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  • 06/2013
  • All Good Things...

    I think this is the default title for the last post in any blog. The first is always "Hello World!" and the last is either "So Long, and Thanks For Al ...

  • 05/2013
  • The Yin and Yang of Camping in Western Colorado

    Playing by the Colorado River Dry, dusty, desert winds. Warm, green, apple orchards. And the massive river that connects both worlds. Western ...

  • Mountain Biking in Fruita with a 2 Year Old

    Riding with Daddy This is a blog post I never thought I would be writing, for a couple of reasons. The first is that I continually describe myself ...

  • 04/2013
  • Desert Love - Mountain Biking Lake Pueblo State Park

    Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while c ...

  • The First Pancake

    The First Pancake Phenomena is well known. You always throw out the first pancake. Your pan is too hot, or too buttery, the pour was too big, the flip ...

  • 03/2013
  • What is NORMAL, anyway?

    For the last month, I have been waiting for the clouds to part, the sun to come out and our lives to return to "normal." But, instead of sunny rocks a ...

  • For Axel

    In the last few years, we've spent a lot of time talking about climbing, hiking and camping on this blog. So you might not realize from reading about ...

  • Cabin Fever

    As the snow swirls and blows and flies outside the window, I dream of places to go and adventures to be had this summer. I dream of tall cliffs an ...

  • 02/2013
  • Digging Out of Our Snow Cave

    One more month of crazy around our house, and then I think we'll be back in the realm of "normal." This month, our family had some pretty radical life ...

  • 01/2013
  • The End of an Era

    My Office at CSU - Where the Magic Happens! Last Friday, I successfully defended my dissertation and received my Phd in Atmospheric Sciences! ...

  • 11/2012
  • What I learned from Little G this year

    It's hard to believe, but each time I do the math I come up with the same answer. It has been just over two years since the Great G-bini joined our te ...

  • 10/2012
  • The Smell of Autumn

    Every season has an associated sense in my mind. The taste of snow and Christmas cookies in winter, the sounds of laughter and loud music on the car r ...

  • 09/2012
  • Great Hikes for Kids in Northern Colorado

    Hi Everybody! I'm doing my very first guest post today as part of an awesome hiking with kids series on Bring The Kids! Our kiddo enjoying the Be ...

  • How to recruit new Cragfamiles

    This might look like a helpful and informative post, but it's actually a trip report from two days of climbing in Vedauwoo, with nine adults and five ...

  • 08/2012
  • Climbing Long's Peak (14,255ft)

    The 2012 Summer of Summits has ended with a bang! As I (oh so discretely) alluded to in my last post, we had a big plan and a big goal for this summer ...

  • Where did my summer go?

    You know that "Author blurb" I have at the bottom of each post? Where I describe myself as a "Scientist, rock climber, adventurista, crazy mom, and ad ...

  • Camping in Style with an RV Trailer

    You may ask yourself, what is that beautiful house? You may ask yourself, where does that highway lead to? You may ask yourself, am I right, am I ...

  • 07/2012
  • Camping on Chambers Lake

    As I might have alluded to in my previous post, we spent last weekend camping and hiking up near Cameron Pass. I reserved a campsite at the Chambers L ...

  • Babies and Mountains and Baby Mountains

    It's easy to follow a seasonality in life in Colorado. In the winter, we play in the snow and visit the high glaciers or desert rock climbs. In the su ...

  • If They Can Do It...

    One of my greatest fears before becoming a parent was that MY life would be over the minute our progeny exited my womb. I was sure that we'd never be ...

  • Au Bord de la Mer a la Plage

    When I was younger, we took year after year of week-long family vacations to the Outer Banks in North Carolina. When I was 16, my brother and I took a ...

  • We Love Our Heroes!

    Signs from around Fort Collins at the end of June 2012. There's another collection at the Coloradoan: Thank You Signs For Fire ...

  • 06/2012
  • High Park Fire Update: Mop-Up Efforts

    It's been about two weeks since I wrote about the explosion of the High Park fire, just west of our Northern Colorado town. In that time, it has burne ...

  • Hiking Chapin Pass

    It was 6a, and G rolled over in the camper and started talking about trucks into his blanket. Time to get up. We all crawled out of bed and hurrie ...

  • Breaking Blogging: OMG FIRE!

    Remember back in May when I was complaining about a little 7,000 acre fire? Ah, those times seem so quaint and naive. In the last week, our worst pred ...

  • Summiting Crosier Mountain!

    Let the 2012 Summer of Summits begin! Last weekend, we climbed Crosier Mountain, which is a relatively small peak about 10 miles east of Rocky ...

  • Testing Airplane Travel Advice with an ACTUAL Toddler

    Even though G is only a year and a half old, he's already been on 8 airplane flights, and we've got another trip scheduled for the beginning of ne ...

  • The surprising kid-wonderland of Fort Wayne, Indiana

    And We're Back! ...from an epic trip around the Midwest last week. We managed to visit all four of G's Grandmothers (two regular and two Great, I'll ...

  • 05/2012
  • Head in the Clouds - A Spring Vedauwoo Trip Report

    I guess all it takes is one blog post about wildfires and droughts, and the next thing you know, it rains all weekend! I should not complain ab ...

  • RVing in Colorado - Coyote Camping

    Mark and I have been tent campers for as long as we've known each other. When we dirt-bagged our way between climbing areas for a summer in 2004, we a ...

  • We interrupt this regularly scheduled blogging for... FIRE!

    Greyrock mountain is on fire. So far, more than 7,300 acres have burned, and only 5% contained. Luckily, few homes are in imminent danger, and only a ...

  • Fold-up Camping Baby Gear Review

    G's Nana (Grandmother) has a secret super power. She has the amazing ability to locate the most unique fold-up camping baby gear that has ever been ma ...

  • My Life in Nine Months at a Time

    G turned 18 months old last month! The transition from 1 year old to 2 year old has been amazing to behold for this guy. He's talking up a storm, runn ...

  • Super Moon and Tiny Town in Vedauwoo

    Last weekend we snuck out on Saturday night for an evening of windy camping and grilled steaks in Vedauwoo. Since it was the very end of the semester, ...

  • Adorable Climbing Babies

    There is very little in this world that I like more than seeing photos of babies born into adventure. Images of little ones enjoying beautiful wildern ...

  • 04/2012
  • Don't take babies to Combat Rock!

    The CragMama wrote a great post about the Rules for Ropes when taking babies rock climbing. I agreed with every one of these rules when I read it, and ...

  • Hiking Red Mountain Open Space

    Did you know there is a valley, a mere 30 minute drive from our house, that is carved from sandstone so red it looks painted? Where the trail winds th ...

  • Exciting Changes!

    “May the bridges I burn light the way.” Let's face it, having a baby changes every aspect of your life, and not even this blog has escaped! I'v ...

  • Do Babies Belong at the Crag?

    I was going to write this nice post about our climbing outing to North Table Mountain in Golden last weekend. It was going to have all these lovely pi ...

  • 03/2012
  • A Little Ozark Lovin'

    Airfare to St Louis is pretty cheep these days. And I gotta say, it is really nice to have grandparents around for a little break now and then. So, I ...

  • The 2012 CrossFit Games Open

    Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, an ...

  • Starting a new climbing season!

    It always seems like winter is so long around here. Mark and I used to drive five or six hours to desert areas where we would try and climb all year l ...

  • 02/2012
  • Fossil Creek Birding

    In my continuing quest to explore more of our local open spaces and natural areas in Northern Colorado, we spent an evening checking out Fossil Creek ...

  • Not Everyday is Awesome

    When you're out adventuring with a kiddo, you never really know what you're about to get. Sometimes it's a sunny day full of dirt and giggles, and som ...

  • 01/2012
  • This job has its perks! (Tropical Travels – Part 2)

    Mark and I had one day to ourselves on my working trip to Honolulu this winter, and we decided to spend it on an afternoon boat trip to see Pacific Hu ...

  • This job has its perks! (Tropical Travels - Part 1)

    Yes, grad school is rough. It's stressful and competitive and overwhelming even if you haven't had a baby recently. But, I have to admit, studying tro ...

  • Sledding in the Rockies

    Sometimes it seems like winter in Colorado is all about extreme sports. On Monday mornings, I hear all about weekends at the terrain park, back countr ...

  • 12/2011
  • The Magic House

    When I was little, there was an amazing place I loved to visit. A giant old mansion, full of hidden passages, a three-story spiral slide and crazy sci ...

  • Eagle's Nest Open Space

    The days before Christmas are quiet in a college town. The streets empty, and the population disperses. For years, our group of young friends has trav ...

  • 11/2011
  • Bouldering at Rotary

    Ok, ok, we're not climbing as much these days. I've actually been pretty proud of the amount of time we have gotten on the rock this year, and the fac ...

  • 10/2011
  • What I Learned From Little G This Year

    It's been a little over a year since the Great G-bini joined our family. I wanted to write this post around his first birthday, but clearly, I am sla ...

  • Fall Colors on West White Pine Mountain

    This post is coming, ummm, three months late? I should probably just admit it to myself: real life is killing my blog. And when it comes to sh ...

  • 09/2011
  • Fall Climbing on Punk Rock

    This is going to be a short post to show off some fun pictures. Despite the lack of evidence on this blog, Mark and I have gotten out for ...

  • Walking the Steamboat Hot Springs

    It is estimated that there are nearly 150 hot springs in Steamboat Springs. The area is perforated with spouts of hot, bubbling water, seeping up fro ...

  • Fishcreek Falls

    Our week in Steamboat Springs with Mark's family coincided perfectly with the last week of summer. The leaves were not, quite, changing yet, but the ...

  • 08/2011
  • The US Pro Cycling Challenge

    This summer, we were thrilled to have a pro cycling stage race roll through Colorado! I've been a fan of pro cycling through most of Lance Armstrong' ...

  • Camping and Hiking near Acorn Creek

    It's 9am, and my pants are drenched from mid-thigh down. I'm trudging through a field of grass and wildflowers that are higher than my waist, and soa ...

  • The Warrior Dash 2011!

    Last year, Mark signed up for the craziest day of obstacle-coursing, costume-wearing, beer-drinking, warrior-screaming fun that we have had in a long ...

