Rocky Mountain National Park
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Note: Even though he wasn’t on this particular outing with us, I would once again like to direct people to SpringsDuke’s actually useful trip report giving a much less rambling and more generously photographed account of this particular route. That write-up was certainly invaluable to us, his partners from a winter Bierstadt and spring Little Bear, in…
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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 