H
Ah, eh, oh, uh. Four little syllables, four different meanings. This is the sort of thing that occurs to me when my body insists on waking before I'd like it to.
Curtis Jones
Alaska III
It's a go: May 8th we leave for Alaska and Mt. Foraker, the path less chosen. Only nine people attempted it last year, so we may have the whole mountain to ourselves. Now I just need a lighter sleeping bag, a better antenna, and a 500-page book.
Ouray
A new 70m Mammut rope, a screaming deal on used Scarpa boots for Aimee, and the discovery that Ouray, Colorado was Ayn Rand's inspiration for Galt's Gulch. Dumb luck has been good to me lately.
Your Rights vs My Rights
New York may be inching toward a public smoking ban, and one smoker insists we should have the freedom to light up. Sure, in a desert or a forest. But the moment your habit harms the people around you, that freedom ends. Go smoke; just not near the rest of us.
Juxtaposition
The point is, I don't know how to smile and I never did, but at least now I know it. Yes, that's my happy face.
Life in New York
The single best description of life in New York I've read lately, courtesy of 15 Minute Lunch. I am decidedly not a city person, and no amount of talk about "culture" is going to change that. Read it.
New Hampshire Ice Climbing
Some ice climbing pictures from our warm-up at Auburn Ice Canyon. The approach is a slog, an easy fifteen-minute walk on packed snow, and we never would have found the place without somebody else's tracks to follow.
FindMeSpot Locator Alert!
Apparently we're still alive. The tracker puts us at Cinema Gully in Crawford Notch State Park, New Hampshire, about half a mile from the gully itself and not moving since last time.
FindMeSpot Locator Alert!
Apparently we're still alive. Another ping from Cinema Gully in Crawford Notch State Park, New Hampshire, now a tenth of a mile out and holding steady.
FindMeSpot Locator Alert!
Apparently we're still alive. The tracker has us near Worcester, Massachusetts, almost five miles from town and parked in place since the last check-in.