fourteeners
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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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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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Note: y’all probably know the drill by now on where to find my podcast and this particular episode in audio form on it, but if not, do a search for Of Mice and Mountaineers. If it’s not on your preferred platform that is something besides iTunes (long story about my beef with Apple), let me know so…
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Note: y’all probably know the drill by now on where to find the audio version. The written version of Part I is here. I’ve inserted pictures where I felt they were fitting/appropriate, but as with that first part, my own lingering personal…feelings…about the events that transpired are such that I felt that breaking up the text…
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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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