This is my last column for the Sun.
It’s been a long, wonderful ride that began innocently in 1992 with a bicycle story that developed into a decades-long relationship. A bicycling column followed. So did a ski column that allowed me to transform avocations into a vocation. It helped provide me opportunities to live an outdoor lifestyle beyond my concrete jungle roots.
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