Monthly Archives: October 2010

Return of the powder forecast

It’s back! Boulder’s own Colorado Powder Forecast is forecasting again for your skiing and snowboarding pleasure. Now, before you get too excited there, Turbo, please note that I didn’t say you’ll have freshies next week. But Joel is hoping for … Continue reading

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Ditched

Today’s Field Notes is about me ditching my injured husband to go climbing. Hey, a girl’s gotta climb. And you might have done the same thing.

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Train to ski now

Yeah, it’s 80 degrees out today. So what. We’ll have snow soon. Start training to shred now! Here’s why.

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The ubiquitous fear

My friend Sara Lingafelter (perhaps better known to some of you as the girl behind rockclimbergirl.com) recently wrote about fear and got a big response…including responses from some of her friends, like me, who have been there, too. So she … Continue reading

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Elk traffic

I got stuck in an elk jam on the Bear Lake Road in RMNP on Saturday after bouldering in Chaos Canyon. We inched along for about 40 minutes and finally passed a few bugling elk and a bazillion people getting … Continue reading

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Average Boulder Climber

Today’s Field Notes is a celebration of mediocrity. It turns out that I’m now an average Boulder climber. Yay Boulder average! It’s really easy to forget that everyone doesn’t climb 5.13 around here, or boulder V13 (like Angie Payne, who … Continue reading

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