Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Of all the great Wasatch peaks, Cascade Mountain is certainly the most ignored. It is so dwarfed (not by size – only by popularity) by nearby Mount Timpanogos, that many long-time residents of Utah County don’t even know its name. This is the mountain I mean:
Since I had never hiked it before, I organized a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps I’ve been watching too many action movies, but I really want to be able to control my final messages to those I love. I’ve had fantasies about getting a safety deposit box in a bank somewhere, hiding that fact from my wife, and then leaving inside of it notes for her to read after [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago Camber and I found ourselves, quite unintentionally, standing on top of Arizona.
How, you may ask, does one accidentally climb to the top of a 12,637-foot high mountain? I shall tell you.
It’s true that we went down to Flagstaff, Arizona (Camber’s home town) for the express purpose of climbing this mountain. This [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Dear France,
I am tired of your green beans.
Before you get overly excited – before you barricade L’Avenue des Champs-Élysées and set tires on fire – you need to know how much I have been afflicted by your green beans. What seems like years ago my wife, in a moment of excited weakness, decided to buy [...]
