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2023-09-09 and 10 Blacksmith Fork

Given all the driving we did the previous weekend we opted for a closer weekend of climbing. We headed to Blacksmith Fork with the Steck’s to Hardware Wall. We’d kind of been scared away from this zone due to the stiff grades, the warms limited to 5.11a and 5.11c, but we’ve both been climbing really […]

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2023-09-01 thru 4 Ten Sleep

Carly and I made the Labor Day long weekend extra long and took Friday off as well. Weather in much of Utah was looking questionable so we used the extra day off to make the trek out to Ten Sleep, WY. We were there just about a year ago after our wedding. We did some […]

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2023-08-26 and 27 Transcontinental RR and City of Rocks

Carly was off doing her own thing so I decided to do a moto/climb weekend. Andreas and Kasi were headed to the City of Rocks so I decided to meet them up there, but go on a circuitous route to get there. There’s a route I’ve wanted to do that goes west to Wendover and […]

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2023-03-11 and 12 Canmore Ice

Carly had a business trip to Calgary recently and I took the chance to get a weekend of ice climbing near Canmore. Carly flew up Wednesday morning and I joined on Thursday evening. I worked remotely from the hotel Friday. After a little snafu with the rental car (I didn’t realize what time the office […]

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Climbing

2023-02-18 & 19 Presidents Day Weekend

For most of the winter I’d been doing some training and looking forward to a trip to Cody to climb with Micah. Unfortunately, a number of things conspired to snafu that plan, but we were able to make some awesome climbing happen in Ouray. In fact I got on perhaps two of the most classic […]