Redondo

Each step was more laborious than the last. The thin air seemed to take more out of me even as my lungs sucked to bring it in. At 11,000 feet I was within sight of the highest mountain’s peak. The final stretch was a dangerous scree slope capped in snow bringing Redondo to 12,000 feet.

I felt cheated by the air as I climbed. The thin, unsatisfying vapors refused to fill my lungs and yet wind whipped around; threatening to push me over. Dark clouds had begun to gather promising further abuse from rain, snow, or even hail.

On all fours now, I climbed higher, better judgment urged me to turn back from the gathering darkness and dangerous sliding rocks. Perhaps the altitude’s strange tricks on my mind forced me forwards. Either way I still moved up even as large shards of volcanic rock crashed below me like so many broken plates.

On the way down I looked back up towards the peak and its crown of trees. The rain has begun to fall and the descent holds more danger than before.

-2012-
sleepwalking
new chapter

-2011-
like sedona?
torn in two
blink
bridge to nowhere
door
hitting the wall
elusive 2
elusive 1
ascenders
voyage
hole
icarus

-2010-
revisited 2
revisited 1
which way?
the pit
treasure
narrow
snowfall
chute
false floor
monolith
crack
freeze
slice
bunker
beckon
treasure
resolution

-2009-
goodbyes
undercurrents
casting the bones
mountain thief
the deer hunter
strange temple
sanctuary
burial pt. 3
burial pt. 2
burial pt. 1
scarlet fever
rebirth from hell
forsaken
the lower depths
underground lake
stretch sewer
crypt
still waters
shadow movements
meager rations
sw pt.8: geothermal + ending
sw pt.7: lost gold mines
sw pt.6: big tube caves
sw pt.5: gold!
sw pt.4: el calderon caves
sw pt.3: redondo
sw pt.2: ghosts
southwest adventure pt.1
the river
dark salvation
reflections
dreams
the underdark
night odyssey
beginnings