Warm Winter Days
Breaking up the Mexico trip with some pictures of a couple late fall weekends clipping bolts at Shelf Road. Me gusta mucho.
Pebble Wrestling
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.
Never Winter
Recent events with Jeff and Isaias. Trying to appreciate the warmth and light around the summer solstice.
St George Climbing
Seven nights of camping and six days of climbing limestone in the Utah Desert. Thanks to Cicada for all the inspirational crushing and to Isaias for being such a grand travel companion. These are all from the first 2 days.
Colorado Climbing
Sport climbing limestone at Shelf Road and bouldering…..gasp…at Morrison.
My First Time in Squamish
I was visiting Montana and my friend Conor and I made a somewhat last-minute trip up to the town of Squamish for 4 days in June of this year. Such a beautiful place with some marvelous granite. Can’t wait to get back there.
Indian Creek Thanksgiving
Managed to get 8 days or so on the rock at Indian Creek over 2 long weekends and the week off for Thanksgiving. There were some cold nights but the days were marvelous.
Featuring a rescue of someone who fell a long ways and could have easily died along with me doing a first ascent and installing my first anchor ever. Richard got the first free ascent of the route (named ‘Pizza Party’) and said the anchor looked `perfect’. I was pleased.
Thanks to Richard, and Anna for the lovely company and all the climbing inspiration. They know how to get after it.
Climbing the Maroon Bells
This was in late September. The Maroon Bells are Maroon Peak and North Maroon peak. They are two of the 58 mountains in Colorado that are above 14 thousand feet tall. Thanks to Juddson for the plan.
Although we didn’t have ropes, I would call this a climb as there were quite a few places where you were on very steep terrain doing 4th and 5th class moves.
Climbing at City Of Rocks With Cole
After about 10 years of relative consistence, I have fallen out from making new posts. This is the first update covering any event from the last 2 years of my life. Since that time I’ve been living and teaching in Denver, CO.
The last several weeks I have taken two separate trips to the City of Rocks National Reserve, in southern Idaho. I had heard good things but never been. It is a sea of endless granite spires in the middle of nowhere. I thought it was awesome. These pictures are all from the first visit.
