Rock Climbing – Ice Climbing – Ski Mountaineering
The Otterbody Snowfield is a 1,700 foot fairy tale ski mountaineering descent, 7,000 feet in full, on the East Face of the Grand Teton. On March 30th, 2025, I had the pleasure of descending the route with Hayden Evans and Julian Winston.
On May 20th, 2024, I made the third descent of the "Buck Triple", linking the Bubble Fun, Newc and Northwest Couloirs for a near 8,000 foot day of tremendous steep skiing on the north face of Buck Mountain. From what I can gather this is the first time the Buck Triple has been completed solo, and the third descent in total.
Styrofoam Boots, also known as Spinxinated and formally the "Unknown Route", is an ephemeral gem that only forms "every decade or so" on the North Face of Sphinx Mountain. For us it was difficult and testing mixed climb of the highest quality - the route's first ascent of the season and perhaps of many years.
Norepinephrine is a five pitch variation to North America's most popular 5.9, Epinephrine. The last four pitches, all 5.10, stalk the brilliantly exposed arete left of the Epinephrine chimneys with a spectacularly diverse allotment of climbing - roof pulls, steep face climbing, slippery mantles and even a few splitter cracks, with just enough bolts to keep the climbing exciting, but rarely dangerous.
Community Pillar is about as traditional a route you will find in Red Rocks, attacking the most obvious weakness on the 800 foot north face of Magic Mountain with six straight pitches of wide cracks and chimneys, no lead bolts or bolted belays, and several unapologetically bold runouts - a true cult classic.
Group Therapy is a popular 800' 5.7 just north of the super classic Tunnel Vision (5.7+ R, 800') on the Angel Food Wall. While the climbing was nowhere near as memorable as its neighbor, we still thought it a great day.
Joshua Tree National Park is Bobbi and I's favorite place for single pitch trad climbing. In 2025 we spent five months in and around Josh, and climbed some 130 pitches. The three routes which defined our season were Run For Your Life (5.10b R), Falcon and the Snowman (5.10c R) and Illusion Dweller (5.10b).
On Monday, February 16th, I took a solo jaunt across Jackson Lake with an open itinerary. I ended up skiing the beautiful Southeast Face of Peak 10,686.
On February 9th our month-long Teton high pressure curse finally broke. Jed Porter and I snuck out for a few afternoon laps on Chicken Knob, bagging an interesting line I've been eyeballing for years - "Alta Dena North" - another complex, forested, and route finding intensive Teton Canyon couloir. Bobbi Clemmer and I returned two days later, because it was just that good!
The Main Vein is considered one of the top ten ice routes in North America, with 900 feet of technical ice climbing connected by a snaking ice hose in a dramatic gash canyon. Moonrise is an uber-classic three pitch WI5, and Too Cold To Fire is a unique and novel two pitch WI4.
The past week Bobbi Clemmer and I have been climbing ice in Cody, Wyoming. Our first three days, we climbed four classics in the Boulder Basin/Lower & Upper Bench area - Bozo's Revenge (WI3+), Sendero Illuminoso (WI4), Animal Rights Activist (WI4+) and Hunter Creek Pillar (WI5).
On January 15th, 2026, I skied a potential first descent on the North Face of Housetop Mountain, the most alluring and rarest skied north face in the west Tetons. It's difficult to know exactly what has and hasn't been skied on the heavily gate-kept west slope, but longtime area record keepers and ski mountaineers believe the line to be previously unskied.
On January 13th, 2026, I completed the first descent of The Blue Line, possibly the last unskied couloir in the Apocalypse area of Prospector's Mountain. The route features a 700 foot hanging couloir with 50 degree skiing above massive exposure, culminating in a 650 foot horizontal traverse across an unlikely ledge system to merge with the Son of the Apocalypse Couloir, a 3,300 foot descent in full.
Ten Thousand Too Far 