Category: adaptive sports
Enock in the News – Teton Gravity
Teton Gravity Despite growing up with no use of his legs, Enock Glidden always dreamt of scaling the legendary walls of Yosemite’s El Capitan. Unwilling to give up and resign himself to accept that he’d never reach the monolithic summit, Glidden teamed with Paradox Sports‘ Adaptive Climbing Initiative to make his dream a reality. Read more… Read more
Finding New Horizons While Planning for Mt. Rainier
As usual, it has been awhile since I have posted. A lot has happened since my last post in October. Planning for Mt. rainier I have been in the process over the past year or so really of planning for an ascent of Mt. Rainier. If you have never climbed or even seen Mt. Rainier, it… Read more
Enock Film Premiere Adventure Film Festival
This past weekend I had the honor of being asked by Paradox Sports to help out at The Basecamp Breakfast Fundraiser in Boulder Colorado. It just so happened that the film about my ascent of El Capitan aptly called Enock, premiered at the Adventure Film Festival, also in Boulder. I had an unforgettable weekend and… Read more
All In To Hike To Chimney Pond
the big idea A few months ago I got the idea that I wanted to hike to see Chimney Pond in Baxter State Park with my own eyes and also scout routes to climb Mt. Katahdin. Having grown up on the road to the north entrance of the park, I have a lot of… Read more
Country Mouse Visits the City
It has been a while since I have posted and a lot has actually happened this past month. I seem to have to take time to absorb my experiences and mull them over before I am able to write about them. Planet Granite event So about a month ago The North Face and Paradox Sports… Read more
Climbing El Capitan
How do you put it into words It has been around 8 months now since the team and I completed our ascent of El Capitan. Which is actually super hard to believe. I have been waiting for the movie to be out until I wrote anything so that I wouldn’t ruin it for people. I… Read more
Joshua Tree Paradox Sports Skills Camp
Joshua tree national park I’ve been back from Joshua Tree National Park for a few weeks now but have been a bit under the weather with a leg infection and some wounds on my feet. Thankfully I am on the mend and infection free. I am also finally mentally able to write about the… Read more
Lots of Winter Updates
It occurred to me that I hadn’t written here in quite a while. I think it is mostly because I have been in the job finding hunker down for winter mode. I just realized though that a lot has actually happened this winter. WInter activities I got my first ever, all mine, made for me… Read more
A Night Amongst The Stars
Judging by my title you might think I am writing about another adventure sleeping outside on a portaledge somewhere away from it all and staring up at the stars. Not this time, this time I am writing about the stars of climbing. I recently had the opportunity, thanks to Google Maps and Sandy Russell, to… Read more
Livin’ on a Ledge
It’s been almost a couple of weeks since I was in Yosemite National Park making an attempt to sit climb Zodiac on El Capitan. I have had some time to process and think about the whole experience. I have also been traveling with Sandy for the last week and have been very tired when we… Read more