wanna thank Missy Votel and the Durango Telegraph for honoring the feeble ilgster after all these years! Approached with the help of several Devotee’s like Marc Romanelli and Ken Doyle to OUTSIDE Magazine several times to revisit my 1993 Cover with an updated feature, no go. But the Telegraph gave it a thumbs up and […]
Sacred Effort happened…1st Place AG, 6th Overall at Snow Mountain Stampede 50k…3 hours, 57 minutes of high end Bardo Training! we had to cross country ski UP 7k of an alpine ski resort after racing 40k’s in whiteout conditions…too tired to write more … THANK YOU ALL who contributed monetarily and/or spiritually to this […]
feeling very Blessed… taught my final Tuesday Night (Indoor) Worlds at the Durango Rec Center just now and received an ovation fr(om) 22 AMAZING WARRIOR/ESS’s that put up with Coach Ilg’s unique, fierce love since Fall Time Change…ilg has seen INCREDIBLE, POSITIVE spiritual, biomechanical, and physical changes in those Warrior/ess’s who consistently attended my classes […]
all pics by Joy Kilpatrick…GREAT JOB, AMMAJI!!!… Team Ilg! oh man, what it takes to get both yourself AND your kid to the Start Line!? phew! reckon that’ll be my warmup again! — at Durango Nordic Track. Well, Yesterday’s race day certainly was wholistic! chaotic, hard, sacred, tricky, and somewhat embarrassing! Finished 6th OA, […]
feeble ilg all-ways seems to have the Weminuche Deities with me when racing in Pagosa Springs, Colorado…my old h(om)etown! Not sure, but I think I just took Overall Silver at the National Push-Your-Fat-Bike-Through-Miles-Of-Soft-Snow Championship! Actually it was this morning’s ‘Dust 2 Fat Bike Race’ in Pagosa Springs, CO and it was a 7-mile very ‘wholistic’ […]
More like, ‘White Friday’ around ilgsville…dat’s da way we like it! so D and i created this powder trail through the trees which got more and more skier traffic throughout the day…that was meaning-full for her..trailblazing-wise…D named our Forest Path trail: “Black Stallion”…OMG, we had SUCH a great time!!! love the kid that chose to […]
This M(om)ent… Bittersweet, surreal emotions swirled as Dewa rode chairlifts for the first time with a friend instead of Daddy…what’s next? My car keys?! Om Ami Dewa Hrii.. Letting Go ain’t easy… Noble Sangha, i took the above pic today…that’s Dewa (9) on the left with her friend Isabella up at Purg. This M(om)ent touched […]
pic by HP Yogini Dawagahti Lee: your feeble teacher of nothing, “Off in search of a great perhaps,” beginning a 4-mile descent on my mountain bike after riding it up and stashing it at 12,378′ to peak run/scramble the seld(om)-visited summit of Three Needle Peak (13,491′) on Sunday, errr, yesterday. see my personal FB page for […]
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