Category: adaptive sports

I am back in Maine and am at a loss as to how to thank everyone for the opportunity I was given and the people that made it possible, mostly strangers, but came away as friends. The sadness comes from missing my second family of climbers and the beauty of Yosemite. I am amazed at… Read more

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

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

  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

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