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Piñata Weekend – Bonus Day
Sometimes, just sometimes, when you are beating a weekend with a 27″ aluminum bat a whole extra day falls out and into your lap and sometimes, just sometimes, you might be able to figure a little...
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The Sierras: Intro
I guess it’s better late than never, right? Well, probably not, maybe, who knows. The thing is that I dropped the ball. The biggest trip of the year, the one we plan for a good 6-9 months out, the one...
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The Sierras: Day one of our Epic Epicness
We awoke with the sun and to the roar of the river that we had crossed the night before. We had arrived late and thrown up camp in the dark. I’ve always enjoyed that kind of start to a trip. It gives...
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The Sierras: The Epic Epicness was sooo Epic
Day 1 of any backpacking trip is the one you see the most photos of. Pictures of people smiling and laughing while the mountain sun bounces off their tanned, not sunburned, skin next to burbling...
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The Sierra: Day 3 with Snowy Epic Epicness
A snow field surrounded by soaring, rocky peaks engulfs two solitary figures. Usually a rope connects the two to protect them from glissading to their deaths off the edge of where they are trekking....
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Tour Duh Pour
The Tour Duh Pour. It was a simple concept born out of the desire to have a good fucking time. The easiest way to accomplish said good time is the following equation, ++. It’s easy math, easy enough...
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The Sierra: The last day of our Hobo Epicness
The best way to determine how Hobo you have become is the ripples you effect in the people who witness you. For example, if a couple of moms get out of their giant SUV in the parking lot that you just...
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8 Step Guide to not Losing your Money at a Yard Sale
Saturday is the day people go junkin’. For those, unfamiliar with said term, Junkin’ is the activity of cruising the yard sales in one’s area and purchasing the junk other people are trying to get rid...
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Peering into my Future
We first saw him as he was paddling his way back across the lake. I noticed him first as we were nearing the shore again. We had expected to see someone, even though the majority of our weekend had...
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The Day the Colorado tried to Swallow Us
I hate words like “serene.” It feels more flaccid than placid. It’s a lot like most leaders, having an air of importance but lacking all and any real substance. It feels ok on the surface, but you...
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No One Died
Have you ever been doing something, anything and had someone die? And then, kept doing that thing that you were doing? Yea, me neither. About a month ago, Mama Bear and I spent the weekend off of...
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Unpacking just to Pack
It’s 5:47 PM on Monday. We got home the day before late in the evening. We dragged all the gear out of the car and deposited it in various locations throughout the house. The food stuff got placed in...
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The Awe is in the Journey
Can you drive to a place and still be awe inspired by it? The short, obvious, over simplified answer is yes. And as if that lead up wasn’t enough of a foreshadow, the long answer is no, no you cannot....
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Factories
I walked into a building. I was wearing clothes I hadn’t worn in years. I felt out of place like I had a giant bug on my forehead. Everyone could see it, but I had no idea it was there. There was a...
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Tourdaho
Mama Bear on Thorn Creek Butte. It was somewhere around mile 13 or 14 of the climb. We were nearing the summit but knew we still had some pedaling to do before we would be allowed to cash in the...
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Be Prepared
Mama Bear rolls up from behind me and asks, “Where’s the road?” “Over there, I think,” was all I had. I was standing on the end of a road looking out across a section of river that wasn’t supposed to...
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P. E. A. D.
I’m going to wear this chair out. I’ve spent more time in it staring at a computer screen wondering if it will eventually go away, this desire to do nothing, to sit in the house instead of being...
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Goose!
Just in case you were confused, the above picture is not in fact a picture of a goose. Rather it is a picture of a bear sitting on the Goose. Big G as opposed to little g. Now that we got that overly...
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My first time
The L-shaped street was lit by the one light that was nestled in the rincon. Opposite of said light was a white car, brand unknown, that belonged to my future brother-in-law. Between the two was a gate...
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Over the Line
Have you ever pushed yourself or been pushed to the point where you expected to not be able to physically continue? I’m a fan of the Dirtbag Diaries. It was the good ole Russian aka Bro Meinkey aka...
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