5 Simple Ways To Help Change a Life

A Kickstarter campaign launches Wednesday 8/17 to fundraise for the bulk publishing and distribution of the book, 'ACHILLES: A Meditation on Purpose & Inspirational Living’. Below are 5 ways you can directly contribute to the project's success.

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Off-Trail: 7.24.1996

July 24, 1996: Twenty years ago today. A day that altered the course of my life, though I’ll never remember it - only seven years old at the time. At that young age, I learned that life is short. I realized that our days are finite and they could come to an end at any moment.  It was a morbid realization, but it was a damn powerful one.

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Balance Through Extremes: The Grand Canyon - Part 1: Dawn

As the roadtrip was wrapping up, I had come up with an idea for the apex – A Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim traverse of the Grand Canyon. A 45-50 mile endeavor with 20,000 feet of elevation change, descending a vertical mile down to the Colorado River, climbing a vertical mile to the other rim, then repeating. The idea was conceived, and so it was decided.

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Balance Through Extremes: The Grand Canyon - Part 2: Heat

I hit the Bright Angel Trailhead around 11:50. I was feeling pretty good again, a little heavy from the breakfast and refilled water, but those were weights to fuel me.  It was already hotter than Africa and it was only going to get worse as the afternoon heat kicked up and I descended 4000’.

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