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I had a great day. And now I don't have to move a damn elf until next December. 😌

Jeremy said it better than me...

Daniel Light perpetuates a myth: “From medieval times, Europeans had contemplated mountains with fear and superstition, their frozen heights of witches and lairs of dragons, with the souls of damned lying incarcerated in the glaciers below.” Dawn Hollis' research has debunked this. #mountaineering

My old cap is now over 10 years old. And it has a unique quality about it. #baseballfan #baseball #birdland #orioles

I love the team-specific cap on the cover of this young-adult novel. #baseballfan #orioles #baseball

So perhaps it's right to say climbing us therapeutic? #climbing www.climbing.com/culture-clim...

I keep coming back and re-reading this one. #climbing #alpineclimbing #mountaineering explorersweb.com/partner-char...

What great style! #climbing #Adventure #Alps #alpineclmbing gripped.com/news/six-day...

Great news, and not sure hownI missed this: Cochamó has been preserved. I first learned about it from writing and working with Chris Kalman. #climbing #Patagonia #rockclimbing gripped.com/news/histori...

Okay, to be clear this is Vertebrate Publishing's top 10 of 2025, but still, 'Extreme Rock' is still being published... #mountainlit #climbing #climbingbooks

I woke to a winter wonderland outside my door.

I don't follow comp climbing so I hadn't heard of Gord McArthur, but he has a self-published book coming out in January called 'Throwing Hope' about the challenges and hardships that made his ice climbs. I'm dubious about it, but maybe... #mountainlit #climbing www.gordonmcarthur.com/product-page...

Ah. Duly noted. gripped.com/news/the-ifs...

Intrepid machine.

My brief book review of 'Meltdown' by Sarah Boon (2025) will be in Alpinist Magazine issue 92 shortly.

Geez... How many covers of 'Last Christmas' by big popstars does the market need?

It's the best money I spend. (Sorry, kids.)

ICYMI, like me... 'The Corridor', a memoir by Iain Peters, won this year's Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Well done, Mr. Peters. #mountainlit #climbingbooks #climbing

I can't relate exactly but I totally understand. #rockclimbing #climbing www.climbing.com/news/tim-emm...

I miss when Thrivent Financial only supported Habitat for Humanity. No offense to other causes.

Phaistos Disk, named for the ancient Greek town it was found in, has writing that's a bit of a mystery and, despite the controversy about its legitimacy, introduced some wonderful things about the people then. explorersweb.com/fraud-or-fin...

This is awesome! #merrychristmas #baseballfan

The pies and fried chicken (yes, fried chicken) were the highlight of the Thanksgiving meal, the charcuterie platter was an outstanding surprise.

I agree on 'The Wager' and made me interested in the Buckley bio.

I'm thankful for all the right things, I think, but after food, shelter, clothing, health, and well being, I am pleased to wake to enjoy snow in the town I grew up. Have a Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. (Don’t eat too much and be sure to get outside.)

This guy was waiting for me when I got home from a dawn patrol this morning.

Exactly...

Fantasy baseball league commissioners... Have any of you left ESPN for CBS? How did it go? #fantasybaseball #baseball #mlb #baseballfan

I have too much unused PTO. So I have to use some. So I am adding days off and now taking off the Monday after Thanksgiving. I haven't had six days in a row off since last Christmas.

Nick Markakis is on the ballot for the hall of fame for the first time. I don't think he'll get the votes, but proud of him that he's there. #baseballfan

Here is what I am reading now, amd a brief complaint on my local library. (Their terms aren't reader friendly.) goatsintheoutfield.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/w...

Found a golf ball with a cover peeling off on the golf course on my morning walk. I'm going to hit it and compare a similar ball with its clothes on. Dimples should help it carry farther, but I want to see.

It was a long wait to get the traffic commission approval, but at least I got a little reading in my book while I waited until weee wete called on the agenda.

I haven't made a point to attend a Veterans Day celebration in a while. This morning, I went to the First Reformed Church service with the VFW. It was nourishing. Jim Fisher, in this pic, shared the day's history, starting with Armistice Day, which its silence has been likened to the Voice of God.

This set has legitimized my love for Star Trek, and TNG Series in particular, in the eyes of some important Lego-building Star Wars-loving young people in my life. Thank you, Lego. share.google/kZyABnFFdZpp...

You guys. I was floored when the jury announced that THIRTY BELOW won the Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize on Thursday. What a hell of an honor. If you haven't read it and want a "propulsive" read, as the jury called it, now's a good time to pick it up! www.banffcentre.ca/articles/mou...

"Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear yesterday's sweatpants. And will again tomorrow." --Tim Brown with Erik Kratz in 'Tao of the Backup Catcher' (2023) Brown and Kratz have lines like this frequently in their book. It's fun.

The painting in the banner of my profile is by Morris Kantor from 1934: "Baseball at Night." Night games there, in West Nyack, NY, and everywhere, were the oddity, unlike today. I took the photo at the Smithsonian American Gallery the last day before they closed for the '25 shutdown.

Longwood Gardens mum special exhibit was nice, but the trees on the grounds are always my draw.

...I really loved it here too, but that's not where I am now.

I love it here.

I will read this. #mountainlit #climbing #climbingbooks gripped.com/news/spare-t...

I just wanted you to know, what baseball addict I am. I already started getting ready for the 2026 fantasy baseball season today, just two-ish days after that amazing Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series. Updating my league roster. #BaseballFan

Geez, we've watched eight games worth of innings and it's STILL neck and neck. #WorldSeries #MLB

Regardless who wins, or how many outs, innings it takes... THIS series does BASEBALL justice. #WorldSeries #MLB

Come on, Jay's. You have this. #BaseballFan #WorldSeries

#mlb #worldseries #bluejays

See what now?

It's behind their paywall, but this IS a new type of adventure -- skirting the rules, I'm referring to, not the base jumping.