Yooooooooooooo! Been awhile, huh? Here’s what I’ve been up to:

After the Cascades, I fumbled my way up some big walls in Yosemite. Stories here.

After Yosemite, I went back to the Cascades for another beating on highway 20 — but this time, at work! The MSPE is a NOLS staff seminar to get a couple of folks into the mountaineering program. The original route was a traverse of the Picket Range, which would have been a disaster. Thankfully we were able to change our route to Shuksan and Eldorado. We climbed neither. It rained. Lots.

I did get assessed to work in the Mountaineering program, though. And after a rushed detour to Salt Lake to re-certify my WFR, I immediately got work back in the PNW on a Waddington Range course, which was one of my coolest life experiences to date. Check out a video I made of the course:

After the WAD, I headed to NOLS Alaska to go hiking for 30 days in the Southern Talkeetna range, which was rainy and wet but beautiful and restorative.

Some bumming around the PNW afterwards led to my first fall work for NOLS on a Rocky Mountain Semester. This was tough, but also awesome. We got brutalized with weather the first month but had a blast at Devil’s Tower on the climbing section. I was lucky enough to work with one of my longtime climbing partners on the course and we immediately went to Red Rock in Las Vegas after the course for a productive couple of weeks of climbing. That summary, and some video I’m experimenting with, is here.

December was time for family and friends and a break from climbing and rambling. January on looks like more field work and climbing, so check back in for more stories and updates.

Also a few more misadventures on my Trip Reports page.