Category: Blog
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Trail By Error: Sometimes You Taste the Soup, Sometimes You’re In It
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It’s been a week of getting my hubris checked. About time. Hours after I posted my last blog, I went climbing, took a weird fall, and hurt one of the tendons in my thumb in the process. Maybe snapped it – I’m not sure, all I know is it hurts…
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Surging Onwards
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Vibrations have been steadily pulsing into the main act of the year. I’m exhausted and will continue to be – no rest for the wicked. May has been a busy time between moving, work, and all the misadventures making up the gaps in between. I’ve felt like a man possessed…
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Trail by Error in Appalachia – Dead Space
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We kept getting lost this trip. Not badly lost, or to an extent we couldn’t figure our way out of it. Sometimes we didn’t know how to get where we were going, and sometimes we didn’t know where we were going, only that we were going. Leaving Dolly Sods, we…
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Trail By Error in Appalachia – Drinking the Dolly Water
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Dennis, Elaine, and I headed out towards the southern portion of Dolly Sods, along Red Creek. It was Dennis’ first time there, and under normal circumstances I would’ve had us hit the northern portion which is both more unique and more exposed. With reports of thunderstorms in the evening, we…
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Trail By Error in Appalachia – Checking out Cracks and the Search for Wyatt in Smoke Hole Canyon
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Smoke Hole Canyon has a certain magic to it. I’ve said this about other places, I know, but that’s just a result of me having good taste and knowing to go to places with character (haha). Primarily known to fishermen and cavers, it’s gained notoriety with climbers in recent years…
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Trail By Error in Appalachia – Bolder
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During this trip out into West Virginia I got some of my first outdoor lead climbing experience, and it revealed truths about myself I already knew about myself but still can’t change from, even now that I’m back home and know these things. I know what moves to make. I…
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Trail By Error in Appalachia – The Looming Battle of Davis
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Similar to Trail By Error in the North Country, I’ve opted to treat this more as a series of vignettes from my most recent trip to West Virginia. Somewhat predictably, the loose plan I laid out in the first post of this series got significantly altered. Simple twists of fate. …
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Trail By Error in Appalachia – Goddamned Kids
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Life has a funny way of diverting plans. Simple twist of fate. Elaine and I were supposed to hit the Foothills Trail, driving down this Saturday and starting on Sunday, the 13th. Emphasis on supposed to, because as of about a week ago the eastern terminus is ablaze from the…
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Meaning in a Streamlined World
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Short read. Short leash. No interruptions. No setbacks. No noodling. No fat. No excess. Low fat, low carb, low intensity, low stakes, low tolerance, low alcohol, low down payment, low risk investment. Leave nothing to chance, have AI fill the margins. Boredom replaced with scrolling, if you’re not consuming you’re…
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Not Strong Enough…
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I don’t know why I am, the way I am… Well, I sort of do but that’s beside the point. The weather is warming up and so is the year. In about a month I’ll be on the Foothills Trail with Elaine, come late May I’ll be paddling the Greenbriar,…