CURRENT MISSION

to drink from the firehose of life

PHILOSOPHY

Never stop searching...and always go to the light (unless of course it is from a hovering UFO or oncoming train, plane, or automobile)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I open my home to Couch Surfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was introducted to CouchSurfing by a Swedish hitchhiker, Calle Cunelius, to whom I opened my home.
Since then we've hosted a family from Atlanta, a California dude, and two beautiful Aussies, a Phoenix musican, and a South Dakota soccer coach.

Interests

Outdoor Recreation:
Summer - rafting rivers, fishing, rock climbing/mountaineering, mtn biking, caving
Fall - Subsistence big-game hunting & some caving. For various reasons I try to satisfy all our family's meat needs through hunting - mostly deer, antelope, & elk. Then I brain tan the hides.
Winter - Telemark powder skiing! backcountry and lift serviced
Spring - Missing powder skiing, dusting off the raft and climbing gear, watching my kids play soccer.
All year long - listening to and making music with my guitar, reading, swimming laps, watching movies

• coach
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• music
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• fishing
• spelunking
• hunting
• mountaineering
• skiing
• rock climbing
• soccer
• swimming
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Tough to be all inclusive. Here's an attempt at a specific list(in no particular order).... Grateful Dead and most other more recent "jam bands", African Acoustic Music (Mali's Ali Farka Toure & Boubacar Traore; Franco-Algerian Rachid Taha), Bluegrass/Newgrass, Reggae (mostly roots, some dub), so-called Alternative Rock (Mike Watt & Firehose, 80s R.E.M., the Feelies and most of the classic grunge - Nir, A n'Chns, PJ, SG, Pumpkins), Classic Rock (Led Zep,Beatles,etc.), Folk Rock(Dylan, Neil Young, CSN&Y), Michael Hedges, Jack Johnson and his buds ALO, Have lately gotten into Electronic music (Moby, Avatars of Dub, etc.), Ozomatli (I heard them for the first time this spring - live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, outdoors in a snowstorm - it was like a concert in a snow globe!), Beasties, not much rap/hiphop, but honestly can't say I've really listened to alot-am I missing out on someone? "Classical" Music - Medievial lute music and Gregorian chant (let's throw in Tibetan chant while we're at it), Baroque - the harpischord on Bach's Brandenburg Concerto rocks!, generally chamber orchestra and string quartet stuff, Classical (Mozart, Hayden, etc. -- most of it is excellent, especially ripping string quartet stuff, Beef Oven? of course), Romantic/Impressionist - Liszt was a rock star! Tchaikovsky had some soul and could rock, Ravel, & others (i'm starting to feel like I'm taking a music appreciation exam), Modern 2oth cent. - they start to lose me, but Stravinsky is good and I like the psychadelic Charles Ives.
Books - yeah I can read. I read alot of non-fiction generally science, religion, or history. Fiction, not so much, but Celestine Prophesy really made an impression on me.
Movies - whatever my wife and kids get.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching new life come into existence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Barbados, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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