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 […]
pic by ilg: Dewa onsight flashes this 5.3 on The Cube as a warm up for much harder things this evening…reckon ilgs kid? as cool as the current crop of new kids can be… just sayin’? This Pre-Med Girl is baddass cool. Life begins when the rope falls between your legs… […]
pic: clipping 3rd bolt on Daddy D’s Supreme Smarty Supply (5.6) on the Kinderspiel as my daughter belays…literally want to know; how many Daddy’s have taught and then trusted their lives to have their girls belay them on literally death cliffs? in this ilg Clan? it’s a common background knowledge; we trust each […]
The Perma Grin has not yet left feeble ilg’s old and well weathered (some may say leathered) face since my daughter clipped the final anchor of ‘Pork Sushi’… a 5.10A technical rock climbing route on one of ilgs fav childhood Dakota sandstone pinnacles nestled within the now famous Sailing Hawks bouldering (and mountain biking) […]
the Aurora Borealis effect seen over my h(om)etown and still wild and sacred Animas River last night – comment below if you know how far away from where you live is the nearest wild river (a river that has zero man made dams along its entire length) and how far away it is from […]
we now pick up with my final sentence of my prior Blog: “Dewa eventually connected the dots and took her first spin in White Thunder, literally the top of the line Off Road Racing Vehicle of the past 5 years…” *** So, ilg handed over the driver seat of my new Tacoma Off Road Racing […]
last Thursday… hit the open road solo toward Iowa in…. please put your hands together to welc(om)e the latest (and greatest) Vehicle Being into the ilg clan: yeah, that’s right… WHITE LIGHTNING!!! yeah, dat’s right… you’re looking at a 2.5 cubic liter V8 engine with 300 HP and … get this: 400lbs of torque […]
*** Dear Kind and Compassionate Community, It is with a huge sigh of relief that we share Dewa’s heart results have come back clear and healthy. The echocardiogram did show a valvular pulmonary leakage, which we’ve been told is quite common in many individuals. The key takeaway is that it can be triggered by […]
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