  • Crag Baby Gear Necessities

    When Mark and I announced our pregnancy, our family (and some friends) were quick to warn us about how our lives were "about to change forever!" and " ...

  • 07/2011
  • Camping in the Snowy Range

    It was the last weekend in July, and Mark and I were trying to figure out what to do to get out of the front range heat and enjoy the mountains. Clim ...

  • Climbing Lilly Mountain with the Crag Babies

    It turns out, we're not the only parents crazy enough to take our baby rock climbing with us. People like us are scattered around Colorado, and the r ...

  • Hiking Bridal Veil Falls

    On our first day of camping in Estes Park, my parents offered to watch G for the day so Mark and I could get out in the mountains. It would have been ...

  • Climbing in the Piedra River Canyon

    As part of our vacation with my parents, we worked out a couple of days where Grandma and Grandpa can watch G, and Mark and I can get out for a little ...

  • RVing in Colorado

    What's the best way to hop mountain towns throughout Colorado in style? That's right, RVs. If you've been reading our blog this year, you can' ...

  • 06/2011
  • The Kiddo's First Weekend in Vedauwoo

    Its the end of June, the sun is shining, the rain has (finally) stopped, so what do we do? Go to Vedauwoo! We pack up the 7 month old baby, two out- ...

  • Wet Camping in Rocky Mountain NP

    Rain pattering on the roof of the camper. Trickles of water merge into small streams and creeks and run down the streets of the campground. Clouds b ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 18

    Wow, its been almost a year since I last posted a high-res image for your desktops! I can say, I haven't been out shooting as much as I have in the p ...

  • 05/2011
  • Desert Climbing with the Crag Baby - Part 2

    Geeze, this is what I get for taking too long to write the second half of this trip report. Memorial Day? Shelf Road? That seems like a million yea ...

  • Desert Climbing with the Crag Baby - Part 1

    The long Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of high climbing season in the Rocky Mountains. The spring thaw is (usually) under way, the days wa ...

  • Baby G's First Day at the Crag

    It's May in Colorado, G is 6 months old, it's time he went rock climbing! We took the family up to Duncan's Ridge, a little top roping area just west ...

  • Springtime in Colorado

    As it is the end of May, I realize that this is more like summer in large parts of the country. But out here, the weather is just warming up, snow in ...

  • Getting Out with G - The First Six Months

    When G was just a few weeks old, I started imagining this blog post in my mind. I was going to take my new little baby on so many great adventures, a ...

  • 04/2011
  • Six months of little G

    I can't believe it's been nearly six months since the little guy came into our lives! And what a six months its been! Exhausting and exhilarating, a ...

  • 12/2010
  • Welcome Baby

    Yes, internet friends, there is a reason why this blog has been so neglected these last few months. Mark and I are thrilled to report that we hav ...

  • 09/2010
  • Fall in Colorado

    It's still a bit early for the true autumn glory in our part of the rocky mountains, but last weekend Mark and I drove up to Pingree Park looking for ...

  • 08/2010
  • Making Babies is Type 3 Fun

    In climbing and many outdoor pursuits, it is well known that there are, actually, three types of fun. Type 1 fun is the classic, smiling, happy, laug ...

  • 07/2010
  • A Month of Vedauwoo

    Our friends Dylan and Ann have adopted a permanently nomadic lifestyle, and spent the last 8 months traveling around the western US. In July, they li ...

  • Thayers in Colorado, Part 2

    Mark and I were not able to take too much time off of work to spend with my family, so while we were back in Fort Collins during the week, Mom, Dad, K ...

  • 06/2010
  • Thayers in Colorado, Part 1

    For summer vacation this year, Mom, Dad, Kevin and Andrew drove the RV out to Colorado for two fun weeks of camping, fishing and exploring. Mark and ...

  • Pregnancy Gratitude List

    "Gratitude, that very specific feeling of thankfulness in your heart, allows you to see and absorb all you have, forgetting for a moment all you m ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 16 and 17!

    It's been a long time since I put up a photo for a background image. My computer at work still has snow-covered pine trees! So, here's a couple spri ...

  • Spring-ish Garden Update

    Yes, I know, mid-June is hardly "spring" any more, especially in places outside of Colorado. Around here, we just turned off our furnaces a coupl ...

  • 05/2010
  • Penitente Canyon

    The sky is a blue dome, stretching overhead for miles. The mountains zip by at 60 mph for hour after hour. The hillsides are green and brown and sno ...

  • Hiking Lilly Mountain

    Mark's parents got a last minute condo rental in Estes Park this spring, and we all decided to make a trip out of it for a fun vacation in the mountai ...

  • 04/2010
  • Hiking to Horsetooth Falls

    With me being pregnant (yes, I can officially announce it now at 13 weeks), our weekends have slowed down dramatically. If I can make it outside at a ...

  • Walking slowly through Lory State Park

    It's early spring in Northern Colorado, and I am as sick as I've ever been. It's a struggle to make it into work each morning, and I find my weekends ...

  • 03/2010
  • Thailand Elephant Trek

    When reading guidebooks and planning our trip, I had decided against riding elephants in Thailand. Everybody talked about how horrible animal exploit ...

  • Rockclimbing Railay, Part 3

    Ok, here's my last post on to cover our climbing adventures in Thailand. If you missed the previous two parts, check out our rocky start, and Thailan ...

  • In-flight movie review

    While travelling to and from Thailand, you find yourself trapped in a metal tube a few thousand feet above the ground with not a lot to do. I had a b ...

  • Rockclimbing Railay, Part 2

    After a few not-so-fun climbs around Railay, we hit the jackpot when we wandered north to Tonsai for the day. Fire Wall We clambered up to t ...

  • Rockclimbing Railay, Part 1

    So Mark and I traveled half way around the world to hang out on beaches and climb huge limestone cliffs in Thailand. Unfortunately, our first few cli ...

  • Sunset Snorkel

    After the first taste of snorkeling from the Deep Water Solo'ing trip, Mark and I wanted to do more. So, we signed up for a "Sunset Tour" with a loca ...

  • Deep Water Solo'ing

    After returning from our trip, Mark and I have been asked several times "Why go all the way to Thailand for a vacation?" And our answer is pretty sim ...

  • Hiking Railay

    Railay peninsula is a pretty small place. You can walk from the west beach to the east side in about 10 minutes, it's probably less than half a kilom ...

  • 02/2010
  • A Thousand Splendid Sunsets

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  • More from Thailand

    Another morning off, another hour of internet, and a few more pictures are up in the gallery. Things are falling into a bit of a rhythm here, a ...

  • Reporting from Thailand!

    Well, it's been an incredible week so far. I'm not really sure where to begin. I've started putting a few pictures up in the gallery, but there ...

  • 01/2010
  • Shelf Road in the Snow

    Mark and I have taken several trips to Shelf Road, in the desert of Southern Colorado, to camp and climb during the winter. It's a beautiful canyon f ...

  • New ColoCalders CrossFit Blog

    Last summer, Mark was talked into trying out CrossFit classes by his boss, and he rapidly fell in love with it. What's CrossFit, you ask? Well, it's ...

  • A few days in La Jolla

    Each winter for the last few years, my group at school has had a meeting at a joint institution in our big project. We've had meetings in Kauai, Los ...

  • The San Diego Supercomputer Center

    One of the highlights of our meeting in La Jolla last week was a quick tour through the computing room at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. WARNING ...

  • Winter Weekends

    It's certainly not rock climbing weather out there... what should we do?? Mark and I are going a little stir crazy right now, so we decided to splu ...

  • "If you don't like the weather..."

    it must be winter. This is one heck of a temperature swing... After a high near 45F yesterday morning (helped a bit by down-slope winds), the ...

  • The Winter Fog

    I made myself a snow ball as perfect as could be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet and let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas and a pillow f ...

  • 12/2009
  • There's a Blue Moon Rising

    It's New Year's Eve and I'm screwing around on the computer before we take off for our dinner reservations tonight. It's been a great year, be ...

  • Because Mark didn't like the last desktop image...

    And WIRED suggested a cool way to photograph Christmas Lights, here are another set of hi-res images for your desktop background! These are actually ...

  • i thank you God for most this amazing

    i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything wich is natural ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop 12

    I have been soooo bad with the blog this fall. No posts since October!! This is the worst in two years of working on this baby. And why? No real r ...

  • 11/2009
  • Hiking Cerrillos Hills

    On our second and last day of Santa Fe goodness, we headed south for a bit of a desert hike. The Cerrillos Hills rise up out of a wide desert pla ...

  • Climbing Potrillo Cliffs

    As I mentioned in my previous post, our first day in Santa Fe, New Mexio, was an amazing desert adventure. After our trip to the Farmer's Market, we ...

  • Thank God for Santa Fe

    By the end of November, Mark and I were feeling pretty run down. Winter was rolling in fast and we wanted a climbing trip to the desert. Mark manage ...

  • Winter Hiking

    It's been a hard start to the darkest season here in Colorado. A record snowy October plummeted into a frigid November and December. And while the ...

  • 10/2009
  • Kate in Colorado Springs, Again

    This fall, I spent another 4 weeks teaching a great class on Climate Change at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. As they did before, the college ...

  • Climbing on Golden Cliffs

    Dylan and Ann were in town for the weekend, so we met up at the warm basalt crags that sit above Golden, Colorado. It was a lovely day, warm enou ...

  • Colorado Autumn

    Usually, the minute leaves on aspens start to pale and crinkle, I am all over fall colors in the Rockies with my trusty little camera. It's one o ...

  • 09/2009
  • Where the Wild Things Are

    In Vedauwoo!!! The summer was getting late, and Doug and Liz wanted one last weekend romp through the rocks and woods of Vedauwoo. Doug drove ...

  • Eating the fruits (and veggies) of our labors

    It's been a summer of bounty from the gardens and our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Every day something else is ripening on the vine ...

  • Bouldering in Vedauwoo

    Just wanted to post a few pics from a pretty day of bouldering on Labor Day. Supposedly, it was the unofficial last day of summer. We decided to try ...

  • 08/2009
  • The Great Worn-Out Gear Challenge!

    What is the most worn-out, beat-the-hell-up, torn-to-shreds, broken, scratched-beyond-recognition, threadbare, timeworn, used-well-past-reason-says-y ...

