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Mountain Resource Center

As for me, I was put thru a mock execution because I would not respond…pistol whipped on the head….same event.. Couple of days later…hung by my feet all day. From Loop 101 in North Scottsdale, take the Pima/Princess Road exit and go 13 miles north on Pima Road to Cave Creek Road. I had to take Utah history in public schools and Mountain Meadows was never mentioned, but the site of the massacre happened to be located in the middle of my thesis area. Instead, we offered an essay setting out why Dark Mountain matters in 2017 – and I…

What Defines A Mountain?

Mountain Resource Center is a nonprofit, community-based organization that delivers high quality, integrated health and human services within a 1000+ square mile rural mountain area. Professionalizing the mountain guiding standards and simultaneously deepening the traditions of guiding with our U.S. climbing culture will create a better, safer experience for my clients, my co-workers, and myself in the beautiful places we call home. Visiting during spring or summer, these views would likely have been blocked by the foliage; however, the bare trees in winter meant that I was able to see through these gaps to Bucks Elbow Mountain, Turk Mountain, Humpback…

Mountain On Steam

For many years of my life, I was very active in the Boy Scouts of America. We’re looking for proposals for long pieces (probably non-fiction of one kind or another – essays, memoirs, reflections, interviews, dialogues – but we’re open to other suggestions) of 4000-6000 words that tell stories that touch on the experience of the sacred in a time of unravelling. Dark Mountain offers no dogma or moral instruction, but if it has sometimes brushed up against the experience of the sacred, I guess it’s because that is just what happens when people come together in the face of…

Mountain Bikes

Mountain Climbing is a challenging sport that requires mental commitment , fitness, strength in your arm and legs that will allow you to handle the degree of difficulty that the climb demands. Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest mountain peak belongs to the Himalaya mountain range. To combat fears, sometimes you need to come out of the ordinary and try a thing like mountain climbing. If you have plans in climbing the mountain during summer, best time of the day to start climbing is about 4am up to 5am. In our own lives, we need to realize that there are no obstacles,…

Mountain Of Gold

Since 1996 The Mountain Institute has worked in the world’s longest mountain range. I’ve no idea how they get there but it was the same throughout the hike, there seems to be no set path, only a guide to the safest path as the Koreans would be all over the mountain standing on some edge just waving as though it was normal. The Museum at Memorial has galleries that feature artifacts from the generations of people that have lived on the mountain (for the last 10,000 years) including displays about settlers, the Civil War, and local quarrying operations. It is the second highest mountain peak…

Powder Mountain Resort

A natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit, and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2000 feet (610 meters). There is a sense of profound reverence as you gaze out at the view, knowing that the only people to see it have climbed the very mountain you stand on. Your own goals will feel the same way – the fact that you have worked for them gives them deeper meaning, makes them worth the effort. Atop Blackrock, I had the normal commanding view down two valleys (Paine…

The Dark Mountain Project

At the last set of trees (and therefore last shade), we made our sandwiches and enjoyed a leisurely lunch in the cool, by a small stream. The weather took an unexpected turn for the better and we lunched outside at The Cottage with pressies, before strolling into the slate quarry for the third time this week, in search of more classic climbs. The vouchers are actually worth more than the price of Mountain – I just really wanted to say thank you. The magma does not have to reach the surface in order to create a mountain: magma that solidifies…

Mountain Fair

This hike visits one of the most physically impressive mountains in the South District of Shenandoah: Trayfoot Mountain. One interesting point that he makes is that a middle-class black family, who are constantly trying to be as ‘white’ as possible, will have a harder time becoming a great artist or poet. This view of Humpback Mountain was a rarity: I have not found many other viewpoints of the mountain from the Blue Ridge on the north side that are so close to the mountain. I liked telling my students that for every deposit found on the surface, there are likely…

The MOUNTAIN BUREAU L.L.C

Sometimes I just feel like a brainless hike up a hill with no route finding, treacherous terrain or precarious precipices. The view is rather limited, but still worthwhile as it yields a unique view of Neighbor Mountain. When I say the world stopped, I mean that I have a very strange relationship to time now. As people have moved into the mountains to live, for recreation and to obtain valuable resources such as timber, mountain ecosystems around the world have been subject to degradation and destruction. You will always find a great time when you visit the spectacular place of…

The Mountain

San Diego climate ranges from Mediterranean in the north to semi-arid to the south and east and is often described as perfect, with mild and sunny weather much of the year. Instead of seeing a problem and giving up, set for yourself an intermediate goal, a midway point on your journey up the mountain. Between base and summit, regardless of what problems you encounter or what advantages you have, a mountain is climbed by putting one foot in front of the other. Only a healthy person is able to cope with all the challenges that are common in mountain climbing.…