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2019-08-24 thru 26 Priest Lake

August 24 thru 26, 2019 As a short vacation Carly and I visited northern Idaho again like we did over Memorial Day.  We stayed with our friend Rolf at his lake cabin on Priest Lake.  We were able to get a climbing day in at a very cool feature call Chimney Rock not far from […]

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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 […]

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2018-08-09 thru 12 Cirque of the Towers

August 9-12, 2018 As we have done in the past, Carly and I put various climbing destinations in the calendar through the summer to help motivate us to go to different locations.  While we haven’t been 100% successful in going to all the places we entered, we’ve gotten some good trips this summer so far.  […]

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2018-05-26 thru 28 Pine Creek Canyon

May 26-28, 2018 Memorial Day weekend Matt, Giovanni, Carly, and I went out to the Sierra in California for some climbing.  While we were hoping to have better weather and get in a little climbing at altitude we did not.  It was a good time, though a long drive.  Even though the drive is long, […]