Following after my Uncle Mat and his mission to get us to reconnect with the land, I took a hike up Cowles Mtn. today. It was an easy climb - 1/2 hour/1.5 miles long/elev. ∆ 950 ft. - at a moderate clip. Mat's blog is strangely silent this summer but I trust he is tearing it up somewhere on the Continental Divide Trail in Colorado. He plans to hike the entire trail from Mexico to Canada in four summers. [Incidentally, we just heard from him today 8/21 and he told a wrenching story of God's protection from storms & lightning. I can't share the details publicly. Unfortunately, someone he met on the trail perished later due to the lightning. If you get a chance please whisper a prayer for him and his posse].
I had a chance to join him on the trail last summer at the NM/CO border. If not sooner, I'd like to join him again one of these summers when the trail takes him through my birthplace - that would be a poignant reconnecting with the land.
Congratulations to Megan & Rigo! He surprised her this evening at the summit and proposed to her. They were suddenly in need of a camera and photographer & perhaps, later, a minister :) .
There's nothing like receiving a call at 1100 feet from the church's security company saying "your alarm is going off" to bring you back to reality, disconnect you abruptly from the land and hasten your descent.
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