The Impossible List
I recently become aware of the impossible list:
A bucket list is focused [on] what you do before you die, the impossible list is focused on how you live.
Here’s mine:
Climb
- Lead 5.9 trad
- Sleep on a porta-ledge while big wall climbing
- Summit a technical alpine peak
- Climb El Capitan in Yosemite
- Climb in Patagonia
- Become an AMGA-certified Rock Guide
Climb Wallface in the remote High Peaks of New York[Oct. 2023]
Hike
- Become an ADK 46er
- Hike the Northville-Placid Trail
- Hike the Appalachian Trail
- Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
- Hike the Continental Divide Trail
- …thus achieving the Triple Crown of Hiking
Run
- Run a marathon
- Run an ultramarathon
- Complete an Ironman course
Run a half-marathon[Oct. 2023]
Travel
- Visit Japan
- Visit Alaska
- Visit all the national parks in the USA
- Swim on the beaches of Australia
Work
- Run my own guiding service
- Open a bouldering gym
- Open a doggy day care with a bar
- Combine ^^all three^^ businesses into one
- Establish the go-to spot for Adirondack climbers with camping and socializing (a la Miguel’s Pizza of Red River Gorge)
Web
- Be a (real) guest on the Clockwise podcast
- Write for one of my favorite tech publications
- Write for one of my favorite outdoor publications
- Make enough money from my site’s affiliated projects to cover its costs
- Develop an iOS app
Get 10,000 visitors to my blog in a month[Nov. 2023]Be a guest on a podcast[Oct. 2023]