Editor’s Note: Back in the early days of the pandemic (April/May 2020) I took a writing class with Kati Standefer where she provided the above prompt. Earlier I documented the…
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Editor’s Note: I spent the better part of November 2022 through May 2023 working on a revamp of the NOLS Rock Climbing Educator Notebook. While there was some significant editing…
Home is where you find it and where you make it; that is what I try to tell myself. I sit in a curvy, plush Victorian-esque rocker, worn on the…
I could hear Anna cussing even though I was twenty yards behind. “There are two parties ahead of us.” It was exasperated and whispered, but the words drifted down through…
Editor’s Note: On the table by the window here at 616 Washakie sits a sun faded copy of Daniel Doan’s book, Our Last Backpack. It was a gift to…
“Get up. Today we climb.” I pull back inside the tent after sticking my head out the window. Unfamiliar constellations shine down brightly from the clear, black southern sky. High…
For those of you interested in following my blog posts while I am in Patagonia, check out and bookmark/use the RSS feed feature on my other blog patagonia.jaredspaulding.com When I…
I thought I had a good shot at meeting my 6 year old goal in the fall of 2011. I was working a fall mountain section in the WInd River…
Hey if any of you all are looking for recent blog posts, check out patagonia.jaredspaulding.com I have recently posted some stuff about my time down here. Also a bunch of…
I generally try to stray from posting primarily photos of the happenings in my life in this venue , trying more to focus on the written word and its expression…
The large windows that make up the far end of the A Concourse at Denver International Airport afford a panoramic view. I sit at gate A52 en route to Lander…
I don’t claim to know what it is all about. I want to figure it out, but by no means do I have all the answers. I am engaged in…
I own an iPod, but I rarely use it. I can drive 15 hours without the radio in my truck being on. I don’t need music or that type of…
Climbing is what I do. It is a big part of who I am. It is a one word descriptor of me that I sometimes use: “I am a climber.” …