I’m getting married next weekend, and it’s tradition for the groom to go do some guy stuff right before the wedding. So, Rick and I drove his monster-truck van way out into the desert, climbed
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Rick and I had been kicking around the idea of a spring trip for a while. We talked about Alaska and the Canadian Rockies, but we have both been working too much and planning too
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Tiring out Jasmine was a top priority, so we started the weekend with a Captain Ahab loop, which is definitely one of our favorite trails. Last fall Jen was riding a bike better than she
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Well, after starting off with a normal winter, we had the third-driest February on record since the recording began in 1944. Crap. The powder is long gone, but the rock is dry and the spring
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I can’t count how many times I’ve walked past some horrendously thin crack on some wall in the desert and wondered if it could be climbed. Last spring, on a trip to a rarely visited
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This year’s Squamish / Whistler trip almost didn’t happen. Jen took a nasty digger on the Crest a couple weeks ago, and could barely walk for a few days after it happened. Then work got
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Words cannot possibly describe what it’s like to come around the corner on Hwy 120 and see El Cap for the first time. Massive does not even begin to describe it. And then, if you’re
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I’ve now spent around two months nursing a shoulder injury. Most things feel OK, but some things—like closing a car door, grabbing milk from the fridge, and rolling over in bed—result in a jolt of
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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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