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16,000 Feet and Beyond: Nyele La Pass and the Final Days of the Chomolhari Trek

Bri-Tri — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:11:50 +0000

(Final Part of the Bhutan Trek Series) See here for Part 3 – Into the Himalayas: Beginning the Chomolhari Trek Day 4 – Climbing Toward 16,000 Feet I woke early that morning. I wanted to catch the sunrise lighting up Mount Jomolhari, and I also knew we had a big day ahead of us. Our …

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Into the High Himalayas: Snow, Base Camp, and Acclimatization on the Chomolhari Trek

Bri-Tri — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:05:46 +0000

(Part 3 of the Bhutan Trek Series)Go back to Part 2…. Continuing Up the Paro Valley After a wet, snowy first day trekking up the Paro Valley—and an even colder night sleeping in the tent—we woke to a simple but welcome breakfast prepared over a campfire at the stone hut in Thang Thanka. The snow …

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Into the Himalayas: Beginning the Chomolhari Trek

Bri-Tri — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:22:37 +0000

(Part 2 of the Bhutan Trek Series from our trip in March 2019)For Part 1, see the post Turning 50 in the Himalayas: Our Trekking Adventure in Bhutan first The next morning, we left the comfort of Hotel Olathang behind and set out for the real adventure. For the next week we would be trekking …

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How Remote Work Let Us Build Our Adirondack Home

Bri-Tri — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:03:50 +0000

(Part 2 of our Adirondack story) There’s a moment when a dream stops being hypothetical and suddenly becomes possible. For us, that moment arrived in the form of a simple work announcement. But before that happened, the idea of building our Adirondack home had already been shelved. When the Plan Went on Hold When we …

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Turning 50 in the Himalayas: Our Trekking Adventure in Bhutan

Bri-Tri — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:38:19 +0000

Intro The plane banked sharply between two mountains as we descended toward the tiny airport in Paro, Bhutan. For a moment it felt like the wing might scrape the cliffs. That’s when it really hit us. We were about to begin an 11-day trekking adventure into the Himalayas. Bhutan had been on our bucket list …

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How We Ended Up Living in the Adirondacks

Bri-Tri — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:53:20 +0000

Some places grow on you over time. The Adirondacks weren’t like that for me. The first time I visited this area, I knew it was special. The mountains, the forests, the quiet roads, and the feeling that you were surrounded by wilderness in every direction. It felt different from anywhere else I had spent time. …

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Race Report – 2022 Pocono Triathlon Festival Olympic Distance

Bri-Tri — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:51:19 +0000

2022 Race and course report for the olympic distance triathlon at the Kinetic Multisports Pocono Triathlon Festival in Hawley, PA and Lake Wallenpaupack.

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Race Report – 2021 Steelman Olympic Triathlon

Bri-Tri — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:00:06 +0000

The 2021 Steelman Olympic Triathlon race was my 6th Steelman Olympic race in addition to one Steelman Sprint distance. I was supposed to race last year but with Covid I deferred to this year. The race is still very organized since being taken over by Dave Michener from Dale Winteroff. The only real difference with …

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Race Report – Ironman 70.3 North Carolina 2021

Bri-Tri — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:30:20 +0000

Ironman 70.3 North Carolina seems like it has been on hold for me forever. The time has finally come and gone and I have to say it was worth the wait. We loaded up the 4Runner and made the 9-10 hour drive down to Wilmington/Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on the Wednesday morning before the race. …

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Race Report – 2021 Ironman 70.3 Musselman

Bri-Tri — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:50:48 +0000

I have wanted to do the Musselman Triathlon. I love the Finger Lakes region of New York and had heard it was a really cool local, privately-run triathlon to do. I had done other races in the Finger Lakes like the Peasantman and the Keuka Lake Triathlon and then they never disappoint. Of course Ironman …

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