The adventure begins… tomorrow!

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My hiking clothes and gear choices have changed somewhat since the last time I posted but not by a lot.  I’m tired of thinking about what to bring, what to wear — I just want to DO IT! The stuff is laid out in columns, as you can sort of… Continue reading →

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One week and counting!

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It’s a grey winter morning, suitably dreary given my mood.  I’ve got a million details to deal with and there’s only a week left before we start our decent of the Grand Canyon.  I know I’m vastly unprepared to take on this tough a hike.  I know I’ve bitten off… Continue reading →

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Backpacks

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Laura and I are splitting a duffel bag for the mules to haul down to Phantom Ranch this time.  It’ll be filled with what we’ll need for two overnights and one day in between.  Nevertheless, I will want to carry enough stuff with me on the trail that I’ll need… Continue reading →

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It’s never too lace

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Laura and I were aiming for making it up to the fire lookout tower on top of Escudilla Mountain this coming Friday.  We’re getting closer to our Grand Canyon hike and both of us have been feeling like we need a real test.  The hike from Hulsey Lake up to… Continue reading →

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Grand Canyon Countdown

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In just under seven weeks I’ll be leaving for Grand Canyon.   That means one month and seventeen days to prepare.  It means forty-eight days.  Not that I’m counting. Yesterday my friend Laura — who’ll be doing the Canyon with me  — and I repeated a hike from the week before. … Continue reading →

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Grand adventure

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I took this photo of the Colorado River in January, 2008. I was with my friend Laura, starting out not long after dawn from the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It would take us till mid-afternoon to hike up Bright Angel Trail to the rim. In January, 2019, Laura and… Continue reading →

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Sometimes it’s good

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I write all the time I don’t mean all the blabbery on social media.  I’m talking real writing — at least by my definition of “real”. Stories.  I stopped writing them a long time ago but now I do again.  Why?  Don’t know.  I write the occasional poem.  I’m no… Continue reading →

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Getting plastered

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Next month I will have lived in my straw bale house for twenty years. In all that time I haven’t managed to finish it — specifically, I have barely started the plastering. That would be the step that makes the straw bale house so incredibly insulated and worth the effort… Continue reading →

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