Turn on Channel Six, the President comes on the newsSays, “I got no satisfaction, that’s why I sing the bluesHis wife say “Don’t get crazy, Lord, you know what to doCrank up that old Victrola, put on your rocking shoes – Bob Weir Some time back I wrote a little […]
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eastern promises part 1
Sometimes, if things are closed, you just, open them up.” – Viggo Mortensen – Nikolai Luzhin Many of you regular readers who have stuck with me over the years might know that I have a grudge match with a certain peak in the Selkirk’s that goes way back to the 1970’s. That’s a long time to have a beef […]
Read Morethe first cup
Black as midnight on on moonless night – Special Agent Dale Cooper I haven’t posted anything about coffee in a while. If I’m being honest I haven’t posted much of anything in a while. That doesn’t mean I’ve not been making and drinking coffee though. Because I have. Let me […]
Read Moreleague of the bright tonto hermits
Some days I wish that I’d never been to the Grand Canyon. Other days I wish that I’d started going there decades ago. Yes, it can be a beguiling mistress at times. It’s a place to go to lose oneself, find oneself, get hurt, get healed, and bond. No sooner […]
Read Morelight is right
There is a saying in climbing that ‘light is right’. Let’s take a closer look at that. You will shortly discover that this story is yet another in the genre of ‘back in the bad old days’… I suppose once you reach a certain age there is more reflection on […]
Read Moreanother scrappy little climb
Sometime way back in the early eighties we were in Yosemite. We weren’t very good climbers in terms of high grades, and committing climbs, but we were enjoying the hell out of life. Because of our modest capabilities we had our sights set on a number of obscure climbs that were within our meager limits and away from […]
Read Morethe pass
The three attributes of an alpinist are: A high pain tolerance, a bad memory, and… I forget the third one It turns out that everything in Roger’s Pass is hard. This was our last day, and we would soon be heading out after breaking camp. It was early morning and […]
Read Moreback into the forest
Climbing is hard. So is getting old. Combine the two of them…. Well…. You will see… It had been two years almost to the day that we were last in Squamish. That trip, also documented here on PGH was fantastic, and we were planning on replicating that. It was the […]
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