My parents drove out from North Carolina to Denver in August. We ended up spending 3 nights in Estes Park. Activities included playing 2 rounds of golf, looking at Rocky Mountain National Park scenery, and walking around many lakes. Thanks Mom and Dad for coming to visit!
Bouldering is a style of rock climbing where you bring stupid-large pads somewhere and climb things in heights from absurdly low to “don’t fall”. Everything is basically really hard and you fail most of the time.
I took a plane from Las Vegas to my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina. Was there for a few days then drove with my parents up to New Jersey to visit family. Stayed there for a bit longer than expected, but was nice to visit with extended family that I don’t see often. Then it was a Bolt Bus to Manhattan, NYC. (Thanks for the ride Uncle George!). After a lovely, but too brief visit with my sister, I took a train out to Jamaica, NY. Then another short train to the airport. Then it was time to get on a plane to Santiago, Chile.
The first few days of what was to be a short stint trying out canyoneering life. Mid-March, 2016.
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.
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.
We drove from the La Sals down to Castle Valley to climb my second desert tower ever. Much warmer!
Two lovely days with cold nights reminding you of the oncoming winter.
A short visit to one of my favorite places with some of my favorite people. Made even shorter by a weird and really painful throat issue.
My first time walking through the woods carrying a gun looking for something to shoot.
A few plane rides and the kindness of a stranger providing a ride from the airport led to Bozeman, MT.