  • Long's Peak Summit Bid

    Wow, almost the entire month of September has gone by, with only a single blog post. Sad. But, I have a little time now, and I wanted to post someth ...

  • Hiking Crown Point

    It was a sunny Sunday morning in August, and I told Mark I was suddenly in the mood to do some shopping. He suggested hiking instead. Two hour ...

  • Tour de Twin Owls

    Here's a suggestion for a nice little adventure for a fun day on Lumpy Ridge. The Twin Owls are one of the most prominent rocks on Lumpy Ridge. ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Images 10 & 11!

    Yes, I'm falling behind this summer. There are so many things I've wanted to post but have had trouble getting around to it. To make up for neglectin ...

  • An Easy Day on Crystal Wall

    The weekend was rainy and Mark was sore from CrossFit. Yeah, that's a great way to start a climbing trip report. This one is gonna rock!! Mos ...

  • Vedauwoo Summer

    It doesn't seem to matter how often or how little we go back. It doesn't matter if the weather's crappy, we get lost, or we do next to no climbing. ...

  • The Big One - Climbing the North Face of Hallett Peak, Part ...

    Mark belayed Eric as he slowly climbed the smooth headwall pitch. I ate some more food and drank a lot of water. I took some pictures, and danced ar ...

  • The Big One - Climbing the North Face of Hallett Peak, Part ...

    For Mark's birthday last year, I scheduled a day of hard alpine climbing guided by Colorado Mountain School (CMS). And last weekend, that day finally ...

  • Magic Moments

    There are some moments in life that take your breath away. Times and places that are so beautiful, it physically hurts to breathe. Last ...

  • 07/2009
  • High Summer Garden

    It's been a crazy summer in the garden this year. I decided to plant more than I might should have, and Colorado responded with more rain than we've ...

  • Climbing Batman and Robin

    No, not climbing AS Batman and Robin (which would be awesome) or climbing WITH Batman and Robin (even awesomer!) Batman and Robin is a classic little ...

  • Sunflowers

    The field next to my office is filled with wild sunflowers. It is quite beautiful, and one of my favorite parts of summer in Colorado. ...

  • Climbing Mt Sherman (14,036 ft)

    Mark and I totally mooched along with plans from a group of transplanted Michiganders for a hike up our 7th Colorado 14er (a 14,000ft+ tall mountain) ...

  • Climbing Lilly Lake

    It's definitely summer. The monsoon has broken for a few weeks, the skies are beautiful and blue, the garden is growing like gang-busters, and we're ...

  • Chasing the Shade: Climbing Shelf Road in July (Part 2)

    If you haven't read Liz's recap of the weekend (Part 1 and Part 2), you should go do that. I'll wait here. Ok, we're back together now? Satur ...

  • Chasing the Shade: Climbing Shelf Road in July (Part I)

    Over the long 4th of July weekend, we were lucky enough to get Liz to come out and play with us. We discussed different options for the trip, and eve ...

  • Dylan and Ann's CDT Send-off

    Wow, I am way behind on blog posts right now. I suppose it's a good thing to be doing more stuff this summer than spending time writing about it. ...

  • 06/2009
  • Summer Weekends in Vedauwoo, Part 2

    The nights seem especially warm and short right now. Sunday, we woke up tired and sore. And determined to find climbs without an approach this time. ...

  • Summer Weekends in Vedauwoo, Part 1

    The days are long and warm now. Afternoon storms roll across the mountains every day. The land is wide, and green, and alive. We camped in ...

  • Stormy Night

    Last night I was in the house, working on a rhubarb cake, happily oblivious to the impending weather. Mark went out to ride his bike over to the groc ...

  • Climbing in Vedauwoo

    As I type this, my hands are swollen to about twice their normal sizes. My finger prints have been gouged off my fingers. My shoulders are so sore I ...

  • Climbing at the Monastary

    In which, Mark runs it out 50ft, we meet Tommy Caldwell, and the beer fairy leaves us a present. On Friday evening, we met up with Doug and Liz at ...

  • Backpacking... below mountains... somewhere

    Hmm, I've had a lot of trouble coming up with a title for this trip report. What exactly did we do last weekend? Where were we? We were definit ...

  • Camp Gear FAIL!

    Ever find that awesome new toy or must-have piece of gear, then get it out in the field and it not only doesn't make your life more awesome, but, in m ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 9

    I took votes from friends as to which photos would make the best desktop from the beach shots. I ended up ignoring them all. I decided that if I was ...

  • 05/2009
  • Rainy Weekend in New Mexico, Part 2

    Sunday morning we all woke up to a little sun cracking through the windows at Dylan and Ann's loft. The forecast didn't look much better, but the pea ...

  • Rainy Weekend in New Mexico, Part 1

    The traditional gathering of friends for climbing over the long Memorial Day weekend took place in New Mexico this year! Dylan and Ann, Doug, Zach, C ...

  • North Carolina Beach Vacation, Part 2

    The big adventure of our trip to North Carolina came on Wednesday, when we all booked spots on a 50ft catamaran sail-cruise to Cape Lookout. The trip ...

  • North Carolina Beach Vacation, Part 1

    When I was a little girl, my favorite place on the planet was the Outer Banks, in North Carolina. My family traveled to the East Coast nearly every y ...

  • A Letter to Myself (When I Started Climbing)

    Hello Young Kate! This is a note from yourself, 8 years from now. You see, I've been inspired by some friends to look back at old photos and I've no ...

  • Spring in RoMo

    We got a break in the weather on Sunday and took off for the mountains. Mom and I went shopping in Estes Park and then we all drove up through the Na ...

  • 04/2009
  • Why I'm planting high-tech in my garden

    The early spring planting season is upon us in Colorado, and I've been picking out seeds and starting plants for the ever expanding container gard ...

  • Hiking to Hanging Lake

    On Monday morning we had to pack up and head home. The weather in the mountains was beautiful, but I was feeling grouchy and a little depressed about ...

  • Mountain Biking in Fruita, Part 2

    On Sunday morning, we were sore. 15 miles in the saddle the day before was rough. But TJ was excited and we still had a full day to enjoy the fine t ...

  • Mountain Biking in Fruita, Part 1

    The prelims are over, and I survived (and passed)! The day after the oral exam, we packed up our gear and headed west to the desert with my little br ...

  • Kate's kinda busy right now...

    Ding Ding Ding, the starting bell has rung for... PhD Entry Exams! Let the PhD Commence! Kate has submitted a proposal. Written Exams commence.. ...

  • The Big Thaw

    For the last few weeks I've been studying and preparing for my Preliminary Exam, so I'm spending all of my time thinking about clouds and climate. Wh ...

  • 03/2009
  • Earth Hour

    If you haven't met me, or read the About Us page yet, I (Kate) am a graduate student at Colorado State University, working on my Phd in Atmospheric Sc ...

  • Millipedes!

    As I've started to grow my garden, I've also started to grow a few houseplants. I have a couple succulents, including the ever useful and difficult t ...

  • Vedauwoo Season Opening!

    The weather has been warm, beautiful and dry for months. Our soil is drying up and blowing away on the Front Range. The water managers are starting ...

  • Hiking Greyrock with the Gang

    It's spring, it's my birthday, and I'm lucky enough to have my favorite group of friends together one more time. Over the weekend, Dylan and Ann came ...

  • What's going on here?

    Thanks to great blogs like Think Buddha, I've recently stumbled across the fun little app at wordle.net. While word clouds are nothing particularly n ...

  • Taxes Finished!

    My feelings on Taxes... (click on image) My only regret is that the clip does not have "Quick! Get the hobbling post!" So, I finished. Hoora ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 8

    Well, it's definitely starting to feel like spring out side, and in Colorado, that means lots of wind, and a good bit of snow. We haven't had much sn ...

  • Climbing in the Desert, Part 2

    On Sunday morning, we rolled out of the tent and were greated with overcast skies and a chill in the air. We took our time getting the camp cleaned u ...

  • 02/2009
  • Climbing in the Desert, Part 1

    Last weekend, Mark and I snuck away for an early season trip to climb at Shelf Road. I'm sorry that we did not invite anybody on this trip, but we wa ...

  • Flow Yoga

    My friend and yoga teacher Channing has set up a really nice website at ChanningYoga.com and, I found out after class last night, she has started ...

  • Snow V-Day

    So, last Saturday was Valentine's Day, and Mark and I decided to celebrate by spending the weekend in the snow. We rented a cabin up near Cameron ...

  • Cam Re-sling

    Last summer, there was a really unfortunate climbing accident due to old, worn-out slings on a route in Kentucky. It seems like there are one or ...

  • Spring Snow!

    I think I've been living in Colorado long enough now. The inch of wet, sticky, clumpy snow that we got last night made me super excited for sprin ...

  • Back to Golden!

    Friends Doug, Liz and Sean all agreed to help Mark and I redeem ourselves on the walls of North Table Mtn this weekend. We met at the trailhead on Sa ...

  • Izzy Osbourne

    Our next-door neighbors have the second coolest dog in the world. Izzy, the little rat terrior, is sweet, smart, playful and cute as can be. In ...

  • Not as bad as I thought

    A few hours of tinkering last night and the website is in pretty good shape! I discovered that the new wordpress theme I love so much has heavy, heav ...

  • In Flux

    You might notice a few changes on the site in the coming few days. I was inspired by the new version of Wordpress to update the blog theme. The ne ...

  • Perfect

    “When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky!”          ...

  • 01/2009
  • Starting the New Climbing Season

    I'm finally back in town, the sun was out, and Mark and I were itching to get back out for some rock climbing. Our last trip out was in mid-Novemeber ...

  • The Church of the Holy Sepulcher

    On Friday, our lectures and meetings finished up at around lunchtime. I was scheduled to leave Tel Aviv on Saturday morning at 5:30a, so Friday after ...

  • Kate and Rachel in Israel

    As usual, I took my nice big camera with me on the trip, and I took a ton of pictures of beautiful churches and picturesque views. Rachel, on the oth ...

  • Touring Ein Kerem

    Our week in Jerusalem was mostly work-focused. I met a ton of fantastic, interesting, brilliant people, and learned sooo much! On Wednesday afternoo ...

  • Back from Israel

    It was a great week. I met so many great people, saw tons of amazing things, and got to explore a beautiful city. I described our first ...

