I call myself a climber. It’s part of my identity – both in how I see myself and in how I present myself to the world. My Facebook is full of rock climbing photos. My Twitter and Instagram list me as a climber, skier, runner, and LIFE enthusiast. I never...
International trips are awesome. They deliver you to a new space and time where you experience different people and cultures and places and things. Traveling abroad can be incredibly transformative and spectacularly eye-opening. International trips are difficult. They...
For the March/April edition of Mountaineer magazine, I was privileged to write about my friend Miles McDonough, a volunteer rescuer for both the Snohomish County Helicopter Rescue Team and Everett Mountain Rescue. Miles was already devoting his free time to rescue...
Maybe someday the excitement of getting a shiny new magazine with my words in it will wear off, but for now I’m still super stoked to see my articles in print! For our January/February issue of Mountaineer, I wrote a piece on mixed climbing with Roger Strong. An...
For our last two days in Croatia, we found some truly spectacular climbing in Limski Kanal. Situated right along a tributary from the Adriatic Sea, these limestone walls were truly a climbers paradise. With so many routes in the 5s and 6s, we had our pick of...
In my last post I told you about rock climbing near Pula, and now here’s how we spent the rest of our day – swimming in the Adriatic Sea! Croatia is kind of shaped like a sideways “u” (if you turn it 110 degrees to the right). Most people...
