It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

Everything costs something everyone pays

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.