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Apr 1, 2026 Buckskin? View Message

Mar 30, 2026 Yes!  Along the start of the Blue Lake Traverse.Yerrup! View Message

Mar 30, 2026 A little more to the South. This is a view that you’ll only get from an adjoining peak.  View Message

Mar 30, 2026 Go a bit further south.  View Message

Mar 29, 2026 My first attempt on the NEB was on a wickedly hot June day in 1983 where I got heinously stoned on the approach and bailed after two pitches.Two weeks later I swung leads on it… View Message

Mar 29, 2026 Wow, you really nailed me on that one!  What I meant to say was that for that particular trip, gas would be a minor concern. 55 gallons of petrol and about 75 grams of Jet… View Message

Mar 29, 2026 Two pictures of the Indian Peaks Wilderness taken near my house to illustrate how low the snowpack is this year. April 27, 2022March 28, 2026 View Message

Mar 28, 2026 Every year around end of March/beginning of April I drive the 470 miles each way from Boulder to Bears Ears to backpack a different remote canyon. I do this alone and so pay fo… View Message

Mar 28, 2026 To correct the quoted post: according to the Boulder County Property Viewer, all of the Forsythe peaks are on private land, not USFS, and there is no public way to access any o… View Message

Mar 27, 2026 Right state, wrong range.  View Message

Mar 27, 2026 Name the tall peak on the left. View Message

Mar 27, 2026 Looks like Chocorua from the northeast? View Message

Mar 23, 2026 View Message

Mar 12, 2026 What a wonderful and full life lived on his own terms!  Cheers George, rest in peace and contentment!I got to climb with George a bit back in the early 1980s when I was in… View Message

Mar 12, 2026 I just saw this thread get bumped after a decade.  I spent the summer of 1981 climbing almost daily with John in Eldo and Lumpy Ridge. Here’s a few scans from slides… View Message

Feb 27, 2026 One for the ice climbers:Microscopic view of your skin cells during the ‘screaming barfies’. View Message

Jan 28, 2026 It is with a heavy heart that I am sharing this news. I have no words except to say thank you for everyone who contributed to Greg’s fundraiser, or shared their thoughts… View Message

Jan 4, 2026 Just before I moved from New Hampshire to the Front Range of Colorado, I took my 20+ year old daughter to a newly opened gym. To protect the innocent, I will not name the city… View Message

Dec 20, 2025 Bobcat in my backyard.Guarding a mule deer carcass.And the neighborhood elk clan.My dog is not a fan of either, as she is now limited to only on-leash play for a while. View Message

Dec 5, 2025 Claudio, I wish that I could answer your question, but cannot at present. I have been honoring Elizabeth’s original request to not inundate her with inquiries during this… View Message

Nov 27, 2025 Along the San Juan River.“I’m not an ass, you’re an ass!”Bad hair days really get my goat.Taken this Thanksgiving morning.  She has an excellent ch… View Message

Nov 27, 2025 Bump for friends that we’re thinking about on this day of giving thanksGreg on the left, and Guy Kenny, who organized the fundraiser, on the right.Greg is a geologist and… View Message

Nov 26, 2025 Several times a year we get this view from our front door as the herd of 100+ elk enjoy our yard.There’s little else as exciting as taking the dog out for her evening pot… View Message

Nov 26, 2025 Hi everyone, I wanted to share a brief update on Greg’s injury, suffered November 2 when he fell 70’ after having his rope sever on Chockstone in Eldo. Details in t… View Message

Oct 10, 2025 I lived in New Hampshire for 51 years, so desert towers weren’t exactly convenient. I made a bunch of western trips to Yosemite, the Tetons, and even Indian Creek, but ne… View Message

Oct 7, 2025 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.It’s more of a collection of individual essays than a novel, so it’s easy to read a chapter every so often when I need it… View Message

Oct 7, 2025 On my first trip to the Valley, my partner and I walked in to the Cookie Cliff and found a couple of obvious hardmen roping up under an inside corner. To get our bearings, we a… View Message

Oct 2, 2025 View Message

Sep 27, 2025 This should be a lay-up. Photo taken in August of 1985, the day before I climbed this face.If you know that you know it, go ahead and post a new one. I’m going to bed.Nex… View Message

Sep 27, 2025 Mt. Stanley? View Message

Sep 18, 2025 A new piece of rope walks into a bar and is promptly thrown out by the bartender, who cries, “get outta here, we don’t serve your kind.”Dejected, the rope lea… View Message

Sep 17, 2025 On Cathedral alone: Airation, Pine Tree Eliminate, Diedre, Nutcracker, Nomad Crack, and Lichen Delight all come immediately to mind. Edited to add Jack the Ripper.Vultures on S… View Message

Sep 12, 2025 In college I was once hired as a stuntman and extra on a small period movie for PBS. We were filming in an abandoned 80’ tall quarry, and I had to hand over hand a hemp r… View Message

Sep 6, 2025 Edit: This controversially bolted route is just downhill from hoards of touron units. I bet you have figured out the area already.  View Message

Sep 5, 2025 Oil based enamel: use Japan drier.Water based enamel: blow on it. How is this related to climbing?  Are you marking gear?Edit: Yes, you can use a hair dryer on no or… View Message

Aug 30, 2025 View Message