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the other day I saw a bear
Atop a mountain this past summer, backcountry camping for three nights an eight hour hike from civilization, I spent an hour each day keeping up my writing by scribbling narratives of our daily advenutres into my smartphone. This is one of my entries. day three Bears have long held a kind of place of abstract
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Local Adventures: Hiking Jura Creek
It’s a long weekend in Canada and so with neither work nor school for anyone on Monday we skipped off to the mountains for some nordic-style fun in the alpine climate. We travel out there quite often. To relax. To hike. To just be somewhere beside home. And we always try to squeeze in at
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vision, start line
Since my modest and cautious update on my knee injury a couple weeks ago, I’ve actually been making some measurable progress in both healing and beginning my re-training. Then a few days later I went to a tour showing of the Banff Film Festival. I’m not clever enough to make a proper film, but I
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Knee-hab (January Update)
I ran last night. Not much. But I ran. Outside. On a trail. And I can still walk this morning. If running three klicks through on a random Thursday evening in January sounds less than impressive, let me introduce you to my Medial Collateral Ligament injury and the fact that I haven’t had a pain-free
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Foggy Downtown Breakdown
I drove to work this morning and where usually the sparkling towers of #yeg downtown greet me from across the valley, glass and concrete pillars of light twinkling through the morning twilight, today it was just ghostly silhouettes and hints of light pushing through the #fog and frozen moisture in the air.