What Are We Doing? This blog exists for me to catalog sucesses and failures. The other thing it does is provide me with a place to put things so that I can get to them no matter where I am assu...

That Didn't Take Long I have been using West Branch - US-1999 as my go-to park this winter. This is in part because there is a seldom-used shelter available and the park is quite empty this tim...

Vacation Time! The kids hit Spring Break for the last week of March and I took the week off to hang out with them. Of course, that means a little bit of camping because as a family that's what ...

The Weather Isn't Why I Live Here That's not an entirely true statement. I've lived in places where the weather was far, far worse but there is something about having a bright, sunny, gorgeous ...

Activation Report Last weekend wasn't great for being out and activating, so it's going to be a quick post today. On Friday, 08-Mar-2024 I took the day off and got a little time to head out to ...

Freeze Your Acorns Off Each year, my local club hosts a QRP event at Fred Fuller Park in Kent, Ohio. It was the first event the club ever held and they've kept that tradition alive. Part of it ...

More PDFs In My Filesystem One of the fun things about POTA is watching the stats trickle in. I'm not out there trying to hit specific numbers most of the time, but I do like to see those big d...

This Activation Was Quick Look, not every trip to the park is a walk in the park. Something like that. Sometimes, it's really cold, really windy, there are whitecaps on the reservoir and everyt...

The Deep Thoughts Documentary films are my favorite form of visual entertainment. There is nothing better than settling in to watch a deep dive on something like a particular ecosystem or conce...

On Being Invisible Late last week, I was made aware of some concerns that the POTA team were having relayed to them by various official agencies about the poor behavior of activators in parks a...