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Tag Archives: climb
Antarctica Countdown 81 Days and Counting: “I’m Getting Better”
Monty Python fans will remember the line from the scene where the town cryer calls out, “Bring out your dead” and the one guy being carried, thought for dead, says “I’m feeling better!” That’s me today with workout five under … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Vinson
Tagged 2011, Antarctica, climb, Seven Summits, training, Vinson
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Antarctica Countdown 82 Days and Counting: “Oh Me Legs”
I’m four days into the new training plan and I can hardly walk. In a good way. Left sitting for any length of time, the lactic acid re-exerts it’s painful magic and I can barely make my legs work. I … Continue reading
Posted in Everest 3.0, Vinson
Tagged 2011, Antarctica, climb, Seven Summits, training, Vinson
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Antarctica Countdown 84 Days & Counting: Sand Bagged by the Sand Bag
I’m testing a new training program and it’s a doozie! Today’s training session started with 10 minutes of sand bag get-ups. What’s a sand bag get-up you say? Glad you asked. In my case, I took a favourite stuff sack … Continue reading
Posted in Everest 3.0, Vinson
Tagged 2011, Antarctica, climb, Seven Summits, training, Vinson
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Antarctica Countdown 85 Days and Counting: Out of Retirement
In light of the need to pull loads from Mount Vinson base camp to Camp One, I have come out of re”tire”ment and began training with the tire once again. Natelle was gracious enough to get up early to be … Continue reading
Posted in Everest 3.0, Vinson
Tagged 2011, Antarctica, climb, Seven Summits, training, Vinson
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Team WHOOSH at the Easter Seals Drop Zone 2011
I had the great pleasure of participating in the Easter Seals Drop Zone 2011 fundraising campaign with friends, Sheilagh O’Leary and Danielle Irvine (a.k.a. Xena and the Casting Fairy). When I first signed on, I decided to see how many … Continue reading
Mountains to Sea
I remember being fascinated as a kid when I learned that all water went to the sea. That the rain that fell in our lake emptied into a creek then joined with a river which eventually flowed to the ocean…amazing. … Continue reading
The Other Side of the Mountain
There was a change in the weather. With things drying on the deck after the big day out on the glacier, I felt an almost imperceptible cooling that signaled, “Its about to rain.” I dashed out to the deck, grabbed … Continue reading
Mont Blanc Day One
As someone who lives at sea level, my goal for day one was to get my body as high as I could to remind it of the upcoming need for acclimatizing. The wondrous thing about the Chamonix valley is there … Continue reading
Making A Mountain out of a Molehill: A “Climb” of Denmark’s Highest Peak
Mountaineering is never far removed from controversies of style, ethics, and access. Denmark’s Mollehoj is no exception. It was only crowned Denmark’s highest “natural” point in 2005 when re-measurement and disqualification of ancient burial mounds gave it, the five centimeters … Continue reading
Posted in Everest 3.0, Life
Tagged 2011, climb, Denmark highest peak, Ejer Bavnehoj, Mollehoj
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3rd Kilimanjaro Summit Anniversary
Three years ago today, I stood atop Kilimanjaro with an amazing group of women! Fond memories abound. Happy Anniversary to the WOKies (Women of Kilimanjaro)
Of Maps, Penguins, and Toques
I love maps. I love to look at them and dream of being there. Recently, a map of Antarctica I ordered arrived, and already, the corners of the folds are starting to tear because I open and close the map … Continue reading
Ripples in the Pond
When you drop a pebble in a pond, it makes ripples that travel out to the shore and then they refract back until they lose energy and dissipate (or at least that is how I imagine it). When we lead … Continue reading
Hammered on Hvannadalshnuku
So much to describe and share and so little time to find the words. Days are passing here like the wind, very rapidly and measured in meters per second, both the speed of the wind and our experiences on the … Continue reading
Day One from the Land of Ice
I think my senses must be heightened by the process of being squeezed six across into a long aluminum cigar that is pressured to 8000 feet that rapidly teleports me to a new place. I leave the airport and embrace … Continue reading
Sport as Spiritual Friend
My last three days have been filled with three things: Buddhist retreat, hockey playoffs and packing for Iceland. One wrapped up yesterday, one will wrap up today and one must be wrapped up by 4:20 tomorrow afternoon. This morning as … Continue reading
Posted in Everest 3.0
Tagged 2011, climb, eastern edge hockey, hockey, Hvannadalshnúkur, Iceland
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Epically Wonderful Day on Signal Hill
Yesterday was the sort of gorgeous spring day with the sun streaming out hourly invitations to throw off the parka, throw open the doors, and throw ourselves outside. And we accepted. Graciously. For about seven and half hours on “The … Continue reading
Posted in Everest 3.0
Tagged 2011, climb, Hvannadalshnúkur, North Head Trail, Signal Hill
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Mount Vinson or Bust (and Bust)
Every spring since 2005, I’ve scrutinized all of the major climbing outfitters websites looking at their Mount Vinson offerings. And every spring, summer, and fall since then as well, I’ve decided that Mount Vinson’s mountain of a price tag was … Continue reading
Be A Super Hero in the Drop Zone
Easter Seals of Newfoundland and Labrador is doing an exciting fund-raiser this summer called “Drop Zone.” They approached me, as your local neighbourhood adventurer and climber, to see if I could recruit some participants for the event. As an adventurous … Continue reading
Posted in Everest 3.0
Tagged 2011, Blue Helmeted Super Hero, Captain Penguin, climb, Drop Zone, Easter Seals, St. John's