  • What's a guy to do?

    So, my wife is away for 2-ish weeks and I get a full run of the house with a sidenote that it needs to look respectable when she arrives next Saturday ...

  • Notes from the Road: Israel

    I'm on the last leg of my traveling adventures, and this is by far the most exciting, interesting, beautiful, and anxiety-ridden leg! Right now, I'm ...

  • Notes from the road: Manhattan

    Tonight is my last night in the big apple, and I'm finally taking a few hours to relax and stop moving! Unsurprisingly, it seems hard to relax in the ...

  • 12/2008
  • Enjoying the Journey

    This year has been one for the books. Everybody is writing their sum-ups and introspections these days, and I've been thinking about this for a w ...

  • Woo-hoo Wind!

    If you read this blog, you know that I am a huge weather geek. Atmospheric Science is not only my profession, but it's also one of the things I can't ...

  • Christmas 2008

    We had a good week of travel through the midwest for our Christmas celebrations this year. It was an interesting holiday, full of bad weather, surpri ...

  • The 2008 Fall AGU Meeting

    Every year in December, the American Geophysical Union hosts a meeting in San Francisco. This year, my abstract was accepted, and I presented my work ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 7

    It's about time! As much as I like the yellow aspens, I'm getting tired of looking at them. The other not-so-secret purpose for the trip up to Loch ...

  • Holy Guacomole, It's COLD Out There!

    On Saturday, Katy and I went up into Rocky Mountain National Park and did some snowshoeing up to Loch Vale. It was ... delightful. I hiked the w ...

  • Snowshoeing to Loch Vale

    It's been a horribly busy fall for both Mark and I. I've been focusing on school, Mark's been working hard at the office, and we've been spending our ...

  • Yoga for Rock Climbers

    I actually started my yoga practice at about the same time as I started rock climbing. It was fall 2001, I couldn't run outside as much as I want ...

  • Obsessions

    I have an odd relationship with literature. When I was little, with my dad in gradschool trying to raise two little kids, we didn't have a lot. I kn ...

  • 11/2008
  • What the heck is Twitter??

    follow KateTC at http://twitter.com A few weeks ago, I found myself relaxing on vacation in Oregon. It was a rainy day, and aside from suduko and ...

  • Climbing - not at Shelf

    Well, Thursday night came and went, and Mark and I didn't get ready to leave for Shelf. Camping in the desert in winter is fun - but night comes earl ...

  • Quote of the Day

    So, the blog has been quiet for a while now. Mark and I haven't been outside much, and I'm focusing on getting this paper submitted at work. Plus, I ...

  • An Afternoon at North Table Mountain

    Too much to blog! Not enough time! Our first weekend back in town surely had to be spent climbing. Doug and Liz called us, and after some debatin ...

  • 10/2008
  • Fun Early Voting Friday

    Happy Halloween everybody! Mark and I both completed voting early today, and hopefully this means the political calls will stop, finally. I got to v ...

  • Oregon Vacation: Heading Home

    On Friday afternoon, we headed out of Portland and began the 1200 mile trip home. View Larger Map Unlike the trip to Bend, this drive was goin ...

  • Oregon Vacation: The Portland Japanese Gardens

    We had one morning to explore Portland before heading back to Colorado. So, of course, we headed to the Japanese Gardens. After a week of traveling, ...

  • Oregon Vacation: Driving in to Portland

    Tired of pictures from Oregon yet? Great, me neither!! On Thursday, we took the whole day and drove the scenic route, through the Columbia River Gor ...

  • Meet Your Maker

    My favorite part of climbing has almost always been meeting other climbers. We are a group, a community, and it seems everybody who pursues the sport ...

  • Oregon Vacation: Second Day at Smith Rocks

    Wednesday was our last full day in Bend, so we took advantage of some beautiful weather and headed north for Smith Rocks. This time, we left early in ...

  • Oregon Vacation: Crater Lake NP

    On the day after the snow and the storms, we piled the family into the rented Cherokee, and headed south to check out Crater Lake National Park. I wa ...

  • Oregon Trip: Sight-Seeing in Sunriver

    On Monday, the weather forecast looked awful. The skies were clear over our condo, but all of the weather sites promised that we were wrong, it was a ...

  • Oregon Trip: First Day at Smith Rock

    On Sunday morning we moved slowly. Mark's aunt and uncle from Portland were down visiting for the weekend, and it was nice to spend time with them. ...

  • Oregon Vacation: The Drive Out

    Mark's parents got very lucky this spring, and managed to get their hands on two (yes TWO) condos in Bend, OR, for a week of vacation this October. M ...

  • Return to the Outdoors

    As mentioned in a previous post, I won a cool watch as a semi-finalist in the Timex Return to the Outdoors contest. After getting many requests to se ...

  • Back on Plastic

    We've had two icky weekends in a row, and busy, busy weeks between them. Last weekend, D-Liz mentioned they were heading to the rock gym, and Mark a ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 6

    I know Mark isn't going to like this one as much, but I really enjoy staring into the forest on my computer monitor. As usual, I’ve saved the image a ...

  • It's a major award!

    So, just wanted to drop a quick note about life around here the last few days. The first exciting thing that's happened for us is the arrival of our ...

  • The Boundary Layer is still cool!

    So, this is an image of upper level stratus over the desert in Southern California from last November (2007). While the large scale flow could be app ...

  • Fall Colors on White Pine Pass

    The weather is changing. The nights are cooling off. The patterns are shifting. Our weekdays are sunny, warm and beautiful. Our weekends have been ...

  • Fun Friday Videos!

    Dance Edition!! It probably isn't a secrete to anybody that Mark and I have started taking, yes, this is true, Ballroom Dance Classes. We've had f ...

  • 09/2008
  • How did my (CO) rep vote on the bailout?

    We don't post political stuff here, and I'm going to do my best to keep it that way. Please follow the links to let your congressional representative ...

  • Anniversary Weekend in Colorado Springs, Part 2

    So, I'm a bit behind in blogging this, but there are some nice photos from our second day in Colorado Springs up in the Gallery. On Sunday morn ...

  • Anniversary Weekend in Colorado Springs, Part 1

    Following our anniversary tradition, Mark and I headed out of town for the weekend and spent a few nights at a nice resort along with a weekend of cli ...

  • Anniversaries

    Tomorrow is our 5th wedding anniversary, and it feels like a bit of a milestone. This morning, the blog of Niffgurd got "tagged" and his recounting o ...

  • Spore! is fun.

    So, on release day (two weeks ago?) I bought the PC game Spore. For those not following PC games, this is a game where you start out as a single- ...

  • The Reel Rock Film Tour

    Last night, Mark and I went to the 3rd annual Reel Rock Film Tour, as it stopped in Fort Collins for an evening. While I've never been one to give mo ...

  • Climbing Sugarite Canyon: Part 2

    I love the state motto for New Mexico: Land of Enchantment. You just can't walk around the desert and mountains in this place and not feel some kind ...

  • Climbing Sugarite Canyon: Part 1

    Mark and I have climbed a little bit in New Mexico, and each time, we've been impressed with the quiet, secluded nature of the crags, even if they are ...

  • Coleslaw Redux

    My parents were here over the long Labor Day weekend, and we threw a huge BBQ one night. There was corn, and rotissery chicken and coleslaw galore. ...

  • Climbing at the Monastery

    So, I've learned several important things this week. 1) I don't know how to spell the word Monastery and 2) The last time we climbed here the lack of ...

  • Fun Friday Videos

    Is it a tradition? Not yet. I just stumbled upon some fun stuff this week and thought I'd share. This first video may make all of my friends thin ...

  • Is summer over?

    I bought some more bicycling clothes so that I could attempt to get in two rides per week without creating a constant need to do laundry. I've got ne ...

  • Rocks and Water at the Palace

    After all of the weekends spent with family, Mark and I had one day left of Memorial Day weekend to get in a little climbing. The summer monsoon was ...

  • 08/2008
  • Hiking the Ute Trail in RMNP

    My parents and little brother were in town for the first few days of the long weekend, so we head another excuse to spend time hiking in the mountains ...

  • The Boundary Layer is Cool!

    It's fall and back-to-school time! Due to the completion of my master's thesis last winter, and teaching at Colorado College last spring, I haven't a ...

  • Hiking Greyrock with the Calders

    Two fortuitous events unfolded last Friday. The first: Mark's parents and brother arrived in Fort Collins to spend the weekend with us! The second: ...

  • August Garden Update

    Well, I've been wanting to write this post for a while, but I haven't gotten around to taking more pictures of the gardens. Let's start, thou ...

  • Big Big Storms

    It's finally starting to dry out a bit here. I took advantage of the wet weekend and spent two days stocking up the freezer with fresh farm food from ...

  • Fun Friday Videos

    So, it's the end of the week, and you're not doing much real work, are you? I'm happy I'm in the office today. Often on a Friday with family coming ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 5

    We've hit the height of summer around here, and the usual early August flash flooding has befallen us. Temperatures have cooled off a bit, but the hu ...

  • Back Home in Vedauwoo: Part 2

    Sunday morning was overcast and chilly. Mark and I moved slowly, making breakfast and packing up camp. Eventually we started our hike out to Jurrass ...

  • Vedauwoo 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Ah, I finally figured out what the party was. Looks like a Super Tacos Gathering. Hope they had a good time! We saw these signs on the road as ...

  • Back Home in Vedauwoo, Part 1

    Another summer weekend in Colorado, and Mark and I had an intensely renewed desire for low-key fun climbs in Vedauwoo. We managed to convince Doug an ...

  • The Bicycle Commuting Odyssy

    Since Mark and I moved to the east side of town, I haven't been riding my bike as much. I experimented for a bit with driving the first two or three ...

  • Kate and Mark take a walk in The Park

    Mark and I spent the hike out on Saturday coming up with cute names for this blog post. It could have been "We came, we looked, we turned around," or ...

  • 07/2008
  • Risking it all on Sundance

    On Sunday morning we got up at 5:30a. We threw the tent in the car, stopped for a fast food breakfast, and were hiking out of the Lumpy Ridge parking ...

  • A Lovely Day in Rocky Mountain NP

    Mark and I made reservations at a campground just outside the park, found a friend to watch the dog, piled all of our gear into the car and took off f ...

