Passing Time
Michael BatemanTime is your most valuable asset. Thank you for spending some of it with me. I write about the outdoors, the media I consume, and life.
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Dream of Wild Turkeys
In 2011, Bill Gibbs left a Mountain Project comment on the classic Red Rocks route Dream of Wild Turkeys: “I can scratch it off the bucket list, but will never go past the 11th pitch again...” We read this comment in the parking lot at 5am...
One Hundred Laps
According to my records, I’ve now done Freeway on the Second Flatiron in Boulder one hundred times.
The Second Flatiron, a thousand-foot spike of conglomerate sandstone located on the outskirts of South Boulder, is a part of the greater F...
What do you think you're hiding?
Strava, the social media “for active people,” claims to provide community-powered motivation for more than 100 million users. Opening Strava summons a feed showing off how far and fast your friends biked, ran, and skied that day—usually not...
No joy in life can survive reductionism
I regret to say that during my last week of living in a cabin with five of my best friends, powder skiing in the Tetons, and drinking beers in a garage, I allowed myself to be somewhat… absent. I found myself succumbing to the poisonous vit...
How I passed the time in 2025
[how I passed the time in 2023 & 2024]
The overarching theme of this blog is that how you spend your time matters. In 2025, my choice to make this my byline back in 2021 feels awfully prescient. My attention has never felt more under siege...
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