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With both the 15s and sevens seasons complete, the rugby club held the annual End of Season Banquet at the Olympic Club this weekend. The O-Club put on a great spread, and after the awards and speeches we hit up a nearby bar to continue into the small hours of the morning. , Read More
I traveled to Canada in early August for Sloane Hunter and Mitch Wegmann’s wedding in Canmore, in the Canadian Rockies. I hadn’t seen Sloane, a close friend from my European backpacking travels in ’99, in around eight years since I visited her in chilly Alberta over Christmas 2000. I’d never met Mitch either, so I, Read More
With two matches left in the Northern California 1st Division competition, we flew to Salk Lake City for the day to take on Park City Haggis (think: very large Polynesians). It was a brisk, sunny day with an icy wind blowing, but the views of the surrounding mountains from the pitch were outstanding (and, Read More
I’ve had a little "on the beach" downtime between private equity cases recently, and decided to head across the bay one day midweek to chill out on the Berkeley campus, stick my head into the administrative offices at the Haas School of Business and say hi to a few friends, eat lunch at one, Read More
For our first consultant class activity we decided to go skiing at Kirkwood for the weekend. Uncle Bain was nice enough to give us Friday off for it, and pay for our accomodation, so we all piled up to Kirkwood on Thursday night and Friday morning. We timed getting up there perfectly as there, Read More
While I had to work Christmas week, I was still able to escape up to Whistler over the four day long weekend. Tara, a good friend of mine from Bain (now en route to France to start her MBA at INSEAD) was up there with her family, and she suggested I come up and, Read More
Here are some photos from a fantastic weekend hike near Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. I went with Genia, a colleague from work, her husband and her brother. As you can see we had perfect weather! En route to the trail head along the Tioga Pass Road: Day 1:, Read More
Before work begins I’ve been busy zigging and zagging across the city doing a million different things. I’ve had my camera with me (habit after traveling for so long!) and have snapped a few pics around the city. Here are a few: Sather Gate, at the southern entrance to UC Berkeley. , Read More