Categories
Nature & Hiking

2024-04-24 & 25 Joshua Tree

Leaving San Diego I headed east to Joshua Tree. I’d climbed in J-Tree many years ago, in 2011 to be exact. This time I wouldn’t get as much climbing in, but being solo and only there two days, that is to be expected. My objectives were to do some of the OHV roads in the […]

Categories
Climbing Nature & Hiking Trail Running

2024-03-29 and 30 Owl Rock and Trail Running

For Easter weekend Carly and I needed to get out of town for some nights away. The weather in Salt Lake has been rainy for the last few weekends. Despite not a stellar forecast for Moab we headed there for a little climbing, trail running, and skiing.

Categories
Climbing Nature & Hiking

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 […]

Categories
Climbing Nature & Hiking

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 […]

Categories
Climbing Nature & Hiking Travel

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 […]