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Getting started smelling roses…

February 25th, 2008 - Colorado, Health, Outdoors, Planet Earth - 1 Comment

Some snow: Some ice:

Dogs (and meat) … all beat!

February 13th, 2008 - Colorado, Health, Outdoors - Comments Off

Today was the Mule Deer Trail in Golden Gate State Park. Forget what the map/guide says about difficulty, these trail classifications are (I assume) for summer hikes, not snowshoe hikes. Today’s “moderate” (from Gap Road to Frazer Meadow) was far more strenuous than yesterday’s ”difficult”. Long stretches of feet deep snow, thigh-high drifts, long/steep rises, ups and downs. Whew, [...]

Stepping out…

February 12th, 2008 - Colorado, Health, Outdoors, Planet Earth - 1 Comment

Today is the first day of the start of my uncertainty… The good folks at Adventure Central gave me these awesome snowshoes as a leaving present, and today I put them to the test on the Snowshow Hare Trail of Golden Gate State Park. Fully dressed for the weather, backpacked up, and in steady snow with two impatient dogs, [...]

Draining the poisons…

January 22nd, 2008 - Absolutely Random, Health, Work - Comments Off

Many years ago a colleague passed on the phrase “draining the poisons” to describe the process of moving on from a job that didn’t work out. This could be personal recovery (“getting back to you”) but as importantly it is a necessary step in preparing oneself for interviewing before the next one. A rebound job [...]