
Ramblings about writing, hiking, and the outdoors
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I hadn't seen my friend C in many years, at least a decade. More? She blew into town in a cool van amidst rare rainy weather. With her, she brought a host of bittersweet memories, more sweet than bitter.
If you've read my memoir, you will...
There's a brief window between snow and lightning, and I took it. The Silverton-Durango train ground to a stop and I stepped off. The only other living souls standing there were a man looking to replace the trail register and another backpa...
Harlan is twenty. He says he may stay in Colorado or may go somewhere else. He doesn't know. He talks about running ultras. He is unconcerned about the future. As he should be. He's twenty.
I feel a pang of envy. I remember this. I remembe...
Type 2 fun: adventure that is miserable or physically grueling but becomes enjoyable and memorable in retrospect.
We push on toward the upper lake. We have barely gone three miles in two hours. Our feet are wet from slushy snow and in Spi...
I climb toward the lake with two dogs, one real and one a ghost. I am the first person to make it this far this year, and there are still snowdrifts. Trees, weakened from the fire three years ago, or is it four, have toppled into the trail,...
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I hike long distance trails, write books, and try to force adventure into as much time as I have (never enough).
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