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Visual Soliloquy #155 If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death…
If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death. -Julia Ormond Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/edge_3.html#ixzz1Hi6sai15
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, climb, photography, Quotes, Travel
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A Season for Both Peaks and Valleys
For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to kill and a time to … Continue reading
The Week that Was
I’ve been speaking to a number of Grade Four classes of late about being an explorer and the challenges that explorers face. I find myself wishing, despite the developmental impossibility, that we could all remain ten. Grade Fours are my … Continue reading
What’s TA Climbing Next? Hvannadalshnúkur, Yding-skovhoj, and Mont Blanc
Congrats to Trien…She’s taken my set of wild clues and solved the puzzle. I’m climbing to three (no, actually four) country high points in the next few months. In April, Marian and I will be climbing Hvannadalshnúkur (the highest peak … Continue reading
What’s TA Climbing Next II? Clue 9
So put what’s going on in this picture together with yesterday’s clue and I’m hoping it will lead you to the first high point…what’s on the go in this pic? Put on those thinking caps, put google to the test…bing … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #136 Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance…
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
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Tagged 2011, climb, photography, Quotes, Travel
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What’s TA Climbing Next II? Clue 8
Another clue for the first climb…glad folks have started to work together because this is being harder to crack than I imagined it would be…on the plus side, we’re breaking records for site visitations left, right, and centre. I had … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #135 The most common way people give up their power…
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
What’s TA Climbing Next II? Clue 7
OK…thinking that I need to get a bit more concrete with the clues…here’s a chance to put two and two together to come up with peak number two…or at least a significant clue towards peak/high point number two…guess away!
What’s TA Climbing Next II? Clue 6
OK Peeps…One’s been guessed…I’ll let the cat out of the proverbial bag and say that there are three peaks that were, at first, in fairly close temporal proximity but are now slightly spread out time wise but not necessarily geography … Continue reading
What’s TA Climbing Next II? Clue 5
OK…so maybe it’s been a bit too tough…clues a bit obscure, details a little short…here’s a recap of the clues thus far…you’re looking for high points…and I’ve circled the part of the photograph that was the clue…see if this gets … Continue reading
What’s TA Climbing Next II? Clue 4
Alright…here is the fourth clue…can you put all the pieces together? The clues are coming from my own photo library so you may have to think outside the box to get it all to fit. Get your google fingers going … Continue reading
Running Towards the Biting Phone
The Tibetan Plateau muted my senses. Its colour palette draws most strongly from the autumn family of ochres, tans, beiges, browns, but there are also the most intense sky and water blues imaginable. Other than blue, there were no bright … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Everest 3.0, Tibet Bike, Vinson
Tagged 2011, climb, Pema Chodren, phone phobia, Tibet Mountain Bike
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Visual Soliloquy # 131 Self-trust is the first secret of success…
Self-trust is the first secret of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What’s TA Climbing Next II? Clue 3
Here’s clue three…remember since the clues are coming from my own photo library you have to think creatively and put many pieces together! Get your problem-solving thinking caps on. Post your guesses in the comments section below…the person who guesses … Continue reading
What’s TA climbing Next II…Clue 2
Here’s clue two…remember since the clues are coming from my own photo library you have to think broadly and laterally! Get your creative thinking caps on. Post your guesses in the comments section below…the person who guesses the correct mountain(s) … Continue reading
What’s TA Climbing Next II?
What’s TA climbing Next? That’s the question on many people’s minds (and has been on mine for months). We had such fun guessing the last time, I thought I would offer up the game again this time. The clues may … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #123 Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you…
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged 2011, climb, Nature, photography, Quotes
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Visual Soliloquy #122 I was going again because I had need of courage and inspiration…
I was going again because I had need of courage and inspiration and because on the high mountains I find them as nowhere else. –Dora Keen
Visual Soliloquy #116 All great achievements require time…
All great achievements require time. – Maya Angelou
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Tagged 2011, Aconcagua, climb, photography, Quotes
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Visual Soliloquy #115 Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make…
Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make –Sarah Ban Breathnach
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2011, climb, ice, photography, Quotes
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Visual Soliloquy #90 Risk, there is no real living without it. Die we all must, but try to knock all risk out of our lives…
Risk, there is no real living without it. Die we all must, but try to knock all risk out of our lives and we lock ourselves tighter and tighter into a safe, comfortable, deadly box, and we die too, without … Continue reading
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