Desert Season '16

Desert Season '16

Fun Facts Desert Season 2016 started in a blizzard driving out of Wyoming on October 19th. It ended on December 20th. October 21st was the first day of climbing (in Red Rocks). The

Season's End

An Interlude Back Home When I got back from the blur of long nights out on the town on my business trip in Denver (so close to home, yet still two weeks from

The Waterfall

I hereby award The Waterfall with the coveted "Best Single Pitch Trad Climbing Award" of 2016. The columnar basalt requires not just that you be an excellent crack climber, or that

Sedona's Towers

I called Megan from the side of a gas station by the Walmart in Yuma, Arizona. We made plans to climb something with more than one pitch in Sedona, but nothing more specific

Californian Deserts

Joshua Tree Phil and Amy. I hadn't known them long at all before they'd seen my naked bits. That didn't seem to put them off of me