John is a close friend of ours and a fellow Georgetown alum.  We met through a mutual friend (Marc) who is sadly no longer with us and tremendously missed.

Marc and John used to hike or bike through all kinds of places together.  They biked somewhere out in California up and down the coast, met crazy, seriously crazy people…John even spent a year biking through New Zealand.

This year he and a friend hiked some of the hills in Yosemite.  He asked me to join them, but obviously I was a bit on the busy side.  I have committed to next year…

I won’t even try to comment on these shots.  I’ll just post ‘em, and let the words come on their own.  Click on each image to get a larger view –

Um…that’s snow.  In late June.  Did I mention I’m moving to Florida?

(Gonna have to renegotiate with John on this trip stuff…)