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Horsetooth Reservoir Bouldering and New Belgium Tour

Post Author:Rebecca
Post published:October 24, 2013
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The reason for our road trip to Colorado is the Great American Beer Festival, so once we reached Fort Collins beer took a priority on our itinerary. But that doesn’t mean we couldn’t also have some outdoors fun!
We set our alarms early (we’re not THAT dedicated beer drinkers…there is far too much to do in the morning!) and headed out to Horsetooth Reservoir for some bouldering among the rocks that helped kick start the sport years ago.
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David on the Savannah Boulder

Easter in the Eastern Sierra: Petroglyphs, Climbing, and Peak Bagging

Post Author:Rebecca
Post published:April 5, 2013
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We usually spend Easter weekend in one of two places: Carrizo Plain (in good wildflower years) or Lava Beds National Monument. This year we decided that a visit to the…

Eastern Sierra: fishing, bouldering, and checking out snow conditions

Post Author:Rebecca
Post published:May 17, 2012
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Last weekend, the first one with an open Tioga Pass of the season, we did a quickie overnighter to Bishop. David is recovering from a sprained ankle so instead of…

Christmas in the Eastern Sierra

Post Author:Rebecca
Post published:January 7, 2010
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For the first seven years I lived in California I always flew back to Michigan to visit my family at Christmas. Each year I would inevitably face midwest snowstorms, holiday travel crowds, cancelled flights, etc. But it was always worth it to visit my family.

Last year was the first year I skipped the holiday travel – the overwhelming aggravation of it, combined with ticket prices that were 3x the previous year’s cost made me switch my family visit to summer, and it was a great decision. I sure do miss the Christmas traditions, but trading it for less annoying travel and time on the beach in the summer is a compromise I’m willing to make. So I made the same decision this year.

Since we don’t have any family out here, we found ourselves with the second year of a non-committed Christmas. And what do we do when we find a free day in our calendar? We hit the road, of course. At the last minute, we decided to spend the holiday in our favorite place in the world – in a tent in the Eastern Sierra.

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Turtlehead Peak and Red Rock Canyon

Post Author:Rebecca
Post published:December 13, 2009
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After three nights and four days in the backcountry it was time to pop back into civilization for food and showers so we headed to Vegas. We usually break up our Thanksgiving trip with a night or two in Vegas and this time we spoiled ourselves with a hot tub room. Although Vegas can be fun, we’ve been there so many times that wandering the Strip has lost its appeal and we prefer to spend the days hiking in Red Rock Canyon.

We spent two full days in Red Rock. On day one, we first headed up to Black Velvet canyon to check out some bouldering sites. There were many climbers up on the bigger walls, but we had just brought along bouldering gear (shoes, chalk, crash pad) and wandered up the canyon while stopping to play on the rocks. It was a fun morning stop away from the crowds of the main park loop, but we had an afternoon plan to summit Turtlehead Peak and didn’t want to run out of daylight so we didn’t spend a lot of time in Black Velvet.

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