photo from back in the day in my former life as a sponsored (there were no professional) climber…my home office: Eldorado Canyon, circa 1982.
this is my Dharma Mentor of free soloing (no rope); Derek Hersey (aka; The Human Fly) followed by Mic Fairchild during a stint we used to call
a ‘double free solo’. route: Hair City on the Bastille in Eldo…5.9+ Below is a letter i wrote to…
i’ll take a Padma On Ice, please…
yup, this is our Precious Dr. Julie “Padma” Mueller, a WF Online Master Student, going after yet
another Ph.D…this time, in WF…
How a WF Master Student ‘actively recovers’ from chopping 36+ minutes off her time in a 75-kilometer winter quadrathlon; Padma crankin’ some sweet 3+ Waterfall Ice in Utah the other day…
Dewachen Catherine Ilg’s first solo summit; age 3.5 years old. Chapman Hill, Durango, Colorado. 3*24*11. total vertical ascent: 512′. beginning elevation; 6,512′. route description; Northwest Face Direct; mixed mud/slush/ice/snow. witness account: it’s scary how fiercely determined…
ilg admits gleefully; i’m simpleton of sweat and stillness. not only do i enjoy multi-disciplined sweat, i cherish it. i consider it the (w)Holy Water which connects ilg with all that is Go(o)d. the more varied ways i can sweat and be still, the closer to Soul i merge. Blessed be thy Sweat and Stillness…
Dear Coach,
i have read for years now your beautiful, eloquent Teachings on Bardo Entry…i know first hand of just how empowering your deeply conscious counseling as a Reverend and Recognized Dharma Server can be for the dying…so thank you. However, during the recent Death and Dying of my father with which you helped so pricelessly, I have been thrown into a type of Bardo myself and have questioned so many things about living and dying. I need to ask you this; What are your TAF’s about suicide? Forgive me if you have already offered a Teaching on this…I scanned the Teachings Archives as best as I could to no avail. I do not ever want you to think I am lazy before asking such a pivotal question.
For All You Choose To Be and Do No Matter What,
your student A.B.
CA
There’s not many Fitness Path’s that display the world-class versatility, cost-effectiveness, and focused fun that a WF Training Camp provides. Just ask Raven and PY who are right now are back in Flagstaff, still buzzing from their Pranic Pitstop here in Durango with me. Yesterday, during Day Two of their Training Camp, i categorically changed the Camp from outside to the inside. We met at the Durango Rec Center to enjoy an immersion into WF strength training followed by pumping plastic on the Center’s great indoor climbing wall…here are some of the Teachings…
WF Devotee, Single Dad, Native Runner Warrior “Leaf” (Tribal Nickname; Diné) enjoys somebouldering at Priest Draw near Flagstaff. He didn’t tell me that later fact, i can just tell… 😉his email to me today below: Yah’ tah’ hey’ from the sacred peak of the west!i received the first arrow of the dreamspeak quiver and greatly […]
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