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2020-01-16 thru 20 Ouray

January 16-20, 2020 Carly and I headed to Ouray for a extra long weekend of ice climbing and skiing. Typically we go a little later in the winter, around President’s Day. However this year we’ve got other plans during that time so we shifted it. Our friends Micah and Hilary were also free around this […]

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Bozeman Icefest 2019

December 11-15, 2019 Yet again the Bozeman Icefest and Hyalite delivers. Unlike the last couple of years I was part of a much smaller team at the fest. This allowed more climbing and better rest (at least excluding Saturday night) after working the Blue Ice table. Nate and I were on our own for the […]

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President’s Day 2019

February 14 thru 18, 2019 For quite a few of the years I’ve been in Utah I’ve traveled to Ouray for President’s Day.  The holiday is one I never got off prior to moving to Utah, but is considerably better as a winter holiday than Easter, given it is earlier and subject to much less […]

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2017-12-26 thru 30 Cody

December 26-30, 2017 I closed out the year with some climbing in Cody, WY.  I had the week between Christmas and New Year’s and was able to join my friend Doug and new friend Chris for some stellar climbing in Cody.  While the town’s temperatures were frigid most days, the climbing areas had a bit […]

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2017 Bozeman Icefest

December 5-10, 2017 After a skipped year in 2016 I was back this year to the Bozeman Icefest.  This time around I had a couple crusher colleagues from France in town to show us out to climb.  In addition we had the whole Blue Ice North America crew junking it up.  Luckily there wasn’t in […]