www.PeteWilk.comDecember 23, 2012 Sunday I was able to get out with Boris for some climbing. Â The original plan was to head to the Black Dike on Cannon Mtn, but since Boris hasn’t gotten any pitches of ice in under his belt we decided perhaps doing something on Mt. Washington would be better. Â That was until […]
December 5-10, 2012 It’s warmer at 26,000 ft in Pakistan. -Kyle Dempster commenting on the weather at the parking lot in Hyalite Sunday afternoon. The first week of December I had the great fortune to get a paid trip up to Bozeman, MT and the ice climbing festival in Hyalite Canyon. Â Never having been to […]
December 1-2, 2012 I had the great fortune to get a call from Paul Brenner–West Virginian, goat herder, chicken raiser, and climbing hardman–to say that he and Lauren would be travelling to the Southwest rather than Mexico for their annual month-long break from farming. Â One of their first stops on their trip would be Indian […]
November 22-25, 2012 Since I just moved to Utah and I don’t have many vacation days at work, I didn’t go back to New England for Thanksgiving, a first for me.  Instead I spent the long weekend in Red Rocks  Canyon just outside Las Vegas.  Climbing there in the past has been fun and it […]
View from the Optimator Wall Last weekend I had the good fortune to take a little climbing trip to the crack capital of the world, Indian Creek. Â The Creek is characterized by laser cut cracks in red sandstone. Â The routes start here around 5.10 and there isn’t much opportunity for face climbing. Â The long (+100 […]