tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86660116587316411492024-03-06T00:20:07.970-08:00Nature of MotionCar-Free Life and Bicycle-Powered AdventureTim Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05122555206746726392noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666011658731641149.post-35935587936521737852014-08-29T12:53:00.001-07:002014-08-29T12:53:43.168-07:00This page has moved to www.natureofmotion.comFirst off, I just want to thank everyone for having helped make this blog what it is. Secondly, I'd like to ask you to come with me on this next step of our adventure. While I'm still interested and excited to continue these pages in the future, hopefully with the content I'm already receiving from friends and readers, for now I have to focus my efforts in one place. So come with me to <a href="http://www.natureofmotion.com/">www.natureofmotion.com</a> and help me take the Human-Powered Revolution to the next level! Tim Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05122555206746726392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666011658731641149.post-50682327012414272014-08-23T11:21:00.001-07:002014-08-23T11:21:23.673-07:00EvolutionI'm super excited to announce the next chapter of Nature of Motion, our new home at <a href="http://wwwnatureofmotion.com/">natureofmotion.com</a>! Although the site is still in it's final stages of development, head on over and have a look, and let me know what you think. I'm hoping to have a photo gallery up soon, and I'm stoked to have some awesome content headed your way! Thanks for following along and being part of the evolution of Nature of Motion, I can't even say how excited I am for this next development and all that we've got in store! <br />
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If you're asking yourself whats in store for the pages here, well, I don't really yet know, and I kind of have to say... it's up to you. For now, I'm happy to keep the blog around. I'm interested in developing it as a place for individuals experimenting and contemplating their mobility, and for that, I'll need your help. If you're planning your first human powered adventure, or just find yourself thinking a lot about our habits of consumption, waste, and mobility, consider sharing your thoughts here. In order for us to broaden the conversation and acceptance of a new paradigm of mobility, we need to share our tragedies and triumphs, and I'm encouraging you to do that here. Let me know what you think, drop me a line, or get in touch with the <a href="http://www.natureofmotion.com/?page_id=18">contact</a> page on the new site, either way, thanks for reading along and being part of this crazy experiment called life!<br />
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Cheers to car-free lives, bicycle-powered adventure, and the future of human powered mobility!Tim Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05122555206746726392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666011658731641149.post-48401534914537948492014-08-14T11:58:00.000-07:002014-08-14T12:09:55.667-07:00Dog Days and Dank Espresso<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<a href="http://natureofmotion.blogspot.com/2014/08/dog-days-and-dank-espresso.html#more">Read on...</a>Tim Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05122555206746726392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666011658731641149.post-28501565215180910472014-08-14T11:40:00.001-07:002014-08-14T11:40:42.741-07:00What do you think?In an attempt to appeal to a wider audience, get some different perspectives and offer unique stories, we're excited to start featuring pieces written by friends and new authors. If you've got a story, an adventure, or just some philosophical musings, consider sharing them with us here! We're excited to broaden the conversation, and we're interested in moving beyond the car-free or bicycle powered narrative to include stories and essays questioning our personal concepts of mobility and philosophies of sustainability in general. We encourage you to leave comments and engage with the authors, and again, consider adding your voice with a story of your own! Use the contact info to get in touch and submit your story. Thanks! Tim Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05122555206746726392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666011658731641149.post-35298280473634065732014-08-08T12:44:00.001-07:002014-08-08T12:44:50.293-07:00Waste
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Waste is a human
concept. Nowhere else in nature can you
find systems that incorporate this belief.
Just exactly when and how mankind created this habit is a mystery,
although I’m sure Scientist’s would likely link it to the advent of agriculture
or some such revolutionary occurrence.
Waste is a subjective idea, proven by the age-old adage “one man’s trash
is another man’s treasure”, and it’s a notion that we have learned to merge
with our beliefs of worth and value.
