne ??&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1CB56ztdI/AAAAAAAACNc/zDGBxZgDVgM/s1600-h/Montreal-ricoh-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1CB56ztdI/AAAAAAAACNc/zDGBxZgDVgM/s400/Montreal-ricoh-5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358511732135540178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.hostingpics.net" title="Hébergement photos"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img7.hostingpics.net/pics/841746LA.gif" border="0" alt="Upload images" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8h, on sort du resto pour aller au &lt;a href="http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/default-en.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Festival de Jazz&lt;/a&gt;, puisqu'on est aussi venu pour ça ;-)&lt;br /&gt;8h10, les gouttes commencent à tomber... et 8h20, c'est le déluge. Donc 8h30, on est trempé malgré les parapluies et la tentative de mise à l'abri, vous vous en doutez bien. Bref, rester dehors à se faire mouiller, même avec de la bonne musique (au mois les musiciens sont à l'abri eux...), ça nous tente pas trop, surtout qu'il fait froid pour un 3 juillet :-( Du coup on finira la soirée dans un bar à jouer au poker avec nos quarters et nos dimes... ça ne s'invente pas !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samedi, le soleil est de sortie, ça fait chaud au cœur après toute la pluie qu'on a eue à Boston !&lt;br /&gt;Direction le plateau du Mont Royal pour un petit dej comme on les aime avec Laeti en plus... la class ! On en a aussi profité pour essayer &lt;a href="http://www.bixi.com/accueil" target="blank"&gt;bixi&lt;/a&gt;, le velov' montréalais... qui connaît aussi ses bugs de mise en service.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E9PV1G6I/AAAAAAAACN8/PZpWt5CRviY/s1600-h/Montreal-ricoh-19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E9PV1G6I/AAAAAAAACN8/PZpWt5CRviY/s400/Montreal-ricoh-19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358514950521559970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On monte après au Mont Royal, le ciel se couvre de plus en plus et les gouttes ne sont pas loin... pour aller ensuite manger (finalement ce sera notre activité du week-end...) au marché Jean Talon. Jambon cru, saucisson, terrine, baguette, fromages, fraises, ... je vous laisse imaginer l'état de nos papilles malgré le froid et le vent.&lt;br /&gt;Direction ensuite le festival. Dav, Laure-Anne, Renaud et Philippe jouent à Question pour un champion pour sauver la planète, le score est sans appel mais le Julien Lepers local n'offrait pas d'encyclopédie Larousse aux gagnants...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E84ZsGCI/AAAAAAAACN0/6u-V7UbNDrs/s1600-h/Montreal-ricoh-20.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E84ZsGCI/AAAAAAAACN0/6u-V7UbNDrs/s400/Montreal-ricoh-20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358514944363730978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E8uXaX2I/AAAAAAAACNs/bWg6pPHwKNY/s1600-h/Montreal-ricoh-23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E8uXaX2I/AAAAAAAACNs/bWg6pPHwKNY/s400/Montreal-ricoh-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358514941669826402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et enfin les concerts, avec entre autres le guitariste acoustique &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/antoinedufour" target="_blank"&gt;Antoine Dufour&lt;/a&gt; qui a fait de bien belles choses, ainsi que de la formation &lt;a href="http://www.milesfromindia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Miles from India&lt;/a&gt;, mélange de jazz et de musique indienne...&lt;br /&gt;On est aussi allé aux Foufounes Électriques après sur incitation de Laurent...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dimanche, il faisait beau et chaud !! Trop bien.&lt;br /&gt;Petit dej au bord du St Laurent après avoir fait un petit tour dans le vieux Montréal et ses pierres... &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E9RKCZKI/AAAAAAAACOM/8XP0CZm0ifk/s1600-h/Montreal-16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E9RKCZKI/AAAAAAAACOM/8XP0CZm0ifk/s400/Montreal-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358514951008969890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E9GicSnI/AAAAAAAACOE/0dQMKf-1eec/s1600-h/Montreal-15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1E9GicSnI/AAAAAAAACOE/0dQMKf-1eec/s400/Montreal-15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358514948158540402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a fini notre week-end montréalais par un dernier tour au festival avec la &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/belgistan" target="_blank"&gt;Fanfare du Belgistan&lt;/a&gt;. Comment ça, vous ne connaissez pas le Belgistan, ses cuivres et ses percussions ?&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1Jocc4VQI/AAAAAAAACOc/wkl4D-IZ38Y/s1600-h/Montreal-30.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1Jocc4VQI/AAAAAAAACOc/wkl4D-IZ38Y/s400/Montreal-30.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358520090821678338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1JoFpHwgI/AAAAAAAACOU/Ldf_nCh12GQ/s1600-h/Montreal-41.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1JoFpHwgI/AAAAAAAACOU/Ldf_nCh12GQ/s400/Montreal-41.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358520084699005442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3122180331704312309?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3122180331704312309/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3122180331704312309&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3122180331704312309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3122180331704312309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/les-photos-de-montreal.html' title='Les photos de Montréal'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sl1CB56ztdI/AAAAAAAACNc/zDGBxZgDVgM/s72-c/Montreal-ricoh-5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3680356336261298799</id><published>2009-07-06T22:35:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T23:02:40.842-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canada'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='météo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voyage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>Est-ce la fin de la pluie ???</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La question se pose, puisque depuis mon post "&lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/06/is-summer-coming.html" target="_blank"&gt;Is summer coming?&lt;/a&gt;", le mois de juin a été pitoyable, avec, d'après les locaux, seulement TROIS jours entiers de soleil sans pluie pendant le mois de juin... Que du bonheur, surtout les dernières semaines qui nous avaient projetés au mois de novembre :-(&lt;br /&gt;Du coup, on n'a pas trop bougé ces derniers temps, d'où le peu de mises à jour du blog - envoyez-nous du soleil pour en avoir plus ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samedi dernier, on est allé entre deux orages faire un tour à &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2008/06/climbing-in-pawtuckaway-state-park-nh.html" target="_blank"&gt;Patuckaway&lt;/a&gt;, lieu de mes premiers exploits moustiquesques de l'an dernier... alors que cette fois-ci, Dav en a presque eu plus que moi !&lt;br /&gt;Quelques blocs bien sympathiques malgré un peu d'humidité nous ont occupé pour l'après-midi, le granit usant nos doigts bien vite. Et on a même vu une tortue, bien tranquille sous sa carapace...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK33NE-e1I/AAAAAAAACM8/I7q6zdrgjgQ/s1600-h/pawtuckaway-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK33NE-e1I/AAAAAAAACM8/I7q6zdrgjgQ/s400/pawtuckaway-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355545065928162130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK4DtUyx-I/AAAAAAAACNM/i666SvZkpCQ/s1600-h/pawtuckaway-17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK4DtUyx-I/AAAAAAAACNM/i666SvZkpCQ/s320/pawtuckaway-17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355545280742868962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK4Da9El1I/AAAAAAAACNE/pDeBKpLi_Ns/s1600-h/pawtuckaway-14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK4Da9El1I/AAAAAAAACNE/pDeBKpLi_Ns/s320/pawtuckaway-14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355545275811534674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La semaine qui a suivi a accueilli Flo et Thomas avec des trombes d'eau et une fraîcheur automnale, welcome to New England :-) Heureusement que la lobster était bonne...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et ce week-end du 4 juillet, on est parti à Montréal pour le festival de Jazz, manquant à nouveau le feu d'artifice d'Independance Day.&lt;br /&gt;Contrairement à &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2008/07/montral-day-1.html" target="_blank"&gt;l'an dernier&lt;/a&gt;, on n'aura pas vraiment souffert de la chaleur, mais plutôt du froid et de la pluie... Rinçage vendredi soir, vestes obligatoires le samedi - et enfin un beau soleil dimanche !&lt;br /&gt;Suite en photos pour bientôt...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK6M2p78_I/AAAAAAAACNU/89uUwlPfHmQ/s1600-h/Montreal-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK6M2p78_I/AAAAAAAACNU/89uUwlPfHmQ/s400/Montreal-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355547636889547762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3680356336261298799?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3680356336261298799/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3680356336261298799&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3680356336261298799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3680356336261298799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/07/est-ce-la-fin-de-la-pluie.html' title='Est-ce la fin de la pluie ???'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SlK33NE-e1I/AAAAAAAACM8/I7q6zdrgjgQ/s72-c/pawtuckaway-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-9140819128649959226</id><published>2009-06-21T23:04:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T23:49:02.552-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='us et coutumes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cinéma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cuisine'/><title type='text'>Food, Inc.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Voilà un film bien fait à voir pour découvrir (ou confirmer) la face cachée de ce que les gens mangent tous les jours ici (et sûrement ailleurs aussi). ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foodincmovie.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Food, Inc.&lt;/a&gt; est sorti vendredi ici et fait l'apogée des pratiques peu recommandables des industries agro-alimentaires américaines, protégées par les organismes de contrôle, FDA (Food and Drug Administration) en tête bien entendu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petit aperçu avec la bande annonce...&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QqQVll-MP3I&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QqQVll-MP3I&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En vrac, on y apprend que l'américain mange en moyenne 200 livres de viande rouge par an (!), ce qui équivaut à environ &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;250g de viande par jour&lt;/span&gt; !! 