2021 Highlights

2021 was another doozy of a pandemic year. Pandemic year 2 started off well, Stump having being turned out decisively in November » Read more

Prescott by mountain bike: Pain and pleasure (September, 2021)

Friday, September 24, 2021 I had wished to have a little more time in Sedona after our Western Spirit mountain biking and » Read more

Monday May 3, 2021 Day 7: Stone Creek to Above Olo Camp, Mile 146 Today was devoted to Deer Creek Falls, a » Read more

Friday April 30, 2021 Day 4, Cardenas to Trinity Creek Camp, Mile 92 Today was billed as a Big Rapid Day, including » Read more

The Grand Canyon is a cathedral of stone, wrought by time, pressure and eons of geologic history. I had unfinished business, a » Read more

Preamble How to sum up 2020? A year so chaotic, full of fear and fury, as to be life-altering, unforgettable and for » Read more

Saturday, May 2, 2020 According to the calendar, I was to have my hair done and we would have attended a biannual » Read more

Monday, August 17, 2020 We were nervous about our maiden voyage on Lake Powell. Despite spending so much time diving from and » Read more

Sunday, September 6, 2020 Almost every summer for the past 15 years, a Rimtours mountain biking and camping trip to the North » Read more

“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more