Life is running a pace that I can barely match. Keeping up with work and climbing seems to be all I can manage. Without a goal or stopping point in sight the days pass very quickly. With Lizzy out of school June and July became our traveling months. Extended weekend trips make for crazy 3-4 [...]
Following on my previous post about reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma and thinking about my eating habits, I decided to try my hand at “local” eating. I knew that buying stuff at Whole Foods was kind of a no-no, but Farmer’s Markets don’t happen very often around here and I figured I could still try to [...]
There was just a magnitude 5.8 earthquake (edit: news reports are now calling it a 5.4) 29 miles southwest of (the center of) Los Angeles, near Chino Hills. Apparently there was also a magnitude 3.8 aftershock a couple minutes afterwards (among many other aftershocks). Check out USGS info about the quake here. I had one [...]
After traveling for 4 straight weekends (Charleston, Needles twice, New England) and Luke’s busy weekend of routesetting (I’ll let him blog about that), we were up for a little break from travel this weekend. I baked a carrot cake and headed down to San Diego on Wednesday so we could have an extra-long “weekend”, even [...]
Summer is my time to read as much as humanly possible to make up for the school year. I like to read a wide variety of subjects and my mom, who is a librarian at my sister’s school, helps a lot by sending me a lot of books. I just finished reading Michael Pollan’s fascinating [...]
So for many this may be old news, but a recent story has made me concerned about people misusing auto-locking belay devices like the Petzl GriGri or the Edelrid Eddy. A couple months ago, Splitter Choss and the Climbing Narc fostered some discussion about the “proper” way to use a GriGri. If you’ve not seen [...]
As you’ve already read, we were just out in New England for Adam and Kearah’s wedding. Their wedding favors were pretty much the awesomest idea ever that I may just have to steal when my day comes around. Instead of silly, useless little gifts like “love spoons” (which Rebecca got as a favor at another [...]
Rumney has to be one of my favorite sport climbing areas in the country. Beautiful rock tucked away in the rolling hills of New England. The various crags offer a variety of angles on interesting rock of many different colors. Climbing mid week we were able escape the Rumney scene that has developed in recent [...]
Luke and my recent travel to the east coast has got me thinking about flying. In this day of airlines that are expensive, limiting on your baggage, and charging you for any “real” food, I think it’s ok to play favorites. You’ve gotta hold on to those few things that still make flying a good [...]
Although we’ve got plenty of stories to tell about our recent trip to New England for climbing, visiting, and Adam and Kearah’s wedding, I wanted to take a moment to recount something that happened to us a couple years ago. It happened on July 11, 2006, and it was The Very Bad Day. Summer 2006, [...]
Adam, one of my best friends and climbing partner from Bucknell got married this past weekend. Lizzy and I flew out to the east coast for the ceremony and a bit of pre-wedding climbing. We were able to see my mom in Boston on Wednesday for dinner and then drove up to Rumney Thursday morning [...]
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