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2023-12 Arizona Trip

December 23-30, 2023 Winter in the Rocky Mountain West has been lackluster this year, not just in comparison to our record breaking year in 2022-23, but in general. Depending on the SNOTEL station, we are sitting around 75% of median, not terrible, but we also haven’t gotten appreciable snow in about three weeks. Not the […]

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2023-12 Bozeman Ice Fest

December 1–10, 2023 I decided to head up to the Bozeman Ice Fest this year. It has been a couple years since I was there and I didn’t have any work responsibilities so I thought it would be a nice time to go. I opted to go up the weekend before and stay with Case. […]

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2023-11 Thanksgiving

For the second year running we were in St. George for Thanksgiving. Similar to last year we pre-cooked all of our Thanksgiving Day dinner so all we needed to do was reheat things. The weather mostly cooperated, but we did get a day of rain on Friday unexpectedly. This put a little damper on our […]

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2023 Croatia Trip

Intro It is more common now than in our parents generation to take a honeymoon well after the wedding.  To me, this makes a lot of sense since there is a lot going on to plan a wedding.  Adding the complexities of a honeymoon on top of that seems silly to me.  Carly and I […]

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2023-09-24 Hardware Wall

Sunday Carly and I met the Stecks at Hardware wall for another late summer day on limestone. Carly and I worked on Gray Matter (5.12b) last time we were there. The Steck’s each had their projects too. The morning was on the chilly side despite the clear skies. We all waited in the sun near […]