I launched my website in 2006 as a simple way to share my nature and adventure photography with friends and family. Before long, I started adding detailed notes and route beta, and the site grew into a sprawling collection of trip reports from alpine climbs, road trips, and other outdoor escapades. Over time, I also began using it as a home for unique projects I dreamed up along the way.
Today, my website has three main sections:
□ 1. CLIMBING TRIP REPORTS. The heart of my site is hundreds of trip reports from climbs (and a few other adventures) I’ve tackled over the years. My technical climbing skills took root during my undergraduate days at Stanford University (Class of ’06), just a few hours from Yosemite. Since then, I’ve spent countless days — often in my parents’ boot tracks — mountaineering and alpine climbing throughout western North America, especially in the North Cascades of Washington. A serious climbing accident in September 2010 kept me off the rock for a couple of years, but when I returned, it was with renewed energy, deeper appreciation, and a stronger drive for adventure. Climb on!
□ 2. PROJECTS. One of my favorite hobbies is finding creative ways to present data. This section features some of my more unusual and popular creations, including labeled panoramas, route overlays, posters, diagrams, photo comparisons, statistical studies, and more.
□ 3. PHOTOGRAPHY. What began as the sole purpose of my website has now become just one piece of it — but still an important one. I bought my first point-and-shoot in 2002, my first DSLR in 2005, and have been chasing beautiful shots ever since. My primary interests include bird, macro, aerial, and night photography. My work has appeared in various publications, and I also sell image files (on my
Shop page).
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The sheer size of this site might feel overwhelming to a first-time visitor, but I’ve worked to keep it logically organized. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, you can simply click around at random and see where the journey takes you.
Thanks for visiting — and enjoy the adventure!
Being a kid was an absolute blast—mountains, eating dirt, petting geese, teaching my sister to escape her crib, living in Israel, building Lego towers, putting barrettes in my dad’s hair, fishing with my grandpa, playing with toy guns, climbing rocks and trees, eating even more dirt, hosting tea parties with cats, backpacking with my parents, the Game Boy phase, suffocating in outhouses, hiking with cousins… and so much more.
Mountains have been woven into my life from the very beginning. My parents met while backpacking in the Olympic Mountains in the summer of 1974, married within a year, and spent much of the late ’70s and early ’80s exploring Washington’s rugged ranges. I was born in May 1983, and before I was three months old, they whisked me off on my first overnight (and international!) backpacking trip near Mt. Temple, BC. I was eaten alive by bugs, but reportedly grinned the whole time. At age 11, I completed my first true alpine climb with my parents—Overhanging Tower in Wyoming’s Wind River Range.
From 2023 to 2025, I shared my mountain home in Estes Park with a lovable furrball named Newt(on)—named after Sir Isaac Newton, one of the inventors of calculus. Newt currently lives in Boulder with his three pals, Jimmie, Tucker, and Peach, but he’ll always have a special place in my heart.
