OK, is this activity a fond, familiar part of everyone's Christmas memories? How many of you actually roast chestnuts as part of your holiday celebration? Has anyone EVER done it? In the last hundred years, anyway?

This question was posed by "Freebird" one evening on the Appalachian Trail, as a bunch of us sat cooking, rinsing clothes, eating, sorting gear, and whatever else we did in the evenings. Name 10 parts of the human body that have only three letters....

Heh, I'm posting on my blog.... that should surprise whatever former readers of mine must have surely written me off by now. Catching up: That "inspirational talk" went well, I guess. I enjoyed it myself, anyway. I didn't plan a bit of it, except to...

They only have pics of me on the bike, but they're nice! Note especially #5 (the other person in the photo is a guy walking his bike up Killer Miller Hill) and #12 (the guy falling in front of me on the Wall.) Just so's you know I told the truth!...

People keep telling me, reading my blog posts, and sometimes my Facebook page, that I'm such an inspiration. I have even been invited.... this blows my mind and scares me to death.... to give a talk to the annual meeting of the Department of Natural...