2 burgers et le tour et joué me direz-vous... mais bon, 250g de viande par jour, ça commence à faire, surtout quand on voit la qualité de la viande ici : oubliez la vache qui broute dans un pré et qui respire le bon air frais, imaginez plutôt un tas de vaches nourries au maïs et entassées les unes sur les autres dans leur fumier, parquées dans un hangar à microbes qui ne voit pas la lumière. Ajoutez à cela les abattoirs qui abattent à la chaîne et qui transmettent à la chaîne salmonellose et autre e-coli, vous avez ainsi votre pièce de viande prête à consommer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pareil pour la volaille, en 50 ans il faut beaucoup moins de temps pour que la volaille devienne 2 fois plus grosse ou presque... au point que la croissance des os ne suive pas et que les pauvres poulets ne tiennent même plus debout tous seuls - mais pas de soucis, ils sont tellement serrés aussi qu'ils n'ont presque pas besoin de leurs pattes pour tenir debout !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tout ça étant contrôlé - of course - par un nombre d'industriels qui se compte sur les doigts d'une main et qui décident de la pluie et du beau temps en s'échangeant les postes avec la FDA et autres organismes de contrôle ! &lt;br /&gt;Monsantos, par exemple, fait des procès à tout va sous prétexte qu'ils ont déposé un brevet sur le gène des semences... Le pollen transportant ces gènes d'un champ à l'autre, les fermiers "éthiquement responsables" (enfin, le peu qu'il en reste...) se retrouvent en procès pour vol de propriété intellectuelle. Est-ce que le pollen devrait être supprimé ???&lt;br /&gt;Autre chose, les travailleurs dans les abattoirs, ce sont des mexicains recrutés directement à la source par les industriels, travaillant illégalement et sans droits. Les mexicains se font arrêter, mais qu'en est-il des industriels ? Facile, ils vont en chercher d'autres...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spéciale dédicace quand même à &lt;a href="http://www.polyfacefarms.com/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Polyface Farms&lt;/a&gt; et Joel, fermier adepte d'une agriculture saine et raisonnée en Virginie... Si seulement il pouvait y en avoir plus !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sur ce...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sj79skbWFNI/AAAAAAAACMk/_AVEGLJKacc/s1600-h/foodmovie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 340px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sj79skbWFNI/AAAAAAAACMk/_AVEGLJKacc/s400/foodmovie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349992349497169106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-9140819128649959226?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/9140819128649959226/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=9140819128649959226&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/9140819128649959226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/9140819128649959226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/06/food-inc.html' title='Food, Inc.'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sj79skbWFNI/AAAAAAAACMk/_AVEGLJKacc/s72-c/foodmovie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3668321840532743592</id><published>2009-06-15T21:00:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T21:29:10.632-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='VTT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>Biking to Hammond Pond Reservation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dernier WE mitigé, il était sensé faire beau mais la pluie en a décidé autrement pour la journée de dimanche... du coup on est resté dans le coin - surtout que je n'avais pas vraiment envie d'aller voir si les mouches étaient encore là où pas !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a commencé samedi par l'inauguration de la saison du &lt;a href="http://www.winchesterfarmersmarket.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Farmers Market de Winchester&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjbxz5IZssI/AAAAAAAACL8/HGPGUcVHVZw/s1600-h/farmers+market.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 97px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjbxz5IZssI/AAAAAAAACL8/HGPGUcVHVZw/s320/farmers+market.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347727481360724674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;2 ou 3 producteurs locaux qui commencent enfin à pouvoir récolter le fruit de leurs semences après les longs mois d'hiver, des plantes aromatiques, un marchand de fromages locaux (et oui !), Mamadou notre boulanger local qui s'est fait dévaliser pour ce 1er jour, ... un petit groupe pour l'animation musicale et pas mal de monde au rendez-vous ! Après une rapide analyse de la population présente, Dav a estimé le taux de natalité de Winchester à 3 ou 4 ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et nous, à partir de demain, on va commencer à aller chercher nos "&lt;a href="http://www.warnerfarm.com/content/3306" target="_blank"&gt;paniers&lt;/a&gt;", un panier de légumes et fruits hebdomadaire pour toute la saison ! Miam Miam...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a ensuite pris les vélos pour aller jusqu'à &lt;a href="http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/hammond.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Hammond Pond&lt;/a&gt;, 15 miles au sud, histoire de prendre l'air et d'aller faire un peu de bloc là bas.&lt;br /&gt;On a eu l'occasion de traverser à Newton un quartier encore plus riche que Winchester, ultra typique et représentatif de la banlieue américaine : maisons château (avec les briques rouges typiques de la Nouvelle-Angleterre), gazon bien vert sans une mauvaise herbe qui dépasse, fleurs sans feuille morte, grosse voiture garée dans l'allée, panier de basket pour les enfants... On aurait pu y tourner un épisode de Desperate Housewifes !&lt;br /&gt;Tout ça sans trop de maisons à vendre (contrairement à Winchester, où les panneaux se multiplient comme des petits pains en ce moment) : ce doit être des vrais riches là bas, ils ne doivent pas faire semblant ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois à Hammond Pond, on s'est essayé à quelques blocs sur du pudding sympa bien qu'un peu gras... Rien d'exceptionnel, mais ça a l'avantage d'être à coté, ce qui n'est pas négligeable !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjb0O8r11XI/AAAAAAAACME/rW1o27-FmbY/s1600-h/hamondpond-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjb0O8r11XI/AAAAAAAACME/rW1o27-FmbY/s400/hamondpond-7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347730145194399090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjb0O592Y6I/AAAAAAAACMM/bXAUYDzDRfE/s1600-h/hamondpond-9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjb0O592Y6I/AAAAAAAACMM/bXAUYDzDRfE/s400/hamondpond-9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347730144464626594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjb0PV7VQVI/AAAAAAAACMc/gKMvPhP7S9g/s1600-h/hamondpond-14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjb0PV7VQVI/AAAAAAAACMc/gKMvPhP7S9g/s400/hamondpond-14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347730151970259282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjb0PONQ3MI/AAAAAAAACMU/SbLo_8iKAmc/s1600-h/hamondpond-11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjb0PONQ3MI/AAAAAAAACMU/SbLo_8iKAmc/s400/hamondpond-11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347730149897985218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En tout cas il nous reste encore de quoi faire pour une prochaine fois et - chose non négligeable - il n'y avait quasiment pas de bugs :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3668321840532743592?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3668321840532743592/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3668321840532743592&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3668321840532743592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3668321840532743592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/06/biking-to-hammond-pond-reservation.html' title='Biking to Hammond Pond Reservation'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Sjbxz5IZssI/AAAAAAAACL8/HGPGUcVHVZw/s72-c/farmers+market.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-8601535060329173536</id><published>2009-06-12T00:05:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T00:55:22.171-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='White Mountains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>White Mountains et Black Flies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Voici quelques photos et commentaires de notre dernier week-end autour de North Conway &amp;amp; Cathedral Ledge, notre petit Yosemite local ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a commencé samedi par mettre du repellent en arrivant au secteur Lower Left Wall, histoire de se protéger un peu des moustiques affamés... puis Dav est parti dans &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Three Birches&lt;/span&gt; (5.8+). Je le rejoins au 1er relais après une 1ère longueur mixant dalle lisse et dulfer. Jusque là, tout va bien (enfin, presque)...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHXAKaGMxI/AAAAAAAACL0/JmOi49TREhM/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHXAKaGMxI/AAAAAAAACL0/JmOi49TREhM/s400/cathedral-ricoh-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290630459274002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et là au relais, j'ai plein de petits pucerons qui me tournent autour... Ma fois, la petite bête ne mange pas la grosse, du coup je m'inquiète pas plus que ça, ce n'est pas des moustiques... Sauf que, en haut de la voie, j'ai des points rouges de partout sur les bras et les chevilles :-(&lt;br /&gt;Bref. On attend que les cordées devant nous fassent leur bout de chemin sur le secteur du haut, Upper Left Wall aka The Barber Wall, pour aller finir la journée dans &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Upper Refuse&lt;/span&gt; (5.5). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW_wDcjxI/AAAAAAAACLs/Gpj7EkH4Qh4/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW_wDcjxI/AAAAAAAACLs/Gpj7EkH4Qh4/s400/cathedral-ricoh-9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290623384948498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notre première longueur est une dalle facile et je me motive pour partir en tête dans la 2ème longueur... dans laquelle je vais mettre beaucoup, beaucoup de temps pour choisir où passer, poser les pros après toutes les avoir essayées vu que je n'ai pas encore l'œil comme dirait Dav, ... Et le soleil tombe doucement mais sûrement pendant ce temps là ;-) Du coup on traîne pas trop pour redescendre à la voiture, les frontales étant restées dans la tente, of course.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW_up9QoI/AAAAAAAACLk/gIVC1uHs_3k/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW_up9QoI/AAAAAAAACLk/gIVC1uHs_3k/s400/cathedral-ricoh-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290623009604226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dimanche, réveil matinal la tête enfarinée : ça m'a gratté toute la nuit et là je réalise que les points rouges qui avaient disparus assez vite hier sont en fait toujours là et ont une forme de piqûre :-( Tout s'explique.