Hardest Onsight!
“It hurts to sit here. My body is worked..” says Robyn via g-chat. It helps me remember back to the Monday’s of spring and summer 2009 and 2010 returning home from our weekly 5-and...
Fish Food
Each year the water flowing from the Magic Reservoir into the Big Wood river just south of town here is cut off, draining the river and leaving behind a dizzying channel of water grooved basalt. This ...
Pure Magic
Weekends always go way too fast. I love the feeling of… free mornings, days, and longer, later nights. Something like that. It’s mid-Monday morning here now. Slightly breezy, cool, and the...
The Silent City
It’s a hard life to give up – life on the road. It was amazing how quickly we fell into a routine. A vague idea of what was next. Checking the weather once a week and the atlas once a minute. ...
Robyn sends first 5.12!!! Atomic Burgers!
My left arm was asleep and my face was mashed awkwardly in my pillow as I woke at 5 AM this morning for no apparent reason. Although I brushed, flossed AND rinsed, my breath still tasted of french-fri...
Dierkes Weekend Bouldering
Here is a video of our weekend featuring bouldering in Twin Falls, ID at Dierkes Lake. Robyn and I have been climbing on rope ALL summer aside from one day at Smith and an afternoon at the Buttermilks...
Detours
Turning north on highway 93 we drove through a broad sagebrush filled valley before stopping at the Mt. Borah Trailhead. The sign gave us the stats of the climb, over 5,000 vertical feet in 3.5 miles&...
Hooligans
The Fins has quickly become our go-to weekend crag thus far here in Hailey. During our first visit we both surprised ourselves with hard sends and gutsy onsights, and we were excited to find a motivat...