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Lone Pine Peak via North Ridge Trad/Alpine, Grade III Sierra Nevada/ Inyo County, California 12,949 ft (3,947 m)   Peakbagging is a form of emotional

North Peak via North Couloir AI2, Ice, Alpine, 800 ft, 6 pitches, Grade III Sierra Nevada/ Tuolumne County, California 12,248 ft (3,733 m)   Those

Thunderbolt Peak via North Couloir 5.9, Trad/Snow/Alpine, 1000′, Grade III Sierra Nevada/ Inyo County, California 14,009 ft (4,270 m)   For me, the value of

  Mt Russell via Fishhook Arete 5.9, Trad/Alpine, 8 pitches, 1000′, Grade III Sierra Nevada/ Inyo County, California 14,094 ft (4,296 m)   A sense

Mt Rainier via Liberty Ridge Ice, Snow, Alpine 10500′, Grade IV Cascade Range / Mount Rainier National Park, Washington 14,411 ft (4,392 m)   Mountains

Frogland, 5.8 Trad, 6 pitches, 700′, Grade III Red Rocks Canyon, Las Vegas, Nevada (March, 2018)   It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Alpine Climbing in Sequoia Sequoia National Park, California (March, 2018)    “Mountaineering is cleverly finding the easiest way up a mountain. Alpine climbing is cleverly

American Alpine Club: 20 of 20,000 A United Community Of Competent Climbers And Healthy Climbing Landscapes ~ American Alpine Club   To read my story

Ice Climbing in Bozeman Bozeman, Montana (December, 2017) The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters ~ Conrad Anker  

Solar Slab, 5.7 Trad, 13 pitches, 1220′, Grade III Red Rocks Canyon, Las Vegas, Nevada   What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it