Through this amalgamation we have come to create a concept of waste that
can mean many things, but always has a negative connotation. </div>
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the week of July 25</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to the 31</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">st</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;">, Liz and myself
climbed two routes and reached as many summits in the Gunsight Range of the
Glacier Peak Wilderness area.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We climbed
the South Ridge route of the South Peak, as well as the West Face of the Middle
Peak.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our ascents were completely free
and followed the existing routes over varied terrain, including, but not
limited to: splitter granite, steep glaciers, loose choss, devils club, and hot
pavement.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The trip was a great recon and
an epic adventure in its own right.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Gunsights should be high on the list of anyone looking for golden granite in an
absurdly alpine setting.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to
our meager climbing achievements, the significance of this trip lies, for us,
in the fact that we undertook the approach entirely by use of Public Transportation.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Living in Little Cottonwood Canyon during the winter, I'm lucky to be
able to enjoy backcountry skiing in both wilderness and watershed areas, zones
that are free (read - prohibited) of snow-machine travel. If you're
reading this, most likely you're a skier or snowboarder, and even if you use an
old beat-up sled to get deep into the mountains, once you're there you probably
trade it for skins and slog your way up the mountainside to earn your face
shots. Backcountry skiing is about solitude and isolation, a dance with
the wilderness. When not used correctly, snow-machines can create a
noisy, hectic, and often dangerous atmosphere. If you value you value the
solitude and serenity of a quiet mountain range dressed in white, then you
should know this: <b><u>on June 18th, the Forest Service issued a
long-awaited rule for public comment on designating areas as open or
closed to winter motorized vehicles</u></b>, this is a good first step,
but comments from our backcountry community can make it stronger! Your help is
both needed and essential to capitalize on this opportunity to bring
balance to the backcountry. By designating specific trails and areas
where over-snow vehicle use may occur, winter travel planning is an opportunity
to bring balance to the backcountry. The community of backcountry skiers
needs to be heard! Please consider adding your comment to the voices of
support for human-powered winter recreation. To get a better grasp of the
issues at hand, and help you draft a comment worthy of consideration, the
Winter Wildlands Alliance has put together a very helpful page to aid you in
navigating this beurocratic issue. Keep reading to see a few links that
can help you along, as well as my annotated comment if you're interested.
LET'S DO THIS!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If you haven’t heard, wildfires have been taking over eastern Washington, with some half dozen different fires including the incredibly massive Carlton Complex which has torched over 215,000 acres to date. Coupled with a couple weeks of 100+ degree heat, and as my friend Scott put it best, it’s felt like a smoky oven. Needless to say, we’ve been laying low and doing our best to adapt to the situation at hand, things seem to be improving but I’m still skeptical for the future. For now, we’re enjoying a reprieve and I’m reflecting as well as looking forward to how and best balance this reality as it unfolds. Below you'll find a few pictures from our weekend of clarity, and a few words regarding what it's like living in a pressure cooker. If you're into pictures or like your dose of crazy diluted as possible, remember to check us out on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/natureofmotion">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://instagram.com/natureofmotion">Instagram</a>, where angry rhetoric is in short supply.</div>
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If you read our last post, or
are friends with us on the Facebook - Instagram, you already know I managed to
put together a short video for submission into the <a href="http://www.adventurecycling.org/contests/bicycle-travel-video-contest/">Adventure CyclingAssociation’s Bicycle Touring Video contest</a>.
If not, then, well, I did. While
I have a pretty extensive history with some aspects of photography and relatively
none with videography, this was my first real attempt at putting together a
project that, while I might not consider it professional, it was intended for public
consumption, and while the equipment I used was largely amateur, it is hands
down the most advanced and highest quality I’ve used to date, and I’d like to
think the film’s content and quality reflects that, at least a little. If you haven’t yet seen the video, or would
like to hear a little more about my experience in putting it all together, then
read on.</div>
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lot of times I find myself unmotivated to share or write about our lives when I
don’t feel like we’re doing anything noteworthy or significant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This happens to me often in the winter, when
work dominates my day to day and I’m lucky to find time to get out on small ski
tours and climbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s basically
a function of how much I feel like I’m challenging myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I’m out working towards larger goals or
attempting them, I’m psyched to share my progress and experiences, but when my
life takes a mellower routine, I’m content to go to the crag without a camera,
and spend some time in the mountains without writing about it here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all need our version of silent reflection,
whether it be from our jobs, our partners, ourselves or the whole scene, this
time can give us the perspective and inspiration to return invigorated and
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In
light of all this, I wanted to share a little bit about our lives for the last
few weeks, because while I might not feel like I’ve been challenging myself
enough, our days have been full and there’s been a lot going on, in fact, we’ve
got pretty big news, but you’ll have to read to the end for that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, if my goal is to advocate for a
simpler, quieter lifestyle, one that might not always be as glamorous but
continues to deliver satisfaction and adventure, well then what better place to
start than here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that in mind,
here’s a brief look into the last month of our lives through some words and
pictures.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One of my high school
teachers once asked, “Without speech, would there still be thought?”</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At the time this stoner-esque consideration
was profound enough to leave me not only speechless, but thoughtless as
well.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I tried to imagine a thought
without words and could only vaguely conceive of emotional inspirations that
well up deep within us.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Music has a
piece of this power, to convey thought and emotion without words, but in a way
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">People seem to do a lot of
talking, and a lot of thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, they don’t always go hand in hand and at times we seem to
say things without thinking about them, and conversely to think of things
without talking about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the
time, this is all fine and well, after all if you’re not hurting someone or
something with your pointless drivel then who cares, but words and thoughts
have a way of turning into actions, and together these can have a serious
impact.</span></div>
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shouldn’t they. If we want to make a
decision about something we need some concrete facts, plus, when you write
stuff down with numbers next to it, it looks orderly and scientific, so it must
be reputable! If you’re already on the
fence, here ya go, this should pull you over one way or the other.<br>
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<span style="font-family: Times;">We each want to progress, to learn
and improve. Each generation is not only lucky enough to build upon
the efforts of those before us, but we too act, practice and refine our thoughts,
our crafts, and our lives to be more in line with an evolving world view.
