Category: adventure
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
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
East Point Sanctuary
I had already done some research as to where I wanted to go and found an amazing hidden gem called East Point Sanctuary. hangriness I decided to wait and eat when we got close to our destination, thinking in over 100 miles we should run across something. The hangriness started to set in as I was… 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
You Know How Forgetful He Is!
As I am sitting here and it’s Mother’s Day I obviously can’t help thinking about my mom. Unfortunately, she is no longer with me on earth. She lost her 10-year battle to cancer in 2007. I have often wondered over the past few years what she might think of the path that I have embarked… 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
Six Degrees of Nick Hall
Planning for rainier Over the past week or so I have been discussing my next adventure, an ascent of Mt. Rainier, with Gary Dunn, my friend and climbing guide. We have been getting advice from various people on what type of equipment to use as well as the various methods of ascending. Some people have… 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