Brian & Bridgid

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Photos and an update

In our last post, Brian mentioned Alan Howell, the photographer we met in Indian Creek. Alan is a professional photographer and was kind enough to take some amazing photos of us. Here’s a link to those photos. Enjoy! Brian drove back to Seattle a couple of weeks ago (he Tweeted about his trip here) for [...]

Touring the Southwest

We’ve arrived at Mel and Gunter’s place in Socorro, NM after a brief tour of Arizona. We hit the Grand Canyon, Sedona, Organ Pipe National Monument, and the Gila Cliff Dwellings (in New Mexico). The weather has been great and my back is feeling much better. Here’s a video of a javelina eating a prickly [...]

Moving south

A little over a week ago we were forced to bid farewell to Indian Creek. Bridgid and I both agree that it is the nicest climbing we’ve ever done and we look forward to returning next spring. Unfortunately, it was just too cold. We packed as many climbs into the short periods of midday warmth, [...]

Learning to crack climb

We’re back from two more days of climbing at Indian Creek. Climbing here leaves me feeling more worked, worn out, and ravenously hungry than any other place I’ve ever climbed. I love it! The Creek is the ultimate crack climbing training ground. Brute force and thrashing can get a powerful climber through a short section [...]

Creek Logistics

After just one day of climbing at Indian Creek two things are clear: the climbing is really that good and we’ll need plenty of rest days. Since writing is a priority for Bridgid we were a little worried by the amenities, or lack thereof, at Indian Creek. Fortunately, it’s looking like things will work out [...]

The Creek

On Saturday, we arrived in Moab, Utah, then drove on for another hour to Indian Creek (known among the cool climber kids as ‘The Creek’). Saturday night involved a lot of campsite searching in the dark (think: not a lot of signs, lots of long-eared bunny rabbits doing kamikazi-leaps across the highway, and many wrong [...]

Viva Las Vegas!

We bailed to warmer and dryer places last Tuesday. We thought that we’d stick out the rain storm that was coming to Yosemite. When our camp site flooded and we woke up to a stream flowing through the vestibule and two inches of water inside the tent (our inflatable pads were floating) we decided that [...]

East Buttress of Middle Cathedral

The hallmark of the journey that has taken us away from “real world” things like jobs and into the climbing bum counterculture are the happiness that we experience while climbing and living in natural places, and the personal growth that we experience while expanding our comfort zones on the rock. We avoid making arbitrary goals [...]

Picking up the pace

Last Sunday Yosemite was hit by a big storm so we didn’t climb at the base of El Cap as planned. But the storm left the valley looking spectacular, with a mist hanging over the snow dusted walls, and we enjoyed an extra rest day and went for a walk. On Monday we headed to [...]