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Crestted Butte, Colorado

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sick day

decided to take a sick day today. woke up feeling pretty nauseous and then just wasn’t feeling attitudably appropriate to have 7 individual therapy sessions. so i called in. it was a good decision. i really honestly didn’t want to do shit. i was going to just sleep all day. but my dog wasn’t going to let me!

we decided to head out to cerro summit cerro summit has been one of our winter snowshoe staples so I was really unsure as to what the conditions were. 

they were muddy! really muddy. we went along the open meadow trail and glade (my dog) was not really having it so we turned around. instead, we just ran along the road! it was super beautiful. great views. nice and dry despite two or three patches of snow (which glade absolutely loved). we didn’t really go too far on the road, probably about a mile and a half, and then we went back. it’s definitely somewhere i’d like to return and go farther. i may just want to check the legality of it though. there were no no trespassing signs except for the land on the left and right...i don’t know though, always good to be sure. 

Energy cleansing is not a glamorous process. It is not good vibes, yoga and buddha bowls. It’s heavy, deep and can feel very ugly. Most people like to pretend healing is just magic and positive vibes. Healing is accepting + integrating painful experiences from the past. Honesty and transparency are important. Allow yourself to feel whatever you feel, and don’t hide it. Don’t be ashamed of it ever. Don’t feed into the new age movement. It does more harm than healing.

Best advice I’ve received so far

the time you take being jealous of other people’s success is the time you could be using to build your own

you’re never going to “feel like it”

doing and practicing now is better than waiting for the perfect moment

eliminate people with toxic habits from your life

you are in control. Everything you’ve done up to this moment led you here. Therefore, your future is determined by what you do now.

everything is as it should be and only later in life you can connect the dots.

self discipline will give you freedom. consistency will give you results

everything is temporary. You should find freedom in this concept

the rich stay rich acting poor and the poor stay poor acting rich

being healthy means finding a balance between the good and the bad

the people that outranked you have outworked you.

you can’t be grateful and negative at the same time.

Meditate on these statements. They are so very powerful! Xxx

Somewhere off highway 550.

Camelback Wilderness Study Area

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This one is a bit of a mystery. This is why I need to write my blog right after each hike! I mean I know that Kelli and I did not make it to the trailhead. I’m pretty sure we did a lot of driving in the desert, where all the roads started looking the same, and at some point we decided to just get out and just start hiking on one of the dirt roads. There were a bunch of 4-wheelers out there. It was a bunch of BLM land. And with all my googling I cannot for the life of me find out what hike we had intended to do. 

My guess is this Roubideaux Canyon hike, but apparently you get to it through Delta county, and for a fact I remember we started off west of town on spring creek road and didn’t have to drive too far before we got there. 

Descriptive article about the hike but I can’t seem to find trailhead directions 

Interesting article about the area switching from wilderness study area status to BLM status 

But then I also am really thinking that it might have been the Montrose part of the Tabeguache trail, or that that was at least what we were aiming for. 

I don’t recall the actual hike being overly exciting. Maybe I was worried I just didn’t know where we were. I remember arguing with Kelli about the town we could see--if it was Montrose or Olathe. Pretty sure we decided it was Olathe. I remember not being able to wrap my head around that lol. Nice views of the Black Canyon. Lots of cacti in bloom! I remember finding it amazing that more explorable wilderness was again, just 15 minutes away from Montrose! Kelli and I talked about maybe camping there at some point, but that never happened.