It?s Snowing. SNOWING.

It’s snowing in the Utah mountains today and yesterday. So, yeah–my birthday was definitely awesome yesterday. …soon enough it’ll come:

Trip Report: Climbing the Middle Teton?s NW Ice Couloir, Part 3.

Part 1 Part 2 Tomorrow’s my birthday. Imagine our location in proximity to the bigger picture of the NW couloir route: our entrance into it would be approximately 500 ft. above the valley below.  That distance was composed of a … Continue reading →

Trip Report: Climbing the Middle Teton?s NW Ice Couloir, Part 2

PART 1 It wasn’t an easy push to hike 10 miles, at 2am, gaining 6,000 vertical feet under the clouds and rainy skies.  The rain increased in intensity as I finally looked up from my head-down march, and, with Bryce, … Continue reading →

Trip Report: Climbing the Middle Teton?s NW Ice Couloir, Part 1

Because I breathe through gills in my eyelids reminiscent of the cephalopod in Men in Black, rest was unnecessary after the 2 day, 20+ mile, 15,000+ foot, climb of the Grand Teton.  Instead of the reenergizing period that humans refer to as … Continue reading →

Climbing the Grand Teton. Again. Part 3.

Part 1 Part 2 Arriving at camp with plenty of time to set up camp and cook, we were asleep by nightfall.  Our dinner sucked, and we were prepared for a horrible breakfast.  When I woke up to re-tie the … Continue reading →

Another Video of Kayaking Next to the SLC Capital

Remember my urban kayaking trip? Well, Bryce made an edit, too.  His first-ever.  Enjoy.

Climbing the Grand Teton. Again. Part 2.

Check out part 1 After the Marscot incident, which lasted for at least an hour of the approach, the hike continued…on and on and on. Across the valley, to the east, it was hard to miss the forest fire that … Continue reading →

On the way back

Sitting in the car with 3 friends on the way back from a 5 day sport climbing trip in the miserable state of Colorado.  I’ll be back on it with the blog starting tomorrow.  Hope your weekend was outside and … Continue reading →

Climbing the Grand Teton. Again. Part 1

With the onslaught of September came changing leaves, increased numbers of college students in SLC, ski movie premiers, and a 2-week trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. First up was a 2-day ascent of the infamous Grand Teton with my weirdest … Continue reading →

Busi Bawi, Korea

After the saga of Korean train travel wrapped up, I was finally in the climbing capital of Korea: …oh wait.  That doesn’t exist. But southern Korea does have a plethora of crags and a robust, established rock climbing scene. From … Continue reading →

Featured on: Korean Television!?

Before I escaped the confinement of Seoul’s skyscrapers to head into the mountains and climb, I had to do what I went there for: to wear makeup.

South Korea Recap part 1?

The spontaneous itinerary that resulted in an obscure 1-month Korea trip of varying degrees of difficulty was not without its fair share of…misery.  But misery is exactly what makes my style of travel my style (and exactly why I always end … Continue reading →

Rising Tide of the Video

As I sit and poach WiFI at the Park City Public Library, still homeless (but moving again this afternoon…into another wretched non-house of a living space), I am astounded by all of the cyber-locations where my most recent edit has … Continue reading →

Yesterday: Eaten by Snow//////Today: Eaten by the Couch

Yesterday I “dropped” a “fresh” “edit” to the ski world–and to anyone in the regular (because the ski world is, indeed, irregular) world that perhaps was bored enough on a Monday to waste potentially-productive time browsing Vimeo. In typical fashion, … Continue reading →

VIDEO: Brody Leven, eaten by Tahoe pow

What some people can do in mere minutes, I do in hundreds of hours. This applies to climbs, runs, hikes, drives, calculus problems, etc. The video I completed Friday afternoon is an example of that.  I have been working on … Continue reading →

Correction: I?m Not Being Stalked

powderhuffer.com is not some weird creep-o website like I previously thought and mentioned.  They aren’t a red dot on any online predator maps.   Instead, it’s a new retail store that’s opening, based in SLC, that has bought some glorious pictures … Continue reading →

Discomfort in Practice

[ed note: originally written March 28, 2011] Speaking of preferring discomfort (which we weren’t), I recently slept in the dungeon with a pile of shoes as a pillow. To be honest, all it would take is an hour to put together … Continue reading →

Another Wall Picture from China

The Road Kicked Me Off

OK. I’m back in Park City, Utah after being on the road for asdfl;kjsdfl;kdjfl;aksjf;laksfj;als—-a long time.  I have about a gazillion photographs and 23492438 gigabytes of video footage to edit, along with about 392328 stories to tell. My computer will … Continue reading →

Staying Put

OK, check it: A ton of groovy things have happened lately.  I’ve been on the road non-stop, but I simply haven’t had electricity, a computer, internet, and/or time to care enough to update this website.  There’re tons of stories that … Continue reading →