Trying To Hide Secondary Trauma

Weehawken Trail

[05|29|2016]

We definitely didn’t finish this trail. We wouldn’t have been able to finish this trail in generally because of it’s difficulty and our lack of preparedness for that. Secondly, it started to rain, which I guess was a bummer, but I recall us being 100% blown away by the difficulty. man0man. I spoke to a co-worker after the hike, and he said “Ohhh. That one. My wife re-named that trail the “We-Walkin” Trail!” Danggg. The Denver Post’s article on the hike does a great job of describing the hike (as I think we only got about a mile--which according to that article is where 1000 ft of the total 2200 elevation gain. Here is another shorter post that may be helpful in terms of directions/data). This wouldn’t be our last time on the trail, and it wouldn’t be our last time on the trail in which we didn’t reach our destination. This is definitely one to bag for...June? It’s hands down going to be one of those hikes that you’ll enjoy more if in better shape. It’s easy to get to which is saying a lot coming from me. ANYWAY we had to end our hike short due to rain--I can’t say it was unwelcomed. As we were not in shape.  

Mongol Troops & Civilians 

Location: Inner Mongolia, China

Photography: Vincent Mentzel

SHELTER. @maddiebrenneman and @ngkelley chasing trout and dreams in Southern Colorado. #TrustTheWild | #LiveTheMountainLife Photo: @ngkelley by western_rise

Up on Last Dollar Road, Coloradocolor

A party of nine members of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club make an eight day trek of over 30 miles along the main crest of what would become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Mt. Guyot, North Carolina

1932

Practicing my Distress Tolerance skills like:

I feel like I’m always holding back when it comes to self expression in any form because I feel like the circumstances always need to be perfect. Is the blog audience appropriate enough, do you know what you are talking about enough, do people want to listen enough, are you really that exciting enough? Enough with the enoughs, at the end of the day I don’t even really care about these things. At the end of the day the majority of the joy in this will be in the writing and creating, and in the years later looking it over and laughing. It really isn’t about those other things. Say people do end up liking what I have posted? Well ya know we can cross that bridge when we get there sort of thing. Hiking, social working; it may not be everybody’s thing but they’re my things and that’s entirely okay. Another enough question that did just float by is: “is this private enough?”. Well that enough needs to be considered. 

The view from our campsite along the Gunnison River, CO. [3090x3862][OC] - vince85

~ Snake bracelet.

Place of origin: Egypt (?)

Date: 50 B.C. - A.D. 50

Period: Roman Imperial period

Medium: Engraved gold