LA Rock Climbing – Saddle Peak

LA Rock Climbing – Saddle Peak

Situated in the Santa Monica Mountains, just above Malibu California, Saddle Peak is one of the lesser-known climbing crags in the greater Los Angeles area. A hidden rock slab with twelve established routes ranging from 5.8 to 5.10d, Saddle Peak...
Injuries

Injuries

I’ve always felt that avoiding injuries was a key component to getting – and staying fit. The nagging muscle pull that keeps you from training or, worse yet, that tendon injury that requires long-term rehabilitation. Injuries require time off and, with that, you are back to square one. As a result, I’ve always tried to be consistent and careful with…

Alaska!

Alaska!

I’ve always wanted to go to Alaska – one of the last remaining frontiers. Not plush cruise with a luxury suite, sailing safely along the coast, but rather to experience its heart and soul – its forests and rivers and...
Climbing Kilimanjaro

Climbing Kilimanjaro

Our Highest Thoughts – Rock Written (Terry Tempest Williams – from the libretto of Kurt Bestor’s orchestral tone poem “Timpanogos:A Prayer for Mountain Grace”) I remember always being enamored of mountains which is kind of odd for a kid from Wisconsin, a...
Sedona: mystical and gorgeous

Sedona: mystical and gorgeous

Last April, we took a short excursion to Sedona, Arizona. Sedona is many things to many people, offering great resorts, hiking and climbing, horseback and jeep tours, shopping, mysticism and spiritual vortexes (so they say) – but first and foremost – incredible landscapes. The trip began as a short visit with my son Adam, and his wife and son, Cara…