Known as the "Slab Rocks" to early/surly pioneers, the Flatirons looked likely to be easily split and quarried  for sale.

Now protected as trendy Boulder's semi-annual bird &

            bat roosts,  and  mountain backdrop  

This rock climbing nursery nurtured my ascentionist skills 

on the sharper edges and steeper back sides.

Thence (w/ a decade's delay at CU Boulder where I ran "Mountain Rec") eventually to Yosemite Valley, Tibet and the Nepal Himalaya.

WHAT 

am I doing here?

Envisioning my digital tombstone ?

as flashes of memory allow.  

Always on my mind.

Looking down from a cliff edge in Yosemite.

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