About one year ago today, a Quebecois climber (https://www.instagram.com/grimpepartout/) captured this drone footage of me & Madi atop Ancient Art, a tower in Southeast Utah. It took some persistence but I finally obtained the footage. Check it out!
More info on the route: https://www.mountainproject.com/route/105717310/stolen-chimney
Some film I just got back from a particularly nasty day with high winds and heavy snow up on the trail to Emerald Lake, in Rocky Mountain National Park. Spring is here now, but enjoy the reminder of how fierce it can get up there in winter!
Nymph Lake
Ice Skating on Nymph Lake
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Not too keen to put too much information about this one on the internet, so no write-up. But enjoy a few photos and videos of one of this winter’s best shenanigans: a hockey game on a frozen lake at 3,600 meters/12,000 feet.
Keep feeding that sense of fun!
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A year-end letter, five weeks late.
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I have a deep, simmering hatred for the word “content”.
In 2023, I’m guessing we’ve all all heard this word. But I’ll offer a brief, imperfect, human-generated definition: “Content” is what makes up the internet.
Medium articles, instagram memes, SEO pages about the best app developer services in India, TikToks, your aunt’s political Facebook posts — these are all ‘content’.
Some of that stuff can be pretty good — so why do I hate this word? Because ‘content’ is a generic, artless term.
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