Climbing Trudeau's Bouldering Garage The greater Teton region is covered in snow... The view from Chris's driveway ... but unlike this time last year, it's not quite enough snow to want to get out and play on. Still,
Adventures Across From Two Oceans Disappointment Peak was swiftly followed up with more mellow slopes in Togwotee Pass, the mountain pass between the Tetons and Lander. Andrea, Martin and I first skied the area about two weeks before,
Adventures Park View Spring Skiing Went for a bit of spring skiing just recently down in Park View with Maciej and Andrea. She was nice enough to write up a report on it with some of the great
Adventures Winter is Coming (Somewhere) Maciej and I went for a morning of backcountry last Thursday up on top of Medicine Bow Peak and got in a good four laps, making it home in time to shower and
Adventures 八甲田 - Hakkouda Like I said, this last weekend was an overnight backcountry trip up in Aomori-ken, the northernmost prefecture on 本州 (honshyu), the main island of Japan. I'm going to relate the story of the
Adventures Ubagatake Another weekend, another backcountry trip. The crew was mostly familiar faces: Kazumi, Zunko, Kanji, Satoko (from the first trip) and one new face, Jun. Throw me in the mix and you'll come up
boardgame Two AM South of Sendai At last, at last, my camera is fixed (this is how it broke). This weekend, while riding home from playing a board game at a friend's place south of Sendai, I couldn't help
Adventures The Big Backcountry Once again thanks to Takeuchi-san, I hit Yamagata's backcountry on the 15th. The size of the group got a little out of control on this one though... The main thing I remember from
Adventures Holidays Part 3, Back to Zhao I wrapped up my errands and met friends early in the morning at Sendai Station on the 28th to take another trip out to Zhao. This time we'd be staying the night and
Adventures Holidays Part 1, Christmas This post: a catch-up of what's happened since the backcountry trip all the way up to Christmas day. Leading up to Christmas Swingy Christmas There was a "Swingy Christmas" swing dance party with