I gave a 25 minute slideshow about my Alaska trip to some middle schoolers out towards the suburbs. I think it went well. I believe I told my story okay.
A colleague started the first half of the presentation describing the myriad types of climbing. I provided the ‘alpine mountaineering’ aspect in context of my trip in June 2011 to Denali. The students are reading a novel this Summer about a young mountaineer and his travails.
What stuck with me from my walk down the upper glacier from the camp at 14k feet was this feeling of ‘alone/not aloneness’. Going downhill is always relatively easy, finding comfort in a cold uncaring universe is certainly more challenging.
I was in a white-out cloud and the snow was deep, there were bamboo wands every hundred feet or so, I didn’t have a tent. Looking back I could see my tracks. Looking forward there was whiteness. I followed the wands. I found an old camp at 9,8k or so a few miles later. Ski tracks emerged. The crevasses began to show themselves more frequently. I spotted a camp on the lower glacier by the North East Fork. I had to jump a couple of questionable snow bridges. I saw a red tent, and another, they were speaking Spanish. By the red tent there were skis. I was on snowshoes. I would wait for the Tennesseeans. Eventually they’d be here. I would join their rope and cross the lower glacier before dawn.
Dwight Garner writes of the characters in Tao Lin’s new book Taipei, “Reading about their exploits is like watching lissome cows graze in a field”. But otherwise he seemed to actually like the book and expects further great things from this author.
His review: NY Times Books.
I think Ben would’ve of liked his birthday. It was beautiful. Lots of people hiking. Trail running. Eating burritos. Singing. Praying. A truly gorgeous day on the AT. A special thanks to Gary and Christine for making it happen. Take care Ben. You are missed.
Jostling for Position in Last Lap at Cannes, by Manohla Dargis for The New York Times
See also: frangipani.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080424055927442
The crux is that SSH even when connecting w/ -vvv or -vT modes won’t tell you precisely why it’s not connecting for obvious security purposes. This is presuming you’ve double checked all other obvious issues and your public/private key pairs are setup correctly.
In the linked post above Kent Martin writes, the answer is to bind debug to an alternate port on the server side:
/usr/sbin/sshd -d -p 2222
then similarly from the client machine:
ssh -v -p 2222 user@machine_I_am_trying_to_ssh_to
On the server machine terminal you’ll see a more verbose debug log and hopefully it will tell you exactly why your client machine is being rejected.
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