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A passage is about movement, motion and traveling. I have a mantra that has kept me alive in the worst of times, both in the mountains, when everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and in my head, where my fear of impending doom can simply shut me down. It is just this: “Keep Moving … Keep Moving … Keep Moving.”

Writer contemplating the lime from his Margarita

Mountain Passages—Why Are the Limes in My Margarita Brown?

by Alan Stark May 2, 2013 Blogs

In this life there are some risks worth taking and there are some risks to be avoided. It is only by careful analysis and investigation that these risks can be properly evaluated. It is a fine spring day and to celebrate the season I sit down at a well-worn stool in my favorite mountain bar [...]

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Dreaming of Summer

by Alan Stark February 11, 2013 Mountain Passages

Mountain people are odd creatures. In the heat of summer, we dream of knee-deep powder, followed by an evening near a warm cookstove, with a book and a beverage in a cabin tucked-in below treeline. But now in deepest, darkest winter, the dreaming reverses. I just hobbled outside the house here in Boulder to toss [...]

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Five Unresolutions

by Alan Stark January 8, 2013 Mountain Passages

Let’s be really honest about your New Year’s resolutions. You haven’t got one chance in a million of making it through next week on an all-vegetable diet, not to mention doing it alcohol-free between high-intensity yoga workouts in an overheated room and running laps at the local high school track. I give you a week [...]

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Volcanoes, Mountain Towns, and People

by Alan Stark October 9, 2012 Mountain Passages

There are three things you don’t want to do in the mountains: you don’t want to be above tree line after noon in the summer, you don’t want to cut in the liftline and you don’t want to try to define a mountain town.

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