Winning

Oh my!  Discovered a new trail today that knocked my socks off, and with 35+ more miles of trail system, the possibilities are immense.  So many great camping/backpacking areas!  I'm in awe.  We do have some pretty fantastic high alpine hiking trails in my hometown, but none so extensive as the networks here.

The top was windy enough to make my companion and I laugh at ourselves being buffeted around by the force.  I had to turn an ear away just to hear what was being said.  At just a guess, perhaps gusts to 30-40 kts...?  Anyway, that constant barrage left rock formations in the crumbling granite.

             

Finally, we tucked into the lee side of one of these rocks, had lunch and high fived to our wildly successful day off.  Putting this one in the record books as a"win"!

These Days

These days are a blur of summer.  Work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep, play.  Camp life can grind and we live in close quarters, but each day we hike, we reset.

I am often reminding myself to be deliberate, in my footsteps, thoughts, words and actions.

Rinse, repeat.

One Second

Lately I've been working on a project.  This is a daily project that I, amazingly, have remembered to do every day.  Wild.  The inspiration came from a TED Talk I watched a while ago.  In it, a man takes a video that lasts one second, every day.  He never takes a video of himself, which is noteworthy in the Time of the Selfie; in fact, each video is meant to be from his point of view.  It concerns the most noteworthy, poignant, funny, whatever, part of his day.

While the creator is discussing his idea, his own year of one second videos is playing behind him.  That's 365 seconds of video, one year.  Something about that tidy package encapsulating a full year strikes me.  His video covers happiness and hospitals, heartbreak, joy and mundanity.

All this to say I've been shooting my own one second videos.  Actually, they last however long I please, depending on how much I love the shot.  I haven't been editing any of the clips before I put them in the reel. This feeds into my goal that they actually resemble my life, rather than a gorgeous filter or well placed edit.  The clips are 1-3(ish) seconds, and thus far, I love them.

So, eventually a 6 month update of one second videos will be posted here, but until then, check out Cesar Kuriyama's TED Talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_kuriyama_one_second_every_day