Another great weekend at the creek got wrapped up last night at the Dolores Brew Pub with my climbing partners Jared & Justin..along with several other Telluride mountain bikers that had gone down to Durango and Phil’s world for some warm temperature biking. The brew pub is revving up for its big halloween bashthis Friday, [...]

Always being one of those folks that subscribed to the old adage that sport climbing is Neither, now, in recent forays to Rifle, the Pool Wall in Ouray, and a few sport routes in Ophir, I may have changed my mind. Sport climbers have been saying this continually- it makes you stronger, you can push [...]

As the weeks pass, and snow begins to fly, I have slowly processed more from the big mountain experience.
Remembering images of the small children running up to our jeeps as we briskly breezed through and pasttheir fields and towns. Their small hands outreached and mournful eyes asking us for “pins”- pens. How I wished Ingrid [...]

Floating the Grand Canyon is a stunningly beautiful booze cruise with some extraordinary hikes and adventuring for your downtime. For those rowing & paddling, there is a lot more work involved. For those not, it is one of the best ways possibleto relax without sitting on a beach for hours on end. Throw in some [...]

Telluride talent & film guru, Alexa Warren,and team are currently filming BagIT a documentary film on the world-wide use of plastic bags and their impact on the environment, human health with proposed alternatives and solutions for this growing problem.
Several of the issues that they are uncovering include:
Plastic bags are made from petroleum and [...]

With another alpine start, at about4:30am onThursday, my old housemate & climbing buddy, Jeff Haskell, and I headed over to the Black Canyon to climb..the last time he and I were over there together was about5 years ago and we did the two moderates- Maiden Voyage and Casually Off-Route- both 5.9s- over a weekend.
We got [...]

High altitude climber & fellow backcountry.com team member Don Bowie & I headed up to Salt Lake City on Friday to meet andsocialize with the Backcountry.com Office Goat Herd.
First stop on Friday was the South ridge of Mt Superior for a fun ridge scramble with backcountry.com photographer & photo editor Tommy Chandler. We got a [...]