Descending Dante’s down Typhon (Middle South Fork)
It’s Death Valley Season! In early December ’25 I got back out to Death Valley for a small group trip with some besties and high value canyons. The day after Fossil Snail Canyon (EPIC), we descended...
View ArticleBariloche: Central Lakes District of Patagonia
Bariloche is the ski-epicenter of Argentina, a major summer trekking destination, the main airport for the Lakes District in Central Patagonia and is incredibly beautiful in all seasons. This is a...
View ArticleThe Logistics of Climbing at Refugio Frey
When my friends showed me the spires ringing the cirque outside the Frey Refugio, I was an immediate yes to join them on their trip down to Argentina, centering on Bariloche. This isn’t the High Andes,...
View ArticleClimbing the Aquila (Needles) and Torres (Towers) of Frey, Argentina
From the Frey Refugio, it’s hard to count all the climbable towers circling the Laguna Tonchek, but it’s easy to imagine their shapes as cannons, faces, animals, chopsticks and hand gestures. The...
View ArticleEl Bosque Tallado in Bolsón, Argentina
El Bolsón is described as a hippy town and that is kind of true with a large artist market and many wood sculptures at the center and nearby Lago Puelo. That said, it is kinda a commercialized artistic...
View ArticleThe Seven Lakes Road on Ruta 40 to San Martin de los Andes
Between Bariloche and San Martin de los Andes is the Seven Lakes Road section of Ruta 40 that really encapsulates so much of the Lakes District reputation of beauty. Every twenty minutes in this 100...
View ArticleShooting the Pipe in Ifelou Ihedan Canyon, Morocco
I wasn’t sure what to expect from my first technical canyon in the Tafraout area of Morocco’s Anti-Atlas Mountains. There is a short French canyoneering book here, a guide company, but it’s not...
View ArticleSpontaneity in the Grand Canyon of the Aoukerda
Rains from a couple days prior canceled my canyoning trip due to high cold flow so I laid in bed, considering whether I drive South to see how the Anti-Atlas Mountains transition to the Sahara Desert....
View ArticleHidden Pools in Ifni Canyon, Morocco
Ifni Canyon was my second technical canyon with Ahmed from Anti-Atlas Adventures after Ifelou Ihedan (V4 A3 II, 60m). It was a very natural canyon with a lot of deeper pools requiring swimming and it...
View ArticleClimbing in the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Tafraout
While it was sport climbing on the steep canyon walls of the Todra Gorge that caught my eye to put Morocco on my map, it was the area of Tafraout that solidified my trip. The Anti-Atlas Mountains are...
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