Colorado is far from the ideal place to be studious. Today: ran S Table Mesa (PR, top 5 Strava), great dinner in Denver with friends Yesterday: rode Chimney Gulch to Apex Park. Almost cleared Enchanted Forest, then got a pinch flat. Carried bike down in time to host Community Crevasse Rescue BBQ. Not a lot […]
Author: Mark Egge
A Close Call
We hiked in under perfect blue skies. South Six Shooter stands like a pillar atop a shrouded altarpiece, rising up from the desert to the heavens, towering above the surrounding landscape. We’re to climb the tower as a party of four–an ungainly number to for a climbing party–but the climbing is anticipated to be easy. […]
Out There, Down There (A Solo Self-Supported Trip Through the Grand Canyon)
Day Seven: Phantom Ranch, Arizona. I wake to rain. It’s January 29th, cold, and wet. Phantom is deserted save for a few staff and adventuresome hikers from the Grand Canyon’s snowy southern rim. Me, I didn’t come from the canyon’s rim. I came by way of the river. The Colorado River. In six days I’ve […]
2013 Year In Review
My biggest accomplishment of 2013 was progress with Atlas. In the course of 2013 Sagar and I have grown Atlas from an idea into a small business. We have two awesome employees on our payroll (and group health insurance policy), a small handful of clients, and a strong outlook for 2014. The highlight of the […]
North
And I’ll be up here Where the air is clear Where it feels like something is about to begin Where’s it’s all that I am, and all that I might (Some lyrics that I stole from somewhere) Observations while driving from Cheyenne to Billings: A tumbleweed fence. That is, a 4-strand barbed wire fence so […]