Box 138
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JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, JULY 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
61 typed pages. Trip to Breckenridge for Matt and Cindi wedding; several mountain hikes with friends; Santa Fe and Taos booksignings; visit Ludlow Massacre site; bighorn sheep in wilderness; endless blabble; big booksigning at Daisy's in Saguache, CO, population 20; Jim Sagel video; Mt. Gazette article; almost killed by lightning storm under Lake Fork Peak on July 23, my 61st birthday (an incident immortalized in my novel On Top of Spoon Mountain). Also a writing critique to friend, and 2...
Dates:
JULY 2001
BLUE MEAD NOTEBOOK (TWO), 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Continuation of my 2001 book tour diary begun in first BLUE MEAD NOTEBOOK (ONE), 2000-2001 listed five folders above. This hand-written notebook covers July 11-August 18, 2001. Total of 105 pages. Comprising tour in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Durango, Saguache, train to Flagstaff (writing Aspen/Carbondale speech), Prescott, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tucson, Aspen, Carbondale. (See MY MIDLIST WRITER, ALL-AMERICAN, ROLLING THUNDER BOOK TOUR in MANUSCRIPT FILES.) Numerous phone...
Dates:
2001
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, AUGUST 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
62 typed pages. Dealing with: Climb to high mountain summit on August 5 and August 26; other alpine hikes; blurb Jack Loeffler; the usual crazy days; palaver with agent; catching skunks; pinching weevils to death on my sunflowers(!); trip south from Aspen after Carbondale speech and booksignings; work on Midlist Writer book and novel; SOMOS reading; long letter to friend; phone calls galore; lots of mundane blabble. Folder also includes pamphlet of "Birds of the Alamosa-Monte Vista National...
Dates:
AUGUST 2001
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, SEPTEMBER 1-14, 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
45 typed pages. (Actually, 3 pages have only taped bird feathers on them.) Summiting high peak on September 1. Several grouse-hunting expeditions. Work on "Midlist Writer" book. Serious heart arrhythmias. Summiting Lake Fork Peak with friend on terrible day of 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. More heart problems. Trying to sell Carson land. Sorrows in New York.
Dates:
SEPTEMBER 1-14, 2001
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, SEPTEMBER 16-30, 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
48 typed pages. Several fishing trips in Rio Grande Gorge with friends. Heart problems. Still tryping to sell Carson Land. Endless phone calls. Movie deal. Blurb cousin Bill Weld's novel (former Governor of Massachusetts). Midnight Return movie script. "Sky's the Limit" KNME documentary shown at Taos film festival. More "Midlist Writer" ramblings. Post 9/11 confabs and trauma. Lovely grouse hiking day. First defeat ever in Anal Arsenic Fishing Contest! (Sob.) San Geronimo day at Taos Pueblo.
Dates:
SEPTEMBER 16-30, 2001
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, OCTOBER 2-18, 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
37 typed pages. This month started a big change in my life. True beginning of "mountain climbing career." Because of 9-11 attacks (and book-tour burnout) I cancelled October 16 Toronto reading appearance at International Festival of Authors and began climbing high a lot. These alpine hikes were very important to me from 2001-2010. On each trip I made detailed (repetitive, monotonous) field notes and took many landscape and wildlife photos (snapshots, no "art" involved). This folder contains:...
Dates:
OCTOBER 2-18, 2001
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, OCTOBER 19-30, 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
48 typed pages. Wonderful climbs to high summits on October 19, 21, 22, 25, 27, and 30. Anthrax attacks and Afghanistan war. Dinner with one pal, long phone palaver with another. Yankees and Diamondbacks World Series.
Dates:
OCTOBER 19-30, 2001
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, NOVEMBER 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
66 typed pages. Alpine hikes on November 6, 10, 17, 20. Folder also includes: Work on Midlist Writer and Toby's Aleph; selling Carson land; my son's foundation pour for a house in Pilar. Many phone calls. Elk hunting stories. DIAMONDBACKS DEFEAT YANKEES IN WORLD SERIES! GONZO'S BLOOP SINGLE IN BOTTOM OF NINTH, GAME 7! HALLELUIAH! WHAT A GREAT SERIES! I HATE THE YANKEES!
Dates:
NOVEMBER 2001
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, DECEMBER 2001
File — Box: 138, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
11 typed pages featuring: A gas leak in my home; quit on "Toby's Aleph," back to "Midlist Writer," back to novel; more "Midnight Return" gossip; Christmas Eve at Taos Pueblo; and the visit of my brother Tim's family to Taos.
Dates:
DECEMBER 2001
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
32 typed pages. Mostly about plumbing disasters, writing disasters, snow, drought, obligations, climbing Devisadero, Noam Chomsky, editing novel, stepmom's car accident, stepdad dying, "Midlist Writer," critique friend's novel, fear of George Bush, and my weird dreams.
Dates:
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, MARCH 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
17 typed pages. Frustrations with novel; Speech in Colorado Springs; visit to Denver; speech in Telluride; fear of Global Warming; then SNOW actually falls.
Dates:
MARCH 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, APRIL 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
71 typed pages. Mostly in-depth field notes from alpine climbs on April 2, 4, 10, 17, 24 and 30. One trip in fairly deep snow to Williams Lake; the other five climbs up a steep avalanche chute to the La Cal Basin west ridge. Also in this folder: 1.) A trip to Belen for a speech. 2.) Talk in Denver at their book festival. 3.) A fishing expedition on April 19 down Rope Trail south of the Gorge Bridge. 4.) Memorable dream. 5.) Visitors from Califas. And 6.) My experience as foreman of the jury...
