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Recent Goings On

Adventuring in the spirit of Everett Ruess and Dee Snyder

Paying Daily Homage, Neff’s, winter whenever

Well… with grad school in full force I’ve fully neglected my posts…

I doubt I’ll get much more posted, but overall this summer and fall has been spectacular- Big Willow Cirque, Triple Traverse, DesNews Marathon, countless random runs, Portland, some wicked climbs (and a myriad of other funk). I’ll try to get some new stuff up soon. Until then, best wishes.

Welcome Back Kotter

Holidays 2009 Kevin returns to crew for some Wasatch magic.

Stansbury Island Traverse

November 2009 Back to finish what I started three years earlier.

Howell Peak

March 2009 I neglected to post this fine adventure earlier. We couldn’t decide between climbing

chossy limestone or hiking an odd peak. As usual the oddity won.

Wasatch 100 2009

Sept 11, 2009 Turning the heat on- my third trip down Wasatch spine.

Timpanogus Traverse

July 2009 A short traverse of the Indian maiden.

Logan Peak Run

June 2009 28 miles of thigh burnage.

Wellsville Range Traverse

June 2009 A northern jaunt.

Pocatello 50 Mile Run

May 2009 A wandering visit to the trails of southern Idaho.

The North Ridge of the Pfeifferhorn

May 2009 Nine years after first climbing this rat’s nest, Sparks and I set off on a fantastic spring ascent… and find the rodent still burrowed in.

Climbing at the Fantastic Ibex

March 2009 A goodbye trip for the Lord of the Lorax

Some Random Climbing Pics

I started going through some of my old (and new) pictures and this is what I found.

Archived Adventures from the Crypt:

Adventure Running Spanksgiving 2008 12-‘08 A quick warm up for family and dinner. “The Mount Olympus Wilderness Cleanup Event” aka The Millcreek Tour. 10-‘08 A speedy cleanup event through the darkness of the autumn Wasatch. Wasatch 100, 2008 I enter with trepidation, leave with new pride. Wind River’s Power Highline Attempt 8-‘08 Reed and Benson Ridge Traverse 7-‘08 Curiosity gets the best of me. Tour de Hogum 7-‘08 A quick training rampage through the Lone Peak Wilderness. Including soloing on Thunderbolt Ridge. Wahsatch Steeplechase 2008 I have another go at this fantastic race. Buffalo Run 2008 50k’s on Antelope Island in the Great Sea of Salt. Spankgiving Part II 11-‘07 An appetite inducing rally up Granduer peak, otra vez. Neff’s Return 11-07 A quick rally into a random nook of my old backyard. Wasatch 100! 2007 I finally tick this off my list (and possible add it to next year’s…) King’s Peak Number Six 7-‘07 A fine rampage up Utah’s higher peak. Wahsatch Steeplechase 2007 Quad-burning and stomach churning on this Wasatch fun run. Buffalo Run 2007 A downsized, foot breaking run on the grand Antelope Island of the Great Salt Lake. Stansbury Island Attempted Traverse 12-‘06 A cold solo romp on the feral Stansbury Island of the Great Salt Lake. Spanksgiving on Grandeur 11-‘06 Burning the turkey before it even hit the gullet. The Powerline 8-‘06 A run for our money and possibly our lives across the Highline Trail of the High Uintas of eastern Utah. Wild stallion. My personal narrative of this event can be found here. Thunder Mountain Hoping 7-‘06 A funky ascent of one of the Wasatch’s less visited summits. Salt Lake Marathon 6-‘06 26 miles of limping, strange folk music, and dreams of Skittles. Tushar Mountain Rambling 6-‘01 In search of the lonely atop central Utah’s higher range.

Skiing Tanner Gluch Corn Harvest 5-09 A quick boot and ski of this classic dumping ground. Cardiff-Nation 4-‘09 Holy Toledo, High Ivory, Mt. Superior, Cardiac Bowl, and no crowds(!). Kessler’s West Couloir 3-‘09 Whipple ‘sickle’ Couloir 3-‘09 More adventures in the Mt. Olympus Wilderness. Upper Maybird Gulch 3-‘09 Stairs Gulch March 2009 Well… it was either ski Bonkers under optimal conditions or rip this master while avoiding the avalanche disaster. It wasn’t much of a choice. Stairs proved to be a beautiful 4500’ run with some mandatory Stairy obstacle avoidance. C-Lassic. A Random Chute Off Pk 9750 2-‘09 Coalpit #4 2-‘09 Crow’s Foot 2-‘09 A sly descent of this crafty bird The Hypodermic Needle, aka The Needle, aka Dover, aka Deathride 2009 1-‘09 Spark, Kevin, and I set out to cross the elevator shaft of the perpetual list. Kessler’s East Couloir 1-‘09 Thomas Fork, North’s Fork 1-‘09 Mt. Aire Redux 1-‘09 Late Season Touring in the Uintas A couple of fine June ’08 ski descents- Mount Baldy and Haydens Peak. Little Pine Chute- 5-’08 Memorial Couloirs, Mt. Olympus- 4-‘08 God’s Lawnmower, Kesslers Peak- 4-‘08 Coalpit #4 - 4-‘08 Days Fork, Hallway Couloir, and Toledo Chute – 3-‘08 Benson and Hedges Couloir – 3-‘08 Cardiac Ridge – 2-‘08 Broads Fork, Bonkers – 2-‘08 Mt. Aire- 2-‘08 Thomas Fork (Round 2) 1-‘08 Upper Maybird 1-‘08 Thomas Fork 1-‘08 Last Turns on Mt. Superior 5-‘07 Deseret Peak 4-‘07 White Winter A retrospective of 2006 Skiing Lowe Peak Buttered Corn 4-‘06

Climbing Tatow Knob Halloween 2008 A fine ascent of this West Desert neglect. Guert’s Ridge, Mount Olympus June 2008 Excellent alpine climbing on the holy mountain. Zion Curtain Mid-October 2006 A quivering ascent of the wicked Arm and Hammer (5.10a A0), on the Middle Bell Tower in Bell’s Canyon, Utah. Mt. Helen and Titcomb Basin, Wind Rivers, Wyoming. Labor Day 2002 A fast bachelor rally onto the continental divide via Mt. Helen.

Random Range Creek Late September 2008 A trek into the bowels of the Tavaputs Plateau sponsored by my work. Desolation Canyon May 9-16 2007 A float into the bowels of the earth, in search. Lakeside Wanderings April 6, 2007 West and north to the west desert and the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Spiral Jetty A September pilgrimage to a northern Utah art installation Zion-ation 2004 A photographic précis of my 2004 National Park Service employment. I guess I’d better be more random.

Kevin breaking the long trail in Neff’s Canyon;

4000’ down, Wildcat Ridge in sight.

January 2006

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