Author: Outdoor Access Solutions
You Might Not Get What You Want but You Might Just Get What You Need
When I came to Yosemite I had a specific goal in mind of climbing the Zodiac route on El Capitan. I had trained what I thought was enough and learned what I thought was adequate to get me up the face of this immense piece of granite. What I didn’t know is that I didn’t… Read more
It Takes a Community
The last few days have had their ups and downs while trying to plan a climb of The Prow on The Column. Up until this afternoon I wasn’t completely sure it would happen. Timmy O’ Neill stepped in a couple days ago and for those of you that don’t know Timmy he is a force… Read more
Shared Experiences
Over the past week Sandy and the boys were here with me in the Valley and we managed to pack in a lot in 3 days of being in the park. I saved a lot of things to see with them for the first time and we couldn’t have had a better week. I think… Read more
Realize I am Unprepared
Over the past five days I have come to realize after discussions with friends that I have met here in the valley that I may not have been completely prepared as a climber for an ascent on El Cap. Since coming to this conclusion I have had some awesome friends step up and try… Read more
Making Connections with People, El Cap, and The Valley
I took eleven hours’ worth of flights to get here and then a four-hour bus ride from Fresno. I had the most awesome bus driver ever. I was the only one on the bus so we got to talk at some of the stops where we had to wait 15 minutes or so. He let… Read more
Preparing for Yosemite
About a year ago Danika Gilbert, a grant writer and mountain guide who works with Paradox Sports, came to me with an idea to write a grant for something I wanted to do. We were going to write the grant for a trip to Alaska, but the grant was awarded a month late for that… Read more
The Beginning of the Road to Adventure
I should probably start with some background about me. I was born with Spina Bifida which left me unable to move my legs. I have used a wheelchair as my mode of transportation my whole life. I lived in the woods in northern Maine so spent a lot of my growing up years in… Read more