I am happiest when I am making progress. Progress towards anything, really, whether its planning a vacation, stacking wood, working on our house, cooking a great dinner, running 10 miles, or working out for two hours till I can't walk. Making progress requires a sense of purpose, I believe. Each action that I take during the day is driven by the idea that it serves a purpose - if I vacuum the living room, I won't have to inhale dog hair when I do yoga later on - if I split and stack wood, we'll be warm this winter - if I spend a lot of time planning this vacation, we'll have a smoother time once we're traveling - if I run 10 miles, I'll feel hungrier for the gigantic plate of nachos I'm going to eat for dinner - if we work tirelessly on our house until it's done, we can rent it out
sooner and start a financially-independent lifestyle that I'm so
desperate for. You get the idea.
This concept is really important to me. I feel really good about my direction, and have a great sense of self-worth, when I am making measurable progress towards a tangible goal. Anyone who makes lists can probably identify with this concept. A lack of this seems to be the source of a lot of my
frustration.
Along the lines of tangible goals I've set my sights on Mt. Shasta for the end of the summer. I attempted to climb this mountain in 2006 with E and his brother. We didn't make the top, so naturally I'm jonesing to try again. Here are some photos of our adventure.
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Mt. Shasta |
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Driving to Bunny Flat Trailhead |
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Buddies |
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Looking up to the Red Banks from Helen Lake |
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View of Black Butte and the Trinity Alps |
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Lunch break |
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Traversing from Green Butte Ridge to Helen Lake |
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Green Butte Ridge |
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Gazing over Casaval Ridge from Helen Lake as the sun sets |
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Dinner time |
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Shasta Mountain Guides setup |
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View of the Trinity Alps from the Red Banks |
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Snowy ridge |
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Red Banks - tiny tents visible in a line near the center |
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Red Banks - stopping point for this crew |
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Packing up for the descent |
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