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Hooray for Winter!

November 16, 2014 Winter is finally here in the Wasatch.  Numerous folks were out and about this weekend enjoying the 10-12″ of fresh snow up in the mountains.  While they were hitting the still closed resorts for their skiing, it still looked like fun.  I’m sure I’ll be getting out for some skiing after the […]

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K-Bone Memorial Shitter Construction

November 1-2, 2014 Last weekend Carly, myself, a whole crew of BD folks, and Bozemanites traveled to Indian Creek to construct a toilet, or more appropriately a shitter.  Indian Creek’s campgrounds are fairly minimalistic and they don’t have many toilets.  Superbowl Campground only had one for instance.  After the passing of Kevin “K-Bone” Volkening last year in a […]

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Matt’s Birthday at City of Rocks

September 19-20, 2014 Spent the weekend up at the City of Rocks again.  Weather didn’t cooperate today so we ended up coming back to SLC after making breakfast.  Despite this it was a good time with good friends.  I got back on a route I TRed a couple weeks ago called Cairo (5.11).  Unfortunately the […]

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2014-08 City of Rocks and Castle Rock

August 16-17, 2014 Made an unexpected trip to the City of Rocks and Castle Rock.  Weather has been quite nice the last 3 weeks or so here in SLC and usually mid/late-summer trips to the City can be hot.  Forecasts called for mid to high 70’s and clear skies–perfect weather.  We ended up chasing shade […]

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Fourth of July Lone Peak Trip with Carly

July 4-5, 2014 Over the Fourth of July I headed up to Lone Peak with Carly.  We had been packing, unpacking, moving, and generally doing a whole lot of not particularly fun things for a while.  Carly had the great idea that if we got the bulk of the moving done prior to the holiday […]