Asa’s busy making papel picado for out Rockhopper gathering this evening. Except he’s not using scissors, so I guess they’re more like prayer flags — except they’re made out of paper and not cloth. It’ll be festive regardless. He’s instructed me to hang them high, so they won’t be disturbed by the pitched water gun…Read more
Is that how you spell that? Eliot is taking some vacation time and we’re mostly staying in town enjoying being a family. We’re going to go on a canoe trip for a few days on the upper Guadalupe and climbing out at Enchanted Rocks, but mostly we’re just going to do a little reflection and…Read more
I just couldn’t bring myself to believe it was going to rain at this year’s Western States. Sure, I’d heard the pre-race weather reports. Unseasonably cold. Lows in the 30s. Highs in the 50s. With a 30% chance of rain. In my mind, that meant clouds and a few brief showers. Surely it didn’t mean…Read more
Hello from San Antonio! I’m sitting at my desk working my way through piles of paperwork and bills and e-mails that have been ignored since I left for Leadville. So when we last spoke, I was in Lead-vegas teaching a Wilderness First Responder Course. My friend Brian came to town and we ran up and…Read more
Brian and I ran up Mt. Elbert yesterday after class. (Witness the challenge of the 5’1 and 6’6 person photo.) (And don’t our teeth look kind of huge?) We didn’t have a lot of time for posing because there was a nice clap of thunder as soon as we got there. Brian was kind enough…Read more
