a new route on St. Exupery, Patagonia, Argentina

After retreating from our first rainy attempt we went back to St. Exupery on a beautiful sunny day with high spirits. Our chosen line looked so obvious, a big corner splitting the East face all the way to the ridge. The sun rose golden, and we quickly crossed new...

Darkness at noon in the dark time of the year…

I feel totally lame that I have neglected my blog all fall….. what can I say, I was having too much fun! There were all sorts of adventures, Lurking Fear in a push with Rachel Greenberg for her birthday. Then Snake Dike in patagonian winds with my Dad, yes dad. Burly!...

my food habits exposed!

check out ESPN women’s web site to hear about my not so particular eating habits! http://espn.go.com/espnw/training/nutrition/6781768/what-athletes-really-eat#comments

how can we better see the value in things?

Today was making earrings, I have a huge pile of stones from the beach, and it was like finding a needle in a hay stack looking for stones that matched to make earrings. It took 2 hours to pick through the stones, and in my frustration I thought “I will never...

Croatia

  Our trip to Croatia was outstanding. Mikey Schaefer and I drove the coast from southern Slovenia to Paklenica National Park in late April. We met our awesome crew of Slovenian friends for an insanely busy Easter weekend, and they gave us a great tour.  ...