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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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Once again, I successfully navigated a route with a partner who provided far more practical beta than I did. If you’re looking for a detailed description of how to navigate the S Ridge-West Slopes loop, partially in the dark, check out daway8’s report. If you’re looking for rumination on suffering and sass so excessive (seriously, the…
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Note: as this written version of a podcast episode once again contains several previously written reports – though with some (make that a lot of) never-before-written bonus material added on about Little Bear at the end! – I once again linked to the already-existent reports for the benefit of anybody looking to make some sort…
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Note: I’m once again back to…uhh…refreshing old TRs for my podcast, which is just now starting its second season. Some edits have been made to correct typos and make other clarifications, but since this is a compilation of write-ups (with some original material linking and framing), I’ll put in links to the original, unedited reports…
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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: 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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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…
Of Mice and Mountaineers 