friendship
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In some ways (this will be funny to me and perhaps the guest star in a few paragraphs), I rather wish I’d started my remembrances-of-mishaps-past project immediately after finishing the fourteeners back in September 2023. If I had done so, there would have been a chance, if only a small one, that I might have…
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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…
Of Mice and Mountaineers 