Category: random
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Packed Out
Snow removal is funny here. In Pittsburgh, even before it snows, PennDot’s fleet of tri-axles are out dumping load after load of salt on the roads. Then they keep running, plowing and melting and turning everything into brown slush. And…
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Settling In
The day after we made it to Glenwood Springs, I dropped off resumes to every building with an open sign. And I heard the same thing over and over- “Sorry, it’s the off season. We’re cutting staff, but Ski Co…
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Moving West
On Sunday, Colleen and I went to a birthday party for a particularly old golden retriever. We said goodbye to the last of our friends in the dirty river town, then loaded up (or severely overloaded) her tiny car, the…
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At Work and On Tour
Last week, I guided a six-day inn to inn tour along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal Trail from Pittsburgh to D.C. It was definitely work, 6:00 in the morning to 9:00 at night every day, but it was…
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Big Bear Ultra and Thunderdome Light
Eight of us are piled next to a keg into the bed of an old red Toyota pickup. The truck turns into a dark field, and bounces down a dirt path. It stops, I drop the tailgate and everybody jumps…
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Dirty Laundry
After the crash at the Cheat race, Colleen has spent the past week hobbling around on a knee that doesn’t really bend. And she got some bad poison ivy, which flared up right before the race. It hasn’t been a…
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