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2023 Climbing Goals: Here are some goals for the year. General Redpoint 10 5.12s (2 5.12c+ | 1 onsight/flash | 1 multipitch | 1 trad): Isolation (5.12c) Bee Line (5.12b) Damned if you Don’t (5.12a) Refugees from Reality (5.12a | 3 pitches) Redpoint 20 5.11 (5 5.11+ | 5 multipitch | 5 Trad) Weed B […]

2022 Climbing Goals: Here are some goals for the year. General Redpoint 10 5.12s (2 5.12c+ | 1 onsight/flash | 1 multipitch | 1 trad): Isotoner Moaner (5.12b) American Fork Canyon UT redpoint The Tuba (5.12b) American Fork Canyon, UT redpoint Black Sails (5.12a/b) The Narrows, UT redpoint Red Sky (5.12a) Black Smith Fork, UT […]

2021 Climbing Goals: Here are my ideas so far for some goals for the year. They will likely become more specific over the course of the year: General Redpoint 15 Traditional 5.10 (5 5.10+ | 5 multipitch): Wild Works of Fire (5.10) Indian Creek, UT onsight Kelley Route 29 (5.10) Indian Creek, UT onsight Turd […]

2020 Climbing Goals: Here are my ideas so far for some goals for the year. They will likely become more specific over the course of the year: General Redpoint 15 Traditional 5.10 (5 >= .10c | 5 multipitch): The Fracture (5.10d) South Tahoe, CA redpoint Cut Loose (5.10d) Red Rock Canyon, NV redpoint Touch of […]

After several years of snowboarding in the backcountry I knew my old, baggy snowboarding pants weren’t cutting it anymore. They were heavy and the insulation was built in so I had no temperature control. If I was in deep powder, snow would get up my back and down my pants. It was miserable. Because I […]

2019 Goals: For 2019, I’m guessing that this post will morph and evolve over the next six months as I sort of reshape my goals for the year. For now, I would like to just kind of spit out some ideas that are starting to form in my head and fill in the gaps throughout […]

Every year, I try to set up a list of achievable climbing goals that will help me focus on improving the areas where I am the weakest. In 2018, my main focus was pushing grades. I focused on number grades as a benchmark for where I wanted to be as a climber. I didn’t quite […]

In the summer of last year (2017), we attempted the Direct North Ridge on Mount Stuart, but retreated once we reached the notch about 1,500ft up the route. Storm clouds had completely covered the peak above, and without sufficient rain gear, we were afraid we would become hypothermic if we got wet. We figured our […]

Kim and I recently took a trip out to San Francisco to visit our friend Brent and see his new place. We didn’t really have any plans to do any rock climbing, but inevitably it’s what we always end up doing. After spending a few days in the city riding bikes across the Golden Gate […]

My fingers were bleeding. They popped off the crimp I was pulling on and as they did the knuckles dug across the wall. I dabbed them on my pants and then stuffed them into my chalk bag. The white powder on my knuckles saturated and turned red. Flaps of skin stuck out around the pooling […]