We’re doing it folks! Plans are made, flights are booked.
When: November 13 - 15th, 2009. (Though some are coming early)
Where: Joshua Tree National Park, California. Hidden Valley Campground is where we’ll be aiming for.
Who: Mainly members of the climbing community on Twitter but also some friends and family. Climbers of different interests and ability will [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Joshua Tree Tweet Up in November
Guest Post: First Big Wall - The Regular Route on Half Dome’s Northwest Face
Note from Rockgrrl: This post is a guest post by Katie London, an awesome local rockgrrl who I met, along with her partner, Ben while climbing around my hometown. They did a write up of their Half Dome, Regular Route experience as a PDF and I asked if they’d mind sharing. They didn’t mind so [...]
Unexpected Trip! Questions for Gore-Tex?
Checking my email yesterday I found an invitation to the Experience More Blogger Summit at Gore headquarters in Maryland. I’ll get a behind the scenes look at Gore (makers of Gore-Tex but also Windstopper and other fabrics), get to see and test new products and have questions answered at a “Myth Busters session” [I'm assuming that [...]
Review: Orikaso Bowl and Cup
I’ve been meaning to write a review on the foldable bowl and cup I own for some time now so here it is.
The Orikaso Bowl
“What is that?” a fellow camper asked me.
It’s a question I’ve gotten a lot on various backpacking and camping trips. It comes up because someone sees me using my Orikaso foldable [...]
Chicks Rock - Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin Trip Report
I was giggling. So was Tali. We were in a tent at Devil’s Lake State Park, Wisconsin and it was late at night. We both had traveled pretty far that day, she from Colorado and I from California so maybe we were overly tired. Or maybe we were having flashbacks to being in Girl Scouts.
It’d [...]
Bishop / Mammoth Exploratory Trip Report
“Won’t it be hot?”
That was the number one question I got from people when I told them I was going to The Gorge as part of an extended weekend trip in August.
The answer is, it was, but not necessarily where we went.
Climbing Day 1
The first full day of climbing started early for me, too early [...]
