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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 […]
October 11–19, 2025 In October we took a week to climb in the Red River Gorge, Kentucky. Carly had climbed here a few years ago, but I’d never been. I’ve done a few trips to the other eastern “gorge” climbing zone (New River Gorge), not to the “Red”. We climbed with some friends from here […]