Radiance, Love, Discernment, Power, & Leadership
I had a mildly harrowing flight today off of Tiger Mt. Conditions were questionable, from either North or South launch. On the South launch, winds were cycling from 3-15 MPH, driven mostly by sun-heated atabatic flow, in cycles lasting about two minutes long. In the lulls, however, the…
Today was my first solo flight off of Tiger Mountain, and it was quite an event. The day began with some additional practice kiting on the South end of Lake Sammamish. The wind was rather erratic, sometimes from the South, and sometimes from the West. That made practice…
Many are the times where I have been hiking or kayaking throughout the Snoqualmie region and noticed various airborne craft with people dangling precariously below. Sometimes it was a paraglider, others it was a hang-glider, but in all cases, there was something about watching the freedom of their…
Many are the times where I have been hiking or kayaking throughout the Snoqualmie region and noticed various airborne craft with people dangling precariously below. Sometimes it was a paraglider, others it was a hang-glider, but in all cases, there was something about watching the freedom of their…
http://www.seattletoportland.com Last year, when I tried to ride non-stop from Seattle to Portland, I only made it 150 miles before dehydrating. That story can be found here: 2004 Seattle to Kelso This year, everything went fine. In some ways, the trip actually started Friday afternoon, when I drove…
http://www.seattletoportland.com Yesterday, July 17, 2004, I set out to ride my bicycle the 206 miles from Seattle to Portland in a single day. I had done the trip twice before, both times in 2 days. Both times, the second day seemed far more grueling than the first. From…
This is a story about the consequences of waiting until tomorrow, of not wanting to let go, and of the value of holding on. These three lessons were all etched indelibly into my soul while plastered up against the face of one rock or another, somewhere in the…
Half way through college in Boston, I took a semester off to teach environmental education to 4th through 6th graders at Seargant Camp. The program provided room and board in a huge farm house for about 12 staff who had all come together with diverse backgrounds, experience, ages…
Driving in, there were wooden posts holding up the guardrails on the side of the road, wet from earlier rains and morning dew. In the beams of sunlight that shone through the canopy of leaves above, they gave off wisps of steam and mist, almost as if still…
Ben Nevis -- the tallest peak in Great Britain, stands at roughly 4,400' above seal level. Since the base of the five mile climb is actually near sea level, hikers get the joy of actually ascending nearly all of that elevation. The hike starts out simply enough…