Street Cows, Chaotic TukTuks and Complete Coexistence: Understanding India as...
Image: Old Delhi contained by the paid entrance to the Fatehpuri Masjid Mosque Until India, I have never been so encaptured by a culture that I didn’t want to leave it. The food is probably the best in...
View Article7 Things to Know Before Traveling to India
Image: On camel safari in Jaisalmer Tired, frustrated and probably confused are how you will feel many times in India. Either from interacting with the complex culture formed uniquely and richly over...
View ArticleDo You Know the True Cost of #vanlife #nomadtravels #sabatical ?
Interactive map of my last 270 days of travel. Going full time traveling to visit all the national parks, live simply, seek wilderness and travel the world has been sold as the ideal dream and fully...
View ArticleClimbing is Community: Mountain Project Admin Meetup in Red Rocks
Leaving Las Vegas after four full days climbing on abnormally bomber red, black and tan sandstone, I found myself contemplating how special the climbing community really is. This trip centered around a...
View ArticleHow to Climb Yosemite 5.10 Trad
This last year I’ve been trying to break into 5.10- trad. Being the stronger climbing partner of my team, that often meant pushing myself on lead. However, decking from blown gear last August lost a...
View ArticleReturn to the Weirdest Granite You’ve Ever Seen: Shuteye Ridge (Big Sleep)
Shuteye Ridge is a place I love sharing with people. It has crazy interesting granite unlike I’ve seen anywhere else with its dark runnels and plates of knobs. It is also the place I lead sport for the...
View Article3000 ft of Sustained California Needles Climbing
The California Needles can be described as alpine cragging. A mix of Lover’s Leap style multi-pitch and Toulumne Meadows dome extrusions with decent approaches. Most climbs are on splitter cracks 5.9...
View ArticleGoing to Temple at 13,000 ft on Moon Goddess Arete
“I could actually die or get seriously injured out here”, plunged into my brain stem at 12,500 ft, six hours into my climb of Temple Crag on Moon Goddess Arete. I had just lifted my foot off a...
View ArticleThe Dead Mouse on the Rae Lakes Loop
The Rae Lakes Loop is a 38 mile, ~8,000 ft elevation gain loop that, even with those statistics, makes it maybe the easiest loop in SEKI. Not only that, it hosts strikingly wide valley views of lake...
View ArticleOffsetting Adventure: How to Pay the Climate Cost of Travel
I live my life in nature, with the environment, so I’m especially invested in conservation, keeping things wild and #protectpublicland. I bicycle everywhere, eat mostly vegetarian, don’t fly that much...
View ArticleWhat do you get when you mix Red Rocks, Zion, Fiery Furnace and a lack of people
Some of the most enjoyable trips I’ve had are pulling into to medium-small climbing areas where I have no expectations and being blown away by the rock and route quality. The availability of camping...
View ArticleRappelling a Pile of Rocks in Death Valley
Death Valley feels like a place people are told to visit but then don’t know what to do when they get here. It’s an American road trip destination where people drive through to stop for ten minutes at...
View ArticleAcknowledging and Overcoming Psychological and Stress Injury in Climbing
One of the most striking parts I remember about Free Solo, featuring Alex Honnold trying free solo 3000 granite feet of El Cap, was when he was filling out his mental health questionnaire before an...
View ArticleHow to Ski Up a Log and an Ogoul Peak
I had the joy to join my friend Ayelet on her quest to winter ascend the 65 Ogoul Peaks in Tahoe. I’m not a list person myself, but its super fun to join people on their objectives. PLUS, if you climb...
View Article0 to 1: Being One of the First Tourists to Saudi Arabia
I spent eight days in “Barricade City”, a.k.a. Riyadh, a.k.a. “Oasis”, a.k.a. the capital city (and birthplace) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In March 2019 Saudi was on the cusp of progressive...
View ArticleJourney to the Edge of the World – Saudi Arabia
No good Backcountry Nomad trip is complete without an expedition into nature. Exiting the sprawling, status-hungry, car-obsessed city of Riyadh, I set my sights on visiting “The Edge of the World”. I...
View ArticleHow to be a Super Slacker Yosemite Climber
It. Has. Stopped. Raining!!! For nearly the first weekend since December, it was no longer raining in California so we could get out and climb. It is very snowy in Yosemite Valley, but Down Canyon is...
View ArticleQuiet Oceanside Cruxes on Memorial Day
On Memorial Day weekend I had to get creative after having to abandon my Sonora Pass destination due to an abnormally wet Spring. Using my Where To Climb App I was able to find somewhere dry, it was...
View ArticleReading Braille on Higher Cathedral
The prior weekend I spent two hours leading one 100ft sustained 10b off-width. Having to clear cams on lead 3-4 times after they fixed themselves bumping them on Mental Block. Which kinda told me that...
View Article30 Pitches, 20 Costumes, 12 hrs of fun
Every year I do something fun to celebrate my Birthday. It started with Half Dome cables in 2012 and continued to include backcountry river fording adventure in the Eastern Sierra and an overnight at...
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