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My sister wrote another article for the Missoula Independent. Good to see her writing making it on the front page this time around. It’s an interesting story about managing open space in Missoula. As expected very detailed and thorough.

As Missoula continues to save more open space, it’s becoming clear that acquiring property is only the first step in a process that includes maintaining those lands. Unless you’ve just stepped off a bus from some suburbanized concrete world, or are simply in denial, you’re probably aware that the West has a weed problem, and it’s serious.

Here is a link to the rest of the article.

After visiting my sister in Missoula, she reminded me that back in March she wrote her first article for the High Country News. Since then, she’s been hired for some more jobs so I’ll be promoting them here as they are released. In the mean time, here’s the High Country News article from March:

Down but not out in Missoula, Montana

The American dream is alive and well in Missoula, Mont., sort of. Not long after arriving here in the late 1990s, I found myself in the same conversation about real estate, hearing the same words and sharing the same sentiment. “You can’t eat the landscape,” someone would say, and everyone within earshot would laugh at the cliché, though it would usually be followed by an uncomfortable silence. Here’s what wasn’t funny then or now: In a recent Missoulian article, local realtors tallied their statistics and calculated a whopping $206,850 median price for a house, but only a median income of $43,200…

Read the rest of the article at the High Country News

I’ve been working on an adventure life list in my head for while. Only recently have I started talking about it. Last fall I qualified for the Boston Marathon. When I qualified, I thought, “Great,” now I can check that off my list. But I never really had a “list.” More like a bunch of ideas rolling around in my head. So consider this a start:

• Qualify for the Boston Marathon I’ll be running in this year’s Boston Marathon on April 17

• Qualify for Ironman Hawaii
(My third attempt to qualify will be at Ironman USA in July)

• Ride across America. Be it solo, with a tour, or a small group of friends.

• Ride an entire Tour de France course.

• Learn to surf. After spending a week watching people surf in Maui, I’ve got to learn.

• Climb all 53 of Colorado’s 14ers. I’ve climbed 1 - Mt. Evans - but it was by car so that doesn’t count.

• Hike the Appalachian Trail. At least a portion of it.

• Travel to all 7 continents. Preferably in connection with a sporting event, either as spectator or participant.

• Walk the Great Wall of China.

• Explore the pyramids of Egypt

• Learn to Sea Kayak and paddle with killer whales
then go to the Galapagos to paddle with the turtles.

There’s more, but I think this is a good start.