After nearly two months of summer in the dead of winter, snow finally fell again in the Wasatch Range. Not much snow, but good snow, and that’s all it took for me to pull my
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While I was relaxing at home on Sunday, scratching the eight staples in my head that held together the large gash caused by a falling piece of steel from the day before, I noticed a
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There are few things that feel better than sitting down on your pack in the parking lot after a big day in the mountains. Taking off your boots feels like an amazing massage, cheap beer
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This winter has been pretty bleak for ice climbing, and last winter wasn’t anything special either. Between the two, I feel like my skills have been slipping. So, in an effort to get in some
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Things have been a bit grim for the last couple weeks. Temps went through the roof, and it was sun tanning weather at our place below LCC. Instead of skiing waist-deep goodness like we were
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For the last two weeks, our house has been full of family. Jen’s crew came for Christmas, and then my brother and his boys showed up for new years. As a result, we’ve been sticking
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“Hey man, can you take a look at this photo and tell me what you think?” Jim pointed me toward his laptop. It was a pretty good shot. A little soft maybe, kinda harsh mid-day
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After the Moab portion of the trip, Jen and I drove down to the Creek to join the rest of our crew for the annual Creeksgiving dinner and a few days of desert crack climbing.
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From the side of the road, the Gooney Bird looks rather unimpressive. It’s easy to visualize the three pitches of rather low-angle climbing to reach a not-too-pointy summit of this dopey, beer-bellied summit. But, if
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The first Creek trip of the year is always an experience. I’ve gone down there when I was climbing strong and proceeded to get my ass handed to me over and over until I was
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