Telluride Chi Hits…and so much Muir!

Published on Sep 29, 2009 by in Chi Hits, Travel Log

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did you miss me?

yeah well,
’bout the only challenge you’ll have with DL today is choosing which one of these
should be your new WF ScreenSaver!

enjoy and…get out and DO!

click on the images below to deepen the chi hit!

head bowed,
the mountain yogi dad

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
– John Muir

Ananda and Dewachen, doing Yoga together at 10,550’…
Savage Basin and part of the Tomboy Road – the Race Course of Imogene Pass –
can be seen in the right background. Telluride? It is 1,800′ below them.
photo taken this Sunday, by ilg

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
– John Muir

Tree Beings in early autumn chi, Town Park, Telluride, Colorado.
yesterday, by ilg

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
– John Muir

Bear Peak from Telluride Town Park.
photo yesterday, by ilg

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
– John Muir

ilg can readily tell my daughter’s high mountain yogi lineage through Her easy temperament while hiking…approaching 10,000′ on the snowcat roads of Palmyra Peak. After this shot was taken by Ananda, we all three played with Zen minds in the snowmelt rivulet at our feet for about 15 minutes. Consciously Raising chi-ldren takes Time…lots and lots of absolutely exquisite time…lots and lots and lots of time.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
– John Muir

ilg can only Imagine and Try To Recollect the myriad essences of natural chi that hits the cells of a 2 year-old. photo yesterday by ilg.

Surely all God’s people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes— all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.
– John Muir

Telluride’s Town Park which offers the general public access to swimming, duck/fish pond for kids, two kids playgrounds, creeking, baseball, camping, horseshoes, showers, ice rink, indoor soccer, and i forget what all else dovetails directly into Bear Canyon; a world class leaping off place for ultra beautiful backcountry experiences. Muir woulda been proud. Dewa doing laps on the baseball diamond field. we’d reach one side and give, “THREE CHEERS FOR HAPPY FALL!” and run back across! photo yesterday by ilg.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
– John Muir

replace Ananda in this picture with a black wolf and you’ve got ilg growing in up Durango, just over the ridge to the south. to this day, my highest Zen was merging with mountain creeks. i’d spend entire days within a bubble of awe, creekside…playing, splashing, wondering with awe at It All.
it is my deepest pleasure and highest honor to share the San Juan beauty and sacredness with people…to be able to share them with Ananda and Dewa is, for me, heaven. photo yesterday, by ilg.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
– John Muir

San Sophia Gondola area, 10, 535′. photo by Ananda, Sunday.
coming up in DL;
my run up to Palmyra Peak…you can see the initial headwall
in this photo, right.

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