  • Dancing Around the World

    I saw this video on The Adventure Blog this afternoon and just fell in love. Ok, so the premise is corny, but I think the result is lovely. Mark ...

  • Mark looses 2 nuts in Learning Experience

    In which, we learn about climbing on all passive pro, and can't stop making stupid toilet-humor jokes. There are lots of pictures from the day in t ...

  • And it's called EPmotion...

    So, for years Mark and I worked for Beckman Coulter (originally SAGAIN), writing software that controlled huge, expensive, very smart automatic pipett ...

  • Storm Chasing

    We did the drive back from St. Louis in one day, leaving my parents' house at around 6am and getting back to Fort Collins at around 8p. We've done th ...

  • Relaxing on the 4th

    As our week of relaxation and humidity rolled to a conclusion, we had one more big event to look forward to: the celebration of the 4th. In the last ...

  • St. Louis Osuwa Taiko

    One of the best parts of our trip to St. Louis this summer was the chance to spend some time with my childhood friend Amy. She's living a fantastic u ...

  • Things to do in St. Louis in the Summer

    So, how do a couple of Colorado climbers keep themselves busy in St. Louis in the summer? Welp, we've been all over town and having a great time. Th ...

  • 06/2008
  • Adventures ... in Kansas?

    Not that Kansas isn't an exciting place. In fact, Mark and I have probably come closer to disaster in this state than in any other. But, after livin ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 4

    It's summer and we've spent a lot of time in the mountains lately. But my favorite pictures are still from our backpacking trip last summer. Hopeful ...

  • June Garden Update

    Last summer I experimented with a container garden outside of our townhouse for the first time. I learned a lot, and I grew some really good food in ...

  • Gear Every Climber Should Have - Buffs!

    I've been reading a lot of other climbing blogs lately, and I've found myself enjoying gear reviews more than I expected. It's interesting to hear wh ...

  • A Little Lost and Lots of Love in Vedauwoo

    Vedauwoo was actually crowded when we pulled in on Saturday morning. Evidently Jenny and Craig were throwing the wedding of the century at a beautifu ...

  • Sun and Snow in Rocky Mountain National Park

    Mark and I camped Saturday night with Doug and Liz, enjoying a warm evening in Estes Park and the smooth classic rock melodies from our fellow campers ...

  • Climbing Osiris and More!

    In which, after a startling turn of events, we learn that our newly inherited rope is only 50 meters long, and that Mark should not be the one to carr ...

  • Climbing and Confusion on the Holdout

    After our relaxing Saturday, Mark and I decided to climb on Sunday. The weather was forecast to be icky in the National Park, so we drove up to Vedau ...

  • Unexpected Saturdays

    All week long Mark and I had been planning a backpacking trip into the Comanche Peak Wilderness, to get some altitude and flush out the bivy system to ...

  • Vast Lightnings Stomp the Earth

    It's spring, and the strong thunderstorm season is upon us (I just heard a resounding "DUH!" from every citizen of Windsor). I've got the camera out ...

  • Exiting "The Cave"

    We climbed "The Pear Buttress" on "The Book" in Lumpy Ridge (Estes Park, CO) which finishes at an area near the right shoulder of the formation which ...

  • 05/2008
  • Climbing the Pear Buttress

    In which Kate continually redefines the "scariest thing I have ever done." Mark and I have spent a fair amount of time climbing on the giant gr ...

  • Memorial Day Weekend Conglomeration

    As you've no doubt read by now, we spent a the holiday weekend with good friends in our favorite place: Vedauwoo, Wyoming. I was not the only person ...

  • Memorial Day Weekend in Voo, Part 3

    Three nights, three posts. Though Monday was a little uneventful. The rest of the pictures from the weekend are up in the gallery. One good d ...

  • Memorial Day Weekend in Voo, Part 2

    Sunday morning we all slept in, snuggled into warm bags and tents kept cool by the woods around us. Doug and Liz put up a hard breakfast competition ...

  • Memorial Day Weekend in Voo, Part 1

    "This is 'high country' and wind is ever present, whether just a light breeze prowling through the aspen groves or near hurricane force gales. Storm ...

  • Surprise! Indiana Jones movie release (no spoilers)

    Last night Kate asked me if I wanted noodles from the similarly named chain restaurant. Of course I want noodles, I love noodles! On the way to the ...

  • Northern Colorado Tornados, Part 2: Observations

    So, when the word went out that there was a huge tornado on the ground about 10 miles from the Atmospheric Science department where I work, what did e ...

  • Northern Colorado Tornados, Part 1: Analysis

    Yes, I am a big weather geek. I spend a lot of time rock climbing and hiking, but my day job is atmospheric dynamics research. So on the morning of ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 3

    It's been a while since I posted a high resolution image, so I thought I would dig one out. I took this shot at Vedauwoo last weekend with the intens ...

  • First Weekend in Vedauwoo! Part 2

    “Vedauwoo filter(s) out the weak, the soft and the spineless, which leaves better company for you.” - Todd Skinner After dinner on Saturday night D ...

  • First Weekend in Vedauwoo! Part 1

    We've been watching storm after storm blow through Wyoming, waiting for months for the snow to melt and the skies to clear up long enough to get back ...

  • Las Nubes

    We've had a cool, wet spring so far. Here's a shot of clouds growing over Fort Collins this afternoon. ...

  • Crazy Big Falls

    Somehow, in the course of procrastination or avoidance, I came across a blog post with a link to a link to a link to this wild compilation of on-line ...

  • The Great Camera Comparison

    In preparation for our upcoming climb of the Grand Teton (see, I told you), Mark and I are gathering and evaluating our gear and trying to streamline ...

  • Another Adventure on Lumpy Ridge

    This week, Mark and I made the stunning realization that the summit of the Grand Teton is not after 11 miles of hiking as indicated on the Exum Guide ...

  • How to get to Loveland in 50 miles of driving

    After I gave Mark trouble in a blog post about his rapid series of short climbing pitches on Greyrock last week, he decided this week, it was my turn. ...

  • Holy Batshit Fatman! Wait...

    Mark and I bought a new car! The passat always served us well, but it's days were numbered. When the local Toyota dealership offered us a surprising ...

  • Boom-di-ada

    This commercial makes me so happy. It's really brilliant. Enjoy! ...

  • 04/2008
  • How to climb Greyrock in 17 pitches

    Mark and I decided in the last week or so that we want to try to climb the Grand Teton at the end of June. To warn our readers, the next several adve ...

  • Calm morning

    A shot from my walk around Arapahoe Bend natural area a week or two ago. It's a little strange how many of the trees near our house have leaves or bl ...

  • For the Fun of It

    After our Partner Yoga class last weekend, Mark and I bought the book from the instructor. The Pleasures and Principals of Partner Yoga by Elysabet ...

  • Climbing in the South St Vrain Canyon

    The last (and only) time Mark and I went to check out climbing in this corner of Colorado, we got lost, thrashed by bushes, nearly struck by lightenin ...

  • Hanging out with an Astronaut

    Our group was lucky to have Piers Sellers come out to talk and spend the day discussing his research with us this week. Apart from being an incredibl ...

  • Top 10 Signs of Spring in Fort Collins

    Colorado has it's own version of spring. Where other places have daffodils and tulips covering the yards, the signs of a new season in Fort Collins a ...

  • I don't need a camera to have a fun trip, Part 2

    I may not have needed a camera, but by Sunday, I was missing it. The morning was warmer, and Mark and I felt like we had inadvertently been victi ...

  • I don't need a camera to have a fun trip, Part 1

    I know it seems unlikely, but I actually went on a climbing trip, and accidentally left my camera at home. It was all packed up, ready to go, and on ...

  • Windy

    Quite the spring storm we've had blow through this week. I've seen just about everything the atmosphere can throw at us, including rain, wind, snow, ...

  • I was looking for... what was I looking for?

    Kate and I are in Best Buy Sunday night with a primary mission to get the last two seasons of Gilmore Girls so that we quit watching them out of order ...

  • New Toys for Spring

    The weather has been mild and we got a big tax refund. Time to shop! I've spent my time and money lately refurbishing Ann's older (but very nice ...

  • Climbing on Lumpy Ridge

    Mark had a suggestion for how this trip report should go, so I'll try to stay as true to his idea as I can. There are a few photos from the day in th ...

  • Browser Hijack / Trojan / Downloader EXPUNGED!

    I used to have a core set of tools to keep my PC free and clean of viruses and ad-ware. Then, about two weeks ago, I was browsing the world wide web ...

  • 03/2008
  • Spring Trip to Shelf Road, Part 2

    Sunday morning was cold and overcast. We initially decided to pack up and head back to the Fort, but as we made breakfast and cleaned up, the sky beg ...

  • Spring Trip to Shelf Road, Part 1

    Mark and I counted when we got home, and this was our 8th trip to Shelf Road in 4 years. For a pair of climbers that consider ourselves traddies, we ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image 2

    I took this shot on my hike up to Horsetooth Reservoir a few weeks ago. It's another image that is nice, abstract, and might make a really nice deskt ...

  • We're Back!

    After transferring the site, moving the registration of our domain name, and then a lot of confusion as to what our "colocalders" address was pointing ...

  • LOST (for about an hour)

    This weekend's adventure ended up being a lot more exciting than we expected. The plan was to snowshoe up to Montgomery Pass, which is just north of ...

  • We're moving

    I got sick and tired of the slow speeds, poor up-time and horrible performance of our old webhost. So I signed up with somebody else! So far, the si ...

  • It always snows on my birthday

    For as long as I can remember, I’ve always seen snow in the week before or the week after my birthday. Some of my more memorable birthday parties incl ...

  • Winter Gardening

    Mom and Dad bought us an Aero-grow hydroponic system a few weeks ago, and I finally got around to setting it up today. It's a pretty neat little cont ...

  • Checking out Combat Rock

    The Big Thompson canyon has rock formations all along the way to Estes Park. Many are difficult to get to, unexplored and unpublished. After having ...

  • Why I Love Fort Collins

    Mark and I have agreed since the day we arrived that Colorado is one of the best places on Earth to live. There are so many reasons to love living in ...

  • Birthday Hiking the Foothills

    I've written my thesis, I've defended my master's, and now I've finished teaching my class at Colorado College. I'm home, I'm done and I'm taking a s ...

