January 2018 - ArieLeeflang.com

2017 and the Goal of 100 Summits. A retrospective.

I’m a sucker for annual themes. These are usually broad ideas – like bagging all the 10,000ft (plus) peaks in the Wasatch, focusing on climbing, or learning to make shoes. My 2017 theme was slow in inception – taking nearly

Storm Racing and Patch Theory on Vickory Mountain, Stansbury Range

Charnov’s (1976) ‘Marginal Value Theorem’ as applied to me and hiking(?): Something like….: the forager (hiker) should leave any patch (peak/mountain range) when it (peak/mountain range) is depleted to the point (i.e. overrun) where foraging elsewhere will provide increased