Tape gloves get shredded so fast and the crack gloves on the market right now are expensive, pretty thick, and I’m not convinced they are all that durable. I found some 1mm thick climbing shoe rubber online which I think are for the rand, and I found some 0.7mm thick […]
James
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On a random hot weekday in early August 2019, having all of El Capitan to ourselves, Brian and I started up the first of 28 pitches of The Nose. This trip report will detail our first experience on El Cap and our strategy to climb the Nose in 3 nights. […]
Here are a couple tips we learned after a one month trip to South America. Maybe it’s just me, but I just don’t really like cities all that much. We budgeted a day and a half in Santiago at the start of the trip, but by the time we bought […]
December 31, 2016- After finishing breakfast in Pokhara, the four of us strolled to a card store. We had just finished our one week Annapurna trek and were feeling happy and accomplished. I was picking out a card to mail to my sister when it hit me. The change was immediate […]
The TLDR from my other post about monthly expenses was that I spent about $800 per month for nine months on the road. So let’s say you want to take half a year off and go on a climbing road trip. It will cost you about 5k assuming nothing catastrophic happens […]
I went on a nine month climbing road trip from July 2017 to April 2018, traveling 20,000 miles. Thought it would be interesting to keep track of as much as I could, so here we go. Gas Gas certainly seemed like the biggest expense during the trip. The tank on […]
Ethan and I spent 5 days in Baxter State Park, located in Northern Maine, with the hopes of climbing Katahdin via the Cilley Barber route (WI4). Sunday 1/31/16: We left Cambridge at around 4pm for the 6 hour drive up to Millinocket, ME and slept in the car at the […]
I spent a week in September with Tyler in Yosemite and we talked a lot about the type of vehicle best suited for my upcoming road trip. I was pretty set on a manual rear wheel drive Ford Ranger like Steph Davis rocked back in the day but he kept […]
A few months had gone by after the marathon and I was itching for some more suffering. My buddy Tyler who I ran the marathon with suggested we do a century. Unfortunately he left town to climb in Colorado for a couple weeks leaving me to find a new partner […]
On October 14th, 2014, I signed up for the Maine Coast Marathon scheduled for May 10th, 2015. Last time I did any sort of running was in middle school, 15 years ago. I thought by signing up, it would be a great reintroduction into running. I immediately bought some running […]
Matthew Gilbertson, Kristen LeGault, Tyler Wellman, James Huang 4:15am – 5:15pmAppalachia Trailhead to Highland CenterMts. Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Monroe, Eisenhower, Pierce21 miles10,000ft elevation gainTemperature range: -4F -> 5F On March 7th, 2015, Matthew, Kristen, Tyler, and I left Boston at midnight and drove up in two cars to Crawford Notch […]