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Climbing Travel

2017-09 Chamonix Vacation

September 5-20, 2017 After the great work trip to Chamonix I had in May I started thinking about going back and having more time for climbing and seeing the valley.  After some asking around it sounded like September was a good month to go as the weather was still mild and the summer tourists had […]

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Nature & Hiking Photography

2017 July 4th in the Tetons

July 1-4, 2017 We spent the extra long weekend in the Tetons.  While the weather was generally good it was a bit hot and we didn’t climb much.  What we did climb we bailed 1.5 pitches into because of a thunderstorm.  Still a fun trip and was able to explore some areas we weren’t familiar […]

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Ski

2017-06-04 Uintas Skiing to Escape the Heat

June 4, 2017 Today Carly and a couple of her friends from her MBA program escaped the heat of the valley–currently sitting at approximately 93°F here in SLC–for a morning of spring skiing in the Uintas.  I haven’t done much spring skiing so Carly and I were potentially under prepared without crampons or a piolet. […]

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Climbing Ski Travel

Chamonix in May

May 6-25, 2017 What a trip is all I have to say to start.   In November 2016 I headed to Chamonix, France to feel out a seemingly unbelievable opportunity.  That trip was my first to Chamonix and I didn’t get a peek at the riches that the area has for mountain scenery and fun. […]

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Ski

Quick Spring Powder Day

April 9, 2017 This weekend we got a quick hitting dual cold front.  The second of which dropped 12-18″ of right-side up blower powder.  Hope you got out there this morning because the sun came out this afternoon and it’s gone now.   ” order_by=”imagedate” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]