  • Climbing Eldo with Everybody Else in the World

    It was the weekend, so what else would Mark and I do? We headed south to Eldorado Canyon to try out some climbs we've been eye-ing for several weeks ...

  • Sun and Fun on the Turkey Perch

    Happy March Everybody!! It was a warm day before a cold front blasted through, and Mark and I decided to get back out on the rock. I think our recen ...

  • 02/2008
  • Field Trip to the Ice Core Lab

    As part of the Global Climate Change class I've been co-teaching at Colorado College, we've done a fair bit of work with ice core data and paleoclimat ...

  • Two climbs in Golden

    The weekends are a welcome relief for me right now. I've been putting in 14 hour days here at the College, and it's nice to be able to just go home a ...

  • Kate's in Colorado Springs

    I'm co-teaching a class in Colorado Springs right now. It's a 100-level class on Climate Change at Colorado College, a nice little liberal arts colle ...

  • Mark is smelling a little gamey!

    Kate is teaching a class in Colorado Springs for 3.5 weeks allowing me to "live like a single guy" in the evenings. It means I'll be eating unhealthy ...

  • Kate's Free Desktop Image

    So, I was out photographing a dramatic sky the other night, and as I looked through the images I brought back in, I thought a lot of them were nice an ...

  • Death and ...

    Mark did our taxes earlier this year. Last year, due to mistakes in withholding and a whole lot of capital gains, we ended up owing thousands to uncl ...

  • Climbing Eldorado Canyon, in the snow

    Saturday was a beautiful day in Northern Colorado. Temperatures topped out at nearly 55F (~13C) in the Fort, and the sun felt great. On Sunday morni ...

  • Hometown Pride

    I grew up in a suburb of St. Louis called Kirkwood, Missouri. Last year we were in the national news for the first time in years when a guy working a ...

  • Super-Dooper Big Fat Awful Tuesday

    So yesterday was called "Super Tuesday" by the MSM outlets due to the large number of states which held primaries that day. It was also called Mardi ...

  • Ah, Startlogic

    How you frustrate me. Our webhost has decided to move all of their clients to a new server, with a new hosting framework and evidently all new databa ...

  • Skiing at Eldora

    On Saturday, Mark and I met Doug, Liz, Mike and Adam in Fort Collins and headed south for a ski day at Eldora Ski Area. We met Kevin in Boulder, but ...

  • The Buddha Says

    "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, ...

  • 01/2008
  • Success!

    Well, it's official! Today I successfully defended my Master's Thesis. I now officially have an MS in Atmospheric Science, and my whole committee un ...

  • Joshua Tree Climbing Trip, Day 4

    We woke up on Monday morning exhausted, beat up and covered in sand. The wind had blown all night long, and the tents had never really stopped flappi ...

  • Joshua Tree Climbing Trip, Day 3

    I suppose after two great days of climbing in the desert, it was time for an epic. Thanks to Bruce, there are more photos from the weekend up in the ...

  • Joshua Tree Climbing Trip, Day 2

    On Saturday morning we woke up early, and I bugged the guys until they got packed into the car with plenty of daylight left for climbing. The goal of ...

  • Joshua Tree Climbing Trip, Day 1

    After the meeting at UCLA, Bruce drove up from San Diego and picked me up on the campus Thursday evening. We did grocery shopping for the long weeken ...

  • Visiting UCLA: January 14-17, 2008

    Pictures from the fantastic campus are up in the gallery. I have to admit, my last trip to LA was a lot of fun, but also involved a lot of traf ...

  • Fresh

    So, you know how you get new camera equipment and suddenly your whole artistic vision of photography changes? Ok, maybe you don't, but it's happened ...

  • Ouch

    I always thought that 15 years of ballet and over 5 years of yoga and rockclimbing would give me ankles of steel. And so far it has. But yesterd ...

  • More Kelvin-Helmholz Waves

    My good friend Dougie B gave me a call while I was sniffling on the couch this afternoon and told me to run my sick butt outside into the cold and che ...

  • Kill the Coward Within

    Ok, so this is a commercial, but it's so funny I got smoothy up my nose this morning. I think I need Lance Armstrong running behind me all of the tim ...

  • Snowshoeing Rocky Mountain NP

    Mark and I finished our short work week excited about getting out into the mountains for a day. When we read reports of a wolf sighting in the Rocky ...

  • One Warm Photo

    We're looking at a snowy weekend coming up, and Mark and I are excited about digging out the winter gear again! Here's a shot from Christmas of my mo ...

  • New Beginnings

    It's been one of those great kinds of days. Those days when you remember how exciting and scary and new everything was once upon a time. When you re ...

  • 12/2007
  • The End of the Trip

    Today is our last day in the midwest for our Christmas break. Today we'll pack everything up, and tomorrow morning we take off to head back to Colora ...

  • New Toys

    Christmas has come and gone, and now Mark and I are enjoying our first round of new toys. Special thanks to all of our family that spoils us so much. ...

  • 2007 Climbing Year in Review

    Similar to last year, I decided to put together a video photo collage of all of the climbing photos from the past year. Unlike 2006, this year was a ...

  • We MADE IT!

    It's been a h*ll of a month, and I mean that in the most literal of terms. After finishing a full draft of my thesis last Sunday morning, I spent Tue ...

  • How many colors will fit in one sky?

    Hmm, halfway through December and this is my third post. Sorry about that, but, as discussed previously, I'm focusing intensely right now on finishin ...

  • First Snow Hike of the Season

    I've been sitting on these photos for more than a week now, but they are finally up in the gallery. Check them out here! Looking for another q ...

  • Winter Sparkles

    Still writing, but it's Christmas, and it's hard to ignore it. Mark decorated the tree out infront of our house, and then we got a couple of inches o ...

  • Room to Breathe

    I'm getting there. Slowly, slowly, working my way up the side of the mountain that is my thesis. I know why I love the physical pursuits that I spen ...

  • 11/2007
  • Day by day

    I'm writing all of the time now. All day at school and then in the evenings and on the weekends. I dream about things like cloud parameterizations, ...

  • Thanksgiving 2007

    Our family has a variety of Thanksgiving traditions that make it lots of fun to come home for the holiday. We started the morning with TJ, Mark and I ...

  • Mountain Cloud Breakers

    These clouds appeared for just a few minutes at the end of the day on Sunday. Wave clouds often form over mountains, but I've never seen them break l ...

  • Sneaking out to the Palace: November 18, 2007

    In which, Kate tries to put as many pictures in one blog post as she possibly can. I decided I needed a short break from working on my thesis, so S ...

  • November Sunsets

    Sunrise, sunset. The quiet in-between times. Soft, brilliant, colors, lights, clouds. A breezy evening. A time to pause. Check out the Larg ...

  • Eye candy is tasty

    Today I got my laptop upgraded to Leopard, the new Mac operating system (OS 10.5 if you're keeping track). It was pretty much love at first sight. I ...

  • MJO Workshop: November 5-7, 2007

    I took some photos of the MJO workshop I was traveling to just for the fun of it. They are in the gallery and some are soon to be on the CMMAP websit ...

  • Backpacking Joshua Tree, Part II

    Photos from the weekend are in the gallery! On Sunday morning, Jim set his cell phone alarm to get us up in time to take pictures of the sunris ...

  • Backpacking Joshua Tree, Part I

    Photos from the weekend are up in the gallery! Jim B (a fellow CSU atmos grad student) and I were sent out to an MJO workshop last week, so we ...

  • Traveling

    I took this shot from a stop-off of I-25 on my way home last night from an interview for an internship at Colorado College. What a neat school! It's ...

  • 10/2007
  • Movies!!

    So, I've been saving up a ton of little movie clips over the past year or so. Last weekend, I finally put a couple up on YouTube, and then added a pa ...

  • Climbing at the Palace: October 28, 2007

    In which Kate discovers that some toproped climbs are even more exciting than leading. There's some pretty pictures in the gallery! The river ...

  • Sunsets

    Something about the fall out here makes for some beautiful sunsets. The air gets dryer, the wind picks up over the mountains, and we get lots of high ...

  • The Epic of the Big Bed

    You might have noticed by now, if you read regularly, but when my family comes into town, we like to put them to work! My parents and little bro, TJ, ...

  • Snow?

    We were forecast to get 1-3 inches of snow today! Looks like we got some flurries, but nothing stuck in our area. For snow reports in the area, here ...

  • Back to the Palace: October 20, 2007

    There's a few nice shots from the day in the gallery. After the snowy hike to Vedauwoo, it seemed the Wyoming trad climbing season is now officiall ...

  • Misty Morning

    This was actually shot a couple of weeks ago also, before the big fogs this week. Mornings like these are why I like to be the one who takes the dog ...

  • Another Pretty Sunset

    This is actually a shot from a couple of weeks ago. October 3rd, to be exact. There were some really nice wave clouds at sunset tonight also, but I' ...

  • Foggy Mornings

    Thought I would write just a little bit about the cool foggy mornings we've been having along the Northern Front range this week. Dylan has a particu ...

  • Mark's Parents in Vedauwoo

    Lots of great shots up in the gallery! On their last day in town, Mark and I decided to take his parents up to Vedauwoo for an afternoon hike. ...

  • Fall in the Poudre Canyon

    There's some nice shots from the day in the gallery. With Mark's parents visiting for the weekend, we decided to show them some of the sites. ...

  • Harvest Day! October 13, 2007

    There's blurry photos from the day in the gallery. The story begins last April, when Mark and I paid $325 for a half vegetable share and a full ...

  • Embracing Diversity

    Malcolm Gladwell has been one of Mark and my heros ever since we listened to Blink while traveling around to climbing and mountain biking trails last ...

  • What's in your pockets?

    The weather has cooled off enough for me to grudgingly pull my big down coat out of the closet for my pre-dawn dog walks this week. On the first mor ...

  • Fall Day in Vedauwoo: October 6, 2007

    More pictures from they day are up in the gallery! Well, my forecast for the weekend officially bombed. While Mark and I were kind of looking forw ...

  • Anniversary Trip to Estes Park: Sept 28-30 (Part II)

    The rest of the photos from the weekend are up in the gallery. I'm going to start re-dating some of these posts to help them make as much sense as ...

