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Adventure Athlete | mountains & VLDs (very long distances)
Owner @dreamlandsafari | @awexpeditions
AMGA Apprentice Alpine Guide

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The road to the Wave is washed out. Canyons, washes and drainages throughout southern Utah are flooding.

Be safe out there. This is true during this storm cycle and always: if in doubt, don’t go - or call our guides here at @dreamlandsafari, we’ll give you the straight talk about what’s accessible (yes you can still get to the Wave trailhead with the appropriate vehicle and local knowledge) and what’s safe or unsafe, on your own or with a professional guide.

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I get so excited when I see an opportunity to capture a sunflare! ☀️

I also love how the sunlight shined on the sandstone 🧡

Wishing you a sunny day! 🌞

📷: Sony a7rV, 14mm Gmaster lens

Taken while on tour with: @dreamlandsafaritours
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arizona_landscapes Sunflare amongst sandstone rock formations

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I’m incredibly grateful and honored to share that I’ve been selected for the SCARPA Athlete Mentorship Initiative (SAMI).

This one feels pretty special.

A few years ago, I was selected for the Summit Scholarship @summitscholarshipfoundation, one of the first opportunities that opened the door for me into the mountains. At the time, I was just getting started. I didn’t know where climbing would take me or how much it would become a part of my life. 📸: Mark Popovich.

(Keep going to hear my story)

My dad is a huge part of that story. He came to this country from El Salvador and worked hard to build a life for our family. When he later experienced kidney failure, I became more aware of how much I valued the things that connected us.

Climbing became one of those things.
I’d call my family from the mountains, share photos and little pieces of whatever I was experiencing, and sometimes FaceTime them from places they definitely didn’t think I should be. My dad didn’t always understand why I wanted to go higher, farther, or into places that looked completely insane to him, but my family was always there on the other end of the phone.
In a way, the mountains became another place where I could feel connected to him.

Since that first scholarship, climbing has taken me farther than I ever imagined. I’ve learned from incredible mentors, climbed alongside people who have become friends, and found communities that made me feel like I belonged.

I also had the opportunity to come to Colorado for trail work, giving back to the places that had given me so much. I didn’t realize then that I’d eventually be coming back to Colorado for something like this.
And now, tomorrow, I’m heading back to Colorado to meet my SAMI cohort and begin this next chapter.

That feels pretty full circle. SAMI gives me the opportunity to keep learning, as a mountaineer, as a leader, and as someone who wants to help make the outdoors feel more accessible and welcoming for communities that haven’t always seen themselves represented here.

The Summit Scholarship opened a door for me. @sstroeer
I hope this next chapter teaches me how to open a few more.

(Keep going 😂)

Feeling incredibly tha

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Ft. Summit Scholarship Foundation

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Picture a mountain guide. Chances are, you didn’t picture a woman.

The Summit Scholarship Foundation is working to change that by giving women and girls access to high-alpine expeditions, training programs, and outdoor experiences. @lowa.outdoor supports the foundation, and it meant a lot to us to document this year’s program for them. 🙏

🎬 We accompanied two scholarship recipients on their challenging climb of the Matterhorn, alongside founder Sunny Stroeer and LOWA athlete @inespapert .
One of them is Tiffany Diep, who sets an example for her children by taking on challenges and going after what she loves. The other is Noemi Kreuz, who has dreamed of being part of an all-female team because she knows firsthand how gender expectations shape confidence, leadership, and group dynamics.

As part of the project, we’re now producing a 20-minute documentary film for LOWA. We can’t wait to share the result with you!

📸 Sunny Stroeer

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There were sections of the Grand Canyon where one wrong step really wasn’t an option. I can still feel this one in my stomach 😨😅

#KeepTheRiverRunning #rimtorim #r2r

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Our Matterhorn scholarship recipients just wrapped-up their incredible time together in the mountains. ⁠
To recap the beginning: our recipients @praksinfullbloom & @noemi_katalin along with mountaineering expert @inespapert and Summit Scholarship founder @sstroeer started their journey enjoying the views of Zermatt and practicing skills and terrain awareness. During their acclimatization, they went up on the Riffelhorn (2,928m) with their guides, featuring great views of the mountains, and practice technical climbing in mountaineering boots. Tiffany experienced multi-pitch climbing for the first time, and the film crew was hard at work capturing these key moments for a long-form film this winter. More to come as everyone goes back home.⁠
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Special thanks to one of our sponsors, @lowa.outdoor @lowaboots for continuing to understand the significance of this scholarship and provide support for the Matterhorn expedition.

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These photographs were taken on July 30, as I hiked the North Kaibab Trail through the Grand Canyon. A month later, this same trail corridor has been devastated by a deadly flash flood.

At least two people are confirmed dead, and one person remains missing. Dozens more have been rescued.

The force of the water is difficult to comprehend. The National Park Service says nearly all of the footbridges spanning Bright Angel Creek have been destroyed. Trails and infrastructure have been torn apart, boulders and debris were swept into the Colorado River, and the landscape itself has been reshaped.

Looking at these pictures now is incredibly sobering. These were parched, barren stretches of land when I passed through them just weeks ago.

It’s a tragic, bitter irony that in the Colorado River Basin, suffering from drought, even the rain is destructive. The floods also severely damaged the Transcanyon Waterline that supplies water through the park. And when rain falls this fast, especially over steep, fire-scarred terrain, it can be funnelled rapidly into runoff.

This isn’t happening in isolation. Like the catastrophic flooding devastating Nepal right now, it is another reminder of the increasingly dangerous extremes we’re seeing around the world.

My heart goes out to the families and loved ones of those who have died, to the family still waiting for news of their missing loved one, and to everyone affected by this disaster.

#KeepTheRiverRunning #rimtorim #r2r

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What do you pack to survive the Grand Canyon in the middle of summer? 🫠🎒

Here’s everything @sstroeer and I carried through one of the most extreme environments I’ve ever experienced.

#KeepTheRiverRunning #R2R #RimToRim

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You’ve been sending me so many questions over the last few weeks, so I finally found time to answer some of them!

From what it really took to get through the Grand Canyon and how I’m coping with the extreme heat, to what keeps me going, what gives me hope and why I’m doing this in the first place.

1,276 miles in and there’s a lot to unpack! Here goes 💙

#KeepTheRiverRunning

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Sunny: walks a completely reasonable distance ahead of me

Me, after several days in the Grand Canyon: COME BAAAAACK 😭😂

All jokes aside, @sstroeer is 10000% the reason I got through the last couple of weeks in one piece. Forever grateful for her strength, patience, wisdom and for never actually leaving me behind 😂💙

#KeepTheRiverRunning #rimtorim #r2r

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The Grand Canyon in all its magical, mind-bending glory… and a glimpse of what it demanded in return 🫣

#KeepTheRiverRunning #RimToRim #R2R

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