Jim Harris and I attempted to traverse Mt Olympus, Twin Peaks and Lone Peak in one day. The total route is 17,000ft of climbing and descending over roughly 23miles. I’ve never so underestimated the terrain and time it would take and at the end of a very long day the heat, route chosen and difficult [...]

Traded in the city of salt for the city of rocks this weekend.

Yes, there is an entire city of rocks.

I had heard of it, but never before been

If I were a rock climber and were to build a city I’m quite sure it would look something like this.

Andy Jacobsen was my guide.

We came to climb [...]

The past year or so I’ve been getting focused on ‘fitness’. For the summer this includes strength training at the gym, HIIT, trail running, mtn biking and yoga. With the hot temps I’ve mostly been in the gym and doing shorter trails in the am. That gets boring, so I decided to get out for [...]

Exploring Utah on snow, water or dirt never gets old.

Getting warm and toasty in SLC and thoughts of winter are melting away fast. There is still one ski project on tap for later this month if the weather behaves. Pretty much time for this wonderful and strange season to end.
I’m lucky enough to have a good friend with a good eye that captured some [...]

I first heard about the Revelation Mountains while reading a book on climbing in Alaska. For some reason they just stuck in my head as a place I wanted to visit. Maybe it was my Religious upbringing and the mystery around the book of Revelations these mountains were named after. There have only been a [...]

Just returned from my longest visit to the endless mountains of Alaska. I drove up on the first of April and returned last weekend. I’m still sorting gear, pics and catching up, but I’ll post some trip reports soon. For now here’s a quick recap by the #’s and some random shots.
6 weeks of adventure [...]

In late March I went to the Ruby Mountains of Nevada to do some skiing for the camera (my girlfreind calls it modeling) for Mountain Hardwear.  Photo shoots can be a real pain in the ass, but I knew it this would be good times since I was heading out with Andrew Mclean and my [...]

Too much time spent staring at the Pfiefferhorn and the mind does wander. Before ticking of PLINKO a few weeks ago, I was interested in this little ramp variation that would skirt around the standard rappel route.

So Jim Harris and I headed out to see how it looked.

It was a nice sunny day with very [...]