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Santa Fe Baldy and Lake Katherine Planning

Summary

Looks like (and reviews say) a beautiful hike -- people are really into Lake Katherine. Route would go up from Aspen Basin, acroos the ridge lines above Lake Nambe, down to the Meadow, and into the Lake. Reports indicate that Santa Fe Baldy gets an 'unusual' number of lightning strikes, so best not to attempt it post midday. So over-night at Lake Katherine, and then climb Baldy in the morning, head out, possibly via Lake Nambe for lunch.

Total trip distance: Aspen Basin - Lake Katherine (via ridgeline) ~ 10miles; Lake Katherine - Aspen Basin (via Baldy) ~ 10 miles

these are estimates, will update later (I have the exact distances on my other map)

Who's Coming

(please let me know if this is wrong)

1. Simon Angus
2. Will Braynen
3. Monika Piotrowska
4. Ben Mazzotta
5. Amelie Veron
6. Andy Bell

... this is a good size, though we will need two cars.

Event Plan

Sat

Sun

tba

Links

Wheeler Peak Planning

Summary

Car-trip: 117 miles, (suggested 3hrs): St John's to Taos Ski Valley

Walk distance: 7.4 (private route notes, see below) - 8 miles (National Parks)

DIfficulty: Intermediate -- Expert

Climb: Just under 4000ft

Links

Resources for CSSS Participants

Mapping science: http://scimaps.org/
Asthma (lung function) modelling from the NECSI conference last year: http://necsi.org/events/iccs6/viewabstract.php?id=377
(for Amelie): Clustering techniques:
- Girvan - in-betweeness centrality
- Moody - recursive neighbourhood mean
Hubler-pnas-ball-bearings.pdf
Media:lorenz-nonperiodic.pdf .. This is page 8 from the famous Lorenz paper. My preference would be to include the graphs, and the top of the page which has 'Lorenz' in the by-line.
For Hannah: Miller's communication and cooperation paper .. thought you might like it due to the modelling framework .. yes, saw you searching emergent communication models miller.pdf Awesome! Thanks for that :o) H

Photos from CSSS07

Lake Nambe Hiking Trip

Email me if you would like to see some more photos from this trip (I will email you the .zip file).

About me

G'day all,

Walking in the Malverns (GB) with my nephew, Lachlan.

Just saying hello here -- other work-related stuff is below. Tried to find a photo bushwalking in the Australian mountains, but I'm usually behind the lense, rather than infront of it, so this is the best I could do -- walking in the Malverns -- hills near to where my sister was studying in Oxford, GB. The other pic is taken of a beautiful stand of Eucalyptus trees (mainly Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) or E. saligna (Sydney Blue Gum)) in the Blue Gum Forrest -- a famous walking destination to the West of Sydney, Australia, where I work. Sadly, the forrest is mostly destroyed now due to bushfires that hit in the recent Summer. A shame, but I thought I'd share them with you all the same.

The Blue Gum forrest, Blue Mountains National Park, West of Sydney, Australia.

I'm working at the School of Economics, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia. My background is in engineering/chemistry, and have continued to be fascinated by self-organizing systems -- then studying self-organizing polymer membranes, and now, studying self-organizing/endogenous network formation processes in human interaction networks. This means working in game theory, graph theory, and computational modelling of human behaviour -- specifically trying to ask, What is the outcome of a system of interacting individuals who are able to change their interaction environment themselves? Follow the link below for more info on this, including my recent PhD dissertation on the topic.

Other than walking, other things I'm into include going to church (I currently attend Unichurch, UNSW), mountain running (see The B-List) and road and mountain biking.

I was in Santa Fe in 2004 and am looking forward to becoming an 'ossy' again...

See you in Santa Fe!

Email:

Homepage:

Simon's homepage at the Theory Group wiki

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