I spent the summer of 2008 thru hiking the Appalachian Trail using the trail name "Thought Criminal." I am in an open relationship with a woman I met on the Appalachian Trail.

I am a radical, a freethinker, a vegetarian, a nonsmoker and childless by choice.

I work part time promoting cultural events in Denver. For the past five years, I have worked part of the year and spent summers on extended mountaineering and long distance backpacking adventures.

I have been involved in the anti-war and 9/11 truth movements. Wars are always sold to the public on a foundation of lies. I find it amazing that anyone can still believe the official lie about the 9/11 false flag operation despite all the proof that it was an inside job orchestrated by elements within the U.S. military intelligence establishment.

I agree with Tolstoy's opinion that "patriotism is slavery" and Mark Twain's comment that "the majority is always wrong." I absolutely oppose American genocide against third world nations and the efforts of the U.S. military, political, and financial establishment to maintain fascist world domination.

I feel that the United States today is very much like the dystopian society portrayed in George Orwell's novel 1984. ("War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.)

I was the 11th person to hike to the highest point of all 64 Colorado counties and the 16th person to climb all of Colorado's 637 ranked summits over 13,000 feet. I climbed my first "fourteener" (14,000 foot peak) in 1990, and started "peakbagging" as a hobby in 1991. In 2005, I climbed 200 Colorado thirteeners in three and a half months, 182 of them solo. In 2006, I climbed 84 more thirteeners, and the final 54 in 2007.

After I finished climbing Colorado's thirteeners in September, 2007, I was interviewed by the editor of the Fourteenerworld mountaineering website.

My thru hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2008 represented the first of a planned series of adventures, transitioning from peakbagging to long distance walking as a hobby. I would also like to hike the Continental Divide Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and the Te Araroa Trail in New Zealand.

I finished section hiking the Colorado Trail on September 20th, hiking about 411 of the trail's 483 miles in 2009. On September 27 and 28th, I climbed New Mexico's three mountains over 13,000 feet and in October, I spent a week section hiking about 140 miles at the southern end of the Continental Divide Trail, through the Chihuahuan Desert from the U.S.-Mexico border crossing at Antelope Wells to the town of Silver City, New Mexico.

I hope to thru hike the Pacific Crest Trail in 2011. I would like to hike the northern end of the Continental Divide Trail in 2010. This would begin at the U.S.-Canadian border in Glacier National Park. I have a friend who has invited me to hike 1400 miles of the CDT with him from there to Rawlins, Wyoming, but I might just go as far as Butte, Montana (about 465 miles).

mountaineering and long distance walking

That I'm standing on a corner of Denver's 16th Street Mall passing out fliers for some play, ballet, opera, running event, festival, or tire sale.

BOOKS -- "1984" and "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, "America 2014: An Orwellian Tale" by Dawn Blair, "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein, "Desert Solitaire" and "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey, "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" by Michael Ruppert, "Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World" and "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by Richard Heinberg, "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II," and "Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire" by William Blum, "Against Empire," "The Terrorism Trap," and "To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia" by Michael Parenti, "The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships and Other Adventures" by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy, "Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist" by Dan Barker, "Ethics Without God" by Kai Nielsen, "The Born Again Skeptic's Guide to the Bible" by Ruth Green, "Why I Am Not a Christian" by Bertrand Russell, "Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory" and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" By David Ray Griffin, "Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11" by Barrie Zwicker, "Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating" by Erik Marcus, "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, "The Politics of Nonviolent Action," "Gandhi As a Political Strategist," and "Social Power and Political Freedom" by Gene Sharp, "Green Politics: The Global Promise" by Fritjof Capra and Charlene Spretnak; "Fighting for Hope" and "Thinking Green: Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism and Nonviolence" by Petra Kelly, "The Life and Death of Petra Kelly" by Sara Parkin, "Steady State Economics" by Herman Daly, "Ecotopia" and "Ecotopia Emerging" by Ernest Callenbach, "The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism" and "The War on Freedom: How and Why America Was Attacked, September 11, 2001" by Nafeez Mosaddeq.

MOVIES -- 1984, V for Vendetta, Pleasantville, Forrest Gump, Galaxy Quest, Spiderman and Spiderman 2, Daredevil, King of Hearts, The End of Suburbia, 9/11 Press for Truth, The Great Deception, The Great Conspiracy, Loose Change: The Final Cut (the first two editions were deeply flawed), 9/11 The Birth of Treason, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Groundhog Day.

MUSIC: I love Barenaked Ladies. The band that goes by that name is okay, too. I like Phil Ochs, Tom Lehrer, Weird Al Yankovic, King Missile, Green Day, The Beatles, Moody Blues, Credence Clearwater, Queen, and random songs that pop up on a car radio when I use the scan button. I would like to dedicate Weird Al Yankovic's song "Everything You Know Is Wrong" to the American people.

FOOD: Anything vegan or vegetarian. I should be a vegan, but I have never adhered to a vegan diet for more than two months at a time. I like Ethiopian, Italian, Thai, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican food.

Wilderness, adventure, freedom, independent thought, mountains, and a bicycle.

Revolution, American fascism, expatriation, long distance walking, mountaineering, women, sex, personal freedom

Drinking Railyard Ale at the Wynkoop Brewery with my co-workers.

I'm interested in swinging and inclined toward polyamory.

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