Category: Trip Report
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Farewell to Bozeman + the Penitent Path
00 Concluding a productive (and abbreviated) Hyalite season After leaving Ouray, Colorado in late February, I headed towards Bozeman for my last scheduled commitment — a graduate school recruiting visit. The following month of March was then spent in Bozeman with the exception of a short trip to Utah. No commitments. No plans. Just the…
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The Heretic Anthem
00 How we got here Above Bridal Veil Falls, past some mank fixed lines, and in a chossy cave located in Provo Canyon, UT, The Heretic Anthem (D10+) is a new drytooling route put up by Vitaliy Musiyenko this year in January. The inspiration for drytooling in Provo Canyon came from my drive going from…
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Reflections from Hyalite Canyon
00 Introduction I started ice climbing in 2023—well, actually, it started with drytooling—but my first time on ice wasn’t until January, 2024. Consuming as much online information as possible, I came across Will Gadd’s rule of toproping 150 pitches of ice before even considering to lead. By the end of my second season, I was…