Thanksgiving Day from Andrew’s Bald in the Smokies.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
Here’s a trailer for a film that will be shown at the film festival in Telluride this year (AKA it’ll be awesome) about climbing in Chad. Pretty cool stuff.
On a side note, Alex Honnold: Bold? or crazy?
Video from the boys at VerticalCarnival
Sharma on Es Pontas.
She also edited my pictures from Siler’s Bald and they look wayy cooler.
Here’s a few pics that Savannah took a few weeks ago out by Bull Run. I’ve figured out that if I invite her and Cam to tag along that I get someone to play with and someone to take pictures. Pretty sweet deal I think. These are just a sneak peak, I should be able to put a bunch up on Flickr soon (they have a monthly limit).
(via m33333p)
(via m33333p)
I fell out of a tree today. I climbed up in one to try and take a cool picture. The tree was a little icy (see above) and I took my hands off the tree to look at the camera, my foot slipped and I fell about 12 feet to the ground. My feet caught some branches on the way down and flipped me, and I ended up hitting the ground head/shoulders first. I heard a loud crack (my back) and thought I had broken a collarbone or something, but everything was okay actually! Just a sore back and neck, headache, and a few scrapes and bruises. Every now and then I like to test gravity out, make sure it’s still working properly. It is. I wish someone had been there to see it, I bet it was hilarious.
Here’s the picture I took right before I fell. It’s near Siler’s Bald looking towards Clingman’s Dome (Clingman’s Dome is the highest point in the distance if you follow the ridge line.)
Other pictures from the hike are here.
Obed in February.
Taken by my friend Jay, edited by Savannah.
Here you go people. If you’re looking for birthday or Christmas present ideas for me, I’ll take this box set.
I came across a website just after New Years where a bunch of people had posted pictures of all the stuff they got to do outside in 2010, so I figured I’d join the party. I logged over 150 trail miles last year and got outside to climb a few times, so here’s my tribute to playing in the woods in 2010!
In February I took a trip on the AT just north of Hot Springs, NC and stayed in Deer Park Mtn Shelter, this is just after sunrise the next morning.
A few weeks later I went back to the same stretch along the AT but I took it a little further to Max Patch. The weather in Hot Springs was sunny and mild and I hit the trail in shorts, but I ran into snow drifts as deep as 3 feet a few hours later. I was still on the trail after dark which led to my first solo night hike, fun! I spent the night in Walnut Mtn Shelter and listened to coyotes howl all through the night. I made it to Max Patch the next day and hitched back into Hot Springs.
My night hike.
Walnut Mtn Shelter.
Knee high snow drifts.
Max Patch.
Climbing at Black Mtn, TN in May.
Horse riders in Spence Field Shelter on the AT in the Smokies in May.
Rainbow Falls and cliff tops at Mt. Leconte in May.
Ramsey Cascades in June with Connor.
Climbing at Obed in June.
A trip from Big Creek to Cataloochee and back in the Smokies with Austin in August.
Charlies Bunion in October.
Playing around on some rocks in Oak Ridge with Savannah.
Mt. Cammerer lookout tower in the Smokies in November.
This thing needs pictures to make it less boring. Here’s my favorite one that I’ve taken lately. (Thanks to Hannah for knowing how to edit stuff to make it look cooler than it really is.)
I took this picture of a sunrise in the Smokies, in the far eastern part of the park in Cataloochee Valley at the end of the summer.
