| January 1st |
MORE SNOW |
it continues to dump, and
I continue to NOT be able to climb or ski because of my shoulder
(photos). |
| Dec 25th |
Christmas in Canada |
For the first time (ever?)
Ellen and I head to my parents place in Ontario to celebrate Christmas
with the whole Powick family (photos).
|
| Dec 23rd |
Photos |
Photos Section has been
updated. Check it. |
| Dec 22nd -
|
More Snow |
more snow this winter up
at our house - good thing we have a snow blower
(photos) |
| Dec 9th |
snow |
It DUMPS at our house.
(photos) |
| Nov 23rd |
Redrocks |
Ellen and I take off for
a long weekend at the VRG and Redrocks. I manage to struggle up
a great mulitpitch 5.7 (Olive Oil) but am crippled afterwards
with continued shoulder pain - back to the sidelines. (a
very few photos) |
| Nov 11th |
Welcome Springs |
another drive to southern
Utah - this time to celbrate Howard's birthday. Random
pics from the weekend. |
| Nov 4th |
Welcome Springs |
A bunch of us head to Welcome
Springs to climb and celebrate Travis' birthday. I'm still gimped
out with a bum shoulder so just hang out and shoot some pics. |
| Oct 18 |
Kolin gets the chop |
While Ellen is enjoying
perfect limestone in Spain, I have shoulder surgery.
(photos) |
| Oct 16 |
the HIP in Boulder |
Santa and I head to Boulder
and meet up with my friends Chris and Sara to see the Tragically
Hip. It was AMAZING (photos) |
| Oct 8-23 |
Ellen goes to Spain |
Ellen head to Rodellar
with Howard, Kate and 6month old baby Tobin for 2 weeks of unbelievable
limestone climbing. And though her bags were lost the entire trip,
she still had a blast climbing with I was going under the knife.
(photos) |
| Sep 23rd |
Rifle Weekend |
Tom Nay, Travis and I head
to Rifle to meet up with Ellen and Howard & Kate & baby
Tobin- it's the double birthday super weekend. I'm still out with
a shoulder injury so don't get to climb but take a ton of photos. |
| Sep 16th |
Happy Birthday to me |
Ellen is off in Rifle,
while I'm out injured - so I hike up towards Broad Fork Twins
to scope up the first leg of the Toilet Bowl Traverse (photos) |
| Sep 9th |
the Main flush |
Hammar and I go for a fun
ridge hike up LCC (photos) |
| Sep 1st |
King's Peak |
Seeing as I'm injured,
Ellen heads to Rifle while Metcalf and I, along with 12 year old
"Moki" do some MAD backpacking into King's peak. This
was Moki's 3rd ascent of Utah's highest peak. (photos) |
| Aug 26th |
Tetons - Cathedral Traverse
Attempt |
Crouse, TJ, Metcalf and
I head to the Tetons for a go on the Cathedral Traverse. Though
Crouse knocked a rock inuring Metcalf and got us lost on the first
peak (Teewinot) costing us hours and therefore crushing our dreams
of going for the full Grand Traverse, and with some route finding
difficulties to Owen costing us more time we eventually had to
make the executive decision to bail before committing to the Grand
- but all in all, we still had a good time. See
photos of the gong show. |
| Aug 4th |
Bugaboos Dream Trip |
Ellen and I have the best
climbing trip in the history of time.
Check it. |
| July 21st |
Black Streak on Devil's
Castle |
a fun day trying to stay
out of the heat. The "Black Streak" on Devil's Castle
with Ellen, Peter Metcalf & Bill Crousse. (photos) |
| July 21st |
Ellis' Birthday |
Today would have been Ellis'
16th birthday. We miss him every day. (Ellis
Memorial Page) |
| July 17th |
climbing photos |
more random climbing photos
(photos) |
| July 1st |
Lone Peak |
Earl & Glenna, and
Ellen and I head to Lone Peak for Ellen's birthday
(photos) |
| June 12th |
climbing photos |
some random climbing photos
from the last few weekends (photos) |
| june 2nd |
Garrett & Laura's Wedding |
unedited candid shots from
Garrett & Laura's wedding. This is for Amber, to stop bugging
Brett, so he'll stop bugging me. (see
photos) |
| May 30th |
the Valley |
a perfect weather trip
to the Valley: B-rad & Perky do the Nose; Earl and I do the
E. Buttress of El Cap, and the East Buttress of Middle Cathedral.
Then we all hook up for the "Soft Man Link-up" (Snake
Dike on Half Dome AND the East Buttress of El-Cap in a day). The
4 days of climbing totaled 51 pitches and about 11,000ft of hiking.
Sooooo good.
photos |
| May 20th |
Ellis Memorial Tree |
Just as we did for Yukon,
and exactly one year to the day, we had a bbq to celebrate Ellis'
life, and planted a tree in his honor & memory (photos) |
| Feb 22nd |
Ellis |
Ellis suffered what appeared
to be a stroke while I was out with him in the BD parking lot
today at lunch. I rushed him to the emergency vet where they got
him stabilized and ran several tests. Ellen met me shortly afer
where given all the circumstances we had to make the tough heart
wrenching decision to say goodbye to our wonderful brown man.
Needless to say we are devastated.
Ellis was 15 and a half years old and obviously a very big part
of our lives, bringing us endless smiles and joy each and every
day. He will be dearly missed. (Ellis
Memorial Page)
|
| Feb 5th |
VRG photos |
a crap load of photos of
different rock stars at the VRG (strong
ron, lauren,
justen, brian,
clay,
chris,
miscellaneous) |
| Feb 4th |
Yukon's Birthday |
today would have been Yuke's
12th birthday. We think of him every day. |
| Feb 1st |
a year after losing Yukon |
it was a year ago this
morning that we suddenly lost our dear yellow Yukon.
It hasn't been easy on us. I had been trying to make a scrapbook
for the last year with not much luck - just too hard. I eventually
set a goal to get it done before the one year anniversary of his
death. I changed direction and ended up making a coffee table
photo book about his life. It took a ton of time but was worth
it. If you're interested to check it out just ask me, or, and
not that I would ever expect anyone to buy it, but it's available
online here.
If you click on "book preview" you can get a preview
of the first 15 pages. A pretty cool, easy and affordable way
to publish your own books. It's over 150 pages of mostly photos
and some short stories about Yuki's time with us. |
| Jan 27th |
VRG |
yet once again down to
the VRG - with Ron, Tom and Ellen (photos) |
| Jan 21st |
Ellis is 15 and a HALF |
I figure once you hit 15,
you start celebrating half birthdays. Ellis hasn't been doing
great lately but was as spry as ever for his big day. Lots of
walking, playing in the snow, and even some swimming in southern
Utah/Arizona. (photos) |
| Jan 7th |
more time at the VRG |
Tom Nay getting HIGH above
the highway and WORKING hard on Fall of Man
(photos) |
| Jan 2nd |
New Years at the VRG |
Ellen, Ellis and I back
to the VRG for New Years - we hooked up with some friends - and
I took some shots of Clay
and Strong
Ron. |
| 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) |
