This is part three of a three-part post. Here you will find part one and part two.
So, after wallowing in depression for a few seconds, we quickly located the trail leading off the peak. It was getting fairly dark now. It must have been around 9:30 or 10:00. It was time to break out the headlamps. We started the trek down. The backside of Gothics was a lot easier, though it was pretty long. Continue reading →
This is part two of a three-part post. Here you will find part one and part three.
We started towards Marcy Peak. We were getting pretty hungry by now. I was just slightly ahead of schedule on my food consumption, having eaten about half of my energy bars. The trek up to Marcy was much more enjoyable than the earlier summits. It was sunny and breezy, there were a few clouds around but they didn’t look too threatening. Continue reading →
This is part one of a three-part post. Here you will find part two and part three.
My buddy and I recently finished a hike in the Adirondack High Peaks. I’ve done a fair amount of mountaineering before (including a three-week trek across the Sierra-Nevada Range and back) and a lot of hiking and camping, but this was the toughest hike I’ve ever been on. It included thirteen peaks, ten of which Continue reading →
Our horse Fascination is doing much better. If you read my post at the end of last month (That’s Horse) you already know she’s been sick lately. It all started when we noticed she was a little bit “ouchy” on her two front feet. That progressed into a fever and at one point she was laying in the field groaning in every Continue reading →
Summer is moving fast here at Alabu. One of the things I’ve been doing lately is organizing. I’ve made it a specific goal to organize the company. Not that we were unorganized before, but I see a lot of room for improvement. I really see a lot of value in organization. It is so much less tiring to do something if you know exactly where everything is and if you know exactly how to do it.
Imagine you were on vacation and you wanted to get to the beach, but Continue reading →