Last year, I’d already gone skiing twice before Christmas. This year… the difference is like night and day. Despite a record snow year last season (and an accompanying unusually late opening), Tioga Road is still open. It hasn’t been open this late in the last 30 YEARS!!! While this is bad news for the ski [...]
I slip on the ice for the third time in as many feet. I can see my breath and there is snow everywhere. The valley floor, in Yosemite, is covered in a foot of frozen water (snow). Why am I here? At the end of 2009, I left the land of eternal sunshine (San Diego) [...]
Winter here means two things: training and skiing. Storms come through and dump tons of snow in the mountains, which means a lot of granite areas are covered in snow (or snow melt), but the ski slopes are also fantastic. Skiing turns a negative (storms –> no climbing) into a positive (great skiing!). But all [...]
I wasn’t one of those lucky kids whose parents put them on skis not long after they learned to walk: I didn’t discover snow sports until high school, when many of my friends had decided to switch from skiing to snowboarding, so until last year, snowboarding was all I knew. But I decided to try [...]
I have not been climbing a lot outside recently. Between running, a wedding, and school/research work, I haven’t had any weekends where climbing was really an option. The rain hasn’t helped either. But magically, the psych has returned. I’m suddenly feeling strong, confident, and not anxious in the gym again, leading probably just as hard [...]
This past weekend the weather was perfect and we had an amazing couple of days in Red Rocks. There were a staggering eight of the San Diego crew out at the Gallery on Saturday so Lizzy and I were able to take a bunch of Photos. Sunday Lizzy and I opted for some solitude and [...]
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