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Mountain Backpacking Trips, Hiking Photography, Science,  and more




Yosemite, San Fran, Panamint Mountains, Zion, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon, Mount Whitney, Valley of the Gods...



27+ Wilderness Backpacking Trip Reports with lots of  Landscapes photos

NEW:

July 2017     32 days VW Westfalia Syncro around Cape Breton and perimeter of Newfoundland

July 2016    clockwise circle tour Ottawa to California, Pacific Coast and Lake Superior

Sept 2015   California circle tour of SF, Yosemite, Death Valley and Monterey


High Resolution Photography

Complete Bell High Yearbooks from 1967 to 1973
and other related stuff such as...

-The unofficial Shanghai Noodle Factory school newspaper, School Play scripts,
Graduation Commencement pamphlets, student handbooks ...




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Other Things of Interest

Wildlife in Gatineau Park and the surrounding Hills

Some Young Naturalist newsletters from 1967
None of these pages have advertising, popups, click-thru paid links etc. It's not a business site.

I started it 20 years ago as a place for backpacking & hiking trip reports, and now it's now grown to other content also.

new email 2dec2024
#10 September 2005    Into the Clark Range of Yosemite- Red Peak Pass
#8 October 2003     Vista from Vogelsang in Yosemite


Greenbank Public School  1967-68 Yearbook and some class newspapers

Before the school was actually built on Greenbank Road, our school classrooms were spread all over Nepean...

At Bells Corners Public School in three portables P1,P2 & P3, and two classes in the gym, separated and surrounded by walls of portable blackboards.
Other outposts were in Manordale, Confederation High School, Jockvale, Knoxdale, Leslie Park,
and Merivale United Church Hall (of all places.)