I stepped off the edge.  My mind accelerated into my body as together we slammed into the moment of ‘now’ with the intensity of fear and love, and the excitement of doing something the body was not designed for, but that the spirit craves from the deepness of the soul.
 The force of the collision pushed a shriek out of my lungs, and yet, when that shriek was finished I was still flying through the air, accelerating downward and outward, and so I quickly filled my lungs and let loose another.  …

 
I adjusted the angle of the light and it caught something reflective as Andy hauled himself across the untensioned highline back to the access tunnel. The smell of rust and the reverberating echoes of friends rigging the line filtered through my concentrating mind as I adjusted exposure settings on the camera. What a wild place!

The steel launch doors high above were painted red with sheets of rusted metal peeling off. Andrew sat on a stairway to nowhere surveying the operation; his shadow powerfully projected on the ceiling. Although no protection …

Saturday, a goal realized:

I’ve been slacklining for about 6-7 months now.  It’s become a mild addiction, and I rarely go more than 3 or 4 days without setting one up.  We slacklined all over Spain, at the Spot in Boulder all summer, and almost daily in the parks adjacent to my house.  I slackline in my Vibram Five Fingers almost exclusively.  They give me more padding, great grip, and still allow a natural feel of the line.
The slacklining community in Boulder is incredible!  We have some of the best slackliners …

As I ran emergent through Boulder this morning in 3121 on the way to a rollover accident in 4mile Canyon I waited for the mega-adrenaline-hit to come and shake my core. But it never came. I felt calm, and super-aware as if the world was moving slow and I was navigating through it as I plotted a course through intersections frozen by my siren. It was different than my 1st Emergent Run. Or any other run I have had since and reminded me of watching Scott send the Jurassic Park …