so far this year there have been 121 homicides in Chicago in 2018 (down 41 from this point last year).
No homicides in Aspen this year, or last year, or the year before that or............well nothing in the past 15 years at least.
However we did have a death over the weekend when a skier in side country got killed by an avalanche. He was very skilled ---a member of our mountain rescue team. We also had more people die last summer climbing Capitol, Pyramid and the Bells than died in 2017 on Everest.
I guess we take different risks in Aspen vs the big city of Chicago. Just as the wrong neighborhood in Chicago has risks so too does some of our climbing and skiing adventures. There is one big difference though---people who die in Aspen pursuing adventures are doing so by choice, people born into the wrong family and wrong hood in Chicago just lost the parent lottery.
The risk I picked on Sunday was too much Bacon. Post too much beer at the Blues- Avs game I went to closing day on Buttermilk where Ski Co was giving out bacon. Tasted great going down but I fear I am getting too old for that much bacon. I must learn to just say no.
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