El Niño, El Niño … I’m sitting here in Miami, Florida celebrating Thanksgiving with Tim’s family and watching posts of fresh powder skiing all over the Internet.  Being an avid skier, I can’t help feeling like I might miss out.  We are leaving here directly to Buenos Aires heading to Patagonia for December and January […]

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In June of 2015, we met our arreiro and our Alpamayo guide at the trailhead in the Santa Cruz valley in Peru.  It was a last minute decision to climb Alpamayo with Tim Stephens and Alex Geary, after aborting our mission to climb ice lines on Pucaraju which was now out of condition.   We […]

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November 1, 2015 Tim and I at the base of Sheer Lunacy getting psyched for a fun physical day on this beautiful cliff.      Tim put the rope up for me all day.  The climbing was pretty awesome! Typical Zion, with sandy holds and no lines.  We watched aid climbers on Lunar Ectasy while we […]

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