Tag: climbing
Skating & Scambling in the Sierra
After long hiatus, I made a trip back to the east side of the Sierra range last weekend for the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center fund raising party. This area is one of those places that after visiting it once, you swear you are going to return for annual skiing trips as it is incredibly beautiful […]
Cold Fusion and Warm Limestone
Memorial Day in Utah goes a long ways toward easing the pain of triple digit temps here in Ahhhgust. I can’t remember a Memorial Day with bad weather, but then again my memory is so bad that that’s not saying much. In any case, you can ski, climb, bike, hike, fish or mix & match […]
Indian Creek – Photo TR
Continuing an almost full week of trip reports, I went down to Indian Creek on Wednesday with my long time skiing and climbing buddy, Brad Barlage. Brad is a sales rep for Black Diamond, which means he has the full-on pimp daddy ride (Ford Van), tons of gear, plenty of dogs and knows The Creek […]
Speedy Bowline Tie-in Trick
I took a skiing time-out yesterday to go crack climbing at Indian Creek, Utah with Brad Barlage. While we were roping up, Brad showed me this cool little trick for tying a Bowline knot around your harness. Bowlines are the King-of-Knots as they strong, simple and easy to untie after they have been loaded. Because […]
Grand Teton – Skiing Topo
It took me three attempt to finally ski the Grand Teton, but it was well worth it. Part of the beauty of skiing this peak is that there is no one particular crux to it, but it is more a sum of all of its parts. There is some great skiing on it (as well […]
Lone Peak Cirque – Rock Climbing
Lone Peak Cirque in the Wasatch Mountains is Utah’s version of the Grand Teton. It is a long approach to get there (5,000′ of uphill on loose dirt), it tops out at around 11,300′ and it has some of the best, cleanest granite in all of the state. As if the multi-hour approach wasn’t hard […]
Sunday Photo – Lost Arrow Spire
Setting up a Tyrolean Traverse (as pictured below) is often logistically harder than the actual climbing involved to get there. In this case, Lost Arrow Spire in Yosemite Valley, Rick Lovelace and I hiked to the valley’s rim, rappelled from the fixed anchors on the right-hand side of the photo down into the notch between […]
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