Author: Mark Egge

On Monday and Tuesday, I enacted my hair-brained idea to hike the “trail” along the Bridger Ridge line. The trail runs some 19.7 miles of exceptionally rugged terrain. Even without a few wrong turns, it would have been a challenging hike. With the help of a closed road, however, and a few wrong turns, I […]

This morning, Andrew walks into the kitchen and says: “I knocked a roll of toilet paper into the toilet. … But don’t worry. I pulled it out. It’s drying, now. …” And sure enough. Later, when I went to the bathroom, there it was, on the back of the toilet… half soggy, half dry…

Time for some introspection… I become increasing quality obsessed. Quality of food. Quality of music. Quality of film, of literature. Of conversation. Quality of manufacture– the windows, they’re new, but rather low quality… quality of my manufacture. Quality of the things I think and speak and write. Quality of action and intent. Quality of the […]

Last night, I turned on the light on my front porch, on our way out to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. I don’t know why that moment, more than any other, was particularly poignant–the simple act of turning on a porch light–but I think that’s when it fully hit me: I have a […]

There are some photos from my last week’s climbing adventures available at http://picasaweb.google.com/markegge/20070519Veadewoo