tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71806062025-12-02T00:00:48.044-08:00Of all the unique areas of the world, Idaho is truly one of a kind. Join us as we celebrate the beauty of our area. Join in if you feel the urge!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180606.post-82283540688537653182008-06-04T11:49:00.000-07:002008-06-04T11:57:56.288-07:00

So this is my last ever post on this blog. For new stuff be sure to subscribe to my new blog at Ben's Adventure Blog, I just updated it for the last Idaho Epic too so be sure to check it out. Life here in Colorado is going well. Jennifer and I are really enjoying Denver and all the associated benefits of living in the big city. I was working for a company called Environment Colorado, but it

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So I went and did my last epic trip here in Idaho and it was great! I don't have time to write up the whole trip report right now, but look for it on my new blog http://www.bensadventureblog.blogspot.com/, this will document my goings on in Colorado and places abroad from now on.For now tell me where these pictures where taken

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Mike was sick and tired of Ben during their backpacking trip. Finally he had enough and decided to do something permanent about all the fart jokes.

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Today in Arabic 101 class; Professor Abdulbaqi patiently explained to his students that when translating Arabic names to English, spelling does not really matter."See you can write మహ్మౌద్ as Mahmood, or Mahmud, it does not really matter." He said.Ben was looking forward to being done with Arabic class, it was every Monday and Wednesday night for three long hours. Three hours in which most

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The founding fathers setup our political system to essentially protect ourselves from ourselves. This is demonstrated in the electoral system, where the President is not directly elected through the popular vote, but instead is elected by the United States Electoral College. This was designed so because in the infant years of our country the population was rather un-educated; the same concept is

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The Boise Race for the Cure is Saturday May the 11th. The race starts at 0915 and takes off out of Parkcenter Park, which is convinently right next to our apartment. There are three race catergories to choose from; the 5k Run for the Cure, the 5k Walk for the Cure, and they Sleep in for the Cure (the key to success in this category is get really hammered the night before). I am going to run as

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So Jennifer and I are moving to Denver in the middle of May and I want to do one last epic in Idaho. The trip will be roughly 40 miles of backpacking through the Sawtooth Range in very early season conditions. Early season conditions because I am thinking of doing the trip starting on the 19th of May, also because as I write this there are about 80 inches of snow on average throughout the

TheLawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07972898918061726100noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180606.post-39784009160437889212008-03-28T07:25:00.000-07:002008-03-28T07:42:45.653-07:00

Mike and I playing around with the camera. Notice the sloppy telemark form!

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Hey everybody guess what? I got in to the University of Denver! So that means that Jennifer and myself will be moving to Denver shortly. WoooHooo!

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I might be smiling on the outside in this picture, but I was crying on the inside. I was just happy that it was all over and I didn't have to run any more. My leg muscles felt like useless pieces of rubber that had been tied into impossibly complex knots, my feet felt like they had been beaten by a mallet wielded by a sadist, I was drained of energy. Yet my spirits where high and that is what

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The day of my big run is getting closer. Next Saturday I will be running the Fat Ass Recover from the Holidays 50k and it will be a crazy race for sure. First the distance is crazy and second there isa ton of snow on the course. Today I ran about half of it plus another 5 miles home and it took me about six hours because of all the snow. For about 7 miles I battled through knee to waist deep

TheLawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07972898918061726100noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180606.post-10618231864648095782007-12-19T17:35:00.000-08:002007-12-19T17:42:06.783-08:00

Thought you'd all get a kick out of an article from the Wood River Journal that highlights our great little town of Fairfield. Enjoy!!!

