Dave S

Morning view of a very overgrown trail with jagged peaks in the background

View looking down at an alpine lake with wispy clouds and mountain peaks in the background

A ham radio operator holds a Yagi-Uda antenna built for the 2 meter band on a summit. There is a snow field in the foreground and peaks in the background. The sky is cloudy.

I made my own trail up Treasure Mountain W0C/WE-007 on Saturday for the annual #ham14er event. Almost a mile of vertical and lots of action on 2 meters! Read about it: w0adv.com/posts/treasu...

Nice newsletter, as always! Minor typo:

“…one that actually does something using”

What will your conference be about at sorth by sorthwerst?

A toddler wearing a blue and gray zip up fleece and brown pants has a hat with the Trails Magazine blaze logo on it, just obscuring his face. It’s way too big to fit his head but no matter.

@trailsmag.net my two year-old knows good fashion when he sees it!

Bad Ass National Fucking Fpark

A sandstone slot canyon with overlapping rock features, with a narrow slit above showing a starry sky.

Here’s the same canyon under a blanket of stars.

View of a rock cliff at sunset with a moody sky above.

Dave’s third gen Tacoma with a GoFast camper popped up, with an all terrain camper trailer behind it. The trailer has an awning and tent deployed, and a blue mat in front of it. A very good dog is just in frame right.

A narrow slot canyon with wavy sandstone walls.

A good black dog in a slot canyon.

Throwback to last week when we were camping in Utah. I miss not having connectivity.

@e-a-rly.bsky.social Seriously?!

Fun puzzle today, thanks!

Dramatic Mountain View looking south from the first flatirons towards the third.

Legs and feet in the foreground of a person sitting on a rock. The frame is a high up view of Boulder, CO from the top of the first flatiron.

When I am overwhelmed I go to one of my spots.

Screenshot of a WaPo recap with Alexandra Petri featured

Having @petridishes.bsky.social tell me I’m a person of taste and distinction is just the right way to start of 2025.

View from a chairlift of a mountain vista with tracked out snow in the foreground.

Less windy, but colder temps. Great snow today, perfect way to round out the year.

First person view of a snowboarder with three other boarders in view, strapping in for a run. There’s blowing snow in frame and a snow fence, with a mountain vista in the background.

Heckin wimdy up at Breck yesterday.

Cal Kulis

Aerial shot of a tricked out Toyota Tacoma driving in deep snow on a shelf road at night. There is a cliff passenger side going up with icicles and snow stuck to the wall, and a snowbank drivers side with a steep drop beyond.

Went for a little drive last night.

Oh, we can video now too! Earlier in the day, making fresh tracks.

Aerial shot of a tricked out Toyota Tacoma driving in deep snow on a shelf road at night. There is a cliff passenger side going up with icicles and snow stuck to the wall, and a snowbank drivers side with a steep drop beyond.

Went for a little drive last night.

Some BODY one told me
Bluesky was gonna’ troll me

An image of a spectrogram, which is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time. The top part of the image shows a waveform or frequency spectrum in a green line graph, with frequency peaks marked. The bottom part of the image consists of a heat map in shades of blue, green, yellow, and red, representing the intensity of various frequencies over time. Brighter colors indicate stronger signals, while darker areas represent weaker signals or noise. Most of the signals in the waterfall are more or less straight lines, but some signals, mostly between 26.8 and 27.8 megahertz, change frequency rapidly with time. The imprints they make on the waterfall have been called "S"s or "Fish hooks" because of their shapes.

Continuing discussing these funny shapes in my waterfall from the other site. Sometimes when looking at HF waterfalls, we see these funny blips that change frequency quickly and make shapes that looks like tilted "S"s or some have said fishhooks. What are they?

Zee is a whole mood.

It looks like there are some cracks there, if so I think it popped there and it’s dead :( any way to get a closer pic?

I gave my boy such a big hug this morning.

why the lucky stiff - Wikipedia

Years ago I learned Ruby from a pseudonymous comic artist, _why. In one day everything they ever published was pulled from everywhere, I still think about it.

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View of some trees and a streetlamp with wispy red aurora borealis in the sky.

Longmont, Colorado checking in.

A toddler, looking at a drink menu of an airplane on board a southwest flight

“Can’t right now dad, I’m busy familiarizing myself with the safety features of this Boeing 737”

More pics with a write-up here: w0adv.com/posts/mt-sha...

Fall colors starting to show on a trail flanked by pine trees

POV looking at a ham radio and log book, the authors writing hand in view

Mountain view with moody clouds in the distance

Summit block of Mt. Shavano, with microwave sized rocks in the foreground and wispy clouds in the sky

Hiked up Mts. Shavano and Tabeguache yesterday. Great later season conditions including graupel and cooler temps.

Rock climber in a blue sun shirt at the base of a hand crack, both hands on the rock. 🧗

Contemplating the moves of Beamer Up Scotty, 5.9+

How are you at puzzles?!

A whiteboard, under a folding table with an American flag and a cubicle wall with a DMV vibe, hand written quoting “patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength” - Bruce Lee

The Bruce Lee quote about patience hand drawn on a whiteboard at the DMV is really apropos for some reason.

You’re dereferencing an unchecked variable in a go program? Nil issue.