Hartman Rocks
Corinne and I went out to Hartman Rocks, near Gunnison, CO, for a couple of days to ride mountain bikes and motos. The trails are a super fun mix of mostly s...
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2020
Back to Moab!
Back to Moab, this time with Corinne, motos, and the MTBs. We hit Slickrock first, of course.
Couple days in Moab
It’s starting to get snowy in the Colorado high country, and I’ve never ridden the OG Moab trails… so let’s go! I threw the 300 in the van early in the morni...
Pennsylvania Gulch
A quick trip up Pennsylvania Gulch, a fun, rocky hill climb off of Switzerland Trail.
San Juans Ride - Days 5 & 6
Day 5 - Ouray to Moab Timetags: 0:00 Divide Road #402 0:15 BLM #100, part of Kokopelli’s Trail 4:26 BLM #100, Onion Creek
San Juans Ride - Day 4
Day 4 - Ouray to Telluride and back Timetags: 0:00 Corinne is vertically challenged 0:08 Ophir Pass #679/#630 4:37 starting the climb up Imogene Pass ...
San Juans Ride - Day 3
Day 3 - Ouray to Lake City and back Timetags: 0:00 Engineer Pass #878 coming out of Ouray, then CR20 into Lake City 3:43 Cinnamon Pass CR30 out of Lake ...
San Juans Ride - Days 1 & 2
Last year Corinne and I did the COBDR as a longer dirt bike trip. The San Juan mountains were the highlight of that trip, and there were a number of passes w...
Snyder Creek
Corinne and I spent a few days camping and riding at the Snyder Creek trail system north of Granby, CO. We camped at the Snyder Creek trailhead just off of h...
Crashing around Switzerland Trail
I recently picked up a GoPro. What better way to start figuring out settings, editing, etc., than to make a short edit of my generally shoddy riding?
Best route to the vet’s office
Minimizing the drive time from home to our vet’s office.
2019
Safe Feature Elimination for Non-Negativity Constrained Convex Optimization
Stephen Becker and I have a new paper in Journal of Optimization and Applications entitled “Safe Feature Elimination for Non-Negativity Constrained Convex Op...
Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route - Days 6 & 7
15 August - Rancho Del Rio to Hahns Peak
Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route - Day 5
14 August - Buena Vista to Rancho Del Rio
Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route - Day 4
13 August - Lake City to Buena Vista
Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route - Day 3
12 August - Through the San Juans to Lake City
Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route - Days 1 & 2
Corinne and I took a week off of work and headed into the mountains to take on the Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route. The ride is 650-or-so miles of dirt ...
Couple days at Hartman rocks and part of Mt. Shavano
We spent a couple days riding the singletracks out at Hartman rocks. The first day we did pretty much all the beginner trails, a few of the intermediate, and...
Dino Ride 2019
Corinne’s first Dino ride. It was a super wet Spring, so we actually ended up going in the reverse order to allow the Yampa bench road to dry out.
Day trip to four mile
First trip in the Vandalizer! First time Corinne took the 230F out on the trails!
Camping overnight on Switzerland Trail
I picked up the Mosko Moto Reckless 80v2 and was eager to test it out before the upcoming Dino ride. I had previously gotten pannier racks for the DRZ, but w...
2018
Overnight Trip to Granby
Corinne and I took a half-day on Friday and headed to Granby to ride some ATV trails and singletrack out of the Idleglen Trailhead. We strapped the camping g...
Kingston Peak and Central City riding
Kingston Peak (353.1) has been on my list for quite some time now. And the DRZ is the perfect bike to get up the couple of rocky hill climbs. The trail tops ...
Riding Bunce School Rd., T-33 crash site, Coney Flats
Rocks and water crossings
Johnny Park, Rock Creek, West Magnolia
Made it up the obstacles on Johnny Park Rd. (118).
Riding in the Switzerland Trail area
Switzerland, Pennsylvania Gulch, Gross Dam
Installing an IMS 4.0 gallon tank and Devol radiator guards on the DR-Z400S
It worked … eventually.
First “real” ride on the DRZ
I’ve had the DRZ for a few months now, but I’ve just been farting around the neighborhood. We had a pretty warm day and I decided to head up into the mountai...
2017
Fourmile OHV
An overnight trip to the Fourmile OHV area
Poudre Canyon Day Ride
A day ride in the Poudre Canyon area
A git pre-commit hook for Jupyter notebooks
A simple pre-commit hook to warn the user that their Jupyter notebook files contain output.
West Fest 2017
Corinne and I rode in the 2017 advrider.com West Fest rally in Steamboat Springs, CO.
Dino Ride 2017
I participated in the 2017 running of the Dino Ride, a three day dual-sport motorcycle ride in Colorado, Utah, and a small bit of Wyoming
Setting up VNC on the Newton Lab
How to set up a VNC server on one of the Newton Lab machines and remotely connect your local VNC client.
2015
Dino Ride 2015
The Dino Ride is three day ride through Northwest Colorado. It’s organized on this advrider thread by a very generous forum member, Norm. This was the first ...
A Couple Pre-Dino Shakedown Rides
As a prep for the 2015 Dino ride, I put on an MT-21 in the front and D606 in the rear. This will be the first time I carry all my camping gear and tools on t...
2014
Numerical Estimation of the Largest Lyapunov Exponent of Pluto’s Orbit
Turns out Fortran is way faster than loops in MATLAB.
2013
That one time I lost my license plate
Soon after I got the KLR (still on temp tags!), I decided to take a trip up to the Pawnee National Grasslands. There are lots of dirt roads, and it’s neat be...
Senior Thesis
Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics with Applications to Symplectic Integration