I'm excited to begin this blog site documenting my passion for wilderness adventure, and the remarkable unfolding of the lives of my wife, Christa, and I as we start a new family. The content of this blog will entail much about adventures taken here in Montana and afar, but also a fair bit about perhaps the greatest adventure of all, that being the pregnancy and birth of our new child.
Please feel free to browse my photos, read the journal entries and comment on anything you like, or just say hello!
About the blog name "The Heart's Great Red Basin"-- You'll soon notice in my blog posts that I have a particular fondness for the Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana, especially Glacier National Park. Towering above the Many Glacier Valley, on the east side of the Continental Divide, is a grand stratified mountain called Mt Henkel (see title photo). Viewing the massive formation from the popular Swiftcurrent trailhead gives one the impression of a giant bird with wings outspread. A common climbing route follows the main drainage, called the "South Couloir", and enters the said great red basin, which is actually just a thick layer of oxidized sedimentary mudstone, or argillite. Nevertheless, since first climbing the route years ago that red basin seemed a perfect metaphor for not only the heart of the mountain, but of my love for those crumbling, billion-year old rock mountains as well.
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Hey Nathan!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting to be able to read your thoughts about a place very near and dear to my heart and to hear news about your little one that's on the way! Congrats to both of you and thank you so much for sharing! ~ Kelli Barber