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2019-04-19 and 20 Ibex Climbing

April 19-20, 2019 Carly and I took off Friday morning for a long weekend to explore a new area for us, the West Desert of Utah.  The area is huge and doesn’t have many people in it.  The area is part of the Basin and Range topology that spans both sides of the border with […]

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2019-04-06 thru 07 St. George Climbing

April 6-7, 2019 Another fine weekend in St. George with friends.  For not rock climbing outside since Thanksgiving (with the same crew coincidentally) I actually felt pretty good.  Unfortunately Sunday we didn’t get too much climbing in due to an obligation back in SLC.

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President’s Day 2019

February 14 thru 18, 2019 For quite a few of the years I’ve been in Utah I’ve traveled to Ouray for President’s Day.  The holiday is one I never got off prior to moving to Utah, but is considerably better as a winter holiday than Easter, given it is earlier and subject to much less […]

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2018 Thanksgiving

November 21-25, 2018 Once again we traveled to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving with friends and climbing.  With the long drive, made longer by the traffic, I had time to think about the number of Thanksgivings I’ve spent in Red Rocks since moving to Utah–of the seven holidays I think all but two have been in […]

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2018-09 Chamonix Vacation

September 1-10, 2018 Once again Carly and I traveled to Chamonix, France in September.  This time we hoped for better weather than our last trip.  We learned last year that the middle of September is the beginning of the end of much of the tourism and climbing–at least the easy stuff.  We moved to the […]