Author Archives: Kate

Looking towards the alter area of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. This amazing landmark sits on 5th avenue in Manhattan, and towers over the original Saks 5th Ave and a huge Banana Republic. In other words, walking in here is like walking into another world.

I’ve gotten a good number of pics from last weekend resized and organized, and I should have them up in the gallery soon.

I just finished reading this huge article in Outside magazine about this company that’s trying to start selling completely recycled or sustainably created outdoor/active clothing. Most polyesters/fleeces are made from petro-chemicals, this company wants to make them from recycled materials and … corn. Plus, they want to donate 10% of profits to charities, and have limits on CEO earnings. I don’t know if they’ll stay in business, but I like the looks of their clothes and I thought you all would too. Check out their stuff at:

Plus, they’ve set up a pretty cool blog. I really wasn’t sure where to put a link to this one, but I wanted to add it to the site somewhere. For now, they are on the side-bar in the “Other Blogs” area. Enjoy!

Just got back from a trip to New York City! This is the view south of a snowy landscape as our plane banked and headed in for a landing at Denver International Airport. More cool pictures from the trip will be showing up in the gallery in the next few days!

I think I pretty much have already covered the highlights of the trip but I thought I might sum up here. All of the photos from the day are up here in the gallery.

Last Sunday, Mark and I packed all of our serious winter gear into the truck and headed north for a day of snow shoeing in Vedauwoo. We did pack our snowshoes and poles! Almost immediately after leaving the Ft Collins area, the snow disappeared. We drove north for an hour without seeing much more than a few patches of snow on the ground.

The Vedauwoo area sits in a high valley above Cheyenne and Laramie, Wy. We saw lots of snow in the parking area, but it all seemed hard packed and windblown, and we decided we would make better time and be more efficient if we didn’t carry the snowshoes around with us. This was silly. What were we thinking?

The serious post holing didn’t really begin until we headed down the last part of the hill to hit the Turtle Rock trail. I suggested this trail which circumnavigates the main area because it was longer and would give more opportunities for photos. Of course the trail goes around the three non-south facing sides of the formation, and the snow was pretty darn deep for the next 3-4 miles.

We stayed in the snowshoe tracks made recently by some harty soul. Poor Liv performed the snow-porpoise move for most of the afternoon as she hopped through the deep snow. She was absolutely tuckered out by the end of the day.

Yeah, it was a long, exhausting, and rather frustrating hike, but it was also a beautiful and strange place. It was so quiet, we only met two other people the whole day! The wind whistled through the trees above us, but didn’t make it down to the ground. The sun warmed the rocks all around us and they radiated heat and energy back to us.

I love Vedauwoo. I can’t wait to get back and climb. But I’m taking my snowshoes next time!!

Yes, I’m so desperate to get back on the rock that I pulled off my boots, my gators, my wind shell, and my balaclava to get some bouldering in while we were in Vedauwoo last weekend. I learned that deep snow makes a nice soft landing exactly once.

I think I got the FA on this little boulder north of the main area. I call it “Snow Bouldering is Fun!” V0-.

Mark and I spent the day yesterday on a 5-mile long snowshoe sans-snowshoes in Vedauwoo. I like to call it “The Ultimate Post-Holing Adventure”. It was a beautiful day, and so great to see such a familar place in such an unfamilar state. We’ve spent a whole lot of time in Ved, but never when it had this much snow. It was so quiet and peaceful.

I’ll be posting a lot more pics from the trip in the next day or so.

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 bit last year, but I didn’t take as many pictures as I usually do, for some reason. I hope nobody minds, but I added in some pictures our friends have taken to supplement my own (thanks Dylan and Thomas!)

I experimented with a new compression algorithm to try to keep the movie clear, so I hope this works for everybody. Enjoy!

Well, yesterday it officially became time to donate my hair. I got it all chopped off! I had requests to take before and after shots, so here they are.

Nope, no secrete hidden sister, those are both pictures of me!