bpope’s blog

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how different my Monday-Friday life is from my Friday afternoon-Sunday life. Consistently this summer, Friday afternoon has found me out the door and on the road to one mountain range or another for a weekend of hiking or climbing. I love my weekend adventures, unequivocally. I love my day-job, too, but not in the same way. It is tough to match the feeling that you get kicking steps in steep alpine snow at 5am, or stuffing your hand into a bomber jam and pulling through a roof of beautiful Sierra granite. I’ve felt more excited in the outdoors this summer than I have in a long time; the pain is well worth it. I ran cross this blog post that starts.

“A good day in the mountains is a day where the real world is completely removed from my thoughts. This could happen on your first couple steps from the car if you are lucky but often times for me it requires something more. It is a knife edge ridge…”

While the author is a snowboarder, the sentiment and love of the outdoors and exhilaration translate well to my point of view.  It’s a good read about the passion that outdoor adventure can inspire.

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