It’s near the end of winter, I’m currently packing for a flight into Austral fall, and I’m writing about last summer — weird. Anyway, updates.

After a wonderful winter in Bozeman — lots of community, a rekindled love for snowboarding, and a lot of ice & mixed climbing — my decrepit Toyota hauled me and a lot of climbing gear all the way through Canada to Talkeetna, Alaska for the Ruth Gorge climbing trip I’ve been plotting for a few years and got Bryan on board with finally. It went well. We climbed some stuff and rapped off of other stuff. I haven’t been writing much lately because apparently my creative bandwidth is limited to one thing at a time and I’ve been consumed with the video world — but here’s some fruit of that obsession:

That ended in May, so I had time for mini climbing trips around Fairbanks with friends before launching into a full summer of NOLS field work in the Talkeetna Mountains. Palmer, AK is summer paradise. Lots of veggies and chilling hard between courses. I drug the camera along for one of them, so here’s more video fruit (that’s a weird sentence):

I was in Alaska for almost five months by the time I limped home on the Alcan with a noisy transmission in the Endurance. No explosions, and I had a spare waiting at home. So, after some fall semester sections with NOLS at the Rocky Mountain branch, I flew to Patagonia for a personal expedition on the Northern Patagonian Icefield. In the next few days I’ll have a video, photos, and an account of that trip so stick around!