“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
A re-blogging of a previous post. The advent of our Savior is truly a great adventure. “Advent” is the root word for adventure, giving the impression of the arrival or appearance of something risky and wondrous. The Advent we celebrate has a wild and risky edge to it, because our God has always chosen wildness …
The high country has always beckoned me. This is owed in part to being the third generation of my family to live in the central Sierra Nevada. It also extends from what I sometimes refer to as my "coming alive" experiences in the mountains. They started when I was a boy, going into the mountains …
This week, while blog posts magically appear on this page, I am out with my long-time wilderness partner, Doug. We are cruising the Sierra Crest near Mammoth Lakes, bagging a few peaks and visiting some remote lake basins. Here we are on our previous Sierra Crest adventure, peak bagging in the Yosemite Park area. …
Photo of Lake Helen, location of this story. (For the first two parts of this story about a night on a solo backpack trip in the Bighorn Range, check out the previous two posts on the Adventure Blog.) Elks. Coyotes. Mystery grunting whiners making laps around my tent. Noisy grass-eaters. And now, rain. What next? …
Photo of author's tent at Lake Helen. (For the first part of this story about a night on a solo backpack trip in the Bighorn Range, check out the previous post on the Adventure Blog.) Shortly after falling into that first deep level of sleep, a new noise, very close to my tent, began to …
Apparently, I miscalculated the amount of liquids I needed to drink while hiking six miles at 10,000 feet in elevation. I had forgotten just how much liquid I would expirate while gasping and wheezing uphill at that elevation, I suspect. This miscalculation would come back to haunt me in the middle of night. It would …
Don’t you love a good adventure story? You know, the stories that keep you up reading long after you should be in bed. The stories made into movies that you watch repeatedly because they are that good. Years ago I largely stopped reading fiction adventures. Instead, I have maintained steady diet of true-life adventure stories. …
Continuing with the story of Tobin Sorenson from the previous post. I met Tobin in 1978 when he was at the pinnacle of his climbing career. Several things impressed me immediately. He rarely talked about his climbing unless asked. He had a look in his brilliant blue eyes that spoke of passion, focus, and commitment. …
Tobin Sorenson (June 15, 1955 - October 5, 1980) was an American rock climber famed for bold first ascents on Yosemite big walls, in the Alps, Canadian Rockies, and New Zealand. He is considered by some the best all-around climber of his time. A member of an informal group called the Stonemasters, Sorenson pushed risk …
One Pursuit 