&lt;br /&gt;On traîne pas trop pour remballer et arriver de bonne heure pour faire (si possible en entier !) &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Thin Air&lt;/span&gt; (5.6), dans laquelle on avait pris &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2008/05/cathedral-ledge.html" target="_blank"&gt;un but pour manque de patience l'an dernier&lt;/a&gt;... Cette fois-ci personne devant, on a la falaise pour nous !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW5k-RpLI/AAAAAAAACLc/OTTLmB_ZPjI/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW5k-RpLI/AAAAAAAACLc/OTTLmB_ZPjI/s400/cathedral-ricoh-12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290517331256498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On profite de la vue sur la proue du bateau, The Prow Area, avec une voie en 5.11d sur le fil de l'arrête ainsi que quelques classiques de l'autre coté... &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW5hxD1zI/AAAAAAAACLU/Jb9CzjDxJkQ/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW5hxD1zI/AAAAAAAACLU/Jb9CzjDxJkQ/s400/cathedral-ricoh-17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290516470519602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW5Xv8ExI/AAAAAAAACLM/tdxrWsNmIbs/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW5Xv8ExI/AAAAAAAACLM/tdxrWsNmIbs/s400/cathedral-ricoh-18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290513781461778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petite pause au sommet, avant d'aller mettre une moulinette dans &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Pine Tree Eliminate&lt;/span&gt; (5.8+), ça nous a donné envie en voyant Katia... qui nous a avoué que c'était tellement plus agréable de la faire en moulinette que de se mettre au taquet à poser les pros... Si même les russes le disent, on est tout excusé !!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW5LUQrDI/AAAAAAAACLE/MU-11g2bKvE/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHW5LUQrDI/AAAAAAAACLE/MU-11g2bKvE/s400/cathedral-ricoh-26.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290510444145714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La preuve en image que je ne raconte pas des blagues, voila la cheville droite dimanche matin : presque 40 piqûres rien que là. On rajoute là même chose sur l'autre cheville et les deux bras, et je conterai plus de 150 piqûres en tout le dimanche soir :-( Et ça grattait puissance 10. Comme quoi, plus c'est petit, plus c'est mauvais ?&lt;br /&gt;D'après une petite recherche sur &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly" target="_blank"&gt;Wikipédia&lt;/a&gt; et internet, ça ressemblerait bien à une des multiples variétés de Black Fly. Mais pourquoi personne ne veut les éradiquer ??&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWxUD4m4I/AAAAAAAACK0/brXfawVeLkA/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-31.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWxUD4m4I/AAAAAAAACK0/brXfawVeLkA/s400/cathedral-ricoh-31.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290375352425346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour finir la journée on a fait une fissure super raide super dure, en solo s'il vous plaît !!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWxLGLfrI/AAAAAAAACKs/U3A2_zFtk88/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-34.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWxLGLfrI/AAAAAAAACKs/U3A2_zFtk88/s400/cathedral-ricoh-34.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290372946132658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vue d'ensemble sur Airation Buttress depuis le sommet et son point de vue pour touristes avant de redescendre... et de trouver une jolie petite fleur en chemin.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWw1JXYNI/AAAAAAAACKk/7BJ6ERL-pWA/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-40.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWw1JXYNI/AAAAAAAACKk/7BJ6ERL-pWA/s400/cathedral-ricoh-40.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290367053914322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWwz4vncI/AAAAAAAACKc/-2C6rz1_xQ0/s1600-h/cathedral-ricoh-48.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWwz4vncI/AAAAAAAACKc/-2C6rz1_xQ0/s400/cathedral-ricoh-48.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290366715764162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et dernière pause, pour le pic nic et la sieste cette fois-ci, au bord de la Saco River, avec une belle vue sur Cathedral Ledge.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWwl1bm6I/AAAAAAAACKU/rBaRUjXpsV0/s1600-h/cathedral-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHWwl1bm6I/AAAAAAAACKU/rBaRUjXpsV0/s400/cathedral-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346290362943773602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-8601535060329173536?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/8601535060329173536/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=8601535060329173536&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/8601535060329173536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/8601535060329173536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/06/white-mountains-et-black-flies.html' title='White Mountains et Black Flies'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SjHXAKaGMxI/AAAAAAAACL0/JmOi49TREhM/s72-c/cathedral-ricoh-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-240904299532910003</id><published>2009-06-09T18:49:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T19:50:19.933-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><title type='text'>HOME &amp; the carbon footprint</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En attendant le récit de nos aventures piquantes (!!) de ce week-end, voici un post "sensibilisation-à-l'environnement-et-sauvetage-de-la-planète" suite au film &lt;a href="http://www.home-2009.com/fr/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;HOME&lt;/a&gt;, que vous avez, j'espère, vu comme nous :-) Sinon, vous pouvez aller le voir gratuitement sur YouTube jusqu'au 14 juin, même si c'est forcément pas aussi bien qu'un écran géant...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GItD10Joaa0&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GItD10Joaa0&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, vous me direz que faire toutes ces images vues d'avion, forcément ça ne participe pas à la sauvegarde de la planète... mais vous, est-ce que votre "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint" target="_blank"&gt;carbon footprint&lt;/a&gt;" y participe ?&lt;br /&gt;Le &lt;a href="http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;site Carbon Footprint&lt;/a&gt; vous permet de déterminer quelle trace vous laissez et surtout vous pouvez voir à quoi correspond chaque sujet : les habitudes alimentaires et vestimentaires ont un impact aussi important voire plus que la voiture ou l'avion !!&lt;br /&gt;Un dessin vaut plus qu'un long discours, voici donc une estimation de mon empreinte... &lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Si7xViTQzaI/AAAAAAAACKM/aFgCXBLSirQ/s1600-h/carbon+footprint.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Si7xViTQzaI/AAAAAAAACKM/aFgCXBLSirQ/s400/carbon+footprint.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345475160022502818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sachant que la moyenne aux US est de 20 tonnes, on fait plutôt figure de bon élève ici... Par exemple, si vous mangez de la viande rouge tous les jours, rien que ça représente plus d'1 tonne sur l'année !&lt;br /&gt;Par contre on fait figure de mauvais élève pour la France, où la moyenne est de 6,20 tonnes - sûrement grâce au nucléaire et à la meilleure isolation des maisons (avec les maisons en carton qu'ils ont ici, il y a encore des progrès à faire !!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et vous, quelle est votre empreinte ??? On veut savoir ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least, pour les amoureux de voitures voici un film en deux parties qu'on vous conseille de regarder lorsque vous aurez un moment... ou comment les industries pétrolières, les constructeurs automobiles et le gouvernement ont tué la voiture électrique en Californie. Finalement la faillite de GM &amp;amp; co, c'est peut-être un mal pour un bien ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m3rw9MsHB8Y&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m3rw9MsHB8Y&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CpCystkUUqU&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CpCystkUUqU&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS- n'oubliez pas de faire votre carbon footprint ;-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-240904299532910003?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/240904299532910003/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=240904299532910003&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/240904299532910003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/240904299532910003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/06/home-carbon-footprint.html' title='HOME &amp; the carbon footprint'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/Si7xViTQzaI/AAAAAAAACKM/aFgCXBLSirQ/s72-c/carbon+footprint.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-4553914822974768856</id><published>2009-06-03T21:09:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-03T21:21:51.527-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='200 Swanton Street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><title type='text'>Is summer coming?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On sent que ça arrive doucement... mais -hopefully- surement !&lt;br /&gt;Ça sent bon le barbecue le soir en rentrant à vélo, on sort de plus en plus les sandales, donc même s'il ne fait pas aussi beau qu'en France tout le monde est passé en mode été ou presque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a même la piscine qui va ouvrir... on vient d'avoir les règles du jeu aujourd'hui, c'est hilarant !! &lt;br /&gt;Parmi les perles :&lt;br /&gt;- seulement réservé au résidents, possibilité d'emmener 2 invités par appart... Et on est sensé montré son ID, pire que pour boire une bière !&lt;br /&gt;- interdit de nager tout seul&lt;br /&gt;- la perle : les adultes ont le droit de nager les heures paires, les enfants les heures impaires... Et si les enfants savent pas nager, ils se noient ???&lt;br /&gt;Mon idée d'aller se baigner le matin avant le boulot tombe à l'eau... ça n'ouvre qu'à 10h le matin (il y a un "pool attendant"...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enfin...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et autre signe de l'été, la rhubarbe, les fraises, et  -surtout-le marché (et les paniers hebdomadaires) qui va commencer !!&lt;br /&gt;En attendant j'ai craqué sur les cerises tout à l'heure... c'est vicieux de me les faire goûter ! Mais même en promo à 5$ la livre (=0,48kg !!), ça vaut quand même pas celles du jardin ou de mon producteur favori du marché de la X Rousse !!