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2020-10-16 thru 18 Indian Creek

October 16 thru 18, 2020 A long overdue trip to Indian Creek happened last weekend. We spent 3 days and of course got worked. Always a humbling experience out there. I was disappointed by the new influx of the moto crowd. They were riding well into the evening which kind of takes away some of […]

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2020-09-05 thru 07 Grand Teton National Park

September 5-7, 2020 With the most peculiar summer drawing to a close with Labor Day we headed once again to Wyoming for some climbing. This time we were focused on some alpine climbing. The weather looked great for this, clear, no rain, and moderate temperatures. For a warm up we did Guide’s Wall (5.8) on […]

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2019-09-02 Wild Iris

Aug 30 thru Sept. 2, 2019 A Labor Day weekend trip over to Wild Iris with some good friends.  It was a good time despite that I did not climb more than a couple pitches because of my elbow.  Carly was climbing really well and worked on some 11’s.  It’s really great to see her […]

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2019-08-24 thru 26 Priest Lake

August 24 thru 26, 2019 As a short vacation Carly and I visited northern Idaho again like we did over Memorial Day.  We stayed with our friend Rolf at his lake cabin on Priest Lake.  We were able to get a climbing day in at a very cool feature call Chimney Rock not far from […]

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2018 Thanksgiving

November 21-25, 2018 Once again we traveled to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving with friends and climbing.  With the long drive, made longer by the traffic, I had time to think about the number of Thanksgivings I’ve spent in Red Rocks since moving to Utah–of the seven holidays I think all but two have been in […]