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Climbing Nature & Hiking

2023-11 Thanksgiving

For the second year running we were in St. George for Thanksgiving. Similar to last year we pre-cooked all of our Thanksgiving Day dinner so all we needed to do was reheat things. The weather mostly cooperated, but we did get a day of rain on Friday unexpectedly. This put a little damper on our […]

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Climbing Nature & Hiking Travel

2023 Croatia Trip

Intro It is more common now than in our parents generation to take a honeymoon well after the wedding.  To me, this makes a lot of sense since there is a lot going on to plan a wedding.  Adding the complexities of a honeymoon on top of that seems silly to me.  Carly and I […]

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Nature & Hiking

2023 Autumn

Its been a great autumn here in Utah. We haven’t traveled too widely, but between Logan and Salt Lake the foliage has been really great. I thought last year was one of the best for colors that I’ve seen in Utah, but this year is on par with that. Various locations for these.

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2023-09-24 Hardware Wall

Sunday Carly and I met the Stecks at Hardware wall for another late summer day on limestone. Carly and I worked on Gray Matter (5.12b) last time we were there. The Steck’s each had their projects too. The morning was on the chilly side despite the clear skies. We all waited in the sun near […]

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2023-09-09 and 10 Blacksmith Fork

Given all the driving we did the previous weekend we opted for a closer weekend of climbing. We headed to Blacksmith Fork with the Steck’s to Hardware Wall. We’d kind of been scared away from this zone due to the stiff grades, the warms limited to 5.11a and 5.11c, but we’ve both been climbing really […]