This past weekend I went to Yosemite National Park, where we did some hiking and saw the giant Sequoias. I will post some pictures soon, but they are rediculously huge – like 300′ tall with a 20-30′ diameter! Yosemite is a really beautiful park.
Well, I should have mentioned this a long time ago since I’ve been here for a week already, but I’m living in Berkeley, CA this summer and doing some supercomputing at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. This is a nuclear security lab that has several of the worlds fastest supercomputers. It’s been fun so far.
Well, a lot has happened since my last post. I will get talk about more things later. But I skied Tuckerman’s Ravine on Memorial Day, which I guess was a week and a half ago. It was a tough day – I had to hike all the way to the ravine before I found any snow, which meant I also had to hike all the way out. I took 2 runs down the Left Gulley, and that was about all I could handle. My pack with skis and water in it weighed 50lbs. The Headwall was a cliff with a waterfall going down it, and a buch of huge ice pieces at the bottom. There were a bunch of deep, scary crevasses. Unfortunately I couldn’t take any pictures because I couldn’t find my camera when I was leaving.