I remember getting bored on my first long road trips. I did my best to prepare with an arms load of books, journals, or playing cards. I would even try out new hobbies like knitting or baking or something....

So turns out China is as far away as everyone says, and when you begin to freak out about the 14 hour flight there it’s warranted. Not necessarily because the flight is that impossible; enough wine, sleeping pills, and...

We’ve been here in China for exactly one week and despite what I worried about for the first couple of days we got here, it has flown by. That’s right when confronted with the reality of smelly quarters, cold...

I’ve had a minor obsession with Asia since child-hood. In elementary school we had an influx of Laotians in the early nineties, and for a simple southerner their presence was like stepping into another world. I would listen in...

I’m no stranger to long trips. Over the years my boyfriend Joe and I have done several 3 months trips to Europe, and road tripped across the states for weeks on end. Just recently we returned from a five...

When you’re on as long of a road trip as I am right now you start dissecting the elements of climbing into unnecessarily tiny compartments of information (some call this state obsessing). My most recent focus being red-pointing. In...

Here are a few week-old pics of the recent comp in Boulder. I’m not a comp climber. Putting my strength to the test in front of hundreds of live spectators and thousands of inet viewers has never been high...

I gave up on camping in the winter a few years ago. We had gone on a trip to the Southeast and though I had family in the general area it wasn’t close enough to keep us from camping...

I’ve found I’m best at blogging about all the things that surround climbing and not so much the actual things pertaining to the act itself. Beta, sends, spray and even equipment are usually the last thing on my mind...

Here's some older footage of me climbing my first 8a. Good times!