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A few weeks ago Charlie and I lugged +50 lbs of camping and climbing gear into the Cirque of the Towers in the Winds. That was a great trip, but the entire time on the walk in and out I was thinking how glorious it would be to be doing the backpacking trip Carly secured […]
It’s been a long time since I got out into the alpine. Sport climbing, nagging injuries, and just the busy-ness of life have been the obstacles. A couple of months back, Charlie asked if I wanted to do something on Pingora—he’d never been to the Cirque—so I said sure, let’s start training. We kept a […]
Over the weekend Carly and I headed out to Utah’s West Desert. Saturday we climbed at Pop Tire, a crag I hadn’t been back to in five years, since helping with some rebolting there. I didn’t do much climbing because my wrist and elbow have been bothering me, but I did get on a couple […]
And now for something completely different. — Monty Python Getting There I just got back from an awesome and very out‑of‑the‑ordinary trip — fishing… in the tropics. Huh? Yeah, I’m still a little perplexed myself. Maybe it’s all the sun and salt water I’ve been marinating in for the last ten days. Thinking back on […]
December 20, 2025 through January 4, 2026 This year has been a busy one. We’ve done some trips, some of which I’ve mentioned here, many I didn’t write about. With Christmas and New Year’s being on Thursday, we opted to take the two weeks off and do a long road trip. We planned generally for […]