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. For nearly two decades, I’ve poured my heart into documenting classic climbs across the western US — detailed trip reports, high-res route overlays, pitch-by-pitch photos, maps, and all the beta I wished I had when I first tied in. What started as a personal project has grown into a full-time commitment to share climbing knowledge and stories freely with the community.
□ 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 a small piece of it. 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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My website is massive, and it might feel a bit overwhelming to a first-time visitor. But I’ve organized it as clearly and logically as possible—and it’s all searchable. Of course, you can always just start clicking at random and see where the armchair mountaineering leads.
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 part of my life from the very beginning. My parents met backpacking in the Olympic Mtns in '74, married within a year, and spent the late ’70s and early ’80s exploring WA's rugged ranges. I was born in '83, and before I was three months old, they whisked me off on my first overnight (and international!) backpacking trip near Mt. Temple, BC. At age 11, I completed my first real alpine climb with them: Overhanging Tower in the Wind River Range. The mountains have been home ever since.
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.
