Never touched a mountain growing up in Chicago. Started climbing in NC and WV when in grad school. Gorgeous mountains and rivers and hills that are like another world away now. Been in SoCal a while, familiar with local spots, and JTree, Idyllwild, Big Bear, Yosemite, Sierra Eastside.

Love leading on gear, bolt clip some, boulder now and then. Favs: Joshua Tree, Tahquitz, Needles, Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne, Sierra Eastside, Lover's Leap, Red Rock, New River Gorge, Paradise Forks, Sedona, Moab and Indian Creek, Black Canyon and Gunnison, Eldo, South Platte, Squamish, La Huasteca Mexico.