| Dec 27th |
Christmas at the VRG |
Ellen, Ellis and I lovin'
it for 4 days at the VRG (photos) |
| Dec 18th |
Dawn Patrol |
a beauty day of great snow
with a HUGE BD posse before work (photos)
|
| Dec 15th |
Ellis swimming |
a mild Utah day - Ellis,
at 15 1/2, still getting it done in the river (photos) |
| Dec 14th |
Canmore Ice |
A week of rad climbing
in Canmore (Polar
Circus, Weathering
Heights, Professors,
Oh
le Tabernac, Recital
Hall) |
| Nov 18th |
Welcome Springs |
more photos from Welcome
Springs (photos) |
| Nov 11th |
Welcome Springs |
a ton of photos from the
weekend (photos) |
| Nov 11th |
southern Utah with Naoe |
Ellen and I spend the weekend
in Southern Utah with Naoe Sakishita - one of the most famous
alpinists now turned sport climber from Japan. Photos of Naoe
cranking on limestone (photos) |
| Oct 28th |
RedRocks |
a long route in RedRocks
(Dogma) with Ellen and Tom&Travis (photos) |
| Oct 22-23rd |
Desert Towers |
an amazing weekend climbing
desert towers with Metcalf - perfect weather, good routes, good
times - Jah Man & Fine Jade (photos) |
| Oct 14th |
Arm & Hammer |
it's hard to be believe
that there are RAD alpine granite rock routes a 20minute drive
and few hour hike from our house (photos) |
| Sep 25-Oct
2 |
Italian Dolomites |
to Italy for work, and
then some climbing with my buddy Jim (all
photos) |
| Sep 23rd |
Bruce & Christine Wedding |
A beautiful weather
weekend in Kimberly, BC for Bruce Kirkby & Christine's wedding.
I took many many many photos. Here are your options:
photos
from the Hike Only
photos
from the weddng only
Some
Favorites from the weekend
just
photos of Kirkby & Christine
just
photos of everything else |
| Sep 16th |
K's B-day |
some of the guys give me
a rad rocket for my b-day - check the
vid |
| Sep 14th |
Ellis - for 15 years |
It was 15 years ago on
Sep 14th, 1991 that I picked up Ellis from the breeder - see the
difference now and then (photos) |
| Sep 13th |
Mt. Stuart |
denied on the N. Ridge
due to wind, we wander up the West Ridge - a super good time (photos) |
| Sep 10th |
Perky's Wedding |
Every single guy in Utah
mourns as Vanessa and Perky get married (
many many many photos in no particular order) (some
of the better ones) |
| Sep 1st |
Rifle |
It finally cools down enough
to start going to Rifle - 4 days over labor day - so fun (photos) |
| Aug 26th |
Elephant's Perch |
Two weekends in a row climbing
with Santa - unbelievable and questionably bareable. (photos) |
| Aug 19th |
Tetons |
Somehow I manage to get
Santa off his bike and up to the hills for a weekend (Petzold
and Irene's) (photos) |
| Aug 16th |
Swimming |
Ellis SURE does love swimming.
Some shots from today at lunch (photos)
|
| Aug 14th |
Storm photos |
some rad lightning storms
over the Salt Lake Valley (photos) |
| Aug 11th |
Santa racing |
I lose 3 hours of my precious
life to go watch Santa ride his bike around in circles (photos) |
| July
30th |
more Maple |
more of the
same - lots of photos - not edited (takes too long) (photos) |
| July 29th |
Maple |
I had my dentist, yes dentist,
X-ray my pinky to find a very small hairline fracture. So I spent
the next two days dangling from a rope shooting people climbing
at the Pipedream (tons of photos, no editing) (see
photos) |
| July 22nd |
B-rad & Katie's wedding |
A beautiful evening up
at Snowbird. B-rad & Katie tie the knot. Belcourt presides
over the ceremony. A great day for sure (photos) |
| July 21st |
Ellis turns 15 |
The wonderful brown man
turns 15. Over 25 people and 8 dogs show up for his monumental
birthday party at Millcreek canyon. There was tons of swimming
(for the dogs) and yummy steak (even for Ellis) (photos) |
| July 9th |
Maple |
a crap load of shots of
people climbing steep hard cobble routes (photos) |
| June 14th |
Ellis loves swimming |
a video of Ellis doing
what he loves more than anything. There is a great spot right
near my work. I usually take Ellis there two or three times a
week (11MB) |
| June 3rd |
Kevin & Erika |
another flight back to
Toronto for wedding #2 - Kev and Erika in Kingston. Another fun
day. (photos) |
| May 28th -
June 2nd |
climbing in Canmore |
minutes after the wedding
I was on a plane to Calgary. A great day on the Icefields with
Raphael, having to turn back on a different route two days later
with Dave Carley, then a fun 12 pitch trad route on Chinaman's.
