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Thursday Thought: Awareness Into Action from MountainFilm

Image from Google As many of you know, I'm down here in Telluride for MountainFilm, which this year is focused on the theme of Awareness Into Action. This afternoon, I attended a symposium on "Do It Yourselfers" who have turned their personal awareness...


Thursday Thought: Garrison Keillor on Challenge, Risk, Failure ...and Joy

Image from Google He's a bit of an odd duck, that Garrison Keillor...but one possessed with an impressive amount of odd wisdom. I generally catch bits and pieces of Prairie Home Companion on the weekends, but always try to make time to hear...


Thursday Thought: Why Climb? Why Travel? Why Get Off The Couch?!

Image from Google Why am I here? It's a common thought I have, and one that revisited me just two days ago while enduring frigid temperatures and nuking winds with Charley Mace and Chris Warner en route to Mount Bancroft. It was pretty...


Thursday Thought: Passion in Life

Image from Google My wife and I often talk about how fortunate we feel to have careers that are built upon our passions. As the cliche goes, do what you love and you'll never work another day in your life. Certainly, Wende and...


Humility: The Name of the Game

Back in February, I wrote a Thursday Thought about ego...and the need to not have one in life. In it I shared some thoughts from one of my climbing heroes (and friends), Tom Hornbein. As many of you know, I...


Thursday Thought: No Child Left Inside

Image from Google Kick the can. Climbing trees. Falling in ponds and catching frogs. Climbing rocks and skinning knees. Brushing it all off and going out the next day for more.Those are many of the memories of my childhood. We played, and played...


Thursday Thought: A Commencement Inspiration for The Bosque School

Image from Google I was honored beyond words that the students of The Bosque School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, not only remembered by presentation to them back in February, 2006, but also enjoyed it enough to ask me to speak at their commencement...


Thursday Thought: Climbing, Kids, & The Mountaineer's Will

Image from Google I'm often asked if having children - I now have two - has changed my climbing in any way. And, I think it is often assumed that I either (a) no longer climb or (b) have deeply limited my climbing....


Thursday Thought: Dan Pink on Autonomy & 21st Century Business

It was cold, brutally cold. The kind of cold that one only seems to find in the depth of February in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. And it was only exacerbated by the fact that we were ice climbing,...


Thursday Thought: Taking the Path of Obliquity

We've all heard it before, those famous words of Robert Frost about the path less traveled by making all the difference. But is it true? Do we sometimes arrive at our destination more effectively by taking the less direct, less...