2024 In Review
Notables
General
- A late-year stress fracture has gotten me into Disc Golf, Row-erging
Bikes
Last year’s Krampus is now a 12-speed do-anything bike- we did a two-day bikepacking trip near our new home of Missoula and I was totally fried. I don’t ride that much anymore.
I did get the fixie out of storage and crush third at a local alleycat, so I’ve really been enjoying that.
Running
Other than a stress-fracture in October it was a good year. Ran both my races in sandals. I had some of the best weeks of training I’ve had in a few years in the middle there.
Adventure
Solo Chetco was the stand-out highlight.
- The Chetco
- The upper Minam river was a super fun hike in
Skiing
~50 days of skiing last year. Most of them at Rusutsu.
Living and skiing in Japan, obviously. Doing a few light-duty tours in Missoula.
Climbing
Bailed off of Infinite Bliss. Thats about all the climbing I did.
Packrafting/Kayaking
~73 days in a boat, probably more. A few unrecorded laps and random wave sessions.
- Lots of White Salmon laps
- Lower V
- Minam River
- Chetco
- Finally got on the Deadwood, which was amazing
- Finally ran Staircase on the S. Fork Payette- it was fine.
- Great packrafting round-up
- Finally got a V3 Valkyrie
- Finally got on the Rogue- it was great, very mellow
- N. Fork Blackfoot
- Got on Slate Creek again
- Wild Mile on the Swan
- Hiked up the middle fork of the flathead into the wilderness section
- Also did a multiday on the middle segment with Megan and Jake
- A couple smash n’ grab laps on Meadwocamp, my favorite
- Got both a new Ripper 2 and a Firecracker 242.
Among many others. Didn’t make it to Kyrgyzstan.
Strength/Fitness
Now that I live somewhere I’ve been able to focus a lot more on strength. I was able to complete my goal of 20 consecutirve pull-ups after doing a partial Armstrong-program in November after my stress fracture. Yee-haw.
Books
Lots of audiobooks because I was in the car so much- Richard K. Morgan featured heavily. I really liked his fantasy series, and Thin Air is a fave I’ve listened to several times.
I didn’t finish the books I wanted to in the beginning (2666, Infinite Jest) but I’m almost done with the former. Mao II was alright. I liked White Noise quite a lot. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself was a good listen but kind of depressing. Gun, with Occasional Music was hilarious and I think of the following line often:
Good-looking for 50 or bad for 35.
Fourth Wing and A Court of Thorns and Roses both bounced off me.
Between Two Fires was surprisingly good- like Catholic fan-fiction.
I’ve been picking at Henry Miller again, and wish I hadn’t given away my copy of Black Spring, even though I hate it. We have a bookshelf now, and it’s exciting to see all of our books out in the open.
All the usuals were there too: Starfish, some Void Star, Piranesi, Harrow/Gideon/Nona the Ninth.
Code
Not much. Some small projects of different kinds. Random commits here and there. I joined the American Whitewater org to contribute a little bit at the end of the year, so thats’ been fun.
Regrets
Goals from Last Year
- Books
- Infinite Jest
- 2066
- Mao II
- Born to Run
- Videography
- Shoot video every day
- Make some fun edits from Japan
- Self
- New Tattoo
- Guitar Daily
- Weekly meditation
- Eat better - More veggies!
- Get resting heartrate under 50
- (sorta) Wake up and go to bed consistently. Do the work.
- 20 consecutive pull-ups
- (sorta) Cold Dips
- Boating
- (sorta) The Chetco/Tin Cup Creek/Illinois Triple
- Any one of those rivers ^^^
- Paddle in Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan or Zambia
- Live in Kernville
- Running
- Fastpack something, preferably the Kalmiopsis
- Have a good 50k
- Have a good 50-miler
- Fix shin splints
- Skiing
- Land a 180
- Learn to ride switch
- (sorta) Don’t get injured
- Do some cool spring touring
- Ski Yotei
- Visit a ghost resort
- Relationships
- Monthly/Weekly check-ins with M
- Interact and support Mom/Dad/Cameron
- Hang out with close friends more often
- Writing
- Write about Japan life
- Write about the GoPros I’ve been using
Goals for 2024
- Self
- Stay healthy
- New tattoo
- Stop renting
- General
- Leave M more notes
- Books
- Finish 2666
- Read three other difficult books (No rereads!)
- Videography
- Make more short films- Rollerboating was fun to shoot and put together.
- Paddling
- Tin Cup
- Illinois
- South Fork Flathead
- Futaleufu/Zambezi
- Get back into Central Asia
- Do some skirafting
- Running/Skiing
- 500k vertical feet of gain
- The RUT
- Go for an FKT with M
- Do more ridge runs
- Do more scrambling
- Writing
- More Trip Reports, Blog Posts, Journal entries
Injuries
Well the stress-fracture has sucked, but it’s really highlighted other things and let me focus on other activities. I’m still excited to come back for 2025 and start running again. We have a hill in town, Mt. Sentinel, that is 1900 feet up in 1.6 miles and I love it. This will be a vert-heavy year.
