Aiden the A-bot and his 4th year of Life

Location: Virginia Beach, VA

Purpose: Aiden's 4th birthday party

Fun was had by all during the family vacation to Vanessa and Adam's house in VB.  It was a full house and we celebrated Aiden well!   The little A-man is growing up, is such a great conversationalist and is always up for a good game of "dinosaurs".  Tori is just a little doll- we wanted to take her home!  Here are some pics of the party:

Sunburns Galore

Castle Creek, Colorado

Destination:  Pine Creek Cook House

70 Degrees and not a cloud in the sky is a recipe for heinous sunburns.  Below are the pics before melanoma set in.  At the end of the hike Cara's chest was so red you could see where each individual bead of her necklace rested.  Other notable incidences included $100 lunch, a sweet mustache sighting, and Finn deep throating a stick so bad I had to pull splinters out of the roof of his mouth.  Thanks Mia for the Birthday Hike...

Running out the Mitten Slab

The Mitten Slab is found on the left side of the picture below.  The route follows the right side of the slab and ends about the same level as the "thumb."  The route was pretty chill with one crimpy pitch of 10b slab.  The other routes were in the 5.8 to 5.9 range with sometimes exciting run-outs and crumbly holds.  

Jamie Hozack local math teacher

Looking south at winter

One of the smaller belay ledges on the route

Coming down, 5 raps to go, 2 PBRS at the bottom