It’s all about the gear, people. There’s even a name for it: The mountain person who has too much gear is a Gearhead. But the fact is, never mind all those people who want to be fashionable in the mountains. The truth is, fashion has little place out here. Outside Magazine Tells the Hipster Millenial […]
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Does life have meaning? I used to think it was a slam dunk it did. But now in the middle of the night, as I stare at the computer, I am wondering. And then, suddenly, I am not lying: the dog, who is sitting behind me as he usually does, with no reason reaches out
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Now it is Friday and the meetup hiking cabin trip is in the past. The wooden cabin covered with snow, the kitchen with pans and gadgets and dull knives and a big table in the middle with benches like in a lumber camp that sits eight, it’s history. How did it go, my friends asked
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On Saturday, it was time for me to be a serious cross country skiing beginner, on a trip that I broke the law to complete. This was a hiking club trip that I had signed up for over a month ago, and which was so actively anticipated that when I couldn’t find used skis I
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Changing the way you think is tough. Brianna Weist’s 101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think will help you re-frame your worldview and your relationships. A couple weeks past, this book showed up at my doorstep. No doubt a helpful friend wanted to give me a chance to change the way I think.
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Adjective: Picaresque: 1. relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero. Noun: Picaresque novel: A novel relating the story of such a character. The picaresque is not a new thing. Famous novels in this vein include Tom Jones, Huckleberry Finn, and, the granddaddy of
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Actually, it’s not necessarily a Chinese proverb about wealth per se. It’s a quote that I found long ago in a poem in the Tao te Ching. This is a book of philosophical poetry, 2000 years old, translated from Chinese. Leo gave this book to me the year we met, along with Candide, by Voltaire,
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I told the kids about the divorce. And that brought up, indirectly, the memories of Texas. I don’t know how this happened. How the breakdown of the family somehow became synonymous with the sojourn in the Big State. I don’t even know if it’s fair. Sometimes one thing gets to stand in for something else
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First of all some brief details on traveling Trail Ridge Road: What: A 48-mile long route along the tops of the Rocky Mountains, crossing the Continental Divide, and allowing serene and amazing views of the tundra ecosystem, the mountain sky, and snowy cirques. (Cirques are those bowls near the mountain peaks that catch snow and
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Bad Relationship: Just Say No? It’s hard to say no to a bad relationship. We’ve all got FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out. It’s hard to deal with. If you leave your relationship, you’ll be outside, woman. Alone on Friday night. No one to pick you up if you run out of gas, or to move
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