Search and Rescue
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A.k.a., as I titled the Google Doc in which I worked on the revisions and additions for the 2025 Of Mice and Mountaineers podcast update, “Pyramid 2: Thankfully Not So Electric Boogaloo.” Some general notes/warnings: as foreshadowed in my most recent trip report about Sunlight and Windom, this trip report turned out to be, in some ways, everything…
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In case anybody forgot what happened the last episode, here’s a brief recap: I fell off a mountain. More specifically, I fell off Pyramid Peak, a notoriously steep and loose mountain in a notoriously steep and loose subrange of the Southern Rockies, although alas for what remains of my dignity, the part that I fell…
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Note: As it is rapidly coming up on four years after the events laid out in this report took place, I timed my podcast to have this episode roughly coincide with the anniversary, and in doing so, I felt it necessary to revisit what was arguably the culminating, pivotal, capital-I Incident in my Colorado fourteener…
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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 