ilg realizes it’s rare, yet on this special occasion you see Sandra Lee my Beloved Partner (photo far left in pink) with s(om)e of Her Clan and now more Family as her nephew Sean married Trudy from the Cleaveland family…two Dinè joining their lives into another new weave on the family/Clan blanket… congrats to Sean […]
How To Punk Your Baddass Daughter… Dewa’s 19th Birthday… @steveilg #olddadsoftiktok #daddydaughter #19 #girlswhoclimb @Dewa😆 ♬ original sound – Steve Ilg Blessed Be Thy Practice Toward Enlightenment via Personal Fitness… Here Now As A Fellow UnEnlightened Being To Point Out A Few Proven Hand and Foot Holds Higher…. lmk
We often default to worst case scenarios … trust ilg on this one… went from a lifelong dirtbag extreme and prolific mountain sports sponsored athlete all the way till age 48 whereupon ilg impossibly became the Chosen One for a brilliantly radiant Rinpoche who s(om)ehow chose feeble ilg as Her father this time around… @steveilg #AICreate #steveilgswholisticfitness […]
Dewa and her Mom, downtown Gunnison, Colorado last night before our final farewell meal at the INCREDIBLE Ol’ Miner Steakhouse… a staple go-to of feeble ilg’s before the hallowed Alley Loop Nordic Marathon .. to even KNOW that ilgs daughter is LIVING in Gunnison now, blows my spiritual mind into the Dewachen Realm of Amitabha […]
this one is dedicated to Dewa’s bf, Ben Nymberg (his last name literally means, New Mountain)… us three (feeble, Dewa, and Ben) have shared precious m(om)ents togther when Ben visits us here in Colorado from Iowa… Dewa introduced Ben to technical climbing and the boy took to climbing as if it were a past lifetime […]
“Come, Noble Daughter! The GREAT NORTH WALLS AWAIT US!” ilg shouted to Dewa at her mom’s house this morning… My daughters first glimpse of The Watch Crystal at East Animas in her h(om)etown of Durango, Colorado… absolutely beyond Honored and DEEEEPLY EMOTIONAL to be 64 and still be introducing such iconic […]
This evening’s climbing sesh with Dewachen was full throttle Ropework, Belay Management, Upper Belaying Mechanics and Anchoring, Trad Leading, Multi-Pitch dynamics and Rappelling Anchoring, Set Up and Execution… these fundamental technical climbing elements have been witnessed by Dewa since I first took her climbing up a boulder in her Birthplace of Kinlani, AZ 18 […]
1/2: At my daughters request, I took her precious bf climbing… you see, Noble Sangha, Dewa introduced her bf Ben to climbing when they were XC and Track Teammates at Luther College…Ben immediately took to climbing like (insert a passionate metaphor here). This morning as Dewa recovers from yet another seemingly endless chain of setbacks […]
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