Tame Your Teenager

This has been on my to-do list for quite some time, and on July 15th I was able to pull it off and summit Mt. Whitney. It didn’t work out for others to go with me so, not wanting to miss an opportunity, I decided to go the 22 mile round trip trek to 14,497 feet alone (sort of, believe me there were plenty of people on the trail).

My morning got going at the trailhead at 4:00am. It was amazing. (more…)

This last week I had the incredible experience to climb to the summit of Mt. Whitney, 14,497.61 feet, or 4,418.87 meters for my euro and aussie friends, the highest peak in the lower continental United States, the second highest in the U.S. only behind Denali in Alaska, and you know what I found? I found two fathers with their teenage children, well, Kate just turned twenty, and I wanted to glean from the wisdom of the kids about what made their dad so great. Listen to the two videos and see what they had to say.

Please excuse the huffing and puffing on my part and a couple of mixed up words, after all, I was breathing less than half the oxygen that I am accustom to (I thought it was a good excuse).