My brother Kyle and I kept up a fairly new Christmas tradition by skiing up Boreas Pass Road. Unfortunately, Grant was unable to join us this year, but on the plus side we had a few new inches of powder to slip through. Starting out cloudy, the conditions gradually cleared, first only hinting at the [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Skiing Boreas Pass Road
Posted in skiing, tagged Boreas Pass Road, ski touring on December 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Der Freischutz and Friends
Posted in climbing, tagged Der Freischutz, Dinosaur Rock, Flatirons, Red Devil, rock climbing, scrambling on December 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Following a short drive up to Boulder’s NCAR parking lot, I hit the trails and left the few people behind who were also out this early as I turned up the Mallory Cave Trail. I’d never been to this part of the flatirons before and had a lot of rock formations to sort out and [...]
Aid and Sport
Posted in climbing on December 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Plans to go bouldering with Jenn fell through (get well soon!) so I decided on a solo day up at nearby North Table Mountain to work on some aid climbing skills. At 9:30 I was the first car in the lot and hiked up to the cliffs. After initially setting a top rope over Lemons, [...]
Mr. Natural
Posted in climbing, tagged Eldorado Canyon, Mr. Natural, rock climbing on December 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
50 degrees, mostly sunny, should be a nice day right? Well, there was that wind in the forecast. Jenn and I met in the nearly vacant parking lot in Eldo at 10 for a pre-climb tailgate brunch (donuts and cold pancakes). Walking up to the Redgarden Wall we warmed up and found the 5.8 Mr. [...]
Midwest
Posted in hiking, tagged Alpine Styles, Beer Mile, Bloomington Hikers, Tecumseh Trail Marathon on December 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Looking at an AM departure for a two week trip back to the midwest, I spent my last night in Golden at the opening of the Alpine Styles art exhibit at the American Mountaineering Center. While there I finally met Chris Pruchnic, the chair of the American Alpine Club’s Front Range section. I launch out [...]
