A Rainy Day

This morning here in Bozeman proved to be a rainy one.  Although it started in a dreary manner, the afternoon held some great promise.  Jason and I were able to sneak out after classes to do some climbing up at Bozeman Pass.  After working on our current projects, Jason's being a very hard and balance orientated route and mine being a route I've been working on for a few days now, China Crisis.  Some great successes were made today, along with some of our largest falls to date! Yee Haw...  Once we had enough of the hard climbs we climbed a great 5.8 featured in the video below.  Cheers to great belaying and the rain holding off!  

A cool new development is the new toy in the arsenal.  I bought a video camera the other day, so look forward to new videos of some of the adventures in the near future!

Side note: A long game of phone tag ended with a good buddy yesterday (Travis).  Look forward to some Wisco stories in the near future on the blog.  Good talking man tell Jimmer I said what up also.

Yee Haw,

Kyle  

More posts on the way!

As my final semester of college winds to an end, time has become limited.  I look forward to getting through the final push of reports, tests and presentations and get back to contributing to this blog.

Last night a watched the documentary about a man who lived with the grizzlies.  Recently, I have heard a lot of talk about this man through my friends.  I decided it was time to watch it for myself.  I must say it was an incredible documentary.  A tragic story, but the way it was able to capture the incredible spirit of what a human can be, was mind blowing.  I urge all to view the movie.  Yes, I agree with most that his mission was flawed, but like many things in life, I think its important we take his passion and apply it to something in our own lives.

Unfortunately for me this is going to be my 15 page  paper and presentation due this week, but even something as uneventful as this, in a way I feel grizzly mans mission was accomplished.

Like so many people in this world, his passion was in the end his demise.  Whether its a sailor crossing the pacific, a climber on everest, archer stalking an alaskan brown bear, a freelance photographer documenting war zones, a backcountry skier skiing a dream line or an any other pursuit, in my eyes its all the same.  A passion the grizzly man had, living among bears, in his eyes was worth paying the ultimate price.

This is an incredible personality trait, which it seems very few have.  Finding a balance somewhere between the "grizzly man" and the rest of society seems to hold a lot of promise.

Check out this song-

Coyotes by Richard Thompson- 


One listen and I bet you'll buy it!



Next time your drinking a beer raise a glass and cheers the life of the grizzly man,

Yee haw

Kyle