Category Archives: Planning

12/31/2015
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Adventure, Alp, Disability, France, Friends, Planning, Role Models, SCUBA, Travel, Writing

2015 or Paddling Upstream

river

Downstream with a strong friend is a nice way to travel

This year has felt like paddling upstream. That sense of struggling against a current that is so intense that you can’t see the progress being made until you find a safe beach to pull off on. So here I am, Continue reading →

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07/20/2014
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Adventure, Alp, Chamonix, Disability, Filth, France, Friends, Mont Blanc, Nature, Nature Stroll, Photography, Planning, Swimming, Travel

A Celebration of Filth

I'm All Up On This Alp

I’m All Up On This Alp [Photo by Halliday Reynolds]

I woke up last Wednesday, pine sap matting a wad of hair to the back of my scalp, just above the beginnings of a redneck sunburn the likes of which I haven’t experienced since high school; before sunscreen was a thing. The previous days’ outfit lay strewn about my bedroom, covered in a Jackson Pollock masterwork of bar-b-que sauce, forest floor dampness, the black smudges of charcoal, pine needles, and a dash of red wine stains. None of this is bad; it’s glorious. Continue reading →

04/30/2014
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Access Pass, Adventure, Disability, Disabled History, Golden Access Passport, National Parks, Nature, Planning, Politics, Travel

Good Looking Out, Smokey

Yosemite

Yosemite

For a week each spring we celebrate our National Parks. This is not nearly enough time. For ninety eight years the parks service has collected and curated eighty four million acres of Continue reading →

03/30/2014
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Adventure, Advice, California, Climbing, Disability, Friends, Nature, Planning, Rest Day, Travel

Colonize the Montage

Dogwood Flowers Chillaxing in the Sunshine of a Sierra Spring

Dogwood Flowers Chillaxing in the Sunshine of a Sierra Spring

This past week has been completely overrun with two activities. The see through-tanning, internet-searching, hair-pulling minutia of planning my epic summer and a knock-down, drag-out, full blown, gloves off bout of RA fatigue. In the seven or eight hours per day that Continue reading →