Fall in love with being alive
I! Am! Halfway! There! On Friday I hiked Cathedral Rock Fire Tower. 2.33 miles, 259 feet elevation gain. On Saturday I hiked Tabletop and Phelps. 13.15 miles, 3,855 feet elevation gain. On Sunday I hiked Wright, Algonquin and Iroquois. 11 miles, 4,386 feet elevation gain. On Monday I drove back home. 261 miles. A friend […]
Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poem says: You, sent out beyond your recall,go to the limits of your longing.Embody me. Flare up like a flameand make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.Just keep going. No feeling is final. I was thinking about this poem a lot this weekend. I […]
We’ve been married 6 years. So I made him spend two days doing some things I love. In them I hope he understands all of this: “I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance […]
just to be aliveon this fresh morningin the broken world.– Mary Oliver, Invitation This weekend felt serious. Though my climbing plans fell through and I worked at the climbing gym instead of climbing outside. My parents rented a boat and instead of a nice day on the lake, we got rained on and ended up […]
I have been adventuring hard, but not this weekend. This weekend I ran some errands, I had some quiet nights. I went to the drive-in. I watched Hallmark Movies with my mom. I went out for breakfast and watched a friend ride his bike by on a 60 mile “Tour de Keuka” fundraiser ride and […]
Sometimes you just know a thing will be perfect. Like driving to Indian Lake on a Thursday night after running a 5k in Dorchester Park and the sky is beautiful, and the roads are quiet. Like having climbing crags all to yourself, beautiful hikes, swimming holes, golden hour on an abandoned golf course, and enough […]
I’ve never been to Vermont. So we decided to go to Vermont. We stayed in an old farmhouse, we hiked, we climbed, we ate a lot of cheese. I thought about how regular life is so much lacking in these simple things that I wish I could have all of the time. Time outside, easy […]
First of all, we’re just going to say that Anyssa Lucena of Genuine Climbing is a hero, a role model, a beautiful person, and just an amazing all around individual. If I can be even half as cool as her someday, I will consider myself very lucky. In mid-July she put on this Sunday Sends: […]
Look, it’ll be a hard day. But not as hard as the day F. Peter Simmons had when he crashed his plane in the valley between Mount Marshall and Iroquois Mountain. I didn’t think it was too hard of a day, as far as High Peaks go, Mount Marshall didn’t feel too bad. Or maybe […]
I usually get to the climbing area an hour before it opens. Because well… you Gotta get the best climbs. Waiting today for that hour to run down I was struck by how fast an hour goes by these days. As a kid, an hour seemed like an ETERNITY. Now though, it’s gone in a […]
