I Love a Multisport Day

April 11th, 2012

My mountain gear outweighs all of my other possessions by several times in weight, volume, and cost (car exclu ..
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Courtes & Co.

March 31st, 2012

One tiny little section in the immense Mt Blanc Massif deserves special mention, in my opinion. It’s a small b ..
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Lost Arrow Spire

June 9th, 2009

Lost Arrow Spire: A pillar of granite that rises thousands of feet above the Yosemite valley floor. We climbed the tip of the spire from the valley rim and hung out on the summit for an afternoon before heading back to have a swim…
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El Capitan, Yosemite Amusement Park

October 28th, 2008

We could never see the summit, and usually not the base. The wall exerts a gravity perpendicular to the rest of the Earth’s, a pull that only vaguely counteracts the massive yawing abyss, the sky, that is on every other side of you; below, above, and behind…
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