Mt Sill: Nee-ma-mee-shee, Guardian of the Valley 31 August 2014 I am putting the convoluted recollections of my trip to Mt Sill onto paper many months after returning home. To avoid any romanticization of this grand journey, during which efforts…
Mt Tyndall
Mt Tyndall: The Devious Mountain 10 August 2014 This summer I have developed a fever. The mountain fever, got it real bad. And the only cure is a lot of miles at high elevation in the finest mountain range of…
Sonora Pass
Scenes from Sonora Pass: Leavitt Peak, Stanislaus Peak, Sonora Peak, and Mt Patterson 3 August 2014 Introduction John and I had got along so well last week that we made plans to climb Mt Brewer two weeks later. However in…
Split Mountain
Split Mountain: The Hard Mountain 21 July 2014 The following is the account of how I became a positively charged streamer while standing atop Split Mountain. After my solo trips up Mt Langley, Middle Palisade, and Mt Muir and Mt…
Mt Muir & Mt Whitney
Mt Muir & Mt Whitney: Fun Time Mountains 30 June 2014 I submitted my application to go up the Whitney Trail way back in February, before I really knew anything about the Sierra Nevada. It’s funny to think that at…
Middle Palisade
Middle Palisade: Mountain of Thrones 22 June 2014 I’m writing this entry about two months after climbing up the Middle Palisade; it’s Friday afternoon, and work is slow today. So here I am remembering fondly my experience on the mountain,…
Series on Sustainability — Part 5
Sustainability and Me INTRODUCTION: Here is my last reflection, belted out all at once at the crack of dawn on about four hours of sleep. I had a rough week last week with many responsibilities and not as much time…
Series on Sustainability — Part 4
The Natural Step, Sustainability in Madison, and Nonprofit Organizations The speakers in the fourth lecture demonstrated how the raw concepts we have been learning about in previous classes get applied, with a focus on the city level. First, Lisa gave…
Series on Sustainability — Part 3
Psychology of Sustainability I thought the third lecture was once again a logical progression from the previous lectures. First we learned about the difficulty of defining sustainability. Then we learned different ways to define sustainability, when and how a definition…
Series on Sustainability — Part 2
Defining Sustainability? and Boundary Objects I thought the conversation in the second lecture represented a logical progression from the ideas presented in the first lecture. After the first lecture, I was a little overwhelmed at how difficult it is to…