Trips from June, 2005
Tumac Mountain
One of the other REU students was an avid hiker, and got two of us to go hiking with her up Tumac Moutains - in the Cascade mountains. Not the hardest hike, but very nice and beautiful scenery. The only problem was the large number of mosquitoes - more than I've ever seen before. In fact, it's possible to see them in some of my photographs. Still, we did survive to make it back down the mountain.
Sailing on the Columbia River
My first introduction to sailing was with one of my advisors at LIGO who owned a Cal 32. On two separate occasions he took the REU students, including myself, out onto the river for a night of sailing. It was fun and my love of sailing has stemmed from this time.
