“Whenever I look back on a climb, it’s always the challenges and the effort I recall more fondly than the views from the summit itself. It’s the climb that fills my being.”— from 4000s by 40 This page reflects scenes from Chapter 13 in 4000s by 40. This was a training hike to prepare me for bigger…
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Skiing Mount Tecumseh: A Different Way to Tackle a 4000-Footer
“Days are days. You can’t wait for better ones, or warmer ones. If you let one day slide, it only gets easier to skip the next one—and before you know it, a heap load of time has passed and you are nowhere closer to reaching your goal.” — from 4000s by 40 This page coincides with…
Hiking the Tripyramids: Strange Encounters and Future Plans
“Rather than tell him I’d be absolutely terrified to join him wherever he was going, I told him I had other plans.” — from 4000s by 40 This page shares some photos from the experiences in Chapter 9 of 4000s by 40. Of all the mountains I climbed, these two are the hardest for me to remember,…
Mount Hancock & South Hancock – A Challenging 4000-Footer Loop
“While not planning on dying in the mountains anytime soon, I can certainly subscribe to the theory that dying in pursuit of my dreams—living the life I want and giving it my best shot—whether or not anyone bears witness to it, is certainly preferable to dying tied to my desk.”— from 4000s by 40 These photos…