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2022-08-14 thru 17 Forbidden Peak

August 14 thru 17, 2022 Carly and I took a Pacific North West vacation this year. We’d planned to do it in 2021, but we opted out due to wildfire smoke at the time. We ended up in the Sierras and that trip was great. This time around we had all the pieces in place […]

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2022-07-02 thru 04 in the Sawtooths

July 2-4, 2002 Once again Carly and I headed to the Sawtooths for the Fourth of July. The call to head there again was mainly forced because of weather. All points east of SLC seemed as though there was a decent change of rain/t-storms. Our main goal was to get some trail running in since […]

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2021-10-23 thru 24 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

I had the good fortune over the weekend to get a visit from an old friend from Connecticut. Our plan was to visit Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This area has been in the news for at least the last 4 years or more depending on your level of awareness into land conservation issues. Most recently […]

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2021 Labor Day in the Tetons

September 4-6, 2021 Just like last year we headed towards Grand Teton National Park for one last alpine rock climb of the season. In keeping with our moderate theme this year Carly picked the CMC Route on Mt. Moran (5.5) as the objective. This route, as the grade implies, is pretty easy, the difficulty is […]

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2021-08 Road Trip

August 1–10, 2021 In the early days of 2020 Carly and I started planning a summer road trip to either the Pacific Northwest or to California to hit some climbing zones. When 2020 went sideways those plans got shelved for more a modest road trip to Wyoming. Coming into the spring of 2021 we got […]