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Thankful for a cheap-o plastic poncho I bought at a grocery store two days before an epic -- and wet! -- Grand Canyon hike
Sometimes the line between raging success and abject failure is a glorified garbage bag with a hole barely big enough to poke your head through.
Nov 26 • 
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An extremely short post expressing gratitude
So short there's no need to write a subhead
Nov 20 • 
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End of passion play
RIP to a magazine that changed my life
Nov 13 • 
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So big, so old, so triumphant in survival
Inside the revival of The Bison Range
Nov 6 • 
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The best big city hike in the country
Or a love letter to the Lewis and Clark trail in suburban St. Louis
Oct 30 • 
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How my kids raise me
Or why cartwheels are always OK no matter where you do them.
Oct 23 • 
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When I learned to fight bulls I learned I really, really do not want to fight bulls
Or why I like my teeth where they are and my guts without a mud hole stomped in them
Oct 16 • 
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Half marathon. Full heart.
Or my 15-year-old daughter and I ran 13.1 miles together and MANY MANY BIG AND IMPORTANT THINGS were learned
Oct 9 • 
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The Accidental Adventurer
Fighting loneliness, one adventure at a time
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