hiking
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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 