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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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Climbing Nature & Hiking

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 […]