Too Much or Too Little, Never in the Middle.

"The only constant in Nature is change."
We, as part of nature, are well adapted to cycles and variation. Yet we rigorously apply linear constants to ourselves and our lives. We work 8 hours everyday, 40 hours every week. We eat and exercise in carefully organized routines, repeated over and over. We chase calories in calories out. We become obsessed. We become neurotic.  

Could that neurosis be a result of forcing regularity onto a natural system designed around cycles and variation? 

Know Thyself, or gene expression, behavior, and convincing my wife I'm not crazy.

"FINALLY they have a name for whats wrong with you!"

my wife laughed. I had just finished reading her this post on Evolify regarding the so-called adventure gene, it's origin and its impact on personalities.

I fit the common characteristics really well.
 

5 Rules for Living in the StoneAge

What follows are the basics. A cave painting of how to re-discover your inner neanderthal. Set forth as simply as possible, and in no strict order, this is how to achieve, health, fitness and extreme animal magnetism (That's right, you know you want it!)

The Art of Doing

We define fitness as the art of DOING...Whatever you want to do. In this case hiking Mount San Jacinto!

Mount San Jacinto is 10,800 feet high and its north face features the largest most abrupt elevation change in the United States. Sadly we were not going that way...yet

We to arrived to find 4 feet of snow at the top of the tram. Ckecked in at the ranger station and started up the hill at 11:00 am.

It was a GREAT day to be in the mountains...

Chris started to suffer at about 9,800 feet. The first time moving around above 10,000 is never a pleasant experience.

I spy...a lovely corniced summit!

It was a hell of a view.

I think its fair to say that Chris was glad to be done with the uphill travel!

Gotta have a summit self portrait!

These trees have it rough up here.

The trip down is always much more fun.

All in all it took 5 hours for 6 miles round trip and 5,500 feet gain/loss. With 1 of those hours fooling around on the summit it worked out to be 2:50 up and 1:10 back down.