I have placed the raw West Coast Trail images on the server for your viewing pleasure - while I have created a series of thumbnails for the images, I have not yet written a day by day history of the hike. I will be using the same images, even though these images are only 30% the size of the originals.

The thumbnails detailing the hike from Port Renfrew to Walbran Creek: West Coast Trail, Port Renfrew to Walbran Creek

The thumbnails detailing the hike from Walbran Creek to Bamfield: West Coast Trail, Walbran Creek area to Bamfield

Expect maps and a write up fairly soon. (As well as editing of the West Coast Trail pictures!)

On October 1st I ran in MOMAR but I did not post here as we did not offically finish in the rankings. That was rather depressing, as we should have ranked. Indeed, we should have qualified for the award: “Team Most Deserving of a Beer”. But we did not. Turns out that in our standings we were assigned a “Did Not Finish” - when in fact, we did. In fact we were the last offical team to finish, thus we should have been awarded the beer prize.

Suffice it to say, our team is much happier now that we have actually placed. Sheri and I are both planning on running in MOMAR again. I plan on training for it this time, as is the rest of our team. In fact, we cannot finish much worse than we did this year, so we can only go up!

I recently finished The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown in Audio format. The history was interesting, although the plot itself was thin. I can see why this book has caused controversy (and therefore large sales) in the Christian community. At the same time I am listening to The Teaching Company Lectures on the Bible and how it has influenced Western Culture. I also finished a Teaching Company series of lectures on Plato and the Dialogues. It was presented by Michael Sugrue (who also works on parts of Bible and Western Culture) and it was very well done. I was impressed. I cared very little for the majority of philosophy prior to his lectures, but I now understand much of the roots of it and how it has influenced (created!) science. Therefore, I picked up a hard copy of the Platonic Dialogues, and to my surprise found them fairly readable in modern translation.