The Salem Summits Project
The high places have always called to me. I don’t know if it’s the perspective gained, the sense of personal accomplishment, or just...
Mount Adams via the South Spur
Climbing before dawn is always special. I can vividly remember scenes from every alpine start we’ve embarked on, and cherish them all. ...
Mount Hood via the Old Chute
My best climbs have been all been characteristically noncommittal. Without the pressure of achieving a summit, some normally subtle...
The Little Matterhorn
Little Matterhorn is located in Colorado with an elevation of 11586 feet. Rory and I decided to climb it on August 18 2015 during an...
Mt. Shasta via Clear Creek
This one lined up so nicely! Shasta made our calendar ages ago, we got Mark Penewit on board at some point this spring, then a couple...
Worm Flows of Mount St. Helens
It feels good to start things. To stop dreaming (or worrying in my case) and to start doing. This climb had been on our minds for...
Learning to Multi-Pitch
Michelle and I learned to multipitch climb by setting up a belay station on the second floor balcony of her apartment in Bolivar, MO. It...
Canyoneering Shop Creek, Arkansas
"Good judgement is the result of experience, experience is the result of bad judgement" - Mark Twain It wasn't a first descent, or even...
Canyons and Summits in Zion National Park
Michelle and I stumbled into the world of canyoneering a couple years ago on a trip through Utah’s National Parks. We’d borrowed a rope,...
Into to Canyoneering: Spry Canyon, ZNP
It was our third day in Zion. We’d been up Angel’s landing on Sunday, top down through the narrows on Monday, and were feeling mighty...
