Impending doom: T-minus twenty seconds.

Uinta Highline, August 2006

My name is Arie Leeflang.  I’m named after my sainted grandfather (and after his grandfather… grandfather… etc.), a Dutch immigrant with the spirit of a stallion.  I was raised in the City of the Salt Lake but was bred in the Utah backcounty- originally by my parents, but then by a small pack of badgers.  I rigged my first tele skis and swami-ed my first climbing harness at age 14 and tried not to over my shoulder.

 

I survived my time abroad searching for my soul; finally finding it in my own backyard.  Four of college left me chasing archaeology jobs until finally wedging my foot in the door.  I met my bewitching wife on a lonely beach that we’ve never left.  Years seem to pass in a single stride.

 

Beyond life, I thrive in the distance, out of breath, hours yet to travel.  I grasp at the overgrown path, the shorter mountain, and the neglected relic.  Posthole, skin track, 10a, A3; if no one is there, I am game.

 

 

 

 

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