Biography

The world’s a BIG place and the steeper parts are still difficult’and require time’to get to, to see, and if you’re lucky, to climb and explore. Even Google Earth, to which I am virtually addicted, cannot show us the complex, vertical terrain of this planet without distorting its detail. As we continually zoom-in our view of the world, it becomes evident that there are still plenty of mysteries to solve, albeit representing smaller and smaller blanks on the map. I have been very fortunate to tackle, with all my great partners, some of the riddles of the y-axis: to pursue, in the amateur spirit, some of the experiences portrayed in the classic adventure narratives of my youth, and to discover those same storied, heroic traits in them’and, even in myself, once-in-a-while. I enjoy exploratory, adventure climbing on many different mediums, especially since I’ve live here in Utah, with its endless variety of rock-types. But granite’specifically, alpine granite’is my jam. Opening new routes both near and far from home keeps my passion for traditional climbing interesting and spontaneous, in a creative way. It’s not too dissimilar to elements of my other artistic preferences… In fact, I’ve often likened it to, say, graffiti-writing; though, ironically enough, graffiti is one of the more pervasive issues in my home climbing area, Little Cottonwood Canyon! You and your crew are clandestinely out to make a statement up there, with style and boldness, nuance and character, not unlike any freestyle’say, even, musical’performance. What’s left is there for other adventure climbers, other crews, to witness and to repeat, perhaps, and to’hopefully’take it a step further. There’s a lot of Hip-Hop to climbing, as I see it.

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