Each year, many of us take the last few days of the year to reflect on what we have accomplished, where we missed the mark, and what we would like to achieve in the next year. Resolutions, promises, goals, call them what you will. I simply call mine: "Six Rules for 2014". Nothing too crazy,
When I got to Jökulsárlón near Vatnajökull National Park I was kinda bummed at the weather. Actually I was really bummed. It was very overcast, foggy, and rainy. I had myself convinced that taking photos was not going to yield me anything worthwhile. Then I looked out over the icy lagoon toward a monster glacier and saw
With the weather getting more and more chilly, the leaves beginning to fall off the trees after their outburst of color, and the coming holiday season, I am starting to get the itch for snow. So in an attempt to alleviate this itch slightly, I dug through photos from last winter and came across this
Hundreds of climbers and outdoor types descended upon the campus of SUNY New Paltz this past weekend for a different type of class. The annual Reel Rock Tour, now in it's 7th year was showing it's four films and the excitement couldn't have been higher. This years films were: The Dura Dura, The Sharks Fin, Wide Boyz,
We neared the Red Banks at around 12,000 feet on Mount Shasta. We were blowing out calories faster than we could pack them in, but we pressed on. The weather was bluebird, at the temperature just about perfect. We couldn't have asked for a better day to summit one of California's most magnificent volcanoes. Truly
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
Last week, I stepped on to the snow covered slopes of Mount Shasta in N0rthern Califoria, and didn't look back. We ascended to 9500 feet the first night and set camp on a snowfield under a blanket of stars. The next day we made our summit bid. Here is video montage of our summit day.
Daily Photo - Sunrise At Columbia Crest After hours and hours of marching up the glaciated slopes of Mount Rainier, we had arrived at the crater rim. In total darkness we now sat within the caldera of an active stratovolcano. Still glowing with the excitement of a kid on Christmas, I through my down jacket
Daily Photo - The Man In The Rock Bill and I were on our way out of Moab and heading toward the Ice Cream Parlor wall for a day of climbing. The Ice Cream Parlor wall sits a few miles down a desolate canyon along a dirt road, so the drive out took a bit
I stepped off the paved trail, my boot plunged into the sun ripened snow of the Muir Snowfield. Standing majestically, miles above me the glaciated slopes of Mount Rainier called to me. After months of training, fundraising, and traveling to smaller mountains to test my mettle, I had arrived, It all came down to this