This year's crew met at the Veintimilla's (now Rafa's bachelor pad) on a Wednesday morning to load up the cars and start the drive at about 10am. We stopped to buy approximately 200 beers, some of which we packed into the shower bucket. We reorganized...
Day 1 | October 4 | Zero Gravity A fairly impromptu trip (compared to our usual months and months of planning) following our very disappointing Poe trip less than six weeks ago meant our camp hosts and several LaFames weren’t able to join us, so we...
The following is a trip report of our collective memories. Most (all) of the snark is Emma: SATURDAY, AUGUST 31st 6:30am - Loaded the roof bag on Brad's car and were on the road from Brent and Cristina's. SOLID start. Riveting conversation filled with hope, excitement, and...
Zion National Park // September 22 - 26, 2018 Andy has been wanting to check out the Zion canyons for years and decided to wait until Brent and I moved from Phoenix to Denver before making it happen so we could all have an 11 hour...
Day 1 | September 3 | The Squeeze (aka Segers Hole) This year we added two LaFames to the crew: the unstoppable Emma, and Juan Diego, who managed to complete all three days with barely a scrape to prove he was there. Brad was back minus...
The last time just the three of us (Andy, Brent & Cristina) attempted a canyon (Little Sedgers), we almost lost Andy to hypothermia in a keeper pothole. The last time we did Quandary (James, Andy & Cristina), I lost all of my hand skin and...