The ’23–’24 ice season has been a strange one. I got started in Bozeman the week of the ice fest. I stayed at Case’s place and we got some good days in, but the week was all over the place with temperatures—normal to unseasonably warm, to cold. After returning to Utah I assumed more days […]
Category: Climbing
2024-01-27 Joe’s Valley Dual Sport Day
We’ve been at the house a few weeks straight and we decided to head to Joe’s Valley Friday night to climb a little ice and boulder on Saturday. The ice around Utah has been pretty terrible, but the reports were that a few things were in at Joe’s Valley. I’ve only climbed once before in […]
2023-12 Arizona Trip
December 23-30, 2023 Winter in the Rocky Mountain West has been lackluster this year, not just in comparison to our record breaking year in 2022-23, but in general. Depending on the SNOTEL station, we are sitting around 75% of median, not terrible, but we also haven’t gotten appreciable snow in about three weeks. Not the […]
2023-12 Bozeman Ice Fest
December 1–10, 2023 I decided to head up to the Bozeman Ice Fest this year. It has been a couple years since I was there and I didn’t have any work responsibilities so I thought it would be a nice time to go. I opted to go up the weekend before and stay with Case. […]
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 […]