Dreaming of Adventure at the moment...when I should be writing reports instead.
Sounds like a dream.
The nice thing about this hut is the Swiss Alpine club keeps it up. Unlike say, huts in the Sierras where you're likely to find ice two feet thick inside from daily snow melt and nightly freeze cycles in the winter time.
Like the time when Pepper Jack invited me to join him on a climbing trip to do a route on The Eiger with some buddies.
I was married at the time and considered it way out of my league. Jack didn't think so, as he said my fitness and current level of experience and skill would be enough with the party he was going with and anyway there were all sorts of routes..."ahhh, we'll figure it out, you know."
Wow.
Sigh.
I day dreamed a lot about it for some time after that, wondering what that would have been like. Going on that trip would have changed the course of my life. I was just starting to compete on my bike. Climbed more than I rode. Eventually, it was riding that took me away from climbing.
Funny, not too long after, I was invited to submit a resume for a guiding company that would fly by helo, tourists and adventurers to the top of high summits in Alaskan and South American ranges; and then lead them down on mountain bikes.
Day dreamed for a while on that one too.
Of course I harbored no regrets.
I haven't been married for almost five years now and today as a vendor rep in the Outdoor Industry, I am for the first time in my adult life, in a position to do wild, time consuming adventures. However, I seem to have arranged things in a way that doesn't actually support such endeavors.
Got myself all questioning the way I am going about things, yet again.
What am I doing?
Oh yeah! Important preparations...
I guess this is just another one of those reminders that I should be pretty solid on knowing what exactly I'm 'preparing' for and just what my visions entail.
...and to not forget the nourishment of my soul.
The truth is, I have been on such a long hiatus from a athletic lifestyles, that my body is a little, um, tight. Gotta take it slow. These connective tissue injuries continue to present themselves.
Here I am. Just gotta take it slow and from the beginning.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a...
Check out the links for the original articles here:
Viral Nova
Amusing Planet
And now, a short 6:20 min video a climb on the Eiger's Mittelligi Ridge
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