Capturing my adventures in writing (on door5) hasn’t received much priority for the prior 9 months. But, that doesn’t mean I haven’t been having incredible adventures. This post is being made in an effort to not lose a record of the highlights of the past 9 months of my life.
September 2010
- Tried Wasatoja. Made it through the run, drove up to Logan, but didn’t have it in me to start the ride.
- Paced Chad Brackelsberg at the Bear 100.
October 2010
Zion with Ryan and Pat (October 9th and 10th)- Ran/scrambled the rarely summited South Guardian on a picture-perfect day
- Climbed Mountain of the Sun with Ryan and Pat.
- Watched an huge family of desert bighorn sheep
- Found very cool petroglyphs
- Check out the pics
- Danielle and Jake get hitched (October 14th, 2010)
Zion with Mindy and Jim Guilkey (October 16th and 17th)- Mindy and Jim run the traverse together. Longest run of Jim’s life
- Climbed Pine Valley Peak and East/West Northgate Peaks
- Climbed the rarely summited G2 Peak
- Pictures
- Coyote Moab (October 22, 23, 24th)
- 3 stellar days with some of the most unique humans around. Thanks Chris Scott!
- Bowling, 50 km run with Chad and Darcy, Group run on Sunday
- More pics, 50km movie (youtube)
November 2010
Rim-Rim-Rim with Jay Aldous and Karl Jarvis (November 14th, 2010)- Solomon Perkins is born! Cutest kid ever. I’m a proud uncle (November 19th, 2010)
December 2010
Incredible desert trip with Mindy (Christmas through New Years)- Ran/explored Gold Strike Canyon and enjoyed the hot pots
- Toured Hoover Dam
- Rode rides on top of Stratosphere
- Death Valley
- Visited Furnace Creek
- Did some good Badwater training
- Ran Corkscrew Peak
- Ran on sand-dunes
- Visited Mosaic Canyon
- Bishop, CA
- Got some great ski near North Lake
Great Basin National Park- Tried to ski Wheeler Peak, but got shut down
- Took a tour of Lehman Caves
- Pictures
- Gave a presentation on Passive Solar and Efficient Home Design at work for employees to enjoy enjoy during their lunch hour. I put a ton of effort into this and was pretty happy that folks found it interesting.
February 2011
Zion with Buzz and Ryan (February 12, 13th)- Ripped up Cowboy Ridge and West Temple on Saturday with Buzz
- Buzz, Ryan and I did a FABULOUS link-up of about 8 new peaks.
- Summited:
- Destination Peak, Gifford Peak, Hepworth Peak, Roof Peak, Little Jenny, Jenny Peak, Lost Peak, Triplets
- My Pics
- Buzz’s write-up
March 2011
Solo trip to Zion (March 12, 13th)- Two stellar full-days of exploring in the south-east part of the park
- Pics here
- Coyote Two Moon (March 24th, 2011)
- A fabulous and memorable run in the Ojai mountains.
- Ran with Ty Draney nearly the entire day until they called the race off due to crazy weather
- Mindy was running the 100km race in fine form
- Pics here
April 2011
Traversary (April 23rd) – Group run of the entire Zion traverse (~50miles). Ran it with my incredible wife who coined the name “traversary” for running the traverse on our 1-year anniversary. Life does not get better than this!- Roch and Ryan also run the entire route. Terri busts out 36 miles, and Catherine also had her longest run in a while
- Pictures here
- Lady Mountain (April 24th) – Ryan and I just couldn’t resist. Lady Mountain is so good!
May 2011
Icebox Canyon with Ryan – Tons of exploring side canyons (May 13th, 2011)- One of the most special places on earth. I’ve never seen Ryan so happy
- Epic canyoneering/glisadding. There aren’t too many places in the world you can do this. simply magical
- Pictures – Movie of glisadding (coming soon)
- Pocatello 50, year 3
Unbelievable 9 months. No wonder you couldn’t find time to post.
For the most part you guys seem like complete idiots. How come we aren’t better friends? Hahahaha. Seriously, awesome. I miss the days of regular canyoneering and exploring the back country of Zion. Makes me wish I still lived down south.
By: Craig on June 9, 2011
at 9:38 am