Today I googled “how to deal with disappointment”. Don’t worry, I also googled “how to fix gnarly climber toenails” and “how to give yourself a haircut”. Wait… maybe you should worry after all. Anyway, googling doesn’t generally help my problems but it’s got me thinking about how my expectations are always so high and how […]
They pay me to walk around here. I mean, technically they pay me to ask people not to go near the waterfalls or towers of loose rock, but still. I get very sweaty, my feet often hurt by the end. But still. I think a lot while I walk. Today I saw a doe from […]
I had hoped to hike 5 high peaks this weekend to bring my total up to 15 instead of 12, but I only hiked 2. It seems then that this post should be about success and failure, or about learning when to turn back, when to give up, but that’s not how it felt. It […]
Driving into the Adirondacks always feels like the start to a grand adventure. Usually because it is. When the road signs turn from that manufactured green that doesn’t exist anywhere but on road signs, to brown… you know it’s beginning. Rolling into Keene Valley I felt like I was expanding, filling the space, filling my […]
When I am faced with a decision (or several) I often think about this quote from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: “I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and […]
Well it happened. Snow in the high peaks. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, the Adirondack High Peaks are covered in snow most of the year. I’d just sworn to myself I’d never hike a high peak in the snow. But there I was, hiking Mount Colden in the snow, and it was beautiful. It […]
Tommy Caldwell said in an instagram post “It turns out this trip was about showing our kids that joy and suffering are 2 sides of the same coin. A great reminder we should strive to live as much of our lives as possible like that.” I’ve thought about this idea a lot since coming down […]
This week was an Eagles song “Take It easy, take it easyDon’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazyLighten up while you still canDon’t even try to understandJust find a place to make your stand and take it easy” If only the sound of my own wheels didn’t drive me crazy, I […]
I have a cold or something. People have said “feel better” or “I’m sorry you’re sick” but mostly all I can think is that I had it coming. Monday I had planned to go bouldering and to a yoga class but I had a migraine so I spent the evening laying on the couch with […]
Normally longer, warmer days give me energy and life. Lately though I’m just tired. I’m not looking forward to any of the things to come because I’m just tired. But here’s what I did anyway. Finally found some rocks in the woods. Hiked a new trail with Chief. Went to Rochester with my mom and […]
