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Tag: Hiking

A field of boulder, lined by trees.

Trail to Philmont, March 2021

May 3, 2021 Ken Newquist Blog, Trail to Philmont

The Trail to Philmont started moving a lot faster – and got a lot more real – in March 2021. As I mentioned in the February update, during the winter we lost four members of our crew to COVID concerns.[…]

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The Trail to Philmont – September 2020

October 20, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Fitness, Trail to Philmont

After one false start and two 5-mile primer day hikes, our Philmont crew finally went on an extended backpacking trip. We did a two-day hike in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in New Jersey. Friday night we stayed[…]

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The Trail to Philmont

October 18, 2020 Ken Newquist Project Updates, Projects, Trail to Philmont

In January 2020, my son and I started on the trail to Philmont – a six-month training project aimed at developing the strength, endurance, and skills needed for a 12-day, 60-mile backpacking trek at Philmont Scout Rank in Cimarron, New[…]

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The Trail to Philmont, July/August 2020

September 2, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Fitness, Projects, Trail to Philmont

After six months on the trail to Philmont … we finally got on the trail. In August, we went hiking twice: first a 5-mile day hike on the Monocacy Creek Trail in Bethlehem, Pa., then a more rigorous 5-mile day[…]

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Blogworthy – Alien Civs, Gender & Race on the AT, Solitaire Illuminati, Spaceships!, Bullet Journals, Nebula Awards, Mask Myths

August 8, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Blogworthy

There could be 36 communicating intelligent civilizations in our galaxy, study says – The most famous equation for calculating the number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy is based on the Drake Equation, which equally famously has a lot of[…]

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The Trail to Philmont, May 2020

June 20, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Fitness, Projects, Trail to Philmont

May started with our trip to Philmont being canceled. We moved our reservation to 2021 in the hopes that we’ll be able to travel (and hike) by then. The challenge used to be getting ready for a 60-mile backpacking trip[…]

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Radio Active #93: Reset. Renew. Return.

May 13, 2020 Ken Newquist Nuketown Radio Active, Podcasts

Like an astronaut hurled far into deep space, Nuketown Radio Active returns to Earth a year after it left to find the planet utterly transformed. Fortunately, there are no super-intelligent apes. At least, not yet. On this episode of Nuketown[…]

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A map of the World of Greyhawk

Blogworthy: Floating Worlds, Tome of Beasts II, Data Detox, Savage Frontiers, Backpacking Tips

February 16, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Blogworthy, Games, Role-Playing Games

Artists Creates Floating Worlds In Test Tubes – Rosa de Jong creates tiny models of buildings, trees, and geographic features that float on sculpted, rocky islands in a test tube. Think Avatar’s floating islands meets the traditional ship-in-a-bottle models. Greyhawk CY 576 by Anna[…]

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Starting on the Trail to Philmont

January 25, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Fitness, Geek Dad, Trail to Philmont

My son and I are headed to the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico in six months. Once there we will spend 12 days backpacking with other scouts from NeutronLad’s troop. In total, three adults and six scouts are[…]

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Summer’s End 2019

December 6, 2019 Ken Newquist Blog, Fitness, Geek Dad

Summer 2019 is long over, and so is my summer “to do” list. The list, inspired by similar lists in 2015 and 2017, was meant to focus my scatterbrained self on a few goals for the summer. Stuff that would be fun to accomplish[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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