adventure
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Note: I’m a writer, and I’m between projects right now, so expect logorrhea. A less-wordy and more visually pleasing take on yesterday’s adventure is available courtesy of SpringsDuke; you can come back to mine when you have a worktime bathroom visit or are waiting at the DMV or whatnot. Further note as of December 2024: I…
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Let me wish a very merry Winter Solstice to all, and may those of us who live to ski and ski to live be blessed by snowstorms this season, and may those who prefer not to worry about frostbite or fighting with their neighbors over the parking space they shoveled out on the street during…
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Notes: The choice of “bloody” in the title wasn’t simply a tip of the hat to hyperbole. If you’re squeamish about discussion and even photographic evidence of wounds, you might want to read something else. Otherwise, established authorial quirks still apply: I used dark gray to denote the straight-up copy-pasted material, and I once again kept in…
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Note: I once again used dark gray text to indicate copy-pasted TRs from days of yore, and I kept in some of the “Editor’s notes” in which I added a description/caption for a photo for the benefit of those listening to the audio version of this write-up on my podcast. One could argue that my…
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The Long White Whale, Part I
A Walk in the Woods, adventure, Anatoli Boukreev, asexuality, audiobooks, Bill Bryson, Cheryl Strayed, Colorado, fourteeners, friendship, hiking, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer, lgbtq, lgbtqqia, Longs Peak, mountains, nature, outdoors, Rocky Mountain National Park, Rocky Mountains, Search and Rescue, The Climb, travel, Wild
Listen to this story here. Before I pick up where I left off getting ready to leave Denver to start climbing Longs Peak on July 27th, 2014, I would first like to indulge in some surely no-longer-unexpected rambling so that I can give my father proper credit for getting me into fourteeners. No, I do…
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This is the latest script for my latest podcast episode, which you can listen to here or wherever else will cooperate with my continuous fight with modern technology. (RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/f380746c/podcast/rss) Well, well, well, anyone who’s followed along for the adventures of some of the Easiest High Alpine Peaks in the State of Colorado that I Made Unnecessarily…
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Listen to this story here. It has probably become apparent to anyone who was already or is becoming familiar with my work that I am much more an adherent of Dickens than Hemingway. Apparently that English major stuck with me nearly double the lifetime after I completed that particular degree; how else is one supposed to…
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Listen to this story here. A little recap for those who couldn’t bring themselves to read yet another write-up on Mount Freaking Bierstadt: Last time, on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard was kidnapped and assimilated by the Borg, and…oh, wait. This isn’t the 24th century, this is not long after the turn of the 21st,…
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Listen to this story here. I can practically hear the groans from fellow fourteener finishers and others with a breadth and depth of mountain experience: “Do we seriously need yet another pretentious putz pompously pontificating on everything they learned from doing mostly walk-ups on piles of rocks that just so happen to be in a stratus…
Of Mice and Mountaineers 