  • Anniversary Trip to Estes Park: Sept 28-30, 2007 (Part I)

    There's a few shots from Saturday up in the gallery. For our anniversary weekend this year, Mark and I decided to take a trip back to Estes Park, C ...

  • 09/2007
  • Blessing and Dividing of the Beef: September 26, 2007

    Dylan, Ann, Doug, Liz, Mark and I all decided to go in together and purchase half of a local grass-fed cow this year. Our cow grew up on the pastures ...

  • Harvest Moon

    The first full moon after the autumnal equninox is traditionally the Harvest Moon. This especially means a lot to us this year as all of our local fo ...

  • Climbing Ed's Crack! Again! September 22, 2007

    Mucho pictures of this beautiful fall day are up in the gallery. It's official, fall has landed in Vedauwoo. We were on the fence as to whethe ...

  • More Reflections

    I've started up my free week of unlimited yoga at the local new installment of CorePower Yoga. I've been very surprised and delighted by the classes. ...

  • Vedauwoo and Little John: September 15, 2007

    In which, Kate discovers that she prefers straight-forward brutish climbs. The photos from the day are in the gallery. On Saturday, we picked up D ...

  • Summiting Pikes Peak: September 8, 2007

    More photos from the day are up in the gallery. On my parents last day of their road trip, they ended up in Colorado Springs. Mark and I weren't a ...

  • Poor Little Liv

    Last Thursday, Liv went to work with Mark as usual. Mark works out near the local commuter airport, and sometimes he lets Liv run a bit in the aftern ...

  • Exploring Moab: Part III

    Got the rest of the photos up in the gallery. On our last day in Moab, TJ and I got up early to go set up shots of Arches in the early day light, b ...

  • Exploring Moab: Part II

    There's a few more new photos up in the gallery! Sunday morning seemed warmer still, and Mark and I were starting to feel a little fatigue from the ...

  • Exploring Moab: Part I

    There's more photos from the long weekend up in the gallery! Saturday morning dawned cool and quietly. We noticed that most of the people in our c ...

  • Driving into the Desert

    I've started a gallery for the photos from the long weekend. Over the next few days, I'll keep uploading new ones. Check them out! On Friday at a ...

  • 08/2007
  • One more before the road

    We're leaving this afternoon to spend the long weekend camping with my family and climbing in the desert. It should be a really hot, and really great ...

  • Climbing Mt Belford: August 24-26, 2007

    There's a whole heap of photos from the day in the gallery. Check them out! In preparation for my parent's road trip for the season, we decided to ...

  • Yesterday's Sunrise

    Well, I am just full of photos this week, aren't I? Here's a shot of the sunrise from yesterday morning. The puffy clouds were remnants of the heavy ...

  • Nature's Light Shows

    Last night we had a few nice supercells pass through north east of town. The lightening was constant, and beautiful. Quite a bit of hail was reporte ...

  • Space Station and Shuttle

    One of Kate's mailing lists at school informed us of the following... "Just as before, the Space Shuttle has un-docked from the International Space S ...

  • Hiking, climbing and sweating on Greyrock Mtn

    Another stinkin' hot weekend on the Front Range. We had a great Friday night and Saturday hanging around the Fort and being a bit lazy. The plan was ...

  • Updates Galore!

    Its a long story, but this weekend I got started on some site updates that I've been wanting to play around with for a long time, and I may have gotte ...

  • Summertime Joy

    The evenings are warm, the gardens are full and the grills are smoking. We had a really nice picnic last night with all the girls (and Mark and sons ...

  • Jam Thumbprints

    Even though I'm supposed to be doing the cooking, Mark has been happy to bake a bit in the evenings. I suppose it's like how he's supposed to be pay ...

  • Exploring the Blair Woods

    Last weekend, the high temperatures in Fort Collins were heading quickly towards the triple digits, so we decided to take refuge on some shady north-f ...

  • Meditations

    I feel like the summer is getting late, but I don't know where the season went. I'm counting down the last few weekends of August and realizing that ...

  • Diffusive Radiation

    I do love my job. Sometimes it's stressful. Sometimes I get tired and freak out. But last night, I got to leave the poster session just a little ea ...

  • Clouds, Clouds, Clouds

    I've spent my week at a team meeting for my advisor's largest research project. It's been a great meeting. On Tuesday, I gave my first public scienc ...

  • Backpacking to Blue Lake, Part II

    I put the rest of the photos from the weekend up in the gallery! Sunday morning dawned bright and clear. I had one of the best nights of sleep whi ...

  • Flood!

    Well, last night we had somewhere between 2 and 5 inches of rain in about 2 hours, and Fort Collins saw another series of flash floods. The last time ...

  • Backpacking to Blue Lake, Part I

    So we've heard so many great tales of friends hiking and backpacking in the mountains lately, that Mark and I decided it was time to get our sorry but ...

  • 07/2007
  • Back in Time, Back in Ved

    So, here's another post about activities we did a few weeks ago. I put photos from one day that weekend up in the gallery. So, two weekends ago, J ...

  • Oh Yeah...

    So, despite what it must look like, Mark and I are still leaving the house occasionally this summer. I know it seems like I've just been sitting arou ...

  • Perugia, the last week in Italy

    The last five days I was in country were at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) yearly conference in Perugia, Italy. The Univers ...

  • A Day at Torchello

    Still writing up the last few posts about the trip to Italy. I put the pictures from this day in the gallery. On our last day in Venice, we de ...

  • The Gondola

    You can't go to Venice without taking a ride in a Gondola! But they'll make you pay out your nose for it. My photos from the little boat trip are no ...

  • Heading North

    On the Forth of July last week, we hopped on a train in Rome and headed across the Italian countryside up to Venice. I've put the first batch of m ph ...

  • The Last of Rome

    Well, I'm back in Colorado. After 24 full hours of traveling yesterday, I'm feeling stiff, sore, and exhausted still. I'm moving slow, and spending ...

  • In Perugia

    Well, I made it. I don't know if I'll be taking many pictures in Perugia. It's hard enough trying to figure out how to get to the conference venues ...

  • Vatican City

    Well, we made it to Venice (Venezia). But, I'll save that trip write up for another day. Tonight, we're taking a night off from walking and relaxing ...

  • The Eternal City

    One more quick post from Rome. We are hopping a train to Venice tomorrow, so this might be my last night with internet access for a little while. ...

  • First Post from Italy!

    Well, it's been a busy first three days! I've finally gotten the internet to work, so I was able to upload just a few pictures to the gallery. Enjoy ...

  • 06/2007
  • Painted Sky

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  • Fun on the River

    Here's a couple more shots from our hike on the Big South Trail last Sunday. It was a beautiful day all day long, and there were quite a few kayakers ...

  • Big South Trail

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  • Dry Microbursts

    So, last night Mark and I were hanging out, when we heard the house creek and a weird howl creeped in from the gathering dusk. We peaked our head out ...

  • Top 10 Best Things About Camping and Climbing in Vedauwoo

    10. Wyoming wildflowers are not to be missed. 9. The adventure starts on the approach! 8. Daytime views cover the whole state, nigh ...

  • One year of blogging!

    June 16th is the official one-year anniversary of this blog! Yey! It's been a great year, full of adventure and excitement, made all the better for ...

  • It's like Christmas in June!

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  • Just Can't Get Enough, Day 2

    Sunday morning, I woke up with a bit of a sore throat and the desire to climb more!! So, we hopped in the car and took off for Ved, again! Horticu ...

  • Just Can't Get Enough

    There were TONS of AMAZING pics from the day. I've put them all up in the gallery. What a great day! For Doug and Liz's second trip to Vedauw ...

  • Fine, I give up

    Upon great pressure, I yield to the majority. I have created a MySpace page. I'm sorry. http://www.myspace.com/kcalder313 And, on a side note, ...

  • Read This

    Why Pete Takeda Loves Vedauwoo ...I started up with confidence, but the edge was too rounded to lieback and my only relatively big piece—a number 3 ...

  • "Put yourself in a position to be lucky..."

    "... but don't count on luck to survive." -Mark Houston and Kathy Cosley in Alpine Climbing: Techniques to Take You Higher So, this is the advice r ...

  • Cheesehead Ranch! (Part 3)

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  • 05/2007
  • Cheesehead Ranch! (Part 2)

    Just because I forgot to mention it in the last post, check out the photos in the gallery! On Sunday morning, Mark woke up groaning. He put a pill ...

  • Cheesehead Ranch! (Part 1)

    Every year, for the past five years, our friend Brian from the rock gym has had a big group of climbers up to camp on his ranch near Shelf Road, and e ...

  • Kate's Garden

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  • Buzzy Peach

    1 fresh peach 1.5 shots of Raspberry vodka 1/2 can of Sprite Blanch the peach in boiling water for just a few minutes. Gently rub the skin off a ...

  • Gone Fishin'

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  • Globe hopping

    All of my pictures from my week-long trip are up in the gallery. I finished my trip to Japan yesterday. Due to the international date line, I got ...

  • Kate at Play: Pushing More Limits

    My few pictures from the weekend are in the gallery. On Sunday morning, Dylan, Ann and I headed out to the Nautilis to meet up with Sean and Collin ...

  • Kate at Play: Girl's Day in Vedauwoo

    My few photos from the weekend are in the gallery. So Mark is on the other side of the planet for the weekend. I decided that I wanted to get out ...

  • And, there it is!

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  • Buttermilk Clouds

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  • Wet Weekend

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  • Break Out the Big Bros! (A Vedauwoo TR, Part 2)

    As I said before, more photos from the day are in the gallery. Sunday morning dawned clear and warm again. We decided not to spend too much time o ...

  • Break Out the Big Bros! (A Vedauwoo TR, Part 1)

    Well, I finally got the photos off my dead laptop and into the gallery, check them out! Vedauwoo is one of my all-time favorite places to climb. It ...

  • When it rains, it POURS

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  • 04/2007
  • Photos From Greyrock

    Yey! I got my camera back! It was really cool to be able to check out all of those pictures that I took on Sunday, and thought I'd never see again. ...

  • Will wonders never cease??

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  • Hiking Greyrock Mountain

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  • Colorado National Monument TR (Part III)

    Thought I'd add one more blog posting about our trip to the desert last weekend. I don't know if it was the spring season, or the warm weather, but w ...

