Australia will be fine as long as the right doesn't cave in.
What was his favorite forum? I ran into him on various threads.
I love hiking. I spent 3 months on the Appalacian trail, back in the 80's. I have hiked the high desert of California foa a few days. Now days I am lucky to find time for a day hike.
Chris, like me, tended to dive head-first into FR, and see where the mood took him. He would sometimes ping me to the most bizarre threads...
He was also a New York Yankees fan, and I believe spent a fair bit of time on the live playoff threads last year.
Here we call hiking, "bushwalking". My part of Queensland tends to get very hot and humid summers, so winter is really the time to get active and out there. June 1st marked the start of our winter... I really must get out there this season, get away from it all...
(Right now, though, I'm going to bed. It's after 11pm here and I'm tired... goodnight!)