asexuality
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Note: most of the TRs I have been updating for my podcast since the ones about my quickly-aborted attempts to develop some Class 5 climbing skills have simply been updated on the original reports rather than copy-pasted into new ones and will largely continue to be edited rather than published anew…but this one is entirely…
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Note: There are conventions for quoting long, multi-paragraph passages. You’re supposed to start it off with double quotation marks (at least in the U.S.), then start each subsequent paragraph with another ” but not provide ending marks until the very end of the passage. I think the every-paragraph-introductory-marks style looks weird, so while I will…
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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 episode here. You kinda have to feel a little bad for poor old Mount Blue Sky, or at least I sure do. It gets derided by many of the elite mountaineers making up the fourteener community for being extra uncomplicated as far as means to reach its summit go, seeing as how…
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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 episode here. I can’t help but wonder how fourteener chasers or our ilk — New England’s ADKers and 46ers; continent, country, state, and county highpointers; peakbaggers of all sorts of combinations and subsets — are perceived by total outsiders, as I myself, being one of them, only have an inside perspective. Are they…
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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 