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2021-10-07 Black Canyon

October 7, 2021 I had the good luck to climb mid-week, just splitting two storms, in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison with my friend Micah. I headed down there Wednesday evening and we got on Midsummer’s Night Dream (5.11a)–Sex Comedy (5.10) and then Maiden Voyage (5.9)–King Me (5.10-). We ended up with 12 pitches […]

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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 […]

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Nature & Hiking

Bryce Canyon National Park

May 9-10, 2015 Weather in Utah has been uncharacteristically rainy here in Utah for the last few weeks.  The last few weekends have been rainy or threatened rain.  This weekend and the coming week are forecasted for more of the same.  The precipitation isn’t all bad, though since we got very little snow over the […]

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Climbing Nature & Hiking

K-Bone Memorial Shitter Construction

November 1-2, 2014 Last weekend Carly, myself, a whole crew of BD folks, and Bozemanites traveled to Indian Creek to construct a toilet, or more appropriately a shitter.  Indian Creek’s campgrounds are fairly minimalistic and they don’t have many toilets.  Superbowl Campground only had one for instance.  After the passing of Kevin “K-Bone” Volkening last year in a […]

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Nature & Hiking Photography

Zion National Park

September 28-29, 2013 I guess I never posted these pictures.  Things must have gotten busy and forgot to. Aaron and I headed to Zion for some climbing but the trip turned out quite differently that we expected.  We needed to get more proficient in aiding before attempting our objective.  Instead we just enjoyed one of […]