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No I haven't recently been drinking the water in a third world country if that is what your thinking. What I have been doing is some really long distance trail runs in quite inclement weather. Today after my last final (Wooohooo!) I was orginally going to run half the race course; basically run from Bogus Basin road back to my apartment. Instead I decided to do something a bit shorter,

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We gave these people the South and now they want Yellowstone too. Yellowstone National Park recently caved into pressure to allow 540 snowmobiles per day to enter the park this winter. According to Mike Synder of the park service this decision is fully supported by science and is the right choice for the park; well that is the biggest load of bs I've heard today! This guy must work for Bush

TheLawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07972898918061726100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180606.post-29986801547454538562007-11-26T09:50:00.000-08:002007-11-26T10:21:08.514-08:00

So around 4 this morning my cat woke me up and I couldn't fall back asleep. During my futile attempts to return to the land of Nod a great idea drifted into my head. Or at least I think its a good idea, I still haven't completely thought it out yet so bear with me. So one of the big problems that we have with government right now is the politicians; I won't go into the all specifics of what is

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(this is a picture of all the electric vehicles GM crushed to cover up their electric car)I read this article this morning in the Wall Street Journal online. It talks about how auto-makers are touting the fact that they are starting to make more fuel efficient cars & trucks and how hydrogen is "just around the corner" (just like it has been for the last 10 years). You know you have seen the

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I saw this article the other day on the Trail Runner's Blog, a blog by ultra-trail runner Scott Dunlap. Apparently their is a connection between the euphoric feeling that people get while exercising and the effect of tertahyrdocannibol, the active ingredient in marijuana. Any way here is the article.Understanding the Runner's HighI’m a big fan of the runner’s high. For me, the euphoric feeling

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This month must be the beginning of a good movie season or something because my inbox has been full of stuff about independent movies, film festivals and the like. Just here in Idaho we have some cool stuff going on this month.Check out the Boise 3rd annual Backcountry Film Festival this Friday, November 16th at 6:30 pm (show starts at 7pm) ath The Egyptian Theatre. You can check out their

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There are some great things going on in Sun Valley this month. As some of you may already know, the citizens of Hailey just took a bold step in reversing archaic Marijuana & Hemp laws in this country. The citizens voted yes on 3 out of 4 Marijuana/Hemp initiatives on the ballot yesterday. I’ve listed the results below as reported by SunValleyOnline.com so you can see exactly what they

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Wow! I had a great first day experience at the hospital. Everyone there was so nice and helpful. The surgeon was explaining thing as she was doing them and ways I could be more helpful when the surgeon gets into a difficult area. The surgeon's assistant was very helpful too telling me what they were going to do next and what instruments and suture I would need. My preceptor was a very nice

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Hey Everyone, this is the last post you will receive being a member of the Idaho-Rocks@googlegroups.com email group. If you have signed up to receive the updates via email through our blog, or through and RSS reader don't fear! You will still receive your updates. If you have not done this, this is the last post you will ever read from IDRocks.com. So, if you haven't done it already, make

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Their is such a huge debate out there wheither climate change is real or if it is blown out of proportion. Unfortunately politics, like it always dos has gotten involved into a matter that could mean our lives. The media, both conservative and liberal have not helped matters too much either; this is usually because most reporters are just as confused as the rest of us on the real issues. The

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Tomorrow is the day of days. The day I have been working so hard for the last 3+ months to get to it. I go to the hospital to actually work. I will get to put all skills I have learned and practiced over and over again to work. I get to see just how many of the instruments I have really memorized. I am so excited and nervous that I don't think I will sleep well tonight. Man the butterflies

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So some of you may have noticed the blurb on the side of the blog right------------> there. I haven't talked about it yet, mostly because well, I just haven't. Lets just say I've been too busy running. Any way I am running an ultra-marathon called Leon's Fat Ass Recover from the Holidays 50K; for those of you not versed in the metric system 50*.6=30. So 30 miles, farther than I have ever ran

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I am definately jonesing to go make some turns up in the mountains. Hopefully this year has better conditions than last year, because here in Idaho the skiing conditions where far from optimal. My feeling is that it will be better this year, but not the huge amount of snow from two years ago. Any way until then here is some good ski porn to tide you over.

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