Tag: 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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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 – 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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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,…
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A Mad Day Out in Rocktown
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Mildred didn’t know what we were getting her into. To be fair, she’s an 00’s Subaru Outback, if she’s sentient we sure as hell didn’t know it. I’d normally drive on days like today, but Baby Blue had been making me paranoid lately. Turns out my paranoia was just psychosomatic,…
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The Outside’s Inside, The Inside’s Outside
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In the past few years, more and more Americans have woken to the same, horrendous realization – all this technological progress, all the luxuries available to us, have all been a faustian bargain. We can see this laid bare in the rise of generative AI, heralded by STEM sociopaths. Art,…
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Trail By Error In The North Country: Why And Why Not
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“Why the hell did y’all come here?” That more or less was the question we kept on getting asked. It… makes sense. Why did three Virginians drive ten hours to experience winter at its most grey, snowy, and bitter? The middle of January is too cold for half their attractions…