  • Colorado National Monument TR (Part II)

    More shots are up in the gallery! Sunday morning dawned warm and bright in the desert campground. We had spent time the night before re-racking, r ...

  • Colorado National Monument TR (Part I)

    There are more photos from the weekend in the gallery! One more spring weekend, one more road trip! Mark and I took off from work at exactly 5:00 ...

  • Echo

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  • Homage

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  • Bled For You

    So, it's Easter and Mark and I are finishing up the taxes. OUCH!!!! This year is especially painful as Mark's new job did not withhold enough money ...

  • Night Blossoms

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  • Climbing Greyrock Mountain

    I took lots of fun pics on this climb, check them out in the gallery! Last Sunday was a beautiful, warm, early spring day, so Mark and I decided to ...

  • Brain Cloud

    So, there has to be something wrong with me, right? Some kind of learning disability or old brain tumor or something. I just went back and read most ...

  • Snowshoeing Montgomery Pass

    There's a few more pictures from the day in the gallery. On Saturday, our goal of climbing a few more 14ers this spring inspired us to get back up ...

  • 03/2007
  • Bruce leads Terminal Velocity (5.11b/c)

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  • Sunday in Eldorado Canyon

    Last Sunday we had another great day of climbing with a fun, big group. I've got a couple of nice photos up in the gallery, check them out! The mo ...

  • Another reason to love the weather out here

    From the local NWS web page about the storms hitting our area on Saturday, March 24th: "While the Denver/Boulder Forecast Office was concentrating ...

  • May it make you happy...

    We had a great spring weekend again. Over an inch of rain on Saturday (and 4 inches of snow in Wyoming) causes us to change plans at the last minute ...

  • One more from Shelf Road

    I just wanted to post a few more shots from climbing last weekend. And let everybody know that I put all of the shots up in our photo gallery. Her ...

  • A Few Small Improvements

    Spent a little time working on the site this week. As you may have noticed, I added a link to the Adventure Map on all posts with location inform ...

  • Mark leading Times Square (5.8)

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  • Estes Elk Herd

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  • Hiking Lilly Mountain

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  • [Kauai TR] Day 7: The Kauai Waterfall Safari

    Ok, the photos from the last day of our trip are up in the gallery! On our last day on the island, Mark and I packed everything up and checked out ...

  • [Kauai TR] The Kauai Surfer Project

    Here's a selection of shots from the gallery dedicated to the pictures I took of surfers on that afternoon at Polihale beach. I highly recommend clic ...

  • [Kauai TR] Day 6: An Afternoon on Polihale Beach

    Check out more pictures of this beautiful beach in my gallery. After a surprisingly tasty lunch sitting outside at a little burger stand that obvio ...

  • [Kauai TR] Day 6: A Morning in Waimea Canyon

    There are lots of pictures from this morning in the gallery. At the Lu'au, the previous evening, Mark and I got a tip that the place to go on the i ...

  • [Kauai TR] Day 5: Blow-holes, Beaches, and Boo-Boos

    Sorry I've been so slow to pound these out. There's more shots from the day in the gallery. On Mark's first full day on the island, we wanted to g ...

  • [Kauai TR] Day 4: The End of Work, The Begining of Vacation

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  • 02/2007
  • The First Three Days: Travel and Working Along Hanalei Bay ...

    Pictures from the first three days of the trip can be found in the gallery. Wow! What a week! My plane took off from DIA around 10am on Monday mo ...

  • A Great February Day

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  • Aaaand we're home!

    Eight hours of flying, 6 hours in airports, five different security screenings and one long shuttle ride later; Mark and I collapsed inside of our fro ...

  • Famous Person spot, met!

    I saw a famous person in Las Vegas airport. I was looking at him and thinking... yeah... that is him, so I asked and got to meet... I got to shake ...

  • Warm & Fresh

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  • High Winds

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  • Snow Eaters!!

    Well, as much as the last post glorifies the mountain powder surrounding us, the hard-packed left over snow (that's nearly a record-setting ground cov ...

  • Snow is soooo fun!

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  • Fresh Pow!

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  • Manhattan Weekend TR

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  • Timmy O'Neil Underwear Cruisador!

    Ok, while we're on the subject of recycling clothing, a friend sent me a link to Patagonia's site, where they have begun a campaign to recycle old cap ...

  • Cathedral

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  • Nau

    I just finished reading this huge article in Outside magazine about this company that's trying to start selling completely recycled or sustainably cre ...

  • My Evening Cruise

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  • Vedauwoo Postholing TR

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  • 01/2007
  • Snow Bouldering

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  • Holy Saturday

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  • 2006 Climbing Year in Review

    I spent some time putting together pictures from several of our climbing adventures last year into a "review" movie. It's funny, we climbed a good bi ...

  • Haircut

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  • Pictures of the 1913 Denver Snow Storm

    Ok, I just saw this and I love it! According to our local office of the National Weather Service: "The greatest snow storm in Denver weather hist ...

  • Snowy nose!

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  • Frost

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  • Snow on the River

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  • Snow Covered

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  • Bald Eagle

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  • Closing in...

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  • More Impending Doom!

    So, I think the models missed this one by quite a bit. Until this afternoon, the temperatures below this cold front weren't supposed to get below fre ...

  • Mark vs. Wild: The Rocky Mountains

    So, last night I had a great time, and I finally put together the Mark vs. Wild video that I've had laying around for the last two months. I put it u ...

  • Golden Eagle II

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  • Brown food

    Update: All the "looks tastey" comments urge me to boast of new camera equipment. For Christmas, I got kate a Nikon Zoom lense with vibration reduc ...

  • Golden Eagle

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  • Home Sick

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  • Links Page

    Well, I'm home sick again today. Some kind of icky flu. At least today I don't have the headache that I did yesterday, so I'm able to read and write ...

  • Frozen

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  • 12/2006
  • Contrails at sunset

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  • Self portrait at 145 kph

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  • Evening Cruise

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  • Icy trees

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  • Ice storm sunrise

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  • Frosty morning

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  • The Holiday Blizzard of 2006

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  • Blizzard Warning

    Well, I can pretty honestly say this is the first time I've ever been somewhere that's under a blizzard warning. They are forecasting high winds gust ...

  • Campfire

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  • Peace and Quiet - A Snow Camping Trip Report

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  • Bright winter sunrise

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  • Liv at -21.6C

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  • Feuerzagenbowle

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  • Bedecked

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  • Snow!

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  • AJ at Horsetooth Reservoir

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  • Guitar Hero2-dom, almost

    I set an achievable goal for myself on the PS2 game Guitar Hero 2. I was going to achieve a five star rating on all the songs with medium difficulty ...

  • Mark can blog too (1st entry - food and birthday)

    I’m a blogger now too! First entry, birthday. Mom and Dad and Mom and Dad, thanks for kitchen gadgets! Birthday gift - Food Processor. It sliced ...

  • Another Update

    Boy, no camera battery is really boring. I should dig out some older photos and post them. But, for now, I'm having fun just playing with the site. ...

  • Updated

    Well, the good news is it's almost Christmas and life is busy with many wonderful things. The bad news is I lost the charger for my D70 battery and i ...

  • 11/2006
  • 'Tis the Season

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  • In the Brew House

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  • How I spent my Thanksgiving

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  • Driving Through Kansas

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  • Sunset November 20

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  • The back bowls of Copper Mountain

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  • Because Mom wanted to see tumbleweed...

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  • Coolest Blog Tool Ever!

    Well, it's finally working, and it's great! Cyberhobo wrote this excellent Wordpress plugin that takes location data associated with a post and plots ...

  • Sunset on Nymph Lake

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  • A winter trek in RoMo

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  • My other hobby

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  • Liv at Sunset

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  • Jump over what?

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  • Rappelling the West Ridge

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  • Grass at dusk

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  • More Sunsets

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  • Comma Clouds

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  • 10/2006
  • Rainbows in the Stratosphere

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  • North Table Mountain TR

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  • Halloween!

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  • View towards Estes Park

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  • Late Afternoon Sun

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  • Snow Sculptures

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  • Sign of the times?

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  • A Good Day

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  • Checking Out the Crux

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  • Lenticular Cloud

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  • Fall Ferns

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  • Bright Fall Evenings

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  • Explosion of color

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  • Paint the Hills

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  • 09/2006
  • Shelf Road Dawn

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  • A Wet Morning

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  • Aspen leaves on the trail

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  • Light up the sky

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  • Rainbow

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  • Mt. Yale Movie

    Well, I thought I would try something kind of cool tonight, and see if I can get this movie to work within this post. If I can get it here, than I ca ...

  • Buena Vista Weekend TR (part II)

    Monday was the last day in our long weekend, and Mark and I wanted to make another summit bid for the top of Mt. Yale (14,196ft). We tried to climb t ...

  • Buena Vista Weekend TR (part I)

    What do you do with a long weekend in Colorado? Road trip! It was definately time to head back to the high peaks, and Mark and I picked the quiet mo ...

  • Cottonwood Pass

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  • Looking west from Cottonwood Pass

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  • Bob's Rock

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  • 08/2006
  • Get out of my picture, Bee!

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  • Mt. Elbert Trip Report

    Last weekend, Mark and I got a big group of friends to go all the way down into the Sawatch range near Leadville, CO to climb the tallest peak in the ...

  • Cloudy morning in the Sawatch

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  • Thomas cranks hard

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  • 07/2006
  • Thomas climbing at the Palace

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  • Mtn Biking Hewlet Gulch

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  • Summit View

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  • Upper slopes of Grays Peak

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  • Climbing Gray's Peak

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  • Sky Dancing

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  • Wild Columbine Near the Trail

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  • Summit Photo!

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  • Wyoming Range

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  • The Needles Eye

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  • Red Mushroom in the Black Hills Forest

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  • View from Harney Peak, South Dakota

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  • The Tower

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  • Fire in the sky above Devil's Tower

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  • 06/2006
  • Hail

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  • Aspens and Lupine

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  • Dusk in Vedauwoo

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  • The best part of the climb...

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  • Summer evening on the Poudre River

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  • Post #1

    Well, my old blog got spammed into oblivion. This time, I'm just putting up stuff for people to read, not to comment on. If you're interested in com ...