For Anita and I, 2022 was another year packed full of mountain adventures, mixed in with some minor speed bumps. We started it off by greeting a glorious first sunrise of the year from atop a mountain at 7:45am, before then catching Covid that same day (car-pooling.. le sigh). We also managed to get 3 separate bouts of Shingles through the year at unrelated times, and Anita would also tear an MCL while climbing a mountain in Italy.
I decided to switch to skiing (after 20 years of snowboarding), but did so for the first time while skinning up a mountain in the backcountry… only to discover once up top that I had no idea how to ski back down. The transition was as smooth as a Twitter change in leadership - comical, painful, disastrous.
We also squeezed in two international trips during the year, which was a welcome return to near pre-pandemic normalcy for us. Between experiencing midnight sunsets in Reykjavik, to ascending recently formed volcanic craters in the Icelandic Highlands, to drinking all the vino and climbing in the Italian Dolomites, to seeing the beauty of the Côte d’Azur, I felt deeply grateful for our privileged positions in life.
Despite all the unrest and troubles throughout the world, I hope that you were able to chase some adventures, big or small, in the past 365. And fret not if you didn’t, here’s to brighter days, and the promise of new opportunity in this coming year. All the best!
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