Climbing Sailing Wyoming's Seas It's been many years since I spent two consecutive months in Wyoming. Doing so in the summer meant ancient seas and contemporary riverways.
Lander Lander in July ICF The International Climber's Festival successfully placed itself upon the hottest week of summer in Lander, Wyoming. I spent every night for a week intermittently sleeping and sweating (and perhaps accomplishing both simultaneously
Lander Sneaking to Squaretop The day before the International Climber's Festival kicked off I got three pitches in on the stone that, every time I take someone to it for the first time, I point to as
Climbing A Return Galleries Ken and I had the first few days in Lander to just piddle around on the walls and have fun with no responsibilities or obligations. We parked my van and his A-frame
Lander Sinks Day Hit "Yeah, we're done for the day. It's too windy." "I'm jealous. We drove up from Laramie and don't have that option. We're getting our money's worth out of this day
Climbing Sinking Into Things My one-day Sinks trips are starting to turn into two-day, three-day trips. I'm shifting from relying on my Lander local climbing partners to being able to hit up friends in other parts of
Climbing The Citadel On the road again, just couldn't wait to get on the road again. I spent the night in Lander to give myself an excuse to sneak in some winter climbing and break up
Climbing Holiday Fun South of the Pass On a tracked out Sunday, Trudeau and I had a day that consisted more-or-less of skinning and exploring. Our skis took us to Yo-yo Bowl, Thanksgiving Bowl, and an
Indian Creek Rocktober Mmm. Rocktober. Thanks to Brittani, Thomas, and Chris for climbing with me in Sinks Canyon. Bre and Reid for putting me up in SLC between missions. Ken, Phil, Amy, and Phil for amazing
fireworks Bouncing Back I spent a whole lot of time healing this year, which doesn't make for the most interesting posts. Still, I've spent the time with good people, and every now and then snapped a
Climbing Climbing Harder A tale in two parts. Chris and I spent the weekend exploring limestone in the wind and sun around Lander. Wild Iris We camped out at Wild Iris Friday night, and Saturday morning
Climbing Familiar Crags and Strange People I found myself a home in Jackson, and could finally move my things out of the place in Lander. Sounds like the perfect excuse to go rock climbing. I just needed a partner.
Adventures A Bit of Fall Climbing Climbing is a thing in my life again, and that makes life so much better. While the climbing gym in Jackson closed this month, the outdoors obviously provide plenty of rock, and if
Adventures Haru-ka? Spring Has Sprung Come March, the sun was up long enough to get out after work again. Dave, Adrian and I had a good day out together, but damned if I didn't keep
Adventures Fairfield & Facedancer Hey ya'lls! Just got back from Thanksgivukah, which consisted of a day in the backcountry, two desert towers, a splitter crack, slickrock, over-eating, old friends, bad weather, ear infections, stomach bugs, and driving.
Adventures Canyon Weekend Friday Dave and I went out to get our red points. We both were out of work by 4, and ran into each other biking home. "The rock is hot Matt!" Isolate and
Adventures Lander Tick Tick Ticks As mentioned in the last post, finally managed to get out and do some climbing this weekend. In fact, I climbed until my arms no longer functioned... which sadly didn't take too much.
Adventures Two Weeks in Lander Some of my posts from my time in Japan would be just photographs that I had taken throughout the week or the month, like this post (oh man, why do I suddenly want