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Nu’alolo Trail – A Test on Many Fronts With Reward

The Nu’alolo Trail on Kauai’s Na Pali Coast is a high demand high reward eight mile round trip hike.

From a categorization standpoint, the hike can move from being demanding or challenging to one of high risk for injury or worse based on:

Weather conditions (current and recent past). Fitness and health of the […]

Old Smoothie is No More – Earthquake Breaks Up The Baron Spire

2020 Is proving to be a tough year for climbing in Idaho. The advent of COVID-19 virus pandemic shut down all kinds of travel and trips for people.

Then on March 31st a 6.5 magnitude earthquake rattled. The Icon The Arrowhead met its demise and The Finger of Fate lost its tip.

On […]

First Day of Fall – One For The Books

The truck at the summit of Railroad Ridge as viewed from the top of Peak 10,817

 

 

 

It is about 4:08PM (Mountain Daylight Time) on the First Day of Fall.  I look down to my truck from just below Peak 10,817 in the White Cloud Mountains of Idaho. The descent […]