Tagged: climbing

life experience / outdoors and health / psychology

August 7, 2018

Persistence Will Get You Everywhere

BOOM! The crack of thunder shook the ground behind us and we started hiking faster back to our tents. At 11,700 feet in elevation, we were still above treeline, and during a lightening storm it’s a dangerous place to be. ...

life experience / outdoors and health

July 17, 2018

The Gift Of Light On Kilimanjaro

“Wake up, it is time!” a voice shouted in broken English, breaking the metronomic sound of the tent flapping in the wind. It was 12:30am, and I didn’t have anything to wake up from. I was up. I put my...

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life experience / outdoors and health / spending

February 13, 2018

That Time I Spent $44,000 On A Two Week Vacation

Getting to financial independence is difficult, especially in a luxury-demanding, spendy culture. If you’re budgeting, living frugally, investing, and trying to increase your earnings, then you’re checking the major boxes and are on a path to FI. But are you...

life experience / outdoors and health

January 16, 2018

Failure And The Art Of Abseiling

This post is about failure. Yes I know. That’s a topic that’s been written about quite often. J Money over at Budgets Are Sexy did a cool post a little while back listing out some major failures in his life...

outdoors and health / work

November 10, 2017

The Original Dirtbag

If you’re not a climber, you’ve probably never heard of Fred Beckey. That’s understandable, it’s a fringe sport and famous climbers are few and far between to the general populace. It’s too bad since climbing, both rock/ice and mountaineering, is...