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brandt
@brandt Dec 6, 2023, 6:38 PM UTC

Something different

They say variety's the spice of life, so the other day just to shake things up a bit and try to break through those brutalist walls of routine and monotony, I thought it would be a good idea to have…

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brandt
@brandt Dec 3, 2023, 1:54 PM UTC

Big day on Little Bear Peak

###### The southern San Luis Valley spreads out below me as I pause at a switchback for a photo op. From the trailhead at the foot of the mountains, the old forest service road winds 4,000 feet up th…

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brandt
@brandt Nov 29, 2023, 11:28 PM UTC

Where are you from?

###### The Arkansas River rushes through Scout Wave 2.0, a new river surfing feature christened last October. I don't know how to surf rivers (not to mention oceans or sand dunes or even webs for tha…

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brandt
@brandt Nov 25, 2023, 2:21 AM UTC

Regarding the GoPro Hero 11 Black Mini I've just been gifted

###### Surprise! I'm climbing a mountain. Little Horn Peak (13,143 feet), to be exact, near the town of Westcliffe where I lived this past spring and summer. There's no trail up here. Just tundra and…

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brandt
@brandt Nov 22, 2023, 9:26 PM UTC

Brain freeze, brain thaw

###### Snap out of a sweet dream about setting someone's house on fire. Smash the phone till the Cosmic song stops. Stumble into the kitchen, make coffee, drink coffee, and slowly start to wake up. D…

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brandt
@brandt Nov 21, 2023, 2:29 AM UTC

Pictures and words

###### We started from the Willow Creek trailhead in Crestone, Colorado, and hiked east up into the Sangre de Cristo mountains. ###### Our targets: Challenger Point (14,086 feet), Kit Carson Peak (14…

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brandt
@brandt Nov 7, 2023, 3:06 AM UTC

Distraction vs. relapse

###### This is the Monarch Spur trail in Salida, Colorado. It's a 2.5ish-mile multipurpose pathway built on the backbone of an old railroad track, and it goes straight from the heart of town down by…

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brandt
@brandt Nov 2, 2023, 10:26 PM UTC

Hiding inside a filtered reality

###### Hmm. It looks like we're in the San Juan Mountains just north of Silverton, Colorado. ###### I don't remember how we got here. What about you, any idea? No? Just blanks, eh? ###### Well, I gue…

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brandt
@brandt Oct 27, 2023, 12:14 AM UTC

Six years

###### 5:04am. Morning twilight. Looking down the southeastern slopes of Mt. Elbert at a valleywide cloud inversion. ###### 5:05am. Now looking north at Mt. Massive. ###### 5:17am. The colors begin t…

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brandt
@brandt Oct 12, 2023, 10:21 PM UTC

Stupid, dammit, maybe

And so it has come to pass that with great trepidation and very little effort I've gone and made things really weird between us and there's more or less absolutely nothing to be done about it now. I'…

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