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-4553914822974768856?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/4553914822974768856/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=4553914822974768856&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4553914822974768856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4553914822974768856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/06/is-summer-coming.html' title='Is summer coming?'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-5363081896151081858</id><published>2009-06-01T22:50:00.011-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-03T21:08:02.120-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voyage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>Acadia National Park en photos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Avec une petite semaine de retard, voici le récit de nos aventures dans le Maine...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après un peu moins de 6h de route, on finit par arriver vendredi en début d'après-midi à Mount Desert Island, l'île principale d'&lt;a href="http://www.acadiamagic.com/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;Acadia National Park&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;On commence par une pause pic-nique à Otter Cliff, au bord de l'océan, où déjà quelques grimpeurs profitent de la fraîcheur maritime (il faisait bien chaud ce jour là...), tout comme les mouettes, qui elles -forcément- ne recherchent pas que ça !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZnkuXWII/AAAAAAAACHM/IsXzin1G0L8/s1600-h/Acadia-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZnkuXWII/AAAAAAAACHM/IsXzin1G0L8/s400/Acadia-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342563963120343170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZnsYxtCI/AAAAAAAACHU/D5Uixoh_4B4/s1600-h/Acadia-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZnsYxtCI/AAAAAAAACHU/D5Uixoh_4B4/s400/Acadia-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342563965177279522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petite boucle en VTT pour finir l'après-midi entre Seawall et Bass Harbor (sud-ouest de l'île), à coté du camping. On descend jusqu'au phare de Bass Harbor, il y a pas mal de pièges à lobster qui trainent dans la baie - et beaucoup de lobster steams - en gros des bacs d'eau bouillante qui attendent que le client achète une petite bête pour la faire cuire illico presto !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samedi, on a profité du granite de Precipice Cliff, la falaise de granite au pied de Cadillac Mountain (le point culminant, à 1 530 pieds - 466m) avec fissures, dièdres et vue sur la mer... Pas de photo cette fois-ci, on se rattrapera bientôt, par contre on a fait 3 belles voies  de 3 longueurs : &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Standard Route AKA Three Birches&lt;/span&gt; (5.6), &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Story of O&lt;/span&gt; (5.6 / 5.7) &amp;amp; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Old Town&lt;/span&gt; (5.7) + &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Return to Forever&lt;/span&gt; (5.9).&lt;br /&gt;On est pas encore tout à fait prêt pour le Nose, mais on y travaille, on y travaille...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La nuit tombant toujours trop tôt ici (vers 20h... et oui !), je me suis donc occupée au camping le soir avec l'appareil photo et ce que j'avais autour de moi : le feu, la bougie, le réchaud et les bières entre autres ;-) Et Dav of course avant qu'il n'aille dans le hamac !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZoUxPToI/AAAAAAAACHk/OjMddBnT8WU/s1600-h/Acadia-20.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZoUxPToI/AAAAAAAACHk/OjMddBnT8WU/s400/Acadia-20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342563976017301122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZoMJAfiI/AAAAAAAACHc/Ow1g5W_MS_g/s1600-h/Acadia-15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZoMJAfiI/AAAAAAAACHc/Ow1g5W_MS_g/s400/Acadia-15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342563973701074466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZokznewI/AAAAAAAACHs/yo1J3few4fM/s1600-h/Acadia-22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZokznewI/AAAAAAAACHs/yo1J3few4fM/s400/Acadia-22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342563980322241282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ4tCvM_I/AAAAAAAACH0/O4nrP3bCU1w/s1600-h/Acadia-30.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ4tCvM_I/AAAAAAAACH0/O4nrP3bCU1w/s400/Acadia-30.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564257411052530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acadia étant Acadia, on a eu de la pluie dans la nuit et on a pu tester l'étanchéité de notre tente... Nickel sauf qu'il faut penser à fermer la -petite- avancée pour avoir des chaussures sèches le lendemain matin ahah !!&lt;br /&gt;Bref, après 2 coups de thé on se décide pour aller se promener vers Sand Beach (la seule plage de sable de l'île... pas très original comme nom !) en attendant que le soleil sorte son nez. Il y a de belles falaises (un peu salées) tout autour pour faire du water soloing, mais bon l'eau n'est pas aussi chaude qu'à Majorque !!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaTiD5HCI/AAAAAAAACJU/V8EcPlT-5rM/s1600-h/Acadia-ricoh-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaTiD5HCI/AAAAAAAACJU/V8EcPlT-5rM/s400/Acadia-ricoh-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564718319574050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaT9t_FgI/AAAAAAAACJc/sZ-CF4zL9fQ/s1600-h/Acadia-ricoh-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaT9t_FgI/AAAAAAAACJc/sZ-CF4zL9fQ/s400/Acadia-ricoh-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564725743883778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaUJe4GiI/AAAAAAAACJk/iHrb9JaHQ8c/s1600-h/Acadia-ricoh-15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaUJe4GiI/AAAAAAAACJk/iHrb9JaHQ8c/s400/Acadia-ricoh-15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564728901736994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En regardant de plus près on a des petits oiseaux tout mimi qui ont leur tenue de camouflage et qui volent à peine.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ4wxbJ7I/AAAAAAAACH8/6OL4UP4T9Ms/s1600-h/Acadia-56.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ4wxbJ7I/AAAAAAAACH8/6OL4UP4T9Ms/s400/Acadia-56.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564258412177330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On continue à vélo sur les Carriage Roads pour monter à Day Mountain (583 pieds - 178m, quand même !) sur une route en colimaçon, puis le long des lacs : Jordan Pond, Eagle Lake et Bubble Pond. Le soleil finit par sortir et le ciel par se dégager, c'est quand même nettement mieux ! Et on a même vu des truites !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ5JGJVnI/AAAAAAAACIE/Y_49_QiJ3Kg/s1600-h/Acadia-61.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ5JGJVnI/AAAAAAAACIE/Y_49_QiJ3Kg/s400/Acadia-61.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564264941540978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSacP-un6I/AAAAAAAACJs/v2XrFMgLvsw/s1600-h/Acadia-ricoh-26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSacP-un6I/AAAAAAAACJs/v2XrFMgLvsw/s400/Acadia-ricoh-26.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564868084899746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ5UxdGTI/AAAAAAAACIM/bpq7Y9LIIvo/s1600-h/Acadia-66.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ5UxdGTI/AAAAAAAACIM/bpq7Y9LIIvo/s400/Acadia-66.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564268075981106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direction ensuite Bar Harbor pour faire les touristes et manger une lobster au bord de la mer pour le coucher du soleil... Miam miam :-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ5mcT8hI/AAAAAAAACIU/r1_6Vnn5EgM/s1600-h/Acadia-74.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 152px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZ5mcT8hI/AAAAAAAACIU/r1_6Vnn5EgM/s400/Acadia-74.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564272819139090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaHgpgW-I/AAAAAAAACIc/cFSLQdAS1us/s1600-h/Acadia-76.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaHgpgW-I/AAAAAAAACIc/cFSLQdAS1us/s400/Acadia-76.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564511782034402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaH2HOIVI/AAAAAAAACIk/D-vlekJ4MHs/s1600-h/Acadia-88.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaH2HOIVI/AAAAAAAACIk/D-vlekJ4MHs/s400/Acadia-88.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564517543813458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une fois le ventre rempli, on est allé voir les canoës rentrer aux derniers rayons du soleil de leur tour de Bar Island, ile sur laquelle on peut aller à pied à marrée basse. La marrée commençait à remonter et le passage à pied disparaissait petit à petit. Il y a environ 10m d'écart entre les 2 marrées, ça commence à faire pas mal...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaIN1QjhI/AAAAAAAACIs/5PwayiIL_KY/s1600-h/Acadia-99.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaIN1QjhI/AAAAAAAACIs/5PwayiIL_KY/s400/Acadia-99.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564523910925842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaIWUHY8I/AAAAAAAACI0/E1fvnwKup7w/s1600-h/Acadia-104.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 161px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaIWUHY8I/AAAAAAAACI0/E1fvnwKup7w/s400/Acadia-104.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564526187832258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dimanche, on est retourné à Précipice Cliff et on (Dav) a fait des photos cette fois-ci dans la première voie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chitlin' Corner&lt;/span&gt; (5.7), dièdre de 50m&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSacLo32zI/AAAAAAAACJ0/6RbPVB9njzY/s1600-h/Acadia-ricoh-41.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSacLo32zI/AAAAAAAACJ0/6RbPVB9njzY/s400/Acadia-ricoh-41.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564866919488306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSacR5djCI/AAAAAAAACJ8/MJG8fRReBr4/s1600-h/Acadia-ricoh-42.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSacR5djCI/AAAAAAAACJ8/MJG8fRReBr4/s400/Acadia-ricoh-42.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564868599680034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSachGOtYI/AAAAAAAACKE/GW0jMFHQh8Q/s1600-h/Acadia-ricoh-45.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSachGOtYI/AAAAAAAACKE/GW0jMFHQh8Q/s400/Acadia-ricoh-45.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564872679765378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a fini la journée avec &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gunklandia &lt;/span&gt;(5.7), la 1ère longueur était vachement plus sympa que le mouv' de renfougne au dessus !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaIWXpitI/AAAAAAAACI8/d5_TktgQ0Is/s1600-h/Acadia-116.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaIWXpitI/AAAAAAAACI8/d5_TktgQ0Is/s400/Acadia-116.