Monthly Recap: March

The month of March was a busy one for me. I recently started trail running and have really been trying to log some miles. Kellie and I are gave up on our backpacking training program. It was just too repetitive. We’ve since moved on doing our own things (me running, her working with a trainer). We have kept up our streak of weekend hikes. We at seven weeks and counting!...

April 4, 2024 · 2 min · Blake Merryman

How to Export Kindle Highlights

For my book posts, I was looking for an easy way to export my Kindle Highlights. I was hoping for a true export but the best I’ve found so far is Amazon Kindle Notebook. This gives me a relatively clean page to copy and paste from but you end up with a lot of entries like this: ...

April 4, 2024 · 1 min · Blake Merryman

🧗🏻‍♂️ My First Freeway

This morning I completed a Boulder classic: solo climbing Freeway on the Second Flatiron. Special thanks to my friend Brooke for talking me into this excellent climbing experience and capturing my epic leap from the “diving board”. Aside from a few sketchy “scrambles” to set anchors in the past, this was my first intentional solo climb. At 600 feet high, Freeway seems intimidating from the base. But the route is an extremely easy climb....

April 3, 2024 · 2 min · Blake Merryman

📚 Demon in White

My Sun Eater journey continues with Demon in White. Despite taking place over many decades (thanks to the intricacies of space travel), this book kept things interesting: court intrigue, assassinations, an ancient mystery, a little archeology, and a desparate battle for the fate of the galaxy (or of our heros at least). At times, I felt the story (and this series as a whole) leaned a little to heavily into hand waving the story along. But it is an enjoyable journey. ...

March 30, 2024 · 4 min · Blake Merryman

⛄️ Ceran Saint Vrain Trail Snow Shoeing (2024.03.17)

Today, we tried an activity that I’m never experienced before: snow shoeing! ...

March 18, 2024 · 1 min · Blake Merryman