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Mt. Superior with Jamie, Mark, and Eric

July 20, 2015 A week or two back I headed up Superior with Jamie, Mark, and Eric.  Jamie hadn’t done the climb at all, Eric, not in the summer, and Mark not since the previous summer.  Not too much to say other than great weather, sunset, friends, and an evening in the alpine after work. […]

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2015 Fourth of July Finger of Fate

July 3-4, 2015 Over the long weekend Carly and I headed to Idaho and the Sawtooth Mountains, something I did a couple years ago as well.  This time I had a more modest objective called the Finger of Fate.  The name is ominous but our intended route is only 5.8, but an old school 5.8 […]

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Summer Ascent of Pfeifferhorn North Ridge

June 27-28, 2015 The weekend temperatures were predicted to be the first in SLC of 2015 that broke the triple digits.  Despite the cool and rainy May we had June came back with a vengeance.  As I write and the final hours of June 2015 come to a close the record for the average temperature […]

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2015 Memorial Day Weekend in Red Rocks

May 22-25, 2015 The week before Memorial Day I was in Baltimore for a conference on composites.  I returned late Thursday night and had pre-arranged to take Friday off of work.  Carly luckily had her 9-80 Friday off on that day as well.  We had hoped to go to Colorado to visit with Dave, Phyli […]

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Wet Weather in Salt Lake City

May 17, 2015 Though things seem to have returned to normal, back in late April through Memorial Day we’ve had some really wet weather in Salt Lake City.  While no records were broken there were many, many days we had rain, clouds, or drizzle.  The persistent rain was really a bummer for climbing opportunities, but […]