Monthly Archives: July 2014

Check-in/OK message from SPOT TA

TA Latitude:48.88971 Longitude:-53.61960 GPS location Date/Time:07/31/2014 18:25:10 NDT Message:Hello from Bonavista Bay. We are five kayaks on an island exploration mission! This is where we are hanging! Click the link below to see where I am located. http://fms.ws/ILWR2/48.88971N/53.61960W If the … Continue reading

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Check-in/OK message from SPOT TA

TA Latitude:48.83062 Longitude:-53.75461 GPS location Date/Time:07/30/2014 10:13:40 NDT Message:Hello from Bonavista Bay. We are five kayaks on an island exploration mission! This is where we are hanging! Click the link below to see where I am located. http://fms.ws/IJa6R/48.83062N/53.75461W If the … Continue reading

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Check-in/OK message from SPOT TA

TA Latitude:48.74274 Longitude:-53.83737 GPS location Date/Time:07/28/2014 21:57:25 NDT Message:Hello from Bonavista Bay. We are five kayaks on an island exploration mission! This is where we are hanging! Click the link below to see where I am located. http://fms.ws/IHqzI/48.74274N/53.83737W If the … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #992 If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else…

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.-Booker T. Washington

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Visual Soliloquy #991 Sometimes you have to let life turn you upside down, so you can learn how to live, right side up…

Sometimes you have to let life turn you upside down, so you can learn how to live, right side up. – unknown

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Visual Soliloquy #990 Students don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are…

Students don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. ― Jim Henson

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Visual Soliloquy #989 You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind. ..

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind. ― Yoko Ono

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Pulled in All Directions: Ama Dablam #4

Here’s a look at my new tire pulling rig. Thanks to Marian for coming along and taking this picture. This week my pack weight was up by 8 pounds and I managed the two tires side by side much of … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #988 Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and sub stance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop…

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #987 Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time…

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time –Edwin P. Whipple

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Visual Soliloquy #986 Never forget those who have lifted you up…

Never forget those who have lifted you up. Never forget life’s experiences, both good and bad which have shaped you as a person. You’ve had help climbing the rungs of life’s ladder. And, those rungs can break at anytime, sending … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #985 Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution…

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution. ― Deepak Chopra

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Visual Soliloquy #984 Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky…

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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Visual Soliloquy #983 If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment…

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment. ― Georgia O’Keeffe

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Visual Soliloquy #982 Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends…

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends. ― Aberjhani

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A is for Awesome: Ama Dablam #3 (The Spout Hike)

Happy Find your Fit Friday! I’ve had an awesome week finding my fit and today is actually a bit of a rest day after four big physical days starting off my training efforts for Ama Dablam. Yesterday was a “climb … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #981 We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature…

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #980 You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.. .

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. ― Pema Chödrön

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D is for Discipline: Ama Dablam #2

Thanks to Sue for this picture! Another morning, another training day. This morning was an “Up Down, Up Down” workout on Signal Hill. We headed up the North Head trail, down the back side to Cuckhold Cove, up the back … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #979 Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have…

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have. ― Lemony Snicket

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Visual Soliloquy #978 I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it…

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force … Continue reading

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Out of Re-Tire-Ment: Ama Dablam #1

Tuesdays are now Tiredays or as you can see from the photo above: Tired Ays! Great morning out on the hill with Sue (another convert to the fun and joys of Tire Pulling ) and taking my new tire rig … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #977 The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing…

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ― Walt Disney

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What’s TA Climbing Next V? Ama Dablam: We’ve All Got a Mountain

Congrats to Phil, Rick and Tyler for their correct guesses at what I am climbing next. Ama Dablam! I first saw the peak in 2002 and several times since then culminating this past spring, when I saw Ama Dablam from … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #976 Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION…

Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm! ― Pablo

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What’s TA Climbing Next V Clue 3?

What’s TA Climbing Next Fifth Edition! My goodness how time and climbs fly. We’ve had fun guessing the last few times before climbs, I thought I would offer up the picture clue peak guessing game again this time. Please enter … Continue reading

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What’s TA Climbing Next V Clue 2?

What’s TA Climbing Next Fifth Edition! My goodness how time and climbs fly. We’ve had fun guessing the last few times before climbs, I thought I would offer up the picture clue peak guessing game again this time. Please enter … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #975 Be willing to be a beginner every single morning…

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. ― Meister Eckhart

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What’s TA Climbing Next V?

What’s TA Climbing Next Fifth Edition! My goodness how time and climbs fly. We’ve had fun guessing the last few times before climbs, I thought I would offer up the picture clue peak guessing game again this time. Please enter … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #974 It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live…

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ― J.K. Rowling

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