Mountains & Wild Places

The outdoors is where I'm most fully present. What began in grad school as a way to get outside, get some exercise, and spend time with friends became something more over the years — the thing that pulls me completely into where I am. I've moved through hiking, backpacking, climbing, mountaineering, skiing, biking, and diving, but the constant across all of it is immersion in wild country.

I've written about some of my trips, and below is an array of photos from years of them — with more on Instagram too. Among them are photos from the day my wife and I exchanged our wedding vows.

Climbing and mountaineering

Some multi-pitch leads I'm fond of: the Obelisk, a granite dome in the Sierra Nevada; The Spirit of Squamish; the Whitney-Gilman and Pinnacle Ridges in the White Mountains; a variety of climbs in the Shawangunks and Red Rocks, Nevada. 

In the bigger mountains, ones I've led or co-led: Kang Yatze II (6,250 m, Ladakh, India), Breithorn (4,164 m, Swiss Alps), Mt. Shasta (4,322 m, California), and Mt. Rainier (4,392 m, Washington), where we turned around.

I lead on rock and snow, and follow on ice.