Being a field instructor for the NOLS is like being in Never Never Land. Most of us work hard to get here. We build our resumes, pay for courses, usually…
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Students always ask me for my favorite type of climbing. These days that is a tricky question. Years ago the answer would have been snow and ice covered mountains. More…
“Can I make an appointment for an oil change?” “Sure I got something available tomorrow afternoon.” “Mmmm, that won’t work, I need the 8th of August.” “Oh, that is a…
Twenty eight hours and ten minutes. Damn that little red notebook that innocently and quietly recorded my dreams and goals, even then it continued to haunt me. I think that…
This is a rough draft of a chapter from the forthcoming guidebook that is to be published by Fixed Pin Publishing. Eph Hanks Tower Eph Hanks Tower is named for…
“Whoa, look. People. With shovels!” I exclaim as the band of brothers that is a Wind River Mountaineering course and I wander along an absurdly snowy creek ten miles into…
We spent the overcast and wet day practicing skills. Placing snow protection, clipping through fixed pro, traveling on a rope team, ice axe use and self arresting. We were at…
Bryan Klahn isn’t a bad guy. In fact, in the time frame that I knew him, he was a really fun guy with whom to hang out. But being a…
I wake up. Sometimes it is in the back of my truck, sometimes in a tent. It is usually in a sleeping bag. I usually mutter something like “oh fuck”…
My 33rd birthday came and went without much fanfare. I climbed a bunch of fun face routes up on the Zappa Wall in Cochise Stronghold. I decided that I wanted…
I own an iPod, but I rarely use it. I can drive 15 hours without the radio in my truck being on. I don’t need music or that type of…
“Yeah, my parents still live in NH, err, I mean my mother still lives in NH” I often find myself saying when someone asks if I have family in NH. …
In the mornings, Tim, myself, perhaps Julia, or Brian, or anyone else who was there would sit around and be creative. Sometimes that would take the form of carving spoons. …
Climbing is what I do. It is a big part of who I am. It is a one word descriptor of me that I sometimes use: “I am a climber.” …