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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 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 