Joe's Photo Gallery

After the 4th of July, I again decided to tackle the Mountaineers Route.
I hiked to Iceberg Lake on July 6, summited on July 7 (7/7/07) and went back down on July 8.
I felt I was in better shape than 10 years ago when I summited on the main trail. I wasn't as tired as I expected.

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Over the Memorial Day weekend in 2007, I again hiked up the Mountaineers Route, to Iceberg Lake.
This time, I was nearly ready to summit, but the snow in the chute caused me to change my plans. I didn't feel comfortable hiking on the snow.

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Over the Labor Day weekend in 2006, I hiked the Mountaineers Route. It had been a couple years since I last hiked this route, and I had sort of forgotten how hard it is...
I camped at Iceberg Lake (ca. 12,300 ft high,) but didn't have the energy to hike to the summit. It was helpful as a conditioning hike, though.
I also found that my backpack was too heavy. In the following months, I bought more lightweight gear.

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Over the Memorial Day weekend in 2004, I hiked the main Mt. Whitney trail with my buddy Sameer. He took these pictures.
We hiked up to Trail Camp and pitched our tent there. Due to the snow, we decided to turn around the next morning.

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My first successful hike up the main Mt. Whitney trail (MMWT).
Starting in 1995, I hiked several times on Mt. Whitney, reaching the top in 1997.
I did multi-day trips with overnight stays in the Trail Camp at 12,000 ft. and one-day hikes, even some in winter. On October 5, 1997 I finally made it to the summit in a one-day hike.
The pictures seen here were taken mostly during my 1997 hike, but I also have some beautiful winter pictures from early 1998.

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I went hiking on the Half Dome trail in September 2003. It is a 16-Mile roundtrip from the Happy Isles trailhead in Yosemite Valley.
I stayed overnight at the Little Yosemity Valley campground (5 miles from the start of the trail) and hiked up to the top of Half Dome early the following morning to avoid the heat of the mid-day sun.
The last 400 feet to the top are interesting because they consist of steel cables with occasional wooden foot rests that allow the hiker to pull himself up to the top.
The view from the top is certainly worth it.

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In the spring of 2005, the UCI Hiking Club did an overnight trip to Death Valley.
Due to the amount of rain that Death Valley had seen the months before, there were a lot of flowers blooming. In fact, it has been called the "Death Valley bloom of the Century."
There was even enough water at Badwater to allow people kayak there.

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Sitton Peak is a peak in the Santa Ana mountains in Southern California.

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Pictures from the backpacking trip at San Jacinto, CA, May 10 to May 11, 2008

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Pictures from several local hikes.

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Pictures from Arches National Park in Utah.

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Pictures from Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado

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Pictures from Casa Grande National Monument in Arizona

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Pictures from a hike in Hop Valley, and to Kolob Arch, over the Memorial Day weekend 2008.

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Pictures from some of the main Zion attractions.
Also has pictures from my hike in the Narrows.

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Hike of the Narrows in Zion National Park August 30 to 31, 2008 (Labor Day weekend.)

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Pictures from Red Rock Canyon, near Las Vegas.

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Montezuma's Castle is located in Arizona.
These pictures are from Montezuma's Castle and another, related site nearby.

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Pictures from my Grand Canyon South Rim to North Rim to South Rim hike May 6 to 10, 2011.
The hike went down the south side to Bright Angel campground, then up the north side to Cottonwood campground, up to the North Rim and back to Cottonwood campground on day 3, back down to Bright Angel campground on day 4, and finally, back up to the South Rim on day 5.

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From April 26 to April 29 I hiked in the Grand Canyon, from the south rim down to the Bright Angel campground, then up on the north side to the Cottonwood campground (half-way up the north side) and back.

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Pictures from the Annular Solar Eclipse on May 20, 2012
Taken at Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, UT, USA.
I used a solar filter from Thousand Oaks Optical.
The camera was a Nikon D50 with a Nikon AF 70-300 1:4-5.6G lens and a Vivitar 2XMC7 focal length doubler.
All pictures converted from raw format.

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Photos from the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.
Taken in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the narrow band where the eclipse was total.
I used a solar filter from Thousand Oaks Optical.
The camera was a Nikon EM with a 150mm lens.

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Last launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, first attempt on April 29, 2011 was canceled, actual launch on May 16, 2011.
View from the Causeway, ca. 6.5 miles from the launch pad. The closest the general public can get to the launch pad.
There was another Space Shuttle launch, STS 135, a few months later. But this was was the last launch of the Endeavour. The Endeavour is now in Los Angeles in a museum.

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Photos from the Reno Air Race 2008, from Saturday, Sept. 13, the second to last day of the event.

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Photos from the last day of the 2008 Reno Air Race, including the final race for this year's winner.

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Reno Air Races 2009

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Reno Air Races 2013

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Reno Air Races 2014

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Tour of the Biosphere 2 facility of the University of Arizona, located north of Tucson, AZ.

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Cusco, Peru
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

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My cats Cleo and Tiger.

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LEAPTech NASA Social at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB in California, May 12, 2015.

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