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Poetry Friday

No. 67

The cold in these mountains is ferocious, has been every year since the beginning.

Crowded peaks locked in perennial snows, recluse-dark forests breathing out mists,

grasses never sprout before the solstice and leaves start falling in early August.

This confusion includes a lost guest now, searching, searching—no sky to be seen.

  — [...]

Jens Voigt: hardest of the hard men

Saxo Bank’s Jens Voigt shrugged off the pain of yet another crash at the Tour de France.

On stage 16 Tuesday, Voigt was hurtling down the descent of the Col de Peyresourde, the first of four mountain passes, when he suffered a puncture and crashed at top speed.

The German managed to avoid a [...]

View from the backyard

It’s times like this that I really love living in Utah.

Mt. Olympus, as seen from Holladay at sunset

 

Another view of Mt. Olympus

 

Sunset over [...]

Let us pray (Giro edition)

A prayer for the second and third weeks of the Giro d’Italia; for the battles in the mountains to come.

Andy Hampsten, climbing the Passo Gavia during the 1988 Giro d’Italia

Let us pray:

I believe in Hampsten, the Climber Almighty,      the Creator of heavenly tours,      and in the Landshark of steel, [...]

Poetry Friday

SPRING

Wind in almond blossoms. Ants on limestone mountains. Cézanne’s bones in red earth. Countless vines on red earth. Black wine on oak tables. They drink love or hate as The old plane trees blossom. They drink coffee or pastis Under the blowing young leaves. Under feathery pines, On red and gray hillsides, Hidden [...]

Poetry Friday

SNOW

Low clouds hang on the mountain. The forest is filled with fog. A short distance away the Giant trees recede and grow Dim. Two hundred paces and They are invisible. All Day the fog curdles and drifts. The cries of the birds are loud. They sound frightened and cold. Hour By hour it [...]

Quote of the Day

FOUR MOUNTAIN POSTURES

Walking in the mountains unconsciously trudging along grab a vine climb another ridge

Standing in the mountains how many dawns become dusk plant a pine a tree of growing shade

Sitting in the mountains zig-zag yellow leaves fall nobody comes close the door and make a big fire

Lying in the [...]

Poetry Friday (mountains edition)

After seeing the majesty of Mt. Nebo, above Payson and Santaquin, Utah yesterday, I had to find a good mountain poem for today … and where better to turn than the poetry of China?

GAZING AT THE SACRED PEAK

What’s this ancestor Exalt Mountain like? An unending green of north and south,

ethereal beauty [...]

Bitchslap!

Much has been written over the past couple of days about the relationship between Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, as evidenced in this excellent summary from the BBC:

BBC SPORT | Other sport… | Cycling | Armstrong hits back at Contador

Lance Armstrong says his Astana team-mate Alberto Contador has “lots to learn” after [...]

Jens

Tour de France: Jens Voigt has keenly negotiated the ups and downs of professional cycling – ESPN

BOURG-SAINT-MAURICE, France — Let’s pause and, for just a moment, put peloton politics and doping speculation and Contador versus Armstrong aside to celebrate the career of the most conscientious man in the business, Jens Voigt.

It was [...]