www.PeteWilk.comToday after work me the QA engineer I’m working with on my first projects at BD and a few other BD people did the West Slabs (5.4) on Mt. Olympus. Again I was sucking wind and at the back of the pack on the uphill. I was really pushing to keep up too. Hopefully this […]
An impromptu gChat message from Alex around 4:30 this afternoon had me in the car and headed up Little Cottonwood Canyon. He suggested the South Face of Mt. Superior. Since the route is only 5.2 and only in a few spots, we’d be going light and fast, no gear save but a headlamp and light […]
Starting Thursday Sept 20, Eric and I headed cross country to Utah. He was gracious enough to accompany me on the trip and help drive the ~2500 miles to Salt Lake City. Rather than taking I-80 all the way out and traveling through Iowa and Nebraska, we elected to do two long days of driving […]
Starting Thursday I begin a huge transition in my life–I will be heading out to Salt Lake City, UT for a new job. The Northeast is my home for sure. I grew up in New Hampshire, went to college in Massachusetts, and began my career in Connecticut. However, bigger and more accessible mountains drew me […]
I’ve been wanted to go on a climbing vacation out West for a while. In springs of 2010 and 2011 I went to Red Rock outside of Las Vegas, but in 2012 the opportunity didn’t present itself to return to that venue. As I’ve progressed in my rock climbing I’ve become more interested in alpine […]