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2022-08-19 Enchantments Traverse

August 19, 2022 After a rest and travel day from four days in North Cascades National Park we staged ourself for our other objective of the vacation, trail running the Enchantments. Since the spring we’d been training for another trail run race at Brighton. As the spring and summer progressed the race became only an […]

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Climbing Nature & Hiking

2022-08-14 thru 17 Forbidden Peak

August 14 thru 17, 2022 Carly and I took a Pacific North West vacation this year. We’d planned to do it in 2021, but we opted out due to wildfire smoke at the time. We ended up in the Sierras and that trip was great. This time around we had all the pieces in place […]

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Nature & Hiking

2022-07-02 thru 04 in the Sawtooths

July 2-4, 2002 Once again Carly and I headed to the Sawtooths for the Fourth of July. The call to head there again was mainly forced because of weather. All points east of SLC seemed as though there was a decent change of rain/t-storms. Our main goal was to get some trail running in since […]

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2021-10-23 thru 24 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

I had the good fortune over the weekend to get a visit from an old friend from Connecticut. Our plan was to visit Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This area has been in the news for at least the last 4 years or more depending on your level of awareness into land conservation issues. Most recently […]

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Climbing Nature & Hiking

2021 Labor Day in the Tetons

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 […]