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Summit Fever Dreams (Dylan K.)
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Sierra Peaks Section. r/fantasy + r/metal moderator. Husky husker(?) 🐕

Public health + epidemiology + emergency management; I look at a lot of spreadsheets.
Another good one. I'm writing about California's recent drought history. Saying the lake has receded is correct; saying it "reached" 38 percent capacity is the exact opposite of what I'm trying to say.
March 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I continue to be impressed at how the “AI” integration of spelling and grammar check within Microsoft Word actually makes for a far worse product than when I was first using spell/grammar check in *2002* as a kiddo.

A trash future per @trashfuture.bsky.social, indeed. #ai #letmedomyfuckingjob
March 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
So much joy is found at sunset - especially with the foreknowledge of sunrise 🏔️ ⛅️
February 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Every ski resort should have waffles at the end of their runs. No doubt this would get tons of people into the sport. Sure as hell worked on me. ⛷️🏔️

#skiing
February 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Wednesday night book date with my nugget (cf. wife) at the Eddy Hotel & Taproom in Golden! Slowly working my way through this military space opera of “calendrical warfare” 🚀📚🪐

#booksky #scifi
February 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Drytooling at Boulder, CO’s Ice Cool tonight with friends. Ridiculous sport, both in the cool way and in the “what the hell am I doing” way. Absolutely cannot wait to go back; the gym playlist was all deep cut Daft Punk. ❄️🏔️🧗‍♀️👾

#climbing #drytooling #outdoors #colorado
February 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Today's edition of "weird maps stumbled upon during work": the most bizarre shading scheme I've seen (in a map that could've been a list).

I get the cross-hatching. Tree rings magnified x100, less so!

(Source: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/...)

#maps #geography #science
February 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Big shout-out to Mouses Chocolates & Coffee in Ouray, CO for making adorable ice climbers on their chocolates. 🥶🧗‍♀️

#foodsky #outdoors #climbing #mountains
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Ice climbing in Ouray during a winter storm” is not something 12-year old Dylan would’ve ever believed he’d do one day - growing up in Florida notwithstanding!

Come to think of it, neither would 18, 22, 26, or maybe even 30-year old Dylan believe it. 🏔️❄️🧗‍♀️

#outdoors #climbing
January 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It’s been decades since the console wars and I know I’m saying nothing new here - yet this email header still feels like a jumpscare. 👾🎮

Take that Austin… told you Sonic would come out on Nintendo eventually…
January 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Absolute sucker for the aesthetic of half-frozen rivers: South Platte, CO. 🗻🦦

#rivers #colorado #landscape #outdoors
January 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Four years ago, my wife and I gave our five-month old kitten a bit of pizza crust, as a joke.

This is now her every single time.

#catsky #pizza #nodropit #carbs
January 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Trying to make a push to get outside after work in the darkness of January - even if it’s just a small thing 😊 Went for a snowy run around Apex Park near Golden, CO! Feels nice to just “be”, regardless of what that means. 🏔️🏃

#outdoors #running #colorado #mountains
January 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
My 2025 focus is “Projects not sends” - being a little more okay with not doing things perfectly the first time. Like a lot of 90s/00s kids, I have a hard time with not mandating perfection, which means I need to fall a little more 😊 🧗‍♀️ 🏔️

(Equinox: 5.11c trad, South Platte CO) #climbing #outdoors
January 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Each year, I try to fill up an empty shelf on my bookshelf. It’s a fun way to visualize the year’s reading! In 2024, I filled up three shelves(?!), the most I’ve read in one year since adolescence if not ever. 84 total books! 😊 🪐📚

#booksky #litfic #fantasy #books #reading
January 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Final book of 2024 finished. Fascinating little novel that I like even more than my previous two reads in 2007 and 2017. An exegesis not on nihilism so much as a crashing demonstration of the power to shape one’s world, and how even if nihilism were true, it’s still a world-shaper.

#litfic #booksky
January 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“Titus Alone” often gets sidelined in Mervyn Peake’s “Gormenghast” series, but the language is still out of this world. The opening passage of escape from the castle of the previous two books is a surreal grotesque. 📚

#fantasy #booksky #litfic #books #writing
December 27, 2024 at 2:22 PM
The east summit of 13er The Citadel in Colorado’s Front Range gives me strong storybook vibes with the slightly overhanging top and igneous rock bands. (Also a good example of the crumbly nature of many of the state’s high peaks). 🏔️🧗‍♀️

#mountains #peaksky #outdoors #colorado #climbing
December 22, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Ski partner: “So you know, every ski area has a bra tree.”

Ptarmigan Lift, Loveland Ski Area. ⛷️🏔️

#loveland #skiing #outdoors #mountainsky #treesarehimbos
December 21, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Holiday party at the Boulder Climbing Community where somebody made biblically accurate Christmas cookies. 🎄👼

#holidays #christmas #coolies #boulder
December 21, 2024 at 3:39 AM
This is the platonic ideal of a book cover. I’m not being ironic at all: I know exactly what to expect in content (mushrooms, foraging), exactly how the writer will write (goobery with significant depth and specificity among the anecdotes), and exactly how much fun I’ll have (loads). 🍄📚

#booksky
December 20, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Me at 12: “Illustrated books are for babies 😤 “
Me at 32: “Illustrated books fucking rule 😤 “

Photos: “Grendel” (John Gardner), “Titus Groan” (Mervyn Peake), “The Tombs of Atuan” (Ursula K. Le Guin) 🪐📚

#litfic #booksky #books #art #drawings #illustrations #fantasy
December 20, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Why does my cat sit like an asshole, part 2.

#cats #catsky #petsky #golden
December 18, 2024 at 7:51 PM
The fact that she sat still for this photo surprises even me. Cat, CAT, cat scan my sit-me-down-upon, Caterpillar, construction junction - 3.75/5 ⭐️ and far deeper than the initial gimmick may belie… especially as a 2024 read on the cusp of T2.

#litfic #bookerprize #booksky #books #cats
December 18, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Fun fact: the State of Nebraska’s high point is on a bison farm. There’s one road in/out, and the bison have de facto right-of-way. “Friend-shaped but not friends”, indeed.

#highpoints #nebraska #bison #nature #moo?
December 18, 2024 at 3:11 AM