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2011-11-05 Ragged Mtn.

  Today I went out to Ragged Mtn. for a little late fall climbing.  I top rope solo’ed a route called Neanderthal Wall (5.9+).  After 5-6 laps on this vertical to overhung route Jason and Greg showed up and set up a rope on Duck Soup (5.11).  Duck Soup is one of the steepest routes […]

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2011-10-27 Fall Climbing Recap

Not many climbing related posts here in a while so I’ll recap a few climbing outings I’ve made this fall.  No pictures since I’ve been focusing on getting my climbing up to where I’d like it to be.  Not to mention that good photos of in a two person team is very difficult.   Trip […]

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2011-10-19 Naugatuck Forest

Wednesday after work I headed out with a few people from work to try and see some of the foliage.  Unfortunately it was a wet day.  Nothing the proper clothing couldn’t fix, but it was slippery.  The leaves weren’t at brilliant I hoped but still nice.  The rain during the day did have a plus […]

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2011-10-10 Dogsitting

  For the last week I’ve been dogsitting Chrystal’s dog, Singer.  She and I have had a grand old time with walks, almost catching squirrels, and wrestling.  On Saturday I took her on a hike up near Bear Mtn. in Salisbury, CT.  We took the Undermountain Trail to Paradise Lane Trail which brought us to […]

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2011-09-17 Presidential Traverse Attempt

Well from the heading of this post you can draw a quick conclusion about my success.  My group was not able to finish the Traverse attempt, though we probably could have with an extra dose of motivation. I had floated the idea of a one day Presidential Traverse to my friend Drew last year.  The […]