A Guest Along Cottonwood Creek
I spent many years in this cabin in Lupine Meadows, but in many ways, I was only a guest.
❄️
The bats and the mice
wonder
When their guest will leave.
The pronghorn, too, were seasonal guests.
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Q: When is it wrong to be right?
Q: When is it wrong to be right? A: When it almost kills you. A few years ago, an avalanche forecaster well north of here issued an Avalanche Warning. When people rolled their eyes at the boy crying wolf, he doubled down and decided to prove himself right. Pretty soon,
BOOK REVIEW - Making Decisions in Avalanche Terrain: Human Factors in Theory and Practice by Jerry Johnson & Jordy Hendrikx, review by Drew Hardesty
(previously published last winter in The Avalanche Review) WARNING! Books like these are not for everyone. They’re only for people interested in how to make better decisions, not just in the alpine or the backcountry, but in our day to day lives. There was an era when the conventional
The Two Kings
(I’ve adapted Los Dos Reyes y Los Dos Laberintos de Borges). Long ago, in a faraway land, there lived two brothers, kings who ruled his own kingdom and between these kingdoms rested an uneasy detente, for the brothers only pretended to get along. The one-eyed king lived in
“He Drove Right Into the Fire”
Whenever we are confronted with an important decision, *Conventional Wisdom* dictates that we look at and weigh various options, minimize the risks, and set forth upon a course of action. But there are certain situations when, as long time cop and risk consultant Gordon Graham describes, there’s “No time