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564526202653394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme on n'est pas de là-bas, on a fait un peu de tourisme et de trempette de pieds à Sand Beach (et croyez moi l'eau est glacée !!!) avant de reprendre la route pour Boston...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaTC7WCQI/AAAAAAAACJE/BIqNtCWovQ8/s1600-h/Acadia-123.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaTC7WCQI/AAAAAAAACJE/BIqNtCWovQ8/s400/Acadia-123.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564709962221826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaTZyXqUI/AAAAAAAACJM/Kuruv7LW6go/s1600-h/Acadia-127.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSaTZyXqUI/AAAAAAAACJM/Kuruv7LW6go/s400/Acadia-127.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342564716098595138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bref 4j bien sympa au frais et au soleil... dans le seul Parc National du coin, dommage que ce soit aussi loin de Boston !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Petite aparté sur les parc nationaux, est-ce finalement un moyen de protéger une zone ou bien un moyen de l'exploiter commercialement ? A moins que ce soit fait pour rentre accessible tout à tout le monde ? La belle route regoudronnée "Parc Loop Road", est-elle bien nécessaire lors qu'en parallèle les parcs regorgent souvent d'interdit ? Pourquoi ne pas interdire les voitures, si ce n'est pour faire plaisir au lobby en question qui commence petit à petit à en prendre pour son grade ? Effectivement, il y avait du monde aux points de vue à 5 min de la voiture (il y a même une route qui monte au Mont Cadillac - le nom veut tout dire -, de la même façon qu'une route monte au Mont Washington), alors que lorsqu'il fallait pédaler ou marcher un peu, c'était tout de suite plus tranquille... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si seulement quelqu'un avait une réponse !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-5363081896151081858?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/5363081896151081858/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=5363081896151081858&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5363081896151081858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5363081896151081858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/06/acadia-national-park-en-photos.html' title='Acadia National Park en photos'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SiSZnkuXWII/AAAAAAAACHM/IsXzin1G0L8/s72-c/Acadia-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-4573403454858331119</id><published>2009-05-29T00:01:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T00:07:14.547-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voyage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='VTT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>Memorial Day week-end à Acadia National Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On a profité d'un week-end (un poil plus que la normale...) prolongé pour aller au nord faire un tour à Acadia National Park dans le Maine.&lt;br /&gt;Du beau temps, du beau rocher, des belles pistes pour le VTT, on n'a pas à se plaindre surtout qu'il n'y avait pas de moustiques - sauf un peu au camping !&lt;br /&gt;Par contre l'eau n'était pas chaude, je dirais même qu'elle glaçait le sang !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La suite pour bientôt, en attendant Dav a mis des photos sur &lt;a href="http://davphotos.free.fr/page01.html" target="_blank"&gt;son site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-4573403454858331119?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/4573403454858331119/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=4573403454858331119&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4573403454858331119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/4573403454858331119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/05/memorial-day-week-end-acadia-national.html' title='Memorial Day week-end à Acadia National Park'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3175485910139309530</id><published>2009-05-21T08:06:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-21T23:30:13.429-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poterie'/><title type='text'>Pottery</title><content type='html'>Nouvelle série de poteries... Dav commence à se demander où on va mettre tout ça le jour où on rentrera ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Série de mugs avec la tasse "twisted", la seule qui n'a pas rétrécie à la cuisson alors que j'avais anticipé la chose !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_oI97YI/AAAAAAAACGs/NcLykTJycXk/s1600-h/poterie-48.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_oI97YI/AAAAAAAACGs/NcLykTJycXk/s400/poterie-48.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338247693703441794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVEG0S9YmI/AAAAAAAACHE/ZKY9qJGentg/s1600-h/poterie-54.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVEG0S9YmI/AAAAAAAACHE/ZKY9qJGentg/s400/poterie-54.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338247817225658978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_pPYX7I/AAAAAAAACGk/URddBfRT1us/s1600-h/poterie-46.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_pPYX7I/AAAAAAAACGk/URddBfRT1us/s400/poterie-46.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338247693998776242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_bT_J-I/AAAAAAAACGU/s3D87h4VEhI/s1600-h/poterie-37.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_bT_J-I/AAAAAAAACGU/s3D87h4VEhI/s400/poterie-37.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338247690259998690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelques pièces plus petites... Pots à olives, ramequins, mini-bol, à vous de choisir !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_X-QfYI/AAAAAAAACGc/VZjOSW1eeq8/s1600-h/poterie-42.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_X-QfYI/AAAAAAAACGc/VZjOSW1eeq8/s400/poterie-42.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338247689363553666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVEGkHrcmI/AAAAAAAACG8/icp4eZQItK0/s1600-h/poterie-53.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVEGkHrcmI/AAAAAAAACG8/icp4eZQItK0/s400/poterie-53.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338247812883378786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVEGmpXlOI/AAAAAAAACG0/-mCpYu6liKM/s1600-h/poterie-51.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVEGmpXlOI/AAAAAAAACG0/-mCpYu6liKM/s400/poterie-51.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338247813561554146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et enfin, la plus grosse pièce so far, le vase !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_OqJEXI/AAAAAAAACGM/vp7DECZdIWY/s1600-h/poterie-36.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_OqJEXI/AAAAAAAACGM/vp7DECZdIWY/s400/poterie-36.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338247686863262066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(pour l'échelle, à vous de faire le calcul, les photos ont été prises sur une table ikea standard !)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3175485910139309530?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3175485910139309530/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3175485910139309530&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3175485910139309530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3175485910139309530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/05/pottery.html' title='Pottery'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShVD_oI97YI/AAAAAAAACGs/NcLykTJycXk/s72-c/poterie-48.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-1820762367679483251</id><published>2009-05-18T20:09:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-18T20:40:29.577-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><title type='text'>Sailing on the Charles</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vendredi dernier on a commencé notre série "voile après le boulot" et Dav en a profité pour faire quelques photos et moi pour tenir la barre ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Il va vraiment falloir que je me dépêche de passer le Hellsmann pour pouvoir emmener les collègues de boulot moi-aussi... J'avais pas l'air maligne vendredi quand j'ai dit toute fière que j'avais un guest, j'aurais mieux fait de me taire et on aurait pu commencer à aller naviguer avant que Dav arrive ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Last Friday we started our "sailing after work" evenings and Dav took the opportunity to take some pictures while I was sailing ;-)&lt;br /&gt;But I really need to take the Hellsmann test to be able to bring my work colleagues too... I was stupid to say I had a guest, I should rather have said nothing and we could have sailed before Dav came ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le vent s'est un peu levé sur la fin, même si à 3 sur le bateau on avançait pas aussi vite que John, le collègue de Dav !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The wind rose a bit at the end, even if the 3 of us on the boat were slower than John, Dav's colleague! Yes, John, I did it in English too for you ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uVncMzI/AAAAAAAACGE/9Sm33QZ4aMk/s1600-h/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uVncMzI/AAAAAAAACGE/9Sm33QZ4aMk/s400/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337321607882617650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uHco9VI/AAAAAAAACF0/z3Rcds_hPQo/s1600-h/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 193px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uHco9VI/AAAAAAAACF0/z3Rcds_hPQo/s400/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337321604079220050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uaNJRyI/AAAAAAAACF8/XLm4yKgrwbI/s1600-h/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uaNJRyI/AAAAAAAACF8/XLm4yKgrwbI/s400/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337321609114502946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uPEGf7I/AAAAAAAACFs/f-PaiMdmLa4/s1600-h/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uPEGf7I/AAAAAAAACFs/f-PaiMdmLa4/s400/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337321606123782066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'ailleurs certains en avaient profité pour prendre les bateaux aux voiles énormes afin de gîter un peu plus que nous !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Moreover some people enjoyed the big boats with bigger sails to heel more than we did!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5t6LAkoI/AAAAAAAACFk/ASX9j3xa9V0/s1600-h/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5t6LAkoI/AAAAAAAACFk/ASX9j3xa9V0/s400/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-26.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337321600515609218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et samedi, grimpe à Rumney. Pas eu le temps de prendre les photos, on s'est fait la peau des doigts ;-) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;And we went climbing to Rumney on Saturday. Didn't have time to take picture, we worked on our finger's skin ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-1820762367679483251?