When we biked the White Rim Road in Canyonlands NP in the spring of 2012 I filmed a lot of video. I mounted cameras on both my bike and the Jeep that Rich drove. So this is a mix of biking and 4WDing.
Pacaya Volcano and the Portal to Hell
When we got out of the van we were immediately surrounded by a dozen boys wielding large sticks. Let me explain. We were in Antigua, Guatemala, in 2008 and we took a day trip to Volcán de Pacaya, an active volcano nearby. It’a not Volcán de Agua, the large...
Sawatch Fourteener 5-Pack: Shavano-Tabeguache, Belford-Oxford, & Mount of the Holy Cross
Mount Shavano & Tabeguache Peak I pulled out of the garage two hours before dawn for the two hour trip to the Blank Gulch trailhead. As passed Mt Princeton & My Antero, the clouds hung low as the sun came up. The weather was going to be iffy, but...
A Big Day Climbing Capitol Peak
I was not going to mess around with climbing Capitol Peak. By consensus it’s the most difficult Fourteeneer. Many climbers have died attempting it. I took days of classes from the Colorado Mountain Club; backpacked & camped for a week of nights; and hiked, scrambled, & climbed multiple mountains....
A Grumpy Day on Mount Lindsey
I didn’t like Mount Lindsey and it didn’t like me either. After Crestone Needle we’d backpacked down the South Colony Lakes Road in a rush to be able to drive & find a campsite near the Lily Lake trailhead before it got dark. We did make it with daylight...
That Awesome Rock on Crestone Needle
H & I climbed Crestone Peak in 2017. After two trips up Cottonwood Canyon to the Crestones, I’d had enough of that trail. For climbing Crestone Needle in 2019, we’d do the standard route from South Colony Lakes. The road up to the South Colony Lakes Trailhead is not...
Little Bear Peak
The best part of climbing Blanca and Ellingwood in 2016 was the knowledge that I would never have to walk that Lake Como road for the rest of my life. It’s rocky, it’s long, it’s unpleasant. But somehow, there I was again, walking up that rock-strewn abomination of a...
Sawatch 3-Pack: Mount Yale, Missouri Mountain, & Huron Peak
The hardest part of climbing Fourteeners is the driving. Yeah, there’s the scrambling and the backpacking and the camping and the elevation — but nothing’s harder than that drive. If you take one trip for each Fourteener, that’s over 50 separate trips with most being multi-hour drives each way....
Chicago Basin 1: Sunlight & Windom Peaks
We finally reached the Siesta Motel in Durango after the long car ride from Denver, stopping only for a Thai lunch in Poncha Springs. We were four — Julie, Jake, Marina, & myself — and we had a coal-fed steam train to catch in the morning. The plan? Ride...
Two Day Hikes in The Needles, Canyonlands NP
Last November we took a quick trip to Utah. One of the places we visited was The Needles district in Canyonlands NP. We done lots in Utah, but never managed to make it to The Needles. The days were short and the nights were chilly, but we had the...
