As I gear up for any trip, my plans seem to fall together organically. I start out with the big picture, and everything else seems to fall in place. My upcoming late September trip to Utah is no exception. When I started thinking about where I wanted to head next, the only thing I really
The Pacifc Northwest is really awesome! This post has nothing to do with that. Today i'm talking about the Atlantic Northeast. Is that a thing? Do people say that? I'm not sure, but I like it so I will use it. Acadia National Park has been on my radar as a place to visit for
It has been nearly two years since I climbed to the summit of Mount Rainier in Washington, but I think about it all the time. It was one of the proudest moments of my life and through that experience I met a lot of great people, all with different reasons for being there. In this
So I finally have decided to go to Iceland. I'm not sure what inspired me to go there initially, but I know I have wanted to for a while and well, now I get to go! Well, not right now, but in May. Why exactly should anyone go to Iceland, you might ask? Well I
There is no doubt that air travel can be a hassle, but combine the equipment needed for traditional rock climbing, and you may be ready to pull your hair out. That is why I put this video together to outline exactly what I travel with when I fly to a climbing destination. http://youtu.be/nf2Dwnx_D6Y The run
This has been baffling me for quite some time. One of the places where A group of friends and I climb has become home to this disheveled looking couch.
I know i've shared this photo before, but after a little tweaking and more thinking about it, I had to share it again. It was late August, but you wouldn't know that by looking at menagerie of snow and ice that surrounded me. The temperature was in the high twenties, and the winds, light and
Well folks, after over 3000 miles and nearly four days in the car, we have made it to the pacific northwest. Last night we made an unplanned stop in Seattle due to some nasty weather down in Smith Rocks that would have made for a soggy night of camping. So we did what any intelligent
I am back at it again, out on the road, and this time I head to Oregon and northern California to climb some of America's most well known volcanoes: Hood and Shasta. I'll making my way across the country in the next few days and will be sharing my story as I go, so keep
By - Bill Urbanski EDITOR’S NOTES: All teams on Denali are required to register their team names with the National Park Service. Stickers are provided to identify gear caches on the mountain. Our team name was TZT2 (“To Zee Top 2” – the first TZT team made an unsuccessful summit bid in 2007). TZT2 consisted