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/1820762367679483251/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=1820762367679483251&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1820762367679483251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1820762367679483251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/05/sailing-on-charles.html' title='Sailing on the Charles'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShH5uVncMzI/AAAAAAAACGE/9Sm33QZ4aMk/s72-c/2009-05+CBI-Rumney-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3272994377218317596</id><published>2009-05-17T15:22:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-17T15:34:27.557-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boulot'/><title type='text'>Quelques news...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;... vu que certaines personnes commencent à s'impatienter ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous voila tous les deux de retour à Boston depuis une petite semaine, Dav en conf en Hollande et de passage en France et moi en Sardaigne pour le boulot, on ne va pas se plaindre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelques photos en vrac en attendant la suite...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Amsterdam et ses tulipes&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlla98q_I/AAAAAAAACFc/iSs4XnFL3ss/s1600-h/2009-04+Amsterdam-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlla98q_I/AAAAAAAACFc/iSs4XnFL3ss/s400/2009-04+Amsterdam-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336877252002753522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ski à l'aiguille d'Argentière pour Dav, vue sur le Rateau et la Meije&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlOH9d18I/AAAAAAAACE8/Ed9Ho5NJ1j8/s1600-h/2009_05_argentiere_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 184px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlOH9d18I/AAAAAAAACE8/Ed9Ho5NJ1j8/s400/2009_05_argentiere_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336876851763468226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlOHnxF8I/AAAAAAAACFE/hpI5JS92UEg/s1600-h/2009_05_argentiere_5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlOHnxF8I/AAAAAAAACFE/hpI5JS92UEg/s400/2009_05_argentiere_5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336876851672455106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voiture locale et plage de Sardaigne... Ce que j'ai pu voir en plus du tournoi de poker ;-)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlOQ6bT5I/AAAAAAAACFM/ug4wqvEdyHU/s1600-h/2009-05+EPEC-1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlOQ6bT5I/AAAAAAAACFM/ug4wqvEdyHU/s400/2009-05+EPEC-1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336876854166638482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlOtTCEOI/AAAAAAAACFU/q6UWFeBJumI/s1600-h/2009-05+EPEC-3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlOtTCEOI/AAAAAAAACFU/q6UWFeBJumI/s400/2009-05+EPEC-3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336876861786034402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3272994377218317596?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3272994377218317596/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3272994377218317596&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3272994377218317596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3272994377218317596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/05/quelques-news.html' title='Quelques news...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/ShBlla98q_I/AAAAAAAACFc/iSs4XnFL3ss/s72-c/2009-04+Amsterdam-7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-1932729544318220626</id><published>2009-05-06T00:08:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-06T00:23:04.184-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><title type='text'>Boston Blossom</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Quelques photos de Back Bay en fleurs prises il y a une dizaine de jours... En 15 jours on est donc passé de l'étape fin d'hiver &amp; arbres sans feuilles à l'étape arbres en fleurs, feuilles et pollen (et oui... ce serait trop beau sinon !)&lt;br /&gt;Autant en profiter avant que ce ne soit trop tard !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au bord de la Charles River, après un petit tour en bateau... pendant lequel le vent s'est levé avec de bonnes rafales... Maud, je t'entends rigoler d'ici, mais non je ne suis pas passée à l'eau ;-) contrairement au bateau qui se trouvait juste en face de moi et grâce auquel j'ai pu voir toutes les étapes du chavirage en gros plan ! Bref, ils ont ensuite mis le drapeau rouge et je suis rentrée tranquillement...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEOlb_eljI/AAAAAAAACEU/I7xA47jCMFs/s1600-h/2009-04+Boston-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEOlb_eljI/AAAAAAAACEU/I7xA47jCMFs/s400/2009-04+Boston-5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332559470115329586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;De plus près...&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEOljFFF0I/AAAAAAAACEc/2Mp8_K0ek2s/s1600-h/2009-04+Boston-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEOljFFF0I/AAAAAAAACEc/2Mp8_K0ek2s/s400/2009-04+Boston-6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332559472017872706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direction ensuite Commenwalth Avenue, ses petits jardins proprets et ses magnolias...&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEPjRSV2KI/AAAAAAAACE0/mR5bajDvMCM/s1600-h/2009-04+Boston-17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEPjRSV2KI/AAAAAAAACE0/mR5bajDvMCM/s400/2009-04+Boston-17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332560532393547938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEOluLmH7I/AAAAAAAACEk/xdlZ_5MKayU/s1600-h/2009-04+Boston-29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEOluLmH7I/AAAAAAAACEk/xdlZ_5MKayU/s400/2009-04+Boston-29.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332559474997993394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-1932729544318220626?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/1932729544318220626/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=1932729544318220626&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1932729544318220626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1932729544318220626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/05/boston-blossom.html' title='Boston Blossom'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SgEOlb_eljI/AAAAAAAACEU/I7xA47jCMFs/s72-c/2009-04+Boston-5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-8962613695592957856</id><published>2009-05-01T09:47:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T10:03:22.000-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='basketball'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='santé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><title type='text'>Swine Flu in Boston ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Swine flu. C'est donc comme ça que s'appelle la grippe porcine ici, on aura au moins appris un mot avec tout ça ;-)&lt;br /&gt;J'ai entendu ce matin qu'un étudiant de médecine à Harvard ou BU était peut être atteint, du coup tous les cours sur le campus là bas ont été annulés aujourd'hui...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sinon rien de dramatique ici pour l'instant, j'ai vu une personne avec un masque l'autre matin, ça m'a fait sourire plutôt que peur...&lt;br /&gt;Les matchs de basket ne se jouent pas à huit clos contrairement aux matchs de foot au Mexique. Celtics - Bulls, les stades sont pleins à craquer pour le début des Playoffs et le match final samedi risque d'être chaud bouillant... Et si les Celtics pouvaient bien jouer avant la fin du match ce serait quand même mieux pour eux, ça leur éviterait de jouer 3 prolongations comme hier et de perdre d'un tout petit point ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pas de consigne particulière au boulot si ce n'est de prévenir et de ne plus venir si on sent qu'on a des symptômes grippaux !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya plus qu'à espérer qu'ils ne suppriment pas tous les vols d'ici la semaine prochaine !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-8962613695592957856?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/8962613695592957856/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=8962613695592957856&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/8962613695592957856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/8962613695592957856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/05/swine-flu-in-boston.html' title='Swine Flu in Boston ?'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-5538650725570433225</id><published>2009-04-30T23:59:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T00:07:38.582-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TV'/><title type='text'>Christine Lagarde au Daily Show</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Christine Lagarde en voyage aux Etats-Unis et de passage avec Jon Stewart aur Daily Show lundi...&lt;br /&gt;Pour ceux qui n'ont pas vu la vidéo, petit cours de français entre Pourri et Récession économique catastrophique, échelle de Richter du socialisme et, of course, la leçon de politesse française !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed style="height: 325px ! important; width: 400px ! important;" src="http://xml.truveo.com/eb/i/587427425/a/1083e6404c140348064698db8e49b269/p/1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De quoi rendre Sarko jaloux...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-5538650725570433225?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/5538650725570433225/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=5538650725570433225&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5538650725570433225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/5538650725570433225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/04/christine-lagarde-au-daily-show.html' title='Christine Lagarde au Daily Show'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-3936576051584124914</id><published>2009-04-28T16:47:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T16:52:58.611-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='météo'/><title type='text'>92 degrés à 17h...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;... Ou les joies de l'été précoce le temps d'une journée !&lt;br /&gt;L'avantage, c'est qu'on prend rapidement des couleurs en allant manger dehors ou en pédalant pour aller bosser...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allez, le thermomètre va descendre dans les 60 degrés pour les jours à venir et il parait qu'il va pleuvoir samedi :-( mais ça a encore le temps de changer !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-3936576051584124914?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/3936576051584124914/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=3936576051584124914&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3936576051584124914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/3936576051584124914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/04/92-degres-17h.html' title='92 degrés à 17h...