(photos)
|
| May 27th |
Kelly & Rahul's wedding |
My little sister gets married
to Rahul. A great wedding celebration in St. Catherines. See ONLY
88 of the 439 photos that I took. (photos) |
| May 20th |
Yukon Celebration |
our great friends plant
a tree in our yard to honor and remember Yukon (Yukon
Memorial Tree) |
| May 13th |
Heidi & Paul's wedding |
Ellen's younger sister
Heidi got married to Paul today in a beautiful ceremony and party
in Calgary. I have many many photos. click
here for select photos. Click here to see ALL
PHOTOS |
| May 7th |
Maple |
I took about a zillion
photos this weekend. It's too much of a pain to thin them out
a whole bunch, so I just throw away the brutal ones and post most
others. There are shots of the mutant Justen Sjong, Ellen, Ramsey,
Erik, Bailey, Carrie, Tom Adams, Alex & Mandy, Greg Houston,
Trent, Tom & Travis, and Chuckles (see
photos) |
| May 1st |
Yosemite |
a quick 3 day trip to the
Valley with Belcourt, B-rad and Perky. Classic routes, getting
the van stuck, one techno song, and a 14 hour drive home. (short
slideshow) (photos) |
| April 16th |
Maple |
Kevin Wilkinson sends
his hardest yet at the Pipedream (Devine Fury) 5.hard (photos
of the send)
good climbing at Maple
(photos) |
| April 15th |
Maple |
Chilly conditions, but
fun climbing at the Pipedream cave (photos) |
| April 14th |
at home |
some shots
of Ellis |
| April 9th |
Maple |
early season Maple - lots
of snow. Good thing we bumped into our friends Guy (and his dog
Mica) and Kevin & Carrie with a burly truck. Still - lots
of work and postholing (photos) |
| April 4th |
update |
sorry - it's been a
while since an update - I haven't been motivated. Ellen, Ellis
and I are getting by. Here are some pics I've taken lately.
On what would have been
Yukon's 11th birthday (Feb 4th) - just 3 days after he died,
we took Ellis for a big swimming session (photos)
Our friends Howard &
Kate have been cursing the weather - though we have got some
climbing in (photos)
Our friend Bill Ramsey
sent his latest hard project - the Route of All Evil at the
VRG on April 1st. Luckily I was there to grab a few photos of
the actual ascent (photos)
Our friend Tom Nay is
working this great route at Welcome Springs (photos)
Miscellaneous shots from
the last few weeks (misc
shots) |
| February 1st |
the saddest day ever |
Yukon
died suddenly this morning. He appeared to be 100% healthy yesterday.
I let him out, and when he came back in he stumbled and seemed
incoherent. He couldn't stand up and didn't want to eat anything.
We were getting ready to take him to the emergency vet when
there was a small yelp - his tongue was hanging out and his
eyes rolled back. We started to panic and were crying. I carried
him downstairs getting ready to put him in the car. I layed
him on the floor and he was gasping for breath. We were hugging
him and petting his head and crying and crying saying "no
Yuki, please Yuki, we love you Yuki, we love you". He died
about 5 minutes later - we were holding him in our arms. The
whole thing occurred within an hour.
We layed with him for I don't know how long - just crying and
petting him and telling him that we loved him. Finally we carefully
put him in the car and took him to the emergency vet where we
had to make arrangements. We carried him into one of the rooms
and laid him on a blanket on the floor. We layed with him some
more - just crying and talking to him and petting him. We eventually
said our final good byes. It was the worst day ever.
The vet thinks
it could have been a neurological problem, stroke or something
like that. Last weekend he tried to stand up at one point and
tipped over, was groggy, and kind of spooked. We thought maybe
just his legs had fallen asleep or something like that - as
he appeared fine one minute later. Now I think it was a small
pre-cursror.
Ellen and I are absolutely devastated. It won't be easy when
Ellis goes, but at least we feel like we know it's coming. Yukon
was as fit, strong and healthy as a horse and still acted like
a puppy. He would have been eleven years old on Saturday, February
4th, 2006.
We are still
in shock - I can't even believe it. I'm not sure how we'll get
by without 'the Head' in our house - and we're very worried
about how Ellis will react once he realizes that Yuki won't
be coming back.
Yukon brought
more joy to our lives than anyone could ever understand and
we are thankful for the time we had with him. He had a good
life and made ours better. We'll miss him every day.
see a short
slideshow (slideshow)
see a slideshow of when
yuki was a puppy (puppy
slideshow)
see some of the ten zillion
photos I have of Yukon (photos)
see a video featuring
Yukon - the only Lab who doesn't like water (vid)
see an older Christmas
video of Ellis and Yukon unwrapping their presents (vid)
see an old video of Ellis
and Yukon playing (vid) |
| January 17th |
VRG - Jan 14-15th |
More photos (same stuff)
from another perfect weather weekend at the VRG (get
psyched ) |
| January 9th |
VRG - Jan 7-8th |
a buttload of photos from
another perfect weather weekend at the VRG (check
it) |
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| January 2nd |
New Years- VRG |
4 days of fun at the VRG
(photos) |
