Joe Crotty

Archery Deer Hunting Estes Park Lumpy Ridge Background

Fall Colorado archery hunting big game is all about big views, solitude and sometimes mental anguish. Yesterday late afternoon I drove to Estes Park, CO and parked my truck at Bill Brown’s cabin and started to get on my hunting gear in anticipation of a deer hunt on my friend Robin Randall’s 100 acre spread physically adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park.  Hunting areas don’t get much better then this with views of Lumpy Ridge from the entire east end of his property to Longs Peak and the continental divide on the West side. Not to mention the bugling elk herd bulls that echo up from valley bottoms at dawn and dusk daily mixed with fox, grouse, turkey, falcon, and hawk sightings. Above all else these hunts remind me how small we are in relation to His creations.

However, my pre-hunt ritual was not going well.  I forgot my hunting shoes and only had flip-flops to negotiate the rocky cactus infested terrain. For a split second it crossed my mind to skip the hunt and drive back to Denver.  Fortunately, that split second passed and my senses returned.  I donned the remaining gear and headed out on my usual counter clockwise loop sticking to easier terrain so as not to incur a foot injury.

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Just finished a rather lengthy fresh install of the the latest and greatest Mac OS X Snow Leopard upgrading from Leopard. Snow Leopard is considered a maintenenace release that packs few new features instead focusing on beefing up core functionality. By “fresh install” I mean that I didn’t just upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard or use Time Machine as part of the install process to speed up an upgrade, but started with a true clean install and then meticulously installed Apps, configuration files, development websites, etc all from scratch. I was hoping the fresh install would help to clear up some restart and latency problems I have been seeing over the last three months.

The results have been great.  System boots faster, runs faster, consumes less resources, has a smaller foot print and in general seems a bit more stable. I’ll post in another few months what the overall Snow Leopard experience is like but so far I am loving it!