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-1191059909296418668</id><published>2009-04-27T22:22:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-27T23:08:42.314-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>Grimpe estivale à Rumney</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Attention, scoop, il a fait beau tout le week-end cette fois-ci et je vais aussi écrire en anglais pour que Stefan comprenne !&lt;br /&gt;Et chaud, trop chaud ;-) (je sais, on se plaint tout le temps... il parait que c'est très français !).&lt;br /&gt;Bref, entre 25 et 30 degrés comme ça d'un coup, ça fait tout bizarre croyez-moi !&lt;br /&gt;Pour ce premier vrai samedi chaud et ensoleillé, on n'était pas les seuls à avoir eu l'idée d'aller grimper à Rumney : à 10h en arrivant le parking était déjà plein à craquer !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, we had a nice sunny week-end for once... maybe a bit too hot though ;-) (I know, we are always complaining... it is apparently so French!).&lt;br /&gt;Well, between 35 and 30 degrees suddenly, that's so weird, believe me!&lt;br /&gt;And we weren't the only one to think about climbing in Rumney: at 10am when we arrived the parking lot was already packed!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a donc visé les secteurs un peu éloignés de la route, se disant que les gens étaient peut-être un peu flemmards... mais il y avait quand même pas mal de monde.&lt;br /&gt;On a commencé par faire quelques voies faciles au secteur Darth Vador, où le soleil commençait déjà à bien taper sur les petits bras bien blancs ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Therefore we decided to walk further away from the parking lot, thinking that people might be a bit lazy.... but it was still quite crowded. We started warming up at Darth Vador on some easy routes, the sun was already working on burning our nice little white arms ;-)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZqggxHLHI/AAAAAAAACEE/2RKEnjIacuw/s1600-h/2009-04+Rumney-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZqggxHLHI/AAAAAAAACEE/2RKEnjIacuw/s400/2009-04+Rumney-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329564315823844466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZqgyZnwcI/AAAAAAAACEM/tKP0Fg2z_DU/s1600-h/2009-04+Rumney-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZqgyZnwcI/AAAAAAAACEM/tKP0Fg2z_DU/s400/2009-04+Rumney-4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329564320557154754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpo3JdVWI/AAAAAAAACDs/xzd_j3Cm75E/s1600-h/2009-04+Rumney-8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpo3JdVWI/AAAAAAAACDs/xzd_j3Cm75E/s400/2009-04+Rumney-8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329563359758865762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ensuite Dav ne voulait pas se faire narguer plus longtemps par un 5,10d à l'ombre... qui valait bien le coup - à l'exception du premier mouv' réservé aux grands :-(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Then a nice 5.10d was waiting for us in the shade... and it was worth trying it - except for the 1st move made for tall people only :-(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpg1zTi7I/AAAAAAAACDk/zYf4skVk7t8/s1600-h/2009-04+Rumney-16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpg1zTi7I/AAAAAAAACDk/zYf4skVk7t8/s400/2009-04+Rumney-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329563221958560690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direction ensuite le secteur Bonsai qu'on avait bien apprécié &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2008/09/samedi-rumney.html" target="_blank"&gt;lors d'une précédente visite&lt;/a&gt; et là encore il fallait prendre son ticket pour grimper - ou alors aimer les prises mouillées ou les voies moins classiques !&lt;br /&gt;Dav a fait une belle croix (à l'ombre - of course !) dans un des 5.10d les plus jolis de Rumney, Peer Pressure, qui m'a paru horriblement dur...&lt;br /&gt;Dernière solution, faire du solo pour passer le temps comme ce monsieur !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;We then headed towards Bonsai, a spot we really enjoyed last fall but again you needed to queue to climb some routes - or like wet holds or not-as-famous routes!&lt;br /&gt;Dav onsighted (in the shade, of course!) one of the best Rumney's 5.10d, Peer Pressure, which seemed terribly hard to me...&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least, soloing is an option for some people as this man bellow!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpgmOcQMI/AAAAAAAACDU/PtW1uwE2byQ/s1600-h/2009-04+Rumney-21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpgmOcQMI/AAAAAAAACDU/PtW1uwE2byQ/s400/2009-04+Rumney-21.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329563217777410242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et avant de rentrer, on s'est arrêté à Selsun Blue pour grimper à coté de ce que nous avions fait en &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/03/avec-un-peu-de-retard-quelques-photos.html" target="_blank"&gt;cascade de glace&lt;/a&gt; quelques mois plus tôt... Jolie petite échelle facile, à coté d'une cascade rafraîchissante... Que demander de plus ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;And before going back home, we stopped by Selsun Blue to rock climb next to what we &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/03/avec-un-peu-de-retard-quelques-photos.html" target="_blank"&gt;ice climbed&lt;/a&gt; a few months earlier. Nice easy ladder to end the day, next to a refreshing waterfall... What else could we ask for?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpgYSdlXI/AAAAAAAACDM/vHXCH30cNRI/s1600-h/2009-04+Rumney-25.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpgYSdlXI/AAAAAAAACDM/vHXCH30cNRI/s400/2009-04+Rumney-25.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329563214036178290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpgKSPA5I/AAAAAAAACDE/I8Ne7LgSEEA/s1600-h/2009-04+Rumney-26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZpgKSPA5I/AAAAAAAACDE/I8Ne7LgSEEA/s400/2009-04+Rumney-26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329563210277127058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yes, I can hear some voices asking for a beer ;-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-1191059909296418668?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/1191059909296418668/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=1191059909296418668&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1191059909296418668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/1191059909296418668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/04/grimpe-estivale-rumney.html' title='Grimpe estivale à Rumney'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfZqggxHLHI/AAAAAAAACEE/2RKEnjIacuw/s72-c/2009-04+Rumney-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-26216934042598053</id><published>2009-04-26T21:50:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T22:58:13.501-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='randonnee skiing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mt Washington'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='White Mountains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>La revanche du Mt Washington</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On pensait profiter du week-end de 3j la semaine dernière pour descendre grimper dans les Gunks, mais, comme souvent, la météo en a décidé autrement...&lt;br /&gt;Du coup samedi on est retourné faire les marins d'eau douce à la voile ; le vent est toujours aussi capricieux et imprévisible...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dimanche était donc LE jour tant attendu pour aller au sommet du Mt Washington à ski prendre &lt;a href="http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/04/but-au-pied-du-mt-washington.html" target="_blank"&gt;notre revanche de la semaine précédente&lt;/a&gt;... Cette fois-ci les prévisions météo étaient bonnes, le soleil était omniprésent dans le ciel et le vent quasi inexistant.&lt;br /&gt;En arrivant au pied du "bol" au matin, on a pu profiter du calme et de la solitude encore présente... qui allaient rapidement être remplacés par la "foire à la saucisse" dixit Dav.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYG05x5_I/AAAAAAAACCc/42MFAdSI_cs/s1600-h/2009-04+Tuckermann-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYG05x5_I/AAAAAAAACCc/42MFAdSI_cs/s400/2009-04+Tuckermann-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329192239622121458" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pendant ce temps, on continue notre bout de chemin vers le jardin alpin ("Alpine Garden") puis vers le sommet, lui aussi paisible et bien calme après la mini tempête de neige de la veille. Il reste encore des traces qui s'effondrent petit à petit, le soleil aidant (la température pourtant n'a semble-t-il pas vraiment dépassé les 0).&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYGooNhwI/AAAAAAAACCU/B85erwrZKC4/s1600-h/2009-04+Tuckermann-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYGooNhwI/AAAAAAAACCU/B85erwrZKC4/s400/2009-04+Tuckermann-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329192236327208706" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYGmBjMDI/AAAAAAAACCM/Kuka9c-2xgA/s1600-h/2009-04+Tuckermann-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYGmBjMDI/AAAAAAAACCM/Kuka9c-2xgA/s400/2009-04+Tuckermann-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329192235628179506" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En plus, ils ont même repeint le panneau du sommet et ajouté l'altitude en mètres... 1 917m ça fait quand même pas très haut tout ça ! En tout cas, les biscuits de Gigi sont finalement allés au sommet, par contre ils n'en sont pas redescendus !!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYGXJtG6I/AAAAAAAACCE/uRftaAn0obY/s1600-h/2009-04+Tuckermann-11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYGXJtG6I/AAAAAAAACCE/uRftaAn0obY/s400/2009-04+Tuckermann-11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329192231635852194" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUZhMpoHbI/AAAAAAAACCk/c0iG-DWqJ3I/s1600-h/2009-04+Tuckermann-18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUZhMpoHbI/AAAAAAAACCk/c0iG-DWqJ3I/s400/2009-04+Tuckermann-18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329193792185048498" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le ventre plein, on est reparti tranquillement après avoir attendu que ça dégèle un peu, bonne moquette bien lisse dans les pentes Est à l'abri du vent... Ça doit se mériter de monter au sommet !&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUZhFzuyUI/AAAAAAAACCs/nrhmZtc87xQ/s1600-h/2009-04+Tuckermann-22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUZhFzuyUI/AAAAAAAACCs/nrhmZtc87xQ/s400/2009-04+Tuckermann-22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329193790348380482" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parce qu'une fois arrivé dans le bol, ce n'est plus la même histoire que plus tôt dans la matinée. Non seulement il y a des gens qui viennent skier (ou au moins essayer) mais il y a en plus une quantité de gens qui vient juste voir les gens skier ou mieux, tomber... La foire à la saucisse comme dirait Dav.