This summer was jam packed with fun climbing including many trips to the Sierra. These long days on the mountain stand at vast contrast to some of the more chill weekends that are swept up in the fray. I wanted to share a few photos that I didn’t get to post back in August and [...]
Sometimes everything just works out. You get good weather, manage not to screw up the approach and have a perfect day. This weekend the stars aligned, so to speak, and a great day was had climbing Mount Conness. Typical to any outing, I did my research, read up about the Harding Route as much as possible [...]
It seems that the approach for Mt Conness can be a bit confusing so here are some photos with the route we took on our way to climb the Harding Route on the Southwest Face. This is the more direct of the two approaches from Saddlebag Lake and supposedly is about 4.5 miles long with 2,500 feet [...]
After many months of great climbing my body is feeling very fit and I have practically recovered all of my strength from the end of 2008. My crimping power is coming back and my left pinky is relatively pain free. I find a big mental advantage is added when one is feeling strong and powerful. [...]
As the summer heat reached near record highs two weekends ago I found myself shivering in the cold shade of the Northeast Face of Langley Peak. This summer I have taken a bit more time to explore the Eastern Sierra and this weekend was one of the most adventurous yet. The goal was to establish [...]
Memorial Day was just around the corner and I was in need of a new all day harness. I had been checking out the Arc’teryx WST harnesses for the past year and wanted to wait until the new Black Diamond harness came out before decided which to buy. When I started multipitching all of my [...]
This post will be far from “brief”, but considering how much I could write about each route I consider personally significant, this is short. The feeling of a prized send, a realized dream or even a hard attempt is difficult to describe so I will give a simple overview of my many years of climbing. [...]
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