Travels and Vagabonds
Finally after a couple weeks off of rest due to my hurt ankle, I visited Ben, Garret and Bruce in Golden to introduce Garrett to Colorado climbing. Saturday ended up being a scorcher of a day. I made sure to get some rays while climbing.
Continue reading “Table Mountain and Boulder Canyon (revisit)”
Vast and Sandy
Another trip to the sand dunes was taken in the midst of winter. Alexis was in town so I dragged her on the three hour trip down to one of the stranger national parks. We lucked up and the morning haze which hung around the Front Range on the drive down, burned out or blew away, so we were left with bluebird skys.
Sunny Snowshoeing
The last Sunday in January, I took the new snowshoes out for a stroll on the backside of Pikes Peak. I attempted to head up to the crags, but ran into vehicle trouble when 4-wheel drive went out. So instead, I made my way back down and hiked around Mueller State Park.
Crack Monsters
In Middle of January some more climbing was done. The first obstacle to overcome was me being trapped at work on a Saturday for a IT cutover. Things didn’t proceed well and Saturday became a complete washout. That night, Ben and Amanda showed up and we got ready for a trip down to Shelf road on Sunday morning.
Family Fun
In December, I headed home for Christmas again to much delight. This year everyone would be home, and everyone would have lots of fun. All the fun was made possible by a company-wide shutdown that let everyone take time off and not come back way behind on work.
North Table Mountain
On December 11th on a snowy tundra laden day, I went up to North Table Mountain outside of Golden, Co. The small rocks cliffs of basalt get nice winter sun and produced some nice warming temperatures on the rock.
Snowy 14er
Saturday 29th, I climbed Mount Bierstadt with Kyle Barnoff. This was a very late season, if not a winter attempt on a 14er. Not knowing that this was going to be the first 14er for Kyle, it turned out to be a memorable one none the less.
Costa Rica
After many years of dreaming and saving, things finally came together for a trip down to Costa Rica. Aiming for the beginning of the dry season, Alexis and I set off for a week in a location that is 10 degrees above the equator.
Continue reading “Costa Rica: Pura Vida”
Magic in Wolf Creek
Friday night, Eli texted me and let me know that Wolf Creek got an amazing 3 feet of pow and that they would be the first ski area to open (needless to say extremely impressive for OCT 8th!). The only catch was a 4 hr drive to the pass.
Continue reading “Wolf Creek: October Opening Snowday 2011”
Turkey Cracks
The first Sunday in October, I finally made it up to Turkey Rocks after several failed attempts. The 4×4 road to the rock was pretty gnarly and I met Dave about halfway there.
Continue reading “Turkey Rocks: Turkey Perch”