Wandering

Dec 25th 2016 — Climbing,Moab — 6:52 am

Splitting time between Moab and Grand Junction.

Lighthouse Tower Colorado River Yo Summit Pitch Lunch Loops Rules of the Game Denver Stage Hiking

Independence Monument

Dec 23rd 2016 — Climbing,Colorado — 7:59 am

A casual 4-pitch romp via Otto’s Route in Colorado National Monument. First climbed by John Otto, a quintessential outdoorsman whose one (and only?) marriage lasted a few weeks. His wife is quoted as saying “I tried hard to live his way, but I could not do it, I could not live with a man to whom even a cabin was an encumbrance.”

Hiking In Pitch 3 Top of Pitch 3 Cresting The Summit Group 1 Grand Junction Group 2 Hiking Out

Moab Canyoneering

Nov 6th 2016 — Moab — 7:38 am

The first few days of what was to be a short stint trying out canyoneering life. Mid-March, 2016.

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Misc Wandering

Nov 5th 2016 — North Carolina — 6:51 am

Winter rambling. I landed a job in Moab that I needed to get to by March 15th. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in the job, but at least it was a plan.

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Last Winter in Western NC

Oct 14th 2016 — Asheville,Family,NC and Kentucky — 10:14 am

I felt like getting back to NC and having a roof over my head would make everything coherent. Didn’t quite work out completely as I planned. But what does, right? It was nice to see my family and be around the softness of the Appalachian Mountains.

Davy and Me Hiking Cold Mountain Cold Mountain 2 Davy on Rock Shrooms Woods Rumbling Bald Looking Glass Rock Hike with Mom Bartram's Walk Linville Gorge

David Foster Wallace – This is Water

Oct 8th 2016 — Uncategorized — 9:51 am

“Because, as it turns out, a huge percentage of what I am automatically sure of tends to be totally wrong and deluded”.

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

Transcript here

Southwest Traveling

Oct 8th 2016 — Misc — 9:10 am

The next few weeks consisted of looking for places to go to be warm. At one point we were at the Grand Canyon on an extremely cold and windy day. Lots of time was spent in the visitor center trying to be warm.

Eventually we drove down to southern Arizona, going as far south as Organ Pipe National Monument, on the border of Mexico. It was blissfully warm but not much going on down there. Tuscon, AZ involved visiting Saguaro National Park and some rock climbing at Mt. Lemmon.

We were invited to Thanksgiving at our friend Michelle’s parents house in Sedona, Arizona. That was a lovely stay. No longer cold, being treated like family. We spent several days there, exploring the area with Michelle and her awesome parents. My first time in Sedona. It is a gorgeous area filled with new-agey people and red cliffs.

A few days in Sedona and Maggie and I drove back to Moab. We spent one last evening up at Dead Horse Point State Park. She had plans to check out the Sierra Nevadas and my plan was to drive back to Asheville, NC.

Grand Canyon Organ Pipe Organ Pipe 2 Saguaro National Park Tuscon Barrel Cactus Cactus Saguaro National Park Mt Lemmon Tuscon Sedona La Sal Mountains

Kelso Dunes

Oct 1st 2016 — California — 8:13 am

Halfway between Las Vegas and Joshua Tree National Park is the Mojave National Preserve. A surreal landscape of jagged mountains and endless desert valleys. There are some giant sand dunes in there, we camped a couple nights and checked them out.

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Joshua Tree National Park

Aug 7th 2016 — California,Climbing,National Parks — 10:49 am

A few days in a otherworldly part of southern California last November. Thank you Valerie for arranging the accommodations and to your sister for allowing us to stay at her Airbnb spot.

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Desert Rambling

Aug 7th 2016 — Moab,Utah — 10:15 am

These pictures are from back in the beginning of November.

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Ancient Art

Jun 14th 2016 — Climbing,Moab — 1:15 pm

A few days later we headed out to climb a formation in the Fisher Towers called Ancient Art. It is probably one of the most popular desert towers in the world.

Fisher Towers Ancient Art Pitch 1 Pitch 2 Pitch 3 Fresh Yo The Spire Attempt Almost Parking Lot Hiking Out Playerz

October in Canyonlands

Jun 13th 2016 — Canyonlands — 9:10 pm

Well hello there. It has been a while. Hope everything is good in your part of the world.

Playing a bit of catchup here.

This is from an evening hike in late October of last year. Canyonlands might just be my favorite National Park.

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Moab Madness

Jan 1st 2016 — Climbing,Indian Creek — 11:13 am

This all took place in the middle of October. 5 days or so at Indian Creek with great people.

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