Right time of the year; too much ‘stay-at-home’.
Not a naysayer, the virus is real but moving forward. Done with living the past. Grieving every lost flight, every marathon registration, day-to-day work-family banter. Not sure what the future holds/our new norm. Faith. Balance. Control what you can control.
St. Mary’s Glacier
Six weeks more ‘til we can attempt the high peaks in Colorado. No rush; I’m not there yet. Corona belly & lack of altitude. Big jump – my home @ 5500ft & our 14er peaks.
Alarm set. Backpack readied. Water & burritos. destination: St. Mary’s Glacier. Hour from home (nearby Idaho Springs). Expect far fewer hikers than currently clog Boulder County trails.
Easy ride. No one on the highway. Weird to drive again.
Mile half up, mile half down. Relatively short hike. Goal: home return by 9am. Get up/get out/get back/little people exposure. Snow PILED as the truck CLIMBED. 4WD happy. Lotta WHITE ❄️
Pre-dawn park Ranger. Ok to hike, just pay the permit fee.
Been months between hikes. ROOKIE mistake. BOOTS. Where are they? Been a pair of Brooks or slippers stay-at-home. I’m here. I’m parked. Tag on the windshield. Suck it up buttercup.
DEEP snow. Shins, knees, quads, hip bone. Wind a-blowin’. No path. FIRST to forge a way. Pine/spruce surrounded & virgin snow. Doing it all from memory today. 30 minutes in, reached my first clearing. Peak peeping for direction. Go Right, young man – & UP of course 😊
When it’s snow season, is it glacier or just heavy snow? Answered day’s question. Wind whipping, there she is… or there she should be. LOL> Looks more ski slope than primeval glacier.
Arms outstretched. Did my 8pm HOWL. Sucked in the thin air, held my breath, let it go slowly. Chicken soup for the mountain soul. We’re gonna be ok. LOVE LOVE my Colorado life ❤️
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- Corona stache
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- Spring DEEP 🌷
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- WHITE OUT ❄️
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- Colorado SUNRISE
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- Winter/Summer
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- GLACIER or ski slope?
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- COUNTY vs State LAW
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- April 25 HIKE Day 😊
#self isolation HIKE
No races, no marathons, no travel
and no running the past 2 weeks.
Only grocery hoarding,
social distancing
& the upstream swim to continue work.
Changing rules & daily mandates from local government –
trying to keep its citizens distant & alive.
Breathe. Let it go.
Taking a break
managing the mental side
…the load of online news
Ready ready to run again.
Diggin’ the TRAIL CROWDS
so many folk doing their corona exercise.
Folks with kids, folks with bellies
our beautiful new run COMMUNITY.
My Shelter-in-Place neighborhood.
Paired, nesting. GEESE have returned.
Wildlife season & some sense of normalcy. Spring in Colorado.
Wash your hands, stay healthy
Sing ‘Happy Birthday’.
Love y’all. This too shall pass ❤️
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- be COURAGEOUS
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- Stay-at-Home BELLY
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- downtown GHOST
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- #social distancing
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- wildlife CREEP
corona BREAK
Virus life officially seized hold our State, overnight. Saturday I attended dinner theatre. Sunday’s message: all public gatherings over 50 people cancelled. 6 feet social distance, prior day’s PSA tag – now California’s ‘shelter-in-place’ term added to the vernacular.
Restaurants join stadium events (& NBA basketball). ALL restaurants. Crazy. Unimaginable. It’s this secret disease that’s nowhere in my County – only a handful of cases in the entire State – but now, regularly reading government jargon to determine coworkers’ fate. Can we work, can we not? Manufacturers, currently YES but need to full-court transition 50% of Staff to roles from HOME. Cisco & Zoom, more new words.
Every day, 4pm speech from the Governor. Every day, a new ‘must not’ rule.
Enter CORONA time. Dropped Stephen at D.I.A, flying home to New Hampshire.
Next task: grocery HOARDING. As a guy with 2 vegetables & a condiment on his fridge walls, HUGE MIND SHIFT. Biggest fail? Waiting ‘til Sunday to shop. Shelves almost bare. No-name pasta sauce & a case of beans. Outside-lined 7am, Saturday following. Fog/light snow – at a WALMART, 30 minutes away. We hear they have trucks bringing provisions while grocery stores remain empty/supply chain awaiting. CRAZY. Feed into the hysteria – but, what if. What if they’re right?
2 marathon weekend, both events cancelled. Flights/hotels. Disruption, disappointment, FEAR.
March 15th. BEWARE the Ides of March… and COVID-19.
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- overnight PANIC
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- 7am PROVISIONS
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- EMPTY shelves
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- toilet tissue & paper towels
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- corona BUDDY ❤️
‘Shelter-in-Place’ essential activities, according to the order:
- Engaging in or performing tasks essential to health and safety, or to the health and safety of family/household members. This includes pets. Examples include picking up medicine, visiting a doctor.
- Obtaining necessary supplies or to deliver supplies to others. Things like groceries count here.
- Going for a run, hike or other outdoor activity, as long as proper social distancing is observed.
- To care for a family member or pet in another household.
- To perform work at an essential business (see below) or perform minimum basic operations.
What about other businesses?
- minimum activities to maintain the value of the business’s inventory, ensure security or related functions
- minimum activities to facilitate employees being able to continue to work remotely from their residences
