Category: Adventure

Stop saving them

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED May, 2015 I don’t want to help my kids anymore.  I used to but I am over it now. A few months ago, I was on a bike ride with my two oldest and stopped by the creek to hangout and rest. They were tossing rocks and arguing about something or other. Annoyed…

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Deep into the cave …

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED May, 2015 I went spelunking with a friend the other day. We had to drive down this old fire road that hadn’t been maintained. We really needed  an off-road car rather than his wife’s all-wheel drive Honda Pilot, but that is another story. At the bottom he found a trail that he remembered…

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Fear is what we fear

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED June, 2015 I did my first lead climb last week. It was pretty scary. For those that don’t understand, in rock climbing, a lead climber is the first one up the rock. He pulls a rope up behind him. In our case, we were sport climbing, meaning there were bolts drilled into the…

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