Archive for the Rock Category

Weather in the west has been a mess this year, and it’s changed a lot of climbers’ plans. Only four days before Jen and I were supposed to roll into Yosemite Valley it re-opened after

I’ve read stories about the OG’s of climbing doing amazing things at Joshua Tree since I started in 1998. Super-sketchy, ultra-hard climbs, high-end boulder problems, giant solo linkups, and on and on. We didn’t originally

After a short stop over in Moab for Jen to ride with some friends before we took off for good, we headed for Red Rocks. The drive was a complete nightmare, starting off with a

A year after my last Yosemite trip, where I basically did nothing but lay in ElCap Meadow with a spotting scope because of a back injury, I made it back in one of the most

After biking and beekeeping on the North Shore, Jen and I headed straight up to Squamish. I’m not actually sure how many times I’ve been here. Certainly more than eight. Maybe double digits. Either way,

Well, after a few weeks of training for a big goal in Yosemite, I managed to seriously injure my back only a few days before I left. My physical therapist Amy and my massage therapist

Jen and I have been doing our Squamish/Whistler trip for about ten years now, only missing a few—once because we went to Europe, once because we went to Banff, and last year because the whole

Thirteen years ago, Kevin Nibir and I hiked to the bottom of Liberty Bell and started climbing. Our chosen route, Liberty Crack (V 5.11 A2) was the biggest, hardest, and scariest thing I had ever

Long before I moved to Utah, I spent a ton of time driving around Washington State. Not only did I grow up there, but I also spent three summers living in my car, river guiding,