Tagged With: Orienteering
The Grand Teton via the Full Exum Ridge
Road Trip – Day Ten Altitude did not go over well with my sick climbing partner who woke up resembling a bullfrog, sight and sound. The clouds looked foreboding and if we believed in any sort of premonitions we would have thrown in the towel after hearing rockfall akin to a .50 cal going off … Continue reading
Road Tripping: Grand Teton Approach
Beep, beep, beep at 4am really makes you think twice about last night’s bedtime decision. Twenty minutes later with a really bad cup of coffee in hand, I found myself back in the passenger seat for the final leg of our drive to Grand Teton NP. A nice five hour time warp later, I am … Continue reading
Uinta Mountains, Take Two: Climbing
Back to the Bald Mountain trailhead, we went with option 2 – the trail in the opposing direction of yesterdays. Heading down the correct trail with a quasi-functional climbing partner, 2.4 miles later we found ourselves looking at the crag we gazed so longingly upon from the summit of Bald Mountain yesterday. The rumors we … Continue reading
Uinta Mountains, Take One – Day Seven
What a beautiful morning; fresh air in the mountains and beautiful fall colors. I look to my left to find my zombie-climbing partner and outside we have “Dick”, our lovely campsite host, hastling us about the authenticity of our annual interagency national parks pass. Having pacified “Dick” with all the change remaining in our ash … Continue reading
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