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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

17 typed pages. Frustrations with novel; Speech in Colorado Springs; visit to Denver; speech in Telluride; fear of Global Warming; then SNOW actually falls.

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.

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.

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).

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!).

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!).

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.

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.

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.