please know that the page you are viewing is the result of an overworked undergrad with other things to do.
ADVENTURES
** COMING SOON ** please be warned that many of these links do not actually go anywhere...but hopefully they will someday.Appalachian Trail , 6 week solo southbound hike from Rangeley, Maine to Vermont. I plan to include journal entries, photos, & books that helped prepare for a solo early winter hike.
New Zealand, 1998 - my Youth For Understanding exchange program details, with photos of Kiwi friends & landscapes, plus climbing route beta at Paynes Ford (the local crag near Takaka), and further adventure details.
Carleton College, (hopefully) photos of friends and happenings, descriptions and a map of campus. Please see the Official Carleton Website in the meantime.
Summer in Alaska; How I worked in a commercial fishing plant and then hiked on the Iditarod with my good friend Gabe Fertman. Photos of mountains, links to the fishing company and how to make the most miserable $4,000 for a month's work EVER.
SEA, an off-campus program where I learned celestial navigation, swam on the shores of Cape Cod in January, and sailed for 6 weeks on the high seas. We swam with humpback whales, visited the Dominican Republic & Little Cayman... just open the page. The difficulty lies in putting the images into words, so I've mostly included photographs. Also visit my Corwith Cramer, Class 167 Page
Studio Art Seminar to Australia/New Zealand; another off campus program. I flew to New Zealand for December 2000, visited my host family for Christmas and went skydiving above Mount Cook and the Tasman Sea, then in January began a Carleton art program (for credit) through Rarotonga, New Zealand, and Australia. Hopefully I will scan some of my art work and photos of the journals I bound and then filled with drawings.
Summer 2001; Chris had to go to Germany for a summer to learn the language. His parents feared for the success of "Project Graduate", his advisor remains horror-stricken. He enrolled in the Goethe Institut, a reputable (and expensive!) language instruction school. Speaking only German for two months has had an adverse effect on his ability to speak English. Plenty of stories, including one involving the neighbor Amil, a shellshocked WWII veteran who gardens mostly naked (except for a motorcycle helmet) and shouts "It stinks of Nazis!" in the middle of the night...he barricaded his door with a tin-foil-coated mattress to keep neighbors from listening in on him, and cut down their bushes to keep his "lines of fire open."
September 2001 - May 2002 Project Graduate; in full swing - I spent nearly the entire year in Northfield, Minnesota for the expressed purpose of working on my comprehensive exercise in bookbinding / photography. Details of some work, in addition to artist statements and general thoughts on bookbinding. Maybe even a "how-to" section some day. Who knows.
Even if you have never heard of them, you will probably recognize their achievements both on and off the rocks. Avalanche researchers, topographers, professional skiers - I've had the great fortune to learn from the Exum Mountain Guides. I hung out with Wesley Bunch and Mattie Sheafor for a few days in 1996. They basically taught me how to be stylish about trying not to die... some of the best days climbing I can remember.
Some good books, complete with quotes and links to Amazon.com - i receive no money from Amazon.com for keeping the link- please be sure i only want to make them available to you. I would prefer you shop at a place like "Ruminator Books", formerly the "Hungry Mind" bookstore, an independent & friendly bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota.
get yourself a sourdough starter, for those bread-bakers out there. Send a self addressed stamped envelope, and they'll return it free with a sourdough starter over 154 years old! only recommended for baker-type folks...
shop at patagonia ...they make good clothes for people who go outside...
The Online Guitar College (find yourself
some tab so you can play like Leo Kottke)
