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How To Friend Someone In Real Life 22 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
I pulled open the garage door on my storage unit in east Denver, smelling the dust that had accumulated during the two months since I’d last been inside. Jayson had moved out of a 350-square-foot apar...
The New Mid-Life Crisis Is: Being Awesome 15 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
In March of this year, at a Kmart in Petaluma, California, I bought my friend Amy her very first road atlas. She’s 45, and we had talked about her upcoming six-week sabbatical from her job, and how it...
You Don’t Have To Go Inside Just Because It’s Dark 8 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
I rolled down the packed trail, standing in the pedals, watching the 30 or so feet ahead of me illuminated by my headlamp. Hilary was 50 feet ahead, going the same pace in her own bubble of light in t...
Reviews of High-Performance Foods 1 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
Geez, with all the information from magazine covers, your friend who’s on a new fad diet, and television commercials, it’s hard to know what to eat and what not to eat. When you’re out on the trail, i...
BUT I AM RELAXING 25 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
Nick mentioned a hot springs somewhere in southern Colorado, and I suspected it was one of those things he was doing because his girlfriend wanted to. He’s a good sport, up for most anything, but I’ve...
A Friendly Reminder That Your Summer Is Half Over 18 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
My dad mentioned to me the other day that this was the first year he’d ever used up his entire five weeks of paid vacation. I told him that was a good sign he was living right. It’s good to conserve s...
Pride Cometh Before The Fall 11 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
As a joke, I got my photo taken next to the Icebox Canyon trailhead sign: “Each year people are killed due to falls when scrambling on rock surfaces. Wear and use proper equipment.” I thought that was...
Young Men And Fire 4 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
My old journalism professor, Michael Downs, sold me on Norman Maclean’s book Young Men and Fire almost 10 years ago when he told me how perfect the ending was. I don’t remember what he said, or what t...
You Wonder Why We Don’t Have Nice Things 27 Jun 2013 | 07:10 pm
I sat down exhausted last Tuesday night next to my friends Chris and Forest in front of a granite shelter we’d just built on the summit. I hadn’t taken much time to build a proper chair out of stones,...
Please Continue Instagramming Your Amazing Life 20 Jun 2013 | 07:10 pm
In April, a piece titled “Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life” started making its way around Facebook and Twitter. The author raised a point that the things our friends post on social media can make ...
