Summer Catch Up- Rifle, CO
Another destination, another style of climbing. Rifle... We had heard all sorts of things about this place... It’s crowded, it’s polished, it’s too warm to climb there in the summer, it’s hard to climb anything unless you have beta given by someone, and so on. Never listen to what people say before you see it for yourself, right? After spending a few days there, our opinion was straight forward: that place is stellar. The rock quality is great, the routes are varied and inspi
Summer Catch Up- From Maple to Rifle, CO
Between Maple Canyon, UT and Rifle, CO we took a few days off from climbing. We stopped and checked out Moab, with no plan to climb there since temperature easily rose to about 40°C in the desert at that time of the year. Heading to Moab, Utah. We hiked the Mill Creek Trail, sampled the local beer at the microbrewery, and visited Arches National Park the following morning at sunrise. I will be back in Moab to climb at some point, but right in the middle of the summer, non mer
Summer Catch Up- Maple Canyon, UT
I had planned to update my blog regularly while on the road last summer. Instead, on my restdays, I ended up working on putting together a research article from one of the chapter of my master’s thesis I had not yet published. I had no plan on publishing more, but when I got asked I decided to go for it. I rather have people having easy access to what I have worked on during 2 years than having my thesis sleeping on a shelf (I have already completed my degree 2 years ago, but
