I was excited about the chance to have one-on-one coaching.

I started thinking about moving to Edmonton in June at the Harry Jerome meet (in Burnaby, B.C.). That was right after Tyler had won two major races, breaking the Canadian record twice. Tyler and I started talking, and coming to Edmonton was an option.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.