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Carly and I had plans to ice climb with friends in Ouray for this weekend, unfortunately plans fell apart just days before we planned to leave. Eric ended up getting a mild case of COVID so we ended up bailing on Ouray in favor of Red Rocks. We haven’t been to RR in quite a […]
I got out on some ice over the weekend in two typical locations for Utah ice, however on rarer routes. Saturday I was in Maple Canyon with Case and scratching around on some steep ice. While some interesting routes are in they have been getting anemic over the last couple of weeks. Utah has been […]
October 7, 2021 I had the good luck to climb mid-week, just splitting two storms, in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison with my friend Micah. I headed down there Wednesday evening and we got on Midsummer’s Night Dream (5.11a)–Sex Comedy (5.10) and then Maiden Voyage (5.9)–King Me (5.10-). We ended up with 12 pitches […]
September 4-6, 2021 Just like last year we headed towards Grand Teton National Park for one last alpine rock climb of the season. In keeping with our moderate theme this year Carly picked the CMC Route on Mt. Moran (5.5) as the objective. This route, as the grade implies, is pretty easy, the difficulty is […]
August 1–10, 2021 In the early days of 2020 Carly and I started planning a summer road trip to either the Pacific Northwest or to California to hit some climbing zones. When 2020 went sideways those plans got shelved for more a modest road trip to Wyoming. Coming into the spring of 2021 we got […]