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The Great Chimney on Mt. Olympus

March 12, 2016 Saturday Matt and I headed up to the Great Chimney on Mt. Olympus.  I’ve spied this line for a while as it is very obvious from the valley and I can even see some it from my house.  The only trouble it is a haul to get up there.  Parking at Neff’s […]

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South Ridge in Early March 2016

March 5, 2016 Eric and I tromped up the South Ridge of Mt. Superior last weekend.  We were hoping for some nice soft corn snow for our way down, unlike what happened last time.  We got stymied again by the weather and conditions.  While we didn’t have to bail early as we did a few […]

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President’s Day 2016 in Ouray

February 12-15, 2016 Once again for President’s day Carly and I headed to Ouray for some ice climbing.  This time around we also had a couple Matt’s, Eric, and a Leanne joining us.  Our rental house as a bit out of Ouray and technically in Ridgeway, but that didn’t really matter since we had an […]

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January Bozeman Ice Climbing

January 29-31, 2016 After getting up at 4:00am to catch a flight out of Vancouver I landed in Salt Lake at 9:00am and caught a cab back to the house.  A few hours of unpacking, repacking, showering, laundry, and napping, brought me to my next adventure.  Berry picked me up after he finished up the […]

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San Rafael Swell New Routing

November 21-22, 2015 About a month ago Matt found a relatively undeveloped area in the Swell.  While the zone is within view of another popular area the wall only has a handful of routes established.  We took a weekend to go set up a route.  It should have been more than one route, but we […]