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Ski

Skiing in December 2016 and Early January 2017

Various days Carly and I have been out skiing basically every weekend the last few weeks of December and the first couple of January.  The snow in the Wasatch has been fabulous this year.  While not every storm has been cold smoke, many of them have and they have been coming through between 5-7 days […]

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Climbing

Desert Shield 2016

  November 19-20, 2016 A couple years ago Aaron and I had a hairbrained idea that we’d do some aid climbing Zion.  The problem was neither of us knew how to aid climb much so that trip was a bit of a bust.  I’ve still wanted to do some aid climbing on a big-wall down […]

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Climbing

Indian Creek October 2016

October 29-30, 2016 Indian Creek is a world renowned climbing location.  Utah’s stunning desert scenery, endless sandstone splitter cracks and the piles and piles of cams to get up them.  Despite this I’ve had a conflicted opinion of the area.  I don’t frequent Indian Creek as much as some and the last time was almost […]

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Nature & Hiking

2016-10-08 Moab

October 8-9, 2016 Carly and I headed south to the desert for the first time a while.  One of our friends was having a birthday party and invited a bunch of people to join.  There indeed was a bunch of folks who arrived at the primitive camping outside of Canyonlands National Park.  We elected to […]

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Climbing

Fall Ride with Matt

September 24, 2016 Got out for a great ride yesterday with Matt.  We were supposed to be a trio but Andrew got scared away by the rain in the morning.  We pushed our start time until just before lunch to give things a chance to dry out.  We made the right decision and had a […]