I drove a while about an hour and passed three different restaurants that were closed before I hit service and started searching. There was the same gas station burritos I got in the way in that were a ways out of my way or and rv park and mineral springs that had a restaurant. Wasn’t sure what...
Some of the puddles had already frozen by our drive back but the weather was finally looking up!
We drove about half way back to camp and then hiked in about half a mile on relatively flat ground before dropping some elevation. We were working across for a while with no fresh sign what so ever...
The above photos are a progression of Monday morning. It looks beautiful and like a nice foggy morning but I have never experienced anything quite like it. My best description is 60mph freezing fog. If you could get out of the wind it was almost bearable. We got up early and went back up to...
Sunday morning, day two of the season, started with the snooze button. At 5:30 when the alarm went off I could still hear the rain pounding the side window of the topper. After about 15 minutes it dialed back a bit and I went over to Troy’s camper to get my boots and gators on and have some...
I ended up placing 29th in the world out of 52 men. My first Internationals and I am happy with my performance. I didn’t make any big mistakes and not climbing for the week before the comp had me a bit rusty. But a bull and 29th in the world in the same week, I’ll take it. Headed to Austin, TX...
I was thinking the same thing. Felt like a bad dream. I spent a lot of time by Taos growing up and was used to the 20 minute storms. I was not expecting the hours long sustained misery.
Taking a break from finishing up the write up. Sorry guys. Competing in the international tree climbing championships this week/weekend. It’s already been a long week but it’s only half over.
The night before season was more of the same. Rain, hail, lightning, wind… luckily I had flipped the truck around which meant I would have to climb head first into the truck to sleep but hopefully avoid the leak. Overall I was pleasantly surprised with how the couple changes made for a much...
This is where my positivity and excitement for the hunt took the first blow. I made it to the next camp spot and quickly pulled out the coolers and got situated in the bed of the truck. The rain had definitely subsided a bit but was not gone.
The rain and hail alternated most of the night. At...