Do not adjust your computer monitor. The site is undergoing a little remodeling. Everything should be working fine (if not better) — it may just look a little off until I can complete the transformation of a 900-pixel theme to a 1024-pixel width (to accommodate my 600-pixel pictures).
Updated 10:45pm: Most of the odd formatting has been fixed, so at least there shouldn’t be any more jarring misalignments. I still have a variety of style changes to implement, but at least the site is working again.
Updated 2:30pm on July 2: After 11 hours of frustration, I finally have a working search box. I had not realized it was non-functional until day before yesterday and apologize to my visitors who were as confounded by the search results as I was. The fix required more knowledge of php and Mysql than I possess, but fortunately someone else on the Intarwebz had a similar problem.
Updated midnight on July 3: I’ve added the new logo to the new header, added a featured post carousel, and tweaked the CSS a bit to round out most of the visual aspects of the new design. Still have some CSS to redo, especially for text sizes, and some markup to rework, since the theme as designed ignored things like top-level headers. Progress!
Tags: css, web design, wordpress
Taken this past weekend along the shoreline of strikingly beautiful Odessa Lake, which sits on a high shelf of Odessa Gorge 10,020 feet above sea level. The Little Matterhorn is directly above my head with distinctive Notchtop Mountain behind me.
Self Portrait at Odessa Lake, RM09-0627-4333R, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado | ©2009 Jeff Blaylock
Tags: alpine vistas, clouds, jeff, jun09 colorado trip, lakes, odessa gorge, odessa lake, rocky mountain national park, trees
I didn’t see any bears this week in the Rockies, but a number of other creatures great and small made timely appearances. Elk were the largest animals I saw, including a group of does which foraged near my campsite in Moraine Park.
Perhaps the “money shot” from the trip was this elk grazing in front of spectacular Hayden Gorge. The Hayden Spire is the prominent pinnacle on the right.
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Tags: alpine vistas, baby animals, campsite views, ducks, elk, fish, jun09 colorado trip, marmots, mount evans, mountain goats, rocks, rocky mountain national park, squirrels, tundra, turkeys, Wildlife
June 30th, 2009 | in
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1 comment Two days ago, I hiked more than 13 miles in a loop from the Bear Lake trailhead in Rocky Mountain National Park. Part of that hike took me deep into Loch Vale, one of several spectacular gorges falling east from the Continental Divide.
Here are photos of the Loch, the largest lake in this particular gorge, which sits at 10,190 feet above sea level. Clouds were streaming over the Divide, reflecting in the sometimes still, sometimes churning waters. Thatchtop is the hulking mass along the left shoreline, and The Sharkstooth is the jagged peak on the right (The vertical photo shows it better.).
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Tags: alpine vistas, cirques, clouds, jun09 colorado trip, lakes, loch vale, pine trees, reflections, rocky mountain national park, Snow, water, waterfalls
June 28th, 2009 | in
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Leave a comment ESTES PARK, Colo. — I’m sitting on an outdoor patio listening to the Big Thompson River roar by, flush with fresh snowmelt. I’ve spent the last couple of days logging more than 25 miles of hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. I was going to post a few photos, but I have the wrong USB cable. So stay tuned for those.
Today, I started with a loop around Bear Lake, then hiked up to Nymph, Dream, and spectacular Emerald Lake, which sits is a steep-sided, snow-covered cirque. From there, I headed over a high ridge into Loch Vale. The last 200 yards to Timberline Falls required traversing a steep, slushy snowfield. After that adventure, I hiked over to Mills Lake and Alberta Falls.
Yesterday featured a hike up Odessa Gorge, culminating with some quality time at Odessa Lake. I’ve seen lots of deer and smaller mammals, but no bears. Tomorrow, I’ll drive the length of Trail Ridge Road before returning to Denver. I fly home Tuesday morning.
By the way, to those broiling in the Texas heat, my thermometer at my campsite this morning read 36 degrees. A couple of days ago, in the middle of the afternoon, it was in the 50s. It will be a shock coming back to an oven.
Tags: fern lake, jun09 colorado trip, loch vale, odessa gorge, odessa lake, rocky mountain national park
Shoehorned around a kettlebell workout at CrossFit Central were a few hours of getting my gear together and packing it in my huge wheeled duffle bag. I’m thinking, it’s a short trip, no cooking gear, not much to pack. Forty-six pounds later, the big bag is packed, and there are still lots of items on the couches, table, and elsewhere which need to go, too. So much for traveling light!
I leave for Denver on Friday morning and should be in the Mile High City by 9:30 Mountain time. It’s my favorite time zone, if for no other reason than it’s the forgotten time zone. How many times has a TV announcer said something like, “Watch it at 9 pm Eastern and Pacific, 8 pm Central.” No love for the mountain-folk.
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The CrossFit Spartan 300 challenge ended Saturday. I’ll post more on it later, once the photos and final results of the finale are published by CrossFit Central (probably after I return from Colorado). Suffice it to say, it was a personal success. I lost 8.4 pounds and 9.5 inches over the 6 weeks, and completed the tough, wrenching workout in 19:24, just under the 20 minute limit. Six weeks ago, I fell 35 reps short.
KEYE-TV sent a reporter to the finale. Coach Jeremy, the founder of CrossFit Central, asked me to speak on camera about what CrossFit has meant to me, and I was happy to do so (The segment is supposed to air on Wednesday during the 6pm newscast.). Earlier in the challenge, Jeremy and the other coaches selected me as one of 6 success stories for this year. Changing the focus from previous years’ successes, this time we were asked to discuss how CrossFit had empowered us.
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Tags: crossfit, weight loss, Zone diet
When does a blogger have to decide what he wants to be when he grows up?
This incarnation of jeffblaylock.com has been published fairly regularly since November 2003. I’ve written over 2,300 posts and published more than 1,900 photos in that time. That works out to nearly a post a day, for more than 5 years — which in the blogging world is a nearly heroic feat.
Friday’s The New York Times online published an interesting story on blogging trends (”Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest“). Specifically, the death spiral trend, best summed up thusly: “According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days.That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web.”
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