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I love seeing people sharing beautiful places that are hard to get to
Cal Poly ‘23

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“The flesh shapes the day and the day shapes the flesh”

Here’s to another 365 days of adventure, mishap, and opportunity 🍻

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Mt Russell!

This was my 9th overall 14er and I am super stoked for getting the summit last week. Conditions showed it was going to be 5 deg F with wind chill, but it was nowhere near as bad. We had originally planned to link up Russell, Whitney, and Muir, but it was cold and miserable enough to scrap that idea. Plus, a lot of the final crux of Russell was slow going, sustained horizontal scrambling near the summit, so you spend a lot of time above 14,000 ft. I think I spent like 4 hours above that altitude, and I could definitely feel the exhaustion.

We started at around 5 am after sleeping for a few hours near the Whitney trailhead. The adrenaline is usually enough to compensate for the little food and sleep, but not for more than a day. So I had no intention of setting up an emergency camp in the freezing cold at altitude, which played a role in our decision to not go for the full linkup. We took the route to the Carillon-Russell saddle, where @benefar went around to bag Morgenson instead. @genericjared and I took the East Ridgeline up to Russell.

We got near the Class 3 section to the East summit, and Jared ended up hitting a wall. He stayed behind at the false summit, while I pushed solo to bag Russell. Jared got his energy back, and was able to summit while I was heading back to the trail. At this point, I started hitting a wall and this made the exposed scrambling so much more difficult than it had to be. I was making silly route finding errors which put me in some precarious situations (second slide). My bottle unfortunately slipped out of my backpack pocket, and it started going all the way down. I realized that if I made a mistake here, I’d be falling much harder than the bottle. Spooky stuff. So I figured it was the right time to take out my phone for a video.

Overall, the climbing was easy, but the stupid route finding error costed us like 2 hours to get back to the car. I also had to stop and compose myself on the exposed section to really think about the route and how to best approach it. It was definitely a fun day, and nothing *too* bold. Also, the exhaustion made me see moving faces on rocks on the way back. That was new.

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Mt. Morgenson (13,927’) via Cleaver Col. 6/18/22. #hiking #easternsierra #mountmorgenson #exploreinyocounty #mountrussell #mountwhitney #tulainyolake #14ers #13ers #ca14ers #hikecalifornia

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serious question.. does anyone have a suitcase big enough to fit all of them?

To my best friends, new friends, and the ones I even grew up with, thank you for coming to celebrate the start of a new adventure for me and @taylorencurran. I love you all so much, and for as long as I’m calling it home you’ll always have a place to stay in Tennessee ❤️

This ain’t our last rodeo!

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Professors told me to have a relaxing Easter weekend, so I hiked the Devil’s Backbone trail. PS if you find a phone up here it’s probably Jared’s

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I've been super busy with work but last week was my first epic adventure! @genericjared and I were planning to do Long's Peak (tallest mountain in the park and the only 14er) but after some research I realized we could hit 5 peaks in one day. We started hiking at 12:30am. Instead of doing the keyhole route, we hiked to Chasm Lake and climbed up a 70 degree snowfield for hours in the dark with nothing but an ice axe until we got right below the saddle. I refused to climb up a vertical ice sheet so instead I chose to do some sketchy class 5 rock climbing. After that I finally made it to the summit of Meeker just after sunrise. Then we hiked down and went to climb Long's Peak but we got false summitted and had climb back down to the saddle and all the way around and up the backside of Long's to get to the summit. My legs were already sore but we went down the keyhole route and traversed over to Pagoda. On the way back we summitted Storm and Lady Washington completing what's called the Grand Slam. As the light was fading, we began the hike back to the car. We didn't get back until 10:30pm. We hiked about 18 miles with 8,000ft of elevation gain and it took us 22 hours plus I had work the next day at 5:30am. It was a brutal experience all around but worth the accomplishment!

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#lowkey #reallife I just pretended to take selfies, and snapped these two random hikers so I felt less alone...😂😂 #mylife #shookandsnatched #westylin #fescha-kun #jarjar #valenciapeak #montanadeoro #hike #summit #abovetheclouds #lifted?
#lovetomyspecies
#lovetomyearth
#lovetomyuniverse
#lovetoall
#love
#lovetomyfriends
#lovetonature
#lovetohealth

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Well winter break is over and I've been back in Bozeman for over a week now. While home in California, I went to the beach several times, attended a workshop by @chrisburkard and took a couple trips to Tahoe and Sequoia. Here's one more shot from my trip with @genericjared to Lake Tahoe. We started hiking at about 5am this particular morning. It was still dark out and we were hoping to get to the top of Roundtop Mountain before sunrise. For a while, we were following a well beaten snow covered trail. Then about a mile in, it vanished and we began our trek through knee deep snow until we were on a ridge line. It was too dark and foggy to see the peaks around so we used google maps to head in the general direction of the mountain. After some time, it became lighter out but the white out did not let up. We kept pushing forward despite our original doubts that this would be worth it. Finally, we spotted the saddle between Roundtop and another mountain. I saw a little bit of color in the distance so I raced to the top. I walked out to edge of the saddle and was treated to a spectacular display of light! Light rays were shooting out in all directions. Unfortunately it only lasted a few minutes before getting cloudy again. We decided to continue to the top of the peak anyway, which required some serious climbing with an ice axe and crampons. It was too windy and cold so we quickly left the summit and made it back to the car. It was a pretty crazy adventure but totally worth it for the 5 minutes of epic light we saw.

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Last week @genericjared and I took another road trip, this time to Sequoia National Park. Unfortunately the weather was not cooperating. It was raining and snowing pretty much the whole time. We hiked miles through knee deep snow, lost the trail on our way back, and wandered around in the dark without flashlights for a while until we found the road which took us back to the main highway. Then we spent the night sleeping in the car yet again. Nonetheless, it was all part of the adventure. The trees in Sequoia, given the parks name, are some of the biggest in the world. I would love to come back and spend more time here sometime when the conditions are better.

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I wouldn't have nothing if I didn't have you

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A skier, a surfer and a mountaineer take Pinnacles 2k16

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@samuelhopkins @jaredsperspective @silasrobledo

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