&lt;br /&gt;Du coup il y a des bosses partout à mon plus grand bonheur :-( et je me classerais dans la catégorie des gens qui ont essayé, sans vraiment skier mais sans chuter non plus, d'autres l'ont fait pour moi !&lt;br /&gt;Bref, vu d'en bas, ça donne ça : les petits points noirs partout c'est bien sur des gens... qui montent a pied sans crampon bien sur avec les skis sur l'épaule... et quand il y en a un qui tombe, il entraîne tout le monde dernière lui (véridique !)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUZhf0-HPI/AAAAAAAACC0/8Eb1bj8Fy60/s1600-h/2009-04+Tuckermann+ricoh-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUZhf0-HPI/AAAAAAAACC0/8Eb1bj8Fy60/s400/2009-04+Tuckermann+ricoh-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329193797332901106" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUZhduGFZI/AAAAAAAACC8/w28tQT7OLk8/s1600-h/2009-04+Tuckermann+ricoh-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUZhduGFZI/AAAAAAAACC8/w28tQT7OLk8/s400/2009-04+Tuckermann+ricoh-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329193796767192466" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dav est remonté skier rive droite (un peu + raide donc un peu - de monde) et pendant ce temps là j'ai pu profiter d'une dizaine de gamelles, plus ou moins spectaculaires et plus ou moins longues. Je peux vous assurer que l'applaudimètre incitait presque à faire le rouler-boulé du siècle... Et les secours attendent en bas du bol que quelqu'un se casse quelque chose quand même !&lt;br /&gt;Bon dans le lot il y en a quand même qui skient très très bien et qui ont fait des trucs chouettes, c'est plus agréable à voir (mais pas forcément mieux noté à l'applaudimètre).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et ça, c'est Dav... cherchez bien, il y a un point qui bouge quelque part sur la vidéo !&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-67fad5e79d9e0af" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v16.nonxt7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D067fad5e79d9e0af%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330294106%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3DFA5890A1E43CF09E40B8761B24A200395466EDC.38692D4CAF4FA0A58F887DB8D1D55EBCA8A23EA2%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D67fad5e79d9e0af%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dzpaw4q4if91IqYql0b1Ce4hGyFU&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v16.nonxt7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D067fad5e79d9e0af%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330294106%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3DFA5890A1E43CF09E40B8761B24A200395466EDC.38692D4CAF4FA0A58F887DB8D1D55EBCA8A23EA2%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D67fad5e79d9e0af%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dzpaw4q4if91IqYql0b1Ce4hGyFU&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le soleil ayant fait son travail toute la semaine, la piste pour descendre jusqu'au parking était moins gelée que la semaine dernière, mais moins enneigée aussi... et ça ne skie plus du tout jusqu'en bas, c'est le printemps qui arrive !&lt;br /&gt;Foire à la saucisse oblige, le parking était plein à craquer...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Changement de décors et de temps pour le lundi, nuages, fraîcheur et un peu de vent... Du coup on a entamé la saison de grimpe estivale à Rumney et pour une fois il n'y avait pas foule ! On en a donc profité pour grimper à coté de la voiture, entre Parking Lot Wall et The Meadows. &lt;br /&gt;Pas de photos, on a grimpé et (presque) perfé pour une reprise !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-26216934042598053?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=67fad5e79d9e0af&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/26216934042598053/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=26216934042598053&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/26216934042598053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/26216934042598053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/04/la-revanche-du-mt-washington.html' title='La revanche du Mt Washington'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aPpRqDfIy9I/SfUYG05x5_I/AAAAAAAACCc/42MFAdSI_cs/s72-c/2009-04+Tuckermann-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-6004184067040110085</id><published>2009-04-24T19:06:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T19:21:07.481-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='randonnee skiing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mt Washington'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='White Mountains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grimpe'/><title type='text'>Un petit message en attendant la suite...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ne vous inquiétez pas, tout va bien... on est juste un peu occupé avec les longs week-end et les semaines qui passent trop vite... mais on ne vous apprend rien là !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bref, avant les détails et les photos, on a profité du soleil dimanche dernier pour aller prendre notre revanche au Mont Washington, entre solitude au sommet et foire à la saucisse dans Tuckerman Ravine il y en avait pour tous les goûts on va dire !&lt;br /&gt;Lundi (Patriots Day, notre lundi de Pâques !) le frais et la grisaille sont revenus et on a fait notre première sortie grimpe de l'année à Rumney, sans trop de monde, sans moustique et c'était pas mal du tout pour une reprise...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mercredi soir petit leçon environnementale pour Earth Day afin de sauver la neige dans les années à venir, avec &lt;a href="http://www.alisongannett.com/Alison_Gannett/Home.html" target="_blank"&gt;Alison Gannett&lt;/a&gt;, skieuse et américaine pas comme les autres qui défend la cause environnementale...&lt;br /&gt;Tout ça sponsorisé par Harpoon (brasserie locale), avec 2 pintes de bières offertes à l'entrée, on ne rigole pas avec ça ici !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sinon un semblant d'été commence à arriver ici... les arbres sont -presque- tous en fleur, ça reverdit et surtout ils annoncent 80 degrés tout le week-end !! Donc 30 degrés celcius, ça faisait longtemps qu'on n'avait plus vu ça !&lt;br /&gt;Bref, direction Rumney demain matin, on verra ce que ça donnera... Avant que Dav parte en Hollande puis en France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voili, la suite en image pour plus tard, il faut qu'on aille confirmer notre avance à la coinche !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-6004184067040110085?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/6004184067040110085/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=6004184067040110085&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6004184067040110085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/6004184067040110085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/04/un-petit-message-en-attendant-la-suite.html' title='Un petit message en attendant la suite...'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-444859303774245943</id><published>2009-04-16T19:29:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T19:36:29.586-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='météo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mt Washington'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='divers'/><title type='text'>Le bulletin du jour</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Voici à Météo France de quoi s'inspirer pour ses prochains bulletins nivo avec celui du Mt Washington d'&lt;a href="http://www.tuckerman.org/avalanche/archives/2009-04-16.html" target="_blank"&gt;aujourd'hui&lt;/a&gt;... Je sais pas si des recherches médicales sont en cours pour tenter de contrer ce virus mais bon ...&lt;br /&gt;Bref, l'école buissonnière ça a l'air de marcher ici aussi ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I have a feeling that in many New England workplaces today supervisors will be finding those oh-so-dramatic, and not-very-believable, voicemails from employees that have come down with a devastating 24-hour bug. For some reason it is especially prevalent this time of year. Symptoms often include a bit of a goggle tan, an ear-to-ear smile, a sore body and a propensity to constantly view tuckerman.org. This sickness seems to be highly contagious as one or two coworkers were likely out of work yesterday as well. The reason for the rapid onset is easily identifiable…the riding and skiing conditions on Mt Washington are absolutely amazing. Yesterday was a blue ribbon day with a summit high of 30F (-1C), sunny skies and an average wind speed of only 11mph (18kph). If you were healthy and at work you were probably in the wrong place. Don’t worry though because there’s still time to contract this debilitating virus. Today’s forecast looks to bring more of the same type of weather as yesterday with the only difference being wind speeds that may push a tad higher. They’ll be worth watching but with a forecasted top speed of 25mph (40kph) their adverse effect on snow softness should be marginal. In other words the turns should be well worth the hike and soft in most locations once the sun has worked its magic. If you’re wise you’ll do like my friend Jay and bring the whole office so that the boss doesn’t get jealous when he catches you looking through photos with your coworkers tomorrow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et nous qui sommes allés bosser aujourd'hui...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4425473465137672459-444859303774245943?l=natetdav.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/feeds/444859303774245943/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4425473465137672459&amp;postID=444859303774245943&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/444859303774245943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4425473465137672459/posts/default/444859303774245943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://natetdav.blogspot.com/2009/04/le-bulletin-du-jour.html' title='Le bulletin du jour'/><author><name>Nat &amp;amp; Dav</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05765572124262467060</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425473465137672459.post-4428922167017959326</id><published>2009-04-13T22:03:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-27T10:57:45.841-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='météo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='randonnee skiing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mt Washington'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='White Mountains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hiver'/><title type='text'>But au pied du Mt Washington</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il fallait bien que ça nous arrive un jour... un but pour cause de mauvais temps non prévu... c'est donc chose faite, on va dire ça comme ça !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le &lt;a href="http://www.tuckerman.org/avalanche/archives/2009-04-11.html" target="_blank"&gt;bul