Dates:
APRIL 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, MAY 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
73 typed pages. Alpine hikes on May 5, 8, 12, 15, 19, 22, and 26. Also a great fishing day in the Rio Grande Gorge May 24. The National Forest (except for Williams Lake) was finally closed because of fire danger. Other topics in this folder: Computer screwups and routine nattering. Got my neighbor to bag their frigging noisy wind chimes. HALELUIAH! Long letter to friend about hiking in the mountains.
Dates:
MAY 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, JUNE 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
62 typed pages. Bewailing an early summer of drought, forest fires, terrible heat. Awful fires in Arizona and Colorado. 6 hikes to Williams Lake between June 1-12. Then National Forest closed entirely. Also: Blown clutch in my Dodge Shadow. Hike down Sheep Corral Trail to fish Rio Grande. 2 trips to Big Arsenic Springs. Visitors. Journey to the Hondo hot springs. RAIN ON JUNE 21! Frustrating work on a novel going nowhere. Entire forest remains closed.
Dates:
JUNE 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, JULY 2-15, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
47 typed pages. National Forest still closed, so for exercise I made 6 (thoroughly detailed here) trips down into the gorge to Manby Hot Springs. Rained at last on July 7! FOREST REOPENED JULY 12! Last 25 pages in this folder record alpine hikes on July 12 and July 15 (when I met an old radio-collared bighorn ram, Curly, and observed him for a year. He died on September 2, 2003).
Dates:
JULY 2-15, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, JULY 17-31, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
58 typed pages. They include: Car disasters, movie options, lots of friends, fun with grandkids in Albuquerque, and a book signing/speechifying. Also alpine hikes on July 19, 21, 23, 27, 28, and 31. BY NOW, ALPINE HIKING HAD BECOME MY RAISON D'ÊTRE, AND WOULD REMAIN SO FOR THE NEXT 6 YEARS. I WAS ENRAPTURED BY RAVENS AND BIGHORN SHEEP AND RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS AND ALPINE BOTANY AND THE WORKS OF BERND HEINRICH (RAVENS IN WINTER, MIND OF THE RAVEN), ANN ZWINGER (LAND ABOVE THE TREES), VALERIUS...
Dates:
JULY 17-31, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, AUGUST 7-17, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
58 typed pages and 2 handwritten pages. Alpine hikes on August 7, 9, 11, 14, and camping at Little Lake Fork Lake on August 16-17 (resulting in 18-page journal entry, pages 43-60!).
Dates:
AUGUST 7-17, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, AUGUST 18-29, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
40 typed pages. Alpine excursions on August 21, 24, and 28. Folder also includes: Dream about Tiger Woods; daily Taos adventures; visitors to town; a big skunk walking into my house; SOMOS reading; and trapping 5 little skunks I relocated to Taos Canyon picnic areas.
Dates:
AUGUST 18-29, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, SEPTEMBER 1-10, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
52 typed pages (3 of those pages are simply feathers!). Alpine climbs on September 1, 6, and 10. And Grouse hunting on September 3, 5, 8, and 9. Mr. Outdoors! Natty Bumppo!
Dates:
SEPTEMBER 1-10, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, SEPTEMBER 15-30, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
60 typed pages and a page of feathers (p.61). They include: Trips to the high country on September 15, 23, 24, and 28. And grouse hunting on September 19, 20, 25, 27, and 30. Other events: Cool meeting with wildlife biologists Eric Rominger and Jim Bailey on September 21, 2002, very informative.
Dates:
SEPTEMBER 15-30, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, OCTOBER 1-14, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
47 typed pages. Covering alpine trips on October 1, 8, 10, 12, and 14. And one hike scouting for elk above the Rio Chiquito on October 3.
Dates:
OCTOBER 1-14, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, OCTOBER 16-30, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
54 typed pages. Hikes up Buena Suerte creek to pack out friends' elk meat on October 16 and 19. Alpine hikes on October 17, 20, 22, and 25. Speech at Peace March against war on October 26. My first two trips to Williams Lake on snowshoes, October 30, 31 (SNOWSHOES! A NEW ADVENTURE IN MY LIFE!).
Dates:
OCTOBER 16-30, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, NOVEMBER 6-30, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
65 typed pages. Trips to Williams Lake on snowshoes for bighorn sheep observations on November 6, 11, 13, 17, 19, 21, 22, 26, and 30. I wanted to see the bighorn rut. Folder also includes: Family Thanksgiving and working on Spoon Mountain novel.
Dates:
NOVEMBER 6-30, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, DECEMBER 1-14, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
50 typed pages. Trips on snowshoes to Williams Lake on December 1, 6, 10, 11, 12, and 14 for Bighorn rut observations. Also: a doctor visit, work on novel, heart problems, Taos interactions, newspaper interview, visitors, and climbing Devisadero.
Dates:
DECEMBER 1-14, 2002
JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, DECEMBER 16-30, 2002
File — Box: 138, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
57 typed pages and 3 handwritten pages (58-60). Featuring snowshoe excursions up high on December 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 29, and 30. Includes a wrapup at end of folder of bighorn sheep observations between November 17 and December 24. Also: Mailing out way too many Xmas cards, working on Spoon Mountain novel, and heart atrial fibrillations.
Dates:
DECEMBER 16-30, 2002