January 2017

I mentioned a few posts ago (click here if you simply must watch me talk on camera like a complete bozo) that I started a group online completely focused on hiking/climbing related fitness, recipes, tips and support.  The group now has over 80 members, and it has been absolutely rejuvenating for me.  I thrive on creativity and connecting with others, so this is exactly what I needed (and hopefully what others needed as well!!).  If you want to join, shoot me an e-mail and I...

So, today I did something that actually scared me - I created a Facebook group called, "Toward the Mountaintop Inch By Inch."  Why did I do this?  Well, there are a lot of reasons - and I'm going to explain all of them in a video, because that's a lot more exciting than reading about it - but the bottom line is this - I want to create a community for people like me.  I want the community that I would have wanted 15 years...

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.” — Walt Whitman Our final stop on our 11 day French Polynesia trip was the island of Huahine (pronounced 'oooh-ah-hee-nay').  Huahine is actually two islands that are connected by a small sand bank at low tide.  Huahine Nui is the, "big Huahine", and Huahine...