The Ride with the Rep this March was a right nice time. Ronnie Jenkins and I cruised across Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado over the course of 21 days, doing shop clinics, shoe demos, a couple slideshows, and some great climbing at a handful of different areas. This quick video highlights some of our experiences and displays some of the scenes we came across as we travelled.

Back home in Boulder, but not for long: two days, and I’m off again to Las Vegas for the Red Rock Rendezvous. I spent a full day in the house, save for a trip out to the store for breakfast... Crepes and coffee (home coffee!) to see Ronnie off for the next leg of his trip. After that rest day and the first full night’s sleep in over two weeks, I got to head out to a project up Boulder Canyon a ways with my broo GP Salvo. He and his lady Vanessa Compton were in town for a...

Durango was a blast as always, and it was hard to leave. We packed up around lunchtime and headed around the mountains for Telluride, the last stop on my part of the Ride, for a shoe demo at Telluride Gravity Works. This spot is a tiny little shop with a small wall and some exercise equipment right in the middle of downtown. It’s a good shop, one of those that carries good product, from climbing to snowboards to bikes- not packed with things, not a huge selection, but all the things you’d end up narrowing down to. A pretty...

Our quick stop in Albuquerque done, we headed north through skinwalker country towards Durango, arriving late, sleeping on the floor, up early for coffee and cold sunshine. It’s a relief to be back in the cool weather and thinner air, a relief to be back in a place I lived for so long, the place I started climbing.

Noon-ish, and we’ve made it to New Mexico. After a week and a half of barbeque and mexican food, we’re switching it up to... new mexican food... for a meal anyways. Days of rich and fatty food have kinda started to wear on me a bit, and I’m looking forward to getting to Durango for a few days of clean food and bouldering in the crisp and dry. We’ve had a lot of heavy food and heavy weather, and I’m anxious to dry out a little bit, to get rid of this heavy feeling. Don’t misunderstand me, thinking I’m...

The plain and prairie stretches out to a horizon that keeps stepping back as we approach it. Everything is green after the heavy rains, contrasting with the water management commercials on tv talking about the lessons of the Dustbowl. We’re sailing the bus across an ocean of farm and ranch land, down a concrete river with tributaries that lead to portages in pubs, hotels, climbing gyms, outdoors shops, and sometimes rocks, though those isles are few and far between out here on the tradewinds.