I learned a couple days ago that my friend Ron Avery passed away after a four-year battle with cancer. Ron was an incredibly influential instructor who’s had a large impact on thousands of competition and
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Today was one of those days that started out as a mellow ski tour and ended up as a bit of an epic. Nate, Chad, Colin, Rob, and I got off to a late start
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Let me read to you from the book of Andrew (aka, the Chuting Gallery). This is how it describes today’s line. “Y Not? a 40′ cliff in the middle of a 45-degree slope is one
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There are few things more satisfying than heading out the door with low expectations for the day, and then finding yourself in the middle of a great little adventure. Jason and I went to Provo
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Ice climbing always gives me a giddy kind of nervous excitement. It’s a very strange sport—climbing something that might not have been there last week, might not be there next week, and might decide to
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A nice storm over the last couple days made sure that the last ski tour of 2018 would be a good one no matter where we went, but things turned out even better than expected.
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This weekend was much like the last one. I wasn’t really motivated to get too rowdy, but all the same I was very happy to be outside playing in the mountains. But unlike last weekend,
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This weekend was one of those times when things weren’t really that great, but I was so psyched just to be outside playing in the snow and on the ice that I really didn’t care.
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Always the bride’s maid. Never the bride. Well, the last match of the year is officially in the books. After three days of giant stages and muddy conditions at JP Enterprises “Hard as Hell” Multigun, I
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This Thanksgiving, like most years, Jen and I headed down to Indian Creek with a few good friends, cooked a full dinner (including a turkey) and climbed cracks until our bodies couldn’t take it anymore.
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