I’m a reader, what can I say. Here are a FEW of my favorite books, updated from time to time:

Some books are excellent on Audible, BETTER than actually reading them on paper. And some are not.

Books - (on Audible)

I so love good readings. I have a long list of books across numerous genres that i have enjoyed so... give these a look:

Savage Arena by Joe Tasker

Lamb by Christopher Moore

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Julia by Sandra Newman

Good Omens by Neil Gaimon

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Back In The Day: Middle Echo WAS a fