Showing posts with label mountains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mountains. Show all posts
Jan 16, 2019
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Oct 7, 2017
10.7.17
how long does it take to come back and meet yourself?
how many wrong turns, breathtaking views, how many detours can you take before you end up home again?
how long do you run from what can't be outrun?
where do you hide from your own beating heart?
breathe in.
breath out.
remember who you are?
remember the clay you're shaped from.
ten years to face what can never be faced.
a decade of hiding from your own breaking heart.
only to feel it break again as if no time had passed at all.
as if you closed your eyes
and opened them in the dim light
of a parking garage.
in the passenger seat of a car.
listening to the last words ever spoken.
how many songs and conversations to cover what can never be unheard?
how many years of silence would erase it?
these are the words that made you.
and you can never be unmade.
how many wrong turns, breathtaking views, how many detours can you take before you end up home again?
how long do you run from what can't be outrun?
where do you hide from your own beating heart?
breathe in.
breath out.
remember who you are?
remember the clay you're shaped from.
ten years to face what can never be faced.
a decade of hiding from your own breaking heart.
only to feel it break again as if no time had passed at all.
as if you closed your eyes
and opened them in the dim light
of a parking garage.
in the passenger seat of a car.
listening to the last words ever spoken.
how many songs and conversations to cover what can never be unheard?
how many years of silence would erase it?
these are the words that made you.
and you can never be unmade.
Aug 16, 2017
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Sep 13, 2015
9.5.15
“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet,
concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in
North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever
Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy,
inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our
true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright
forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and
nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence
inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you
forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable
worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I
call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born,
we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea
of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only
an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing.
It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing
to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end.
They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think
the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble,
but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind,
the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because
it was never born.”
~J. Kerouac
More than one photo today!
~J. Kerouac
More than one photo today!
Aug 12, 2015
8.11.15
This is Jessica...... she is an awesome adventure buddy!
This morning we scrapped our plan to hike Mt. Audubon due to some potentially sketchy weather. Instead I suggested we do South Boulder Peak as a good "warm up" option. When we go to the top, 3,000 vertical feet later we discovered from a fellow hiker that in fact this hike was harder than Mt. Audubon. So I think it's safe to say we are ready for it next time.
We also saw two hawks dancing with each other in the air, a hummingbird drinking nectar from a thistle and an angry rattlesnake, which we obviously went out of our way to avoid. Not bad for a Tuesday morning.
This morning we scrapped our plan to hike Mt. Audubon due to some potentially sketchy weather. Instead I suggested we do South Boulder Peak as a good "warm up" option. When we go to the top, 3,000 vertical feet later we discovered from a fellow hiker that in fact this hike was harder than Mt. Audubon. So I think it's safe to say we are ready for it next time.
We also saw two hawks dancing with each other in the air, a hummingbird drinking nectar from a thistle and an angry rattlesnake, which we obviously went out of our way to avoid. Not bad for a Tuesday morning.
Jul 29, 2015
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Aug 15, 2014
8.1.14
this was the best hike of the summer. we got an early start and the trail to ourselves; woke up wandering through the most amazing display of wildflowers i've ever seen, came across an elk mama, made our way up towards timberline in swirling mists. we were both silent for at least an hour - it really felt like hiking into another world. i'm posting the most pictures so far - there are so many good ones!
What is Wilderness?
The Wilderness Act defines Wilderness as....
What is Wilderness?
The Wilderness Act defines Wilderness as....
Aug 3, 2014
7.26.14
Today we got up before dawn, drove up to Rocky Mountain National Park and made our way under ominous skies, to the top of Hallett Peak - a respectable 12,713 feet. My two favorite things about this hike were the incredible views, of which there were many, and that much of it takes you through alpine tundra. If you've never had the chance to get up above treeline and experience this landscape I highly recommend it. It's so strange and beautiful, like hiking to another planet. You feel a bit lightheaded and dizzy, which adds to the surrealism of the landscape. This tundra was on the Ute and Arapahoe's migratory routes. I can only imagine what it must have been like to travel hundreds of years ago. Without proper shoes.
The Arapahoe called the mountain banah ah netaeux, meaning Thunder Peak, for good reason. Even though it was windy and bitterly cold we were lucky to make it up early enough to avoid the storm that inevitably arrived. During the summer in the Rockies you can pretty much expect an afternoon thunderstorm to hit, but today it came a bit early. We weren't out of the woods yet (pun INTENDED) and got caught on a lower ridge line when the thunder and lightening started. The rain quickly turned to giant, nickel sized balls of hail. It was painful and alarming. I wish I had photos of the downpour because besides being uncomfortable it was also really awe-inspiring and intense. But I was too busy running down the mountain. Russ said I looked like a bat in my poncho, fleeing the scene.
Posting more than one today!
The Arapahoe called the mountain banah ah netaeux, meaning Thunder Peak, for good reason. Even though it was windy and bitterly cold we were lucky to make it up early enough to avoid the storm that inevitably arrived. During the summer in the Rockies you can pretty much expect an afternoon thunderstorm to hit, but today it came a bit early. We weren't out of the woods yet (pun INTENDED) and got caught on a lower ridge line when the thunder and lightening started. The rain quickly turned to giant, nickel sized balls of hail. It was painful and alarming. I wish I had photos of the downpour because besides being uncomfortable it was also really awe-inspiring and intense. But I was too busy running down the mountain. Russ said I looked like a bat in my poncho, fleeing the scene.
Posting more than one today!
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