As climbers and adventurers we strike off, in an effort to
learn more about life by experiencing it in extremes. As we scratch the
surface, the experiences call us back again and again, and soon we become more
proficient and comfortable with the logistics, trouble, and physical hardship
that often go along with these trips. We learn from friends and
relatives, books and movies, and of course our own personal adventures. Certain
disciplines call us, whether it be bouldering or alpine climbing, creek-boating
or surfing, as the specialists we are we devour this lifestyle completely,
striving to understand every angle and aspect of it's execution. Along
the way we come to understand more about ourselves and the world, and
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<span style="font-family: Times;">This concept of bicycle-powered adventure is not
new, and there are seemingly more and more resources appearing every day on
it's subject. While I do not claim much experience from my
limited adventures, from the meager amount I’ve learned along the way, I do
wish to add my voice to the chorus of encouragement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is this is all still so new to me, and although
we’ve been living the bicycle-life for about two and a half years, I constantly
find myself exploring new aspects that keep it fresh, challenging, and
exciting. This was the first trip I’ve ever done that involved skis, only
the second that involved snow, and the first that involved multiple stages of
shipping gear. In an effort to clear away some of the confusion, and help
with the logistics of your own ride, I wanted to share as much of this
knowledge as I can, in hopes that you’ll be able to take it one step farther,
while doing it easier. While in no way comprehensive, chronological, or
even ordered, what’s below is one part trip report, one part advice, and three
parts rambling rhetoric, enjoy.</span></div>
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I've been sitting here for too long already. I want to tell you the story, but this one's not easy, and more to the point, it's not yet over. The adventure continues to expand, and exceed all expectations. No words are doing justice to the feelings we've had, it seems I'll have to let the photo's do the talking this time. What is the message? It is not about the no-car, it is not about the bike. It isn't even about the mountains or the adventure, although that's getting closer to the source. You can live any way you choose: dream big, do good, be kind. Do Epic Shit. Live with passion and be the force for positive change. Create the world, the reality you want to inhabit. Live your Dreams.</div>
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Riding north from Ketchum. Cold but fast we made our way towards the mountains.<br>
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I<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> can't believe we've made it to the mountains. Before leaving Alta, this all seemed like such a dream, and indeed it was, but we've been figuring it out and slowly making it a reality.</span></div>
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Tim Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05122555206746726392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666011658731641149.post-69785373608535104572014-04-23T20:21:00.002-07:002014-04-23T20:25:02.578-07:00Evolution Through Revolutions.<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Professional participation and personal victories.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the last year, there’s been a growing trend in bike-to-climb and bike to <u>(fill in the blank)</u> adventures being pursued by professional climbers and athletes and making it into the media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t claim to have any influence over this
occurance, it’s an awesome thing, a sign of the awareness our generation is bringing to the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Seeing this type of stuff in the media is truly inspiring, getting people stoked for bicycle powered adventures is only a good thing. There are also trends going on in the bicycle world </span>I have been trying to influence. My generation is among those who helping to define a new era by choosing to not own a car or hold a drivers license. We are in a unique and optimal position to be able to go car-free, use a bike for transportation, and take part in extended adventures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Although I'm not often obnoxious about getting friends to change their habits or get rid of their car, when I see an opportunity, I capitalize. Engine troubles, transmission problems, and maintenance issues are great times to encourage friends to drive their shitty rig's off a cliff. For the most part this is received with polite laughter, as in, I'll laugh at your joke you crazy car-less psycho, but if done well and to the right kind of individual, even this technique can reap rewards. Other angles and tactics can be effective as well, the most useful of which is truth. Looking someone deep in the eyes and telling them the truth has proven to be very effective. "Yo bro! You're blowing it!" This site is simply a mouthpiece for my musings, a journal in which I feel too critical to even write often, but one I try and keep up to date none the less. But this is also another way that I'm trying to spread the word, to provide a positive and encouraging example of what a bicycle life could look like. With that in mind here's a look into the current adventure-bicycle scene, and the smaller world I've been able to affect. Cheers!</span></span><br>
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Each day I wake up, unable to sleep, yet hesitant to leave the warmth, I lay and recall my dreams until I cannot see any more. Shuffling down the hallway, cracks of light escape from beneath a few doors, the rest lie dark and silent. Outside, I step along the balcony to the small room with the large mirror. On my mat I stand, and bend, and lie in awkward positions as my muscles slowly lengthen. Beads of sweat break out on my forehead despite my lack of movement, my breath courses slow and deep through my nose. I am alone, my mind is never silent unless I find it that way, when again it is surprised into thought. Each day is lived as it comes, not necessarily in the moment but without thinking much of the before or after. My forecast is a look out the window, feeling the air on my face. My schedule is always the same; work, ski, at once. When I come here, or to the pages in my journal, my mind wanders, looking at pictures of my own I am taken back, memories and emotions tingle at the base of my spine. Talking with friends, scheming, planning, I look forward and see the future, not as it is or as it will be, but how it exists now in my mind. Ideas are coming to life once more as the sun returns and the reality of melting snow, warm stone, and open roads grows closer. The words are on the tip of my tongue, the spark of creativity once more slowly catching hold of the connections that have been made over the last few months. </div>
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I'm looking ahead more often these days, as the time returns for me to leave. Maps and mountain ranges spread out on the desk before me. But before I start sharing my picture of the road ahead, or the musings of all I've learned, experienced and seen over the last months, for myself, and you, I'd like to look back once more, on the last adventure I had. It seems, anyway, as the most appropriate way to begin. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m not really one to write about gear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about it, obsess over it,
over-analyze it, yes, but there’s something about personal blogs that feature
gear reviews and gear talk that makes me nauseas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t start this to get free gear, free trips, whore
myself or promote the continuation of our material culture that is leading to
the degradation of our environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lest you believe I’m a total cynic about this sort of thing have
yourself a read of Craig Childs' piece of the <a href="http://www.adventure-journal.com/2014/01/the-buying-and-selling-of-nature/">“Buying and Selling of Nature”</a>,
and Dane’s piece about the <a href="http://coldthistle.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-elitist-attitudea-must-read-for.html">“Elite”</a> attitude of sporting becoming the norm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although these pieces might not
actually say much it is a pretty good jumping off point for the conversation of
the amazing duality that exists between outdoor enthusiasts and the material
“gear” culture that we’re so entwined with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We rely on our gear, it’s a huge part of what is enabling us
to push our boundaries and find new limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll not be finding a thousand-word blow-fest about a
mid-layer polartec hoody here, we can leave that for the “athletes” with pretty
faces who’s job it is to sell things. Mostly themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I do want to offer you is a
glimpse at the gear I use, how normal and average it is, how it fits on the
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of our Zion trip to my friend Ed’s site <a href="http://VerticalMinded.com/">VerticalMinded.com</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you haven’t yet, check it out, it’s mostly
a bunch of pictures but there’s a little bit of the insight and reflections
that went into (and came out of) that trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t plan on re-posting it here but I thought I would
instead include few things that I left out of that posting, mainly, a look into
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suit, here’s a quick look into our panniers, our minds, our bags of gear, and
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For those of you that missed it, 2013 was Salt Lake City's Year of the Bike. Personally, a claim like that brings to mind the far reaching social and infrastructural changes required to undermine urban motorized transportation, make cycling the primary mode of personal transportation, and take a big step towards ending the air pollution or "inversion" that has become a near constant threat to the health of SLC's Residents. Laws prohibiting single occupancy vehicles, expanded bike lanes and trails, economic incentives for cycling... Basically shutting down all vehicular traffic inside city limits except for trucks, buses and trains is pretty much what I have in mind when I think of a city giving over an entire year for the advocacy and awareness of bicycling. Claiming anything as "Year of" should mean it's influence is far greater than any other social or political force. Think, Year of the Axe Murdering Homeless Man, or, Year of the West Valley City Gonorrhea Infection. Although those might be titles you'd affix after the point, they pretty well capture what has happened. So looking back on the last year, it's hard to notice any real changes in Salt Lake's transportation hierarchy. Although I'm not a resident of SLC, and my time spent there usually amounts to a few weeks in the spring and fall, from my perch atop Little Cottonwood Canyon it's easy to look down and see the murky, poisonous soup, and know damn well that it's not a bunch of cyclists that've caused it. But while SLC didn't under go any major cycling-themed transformations, they've still managed to put together a few initiatives worth mentioning. Also, in honor and celebration of the year gone by, I've dumped a bunch of pictures and captions in the following post that wrap up our bike-powered adventures in and around SLC this fall. </span></div>
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Here I sit, hand bandaged in gauze and cotton, temporarily
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and I’m left with a torn ligament in my thumb, and it’s resulting surgical
repair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After another summer of
movement and adventure, I anticipated returning to a relatively sedentary
winter existence, one with an abundance of reflection and introspective time, but this is
hardly what I expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A sense of
déjà-vu pervades as I re-live Liz’s recent injury and remind myself that life
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work and play in the mountains will be limited equally, I cannot help but feel
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Now, as I regroup, repack, and reload for hopefully another adventure before work grounds me for the winter, I'm trying to keep the presence and perspective I've gained through it all. Each night I reflect on what has happened recently and what is really important in life, to live with passion, patience, kindness, and courage. I owe it to myself to remind myself often of life's fragility, beauty, and awesomeness. As I reflect and digest all that I've experienced, I keep wishing I could sit an put my thoughts to words and pictures and share with you all I've seen.<br />
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But now is the time for movement and I'm still caught in the flow. Soon enough I'll be able to slow down and transform all I've experienced to share with you. It's clear that another phase of this experiment has begun, the realization. Boundaries are being crossed and limits being expanded, what is really possible and what I'm capable of is being realized like riding through a tunnel towards the light. We've found the path and it feels right, I'm continuously overwhelmed with the understanding that this is the way, and it is only a matter of time and my effort to help show others and encourage them to join.<br />
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This is just to say that I'm thinking of being here often, excited to share some of the perspective and awesomeness I've gleaned over the last few weeks. Emerson put it best when he said that it's a poet's job to transform the beauty and wisdom of nature for others to understand, but Terence McKenna's analogy for psychedelics is apt as well, that we're all cosmic fisherman, and it's our responsibility to come back from these journeys with some piece of wisdom to share with the world. Although I haven't been trippin' balls recently, I feel like the experiences and realizations I've had are like giant creatures from the deep that I'm still trying to reel in. Soon enough I'll have to weigh and measure them, to prepare them in a way that others can appreciate. If you have the time or the inclination, keep up with us on facebook at Nature of Motion and on instagram @natureofmotion. Until then I'll continue to search....<br />
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I met Amos during the summer of 2009 while I was working at a small farm outside Palmer Alaska. I'd caught a ride up to Anchorage with my friend Rich, who had work lined up as a sea kayak guide out of Whittier. Rich was gracious enough to let me throw my bike on his roof and stuff my bicycle trailer and gear in his trunk. My original plan was to spend a few weeks seeing the state before riding back down to the states later that summer, but after our road trip through southern Utah and up to Alaska, I found that the meager savings of a ski bum really didn't go that far. So faced with a little new found perspective I spent some hours surfing the web and the WWOOF directory trying to line up some work-trade jobs and possibly something with some pay or stipend that could see me through the fall. After cycling about 1000 miles back and forth from Anchorage to Fairbanks, catching a ride down to Homer, I managed to find some paying work with this small farm located in the Matanuska Susitna Valley. When I wasn't pulling weeds or washing vegetables, I hiked the nearby mountains, went for some bike rides, and sampled some of the traditional local harvest, Matanuska Thunderfuck. That is, until I met Amos.<a href="http://natureofmotion.blogspot.com/2013/10/quietly-crushing.html#more">Read on...</a>Tim Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05122555206746726392noreply@blogger.com1