Eye Candy

The Ferris Files has a new set of eyes. For my birthday my girlfriend gave me a digital camera, which is practically* the first I’ve ever owned.

All week I have been cuddling and stroking its burnished silver skin. The Canon PowerShot SD1000 is capable of 7.1-megapixel resolution. That’s so many pixels that I could […]

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March 28th, 2007 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Eve of the summit: a stilted conversation with Ferris

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January 21st, 2007 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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January 20th, 2007 | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Getting Lucky

I’m happy to report that a story of mine, “Getting Lucky,” has just been published at SMITH Magazine, an online literary publication out of New York. The subject: Is your luck just your luck, or do you earn it?

To answer this question, I tell about a trip I took in November 2005 to climb […]

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January 1st, 2007 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

A Bovine Adventure

Photo Credit: www.farm4.static.flickr.com

On Christmas Eve, I trained by hiking to Rose Peak on the Ohlone Wilderness Regional Trail, which is in its pristine prehistoric state, except for the occasional menacing gang of cows.

I suppose there is nothing to fear from a cow. That is easy to forget, however, when you’re on […]

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December 26th, 2006 | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Welcome to The Ferris Files

Welcome to The Ferris Files, the real-time journal of David Ferris, a writer, fitness trainer, running coach, and curly-haired galoot with an appetite for words and for venturing outdoors.

I hope you learn things about the world you didn’t expect. Things that excite your imagination, that inspire you to get outside, to move and explore […]

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November 24th, 2006 | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments
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