February 2, 2013 Last Saturday I had the opportunity to head down to Maple Canyon here in Utah. Â Maple is about 2 hours south of Salt Lake City and is a popular sport climbing destination during the spring through fall. Â In the winter snow melt forms steep single pitch routes in the narrow canyons. Â Maple […]
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Ice and Mixed Climbing in Provo
January 20, 2013 Over the weekend I was able to get out twice for some climbing. Â First was on Saturday over at the Great White Icicle (WI3) with KP. Â It was a nice climb, we were lucky in that there was only a party TRing the first pitch and another party well up the route […]
Favorite Photos of 2012
In what will likely be an annual feature here (here’s 2011), I’ve gone through all approximately 5000 photos from 2012 and picked out 10, well 11, that I liked the most. Â These aren’t necessarily the best photos, but the ones that I liked the best. Â They all have some kind of special memory associated with […]
Bozeman Ice Festival 2012
December 5-10, 2012 It’s warmer at 26,000 ft in Pakistan. -Kyle Dempster commenting on the weather at the parking lot in Hyalite Sunday afternoon. The first week of December I had the great fortune to get a paid trip up to Bozeman, MT and the ice climbing festival in Hyalite Canyon. Â Never having been to […]
View from the Optimator Wall Last weekend I had the good fortune to take a little climbing trip to the crack capital of the world, Indian Creek. Â The Creek is characterized by laser cut cracks in red sandstone. Â The routes start here around 5.10 and there isn’t much opportunity for face climbing. Â The long (+100 […]
