Well it's been 2008 since I started the blog. Still in California, still punching numbers, still paddling, still living the dream. I recently re-discovered my love of the trails, soft rolling hills and stark jagged peaks. If the view is unmatched, the hike is well worth the climb.
Next weekend we will be knocking off San J from the easy side, nearing the completion of the Sierra Club WBC class we have been taking. After this, the paddling season begins and the weekends will be filled with miles on the water or miles on the trails. Baldy and 9Peaks in May, San Jacinto from Marion (hardest) in June, Kearsarge Pass and Cottonwood Lakes in July...all in the hopes we will be hiking Whitney this summer.
One way or another...Whitney will commence this summer!
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, wandering by lone sea-breakers, and sitting by desolate stream; - world-losers and world-forsakers, on whom the pale moon gleams: yet we are the movers and shakers of the world forever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties we build up the world's great cities, and out of a fabulous story we fashion an empire's glory: One man with a dream, at pleasure, shall go forth and conquer a crown; and thee with a new song's measure can trample and empire down.
We, in ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Ninevah with our sighing, and Babel itself with out mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying, to the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to birth."
