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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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Tingy’s Terror with Carly

May 3, 2015 Today Carly and I headed up Little Cottonwood to get a little pseudo-alpine climbing in.  We stuck to some pretty moderate lines but still had a lot of fun.  Our day was Tarzan to Tingy’s Terror, both 5.7s.  Tingy’s is about 5 pitches or so.  We did Tarzan as one pitch and […]

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Late Season Ice

March 15, 2015 About a month ago I was on my way up to Snowbird to enjoy some of the fruits of what the lowest snow year on record has to offer and I spied some low angled ice up Little Cottonwood.  The next day Aaron and I headed over and climbed it for a […]

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President’s Day Weekend 2015 in Ouray

February 14-16, 2015 Over the long weekend Carly and I headed to Ouray to get her first (and probably last) bit of ice climbing in for this year.  There’s a good chance it’ll be my last as well given the temperatures in Salt Lake City.  We were joined in Ouray by Eric, Matt, KP, Aaron, […]

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Ouray Visit with Eric, Matt, Kevin, and Della

January 17-18, 2015 Since about the beginning of December I’ve been in Salt Lake.  Weather hasn’t been good or bad enough to really dictate an out of SLC weekend.  However things are getting a bit dire. We had a good storm last week but before that the ice all but melted and the snow was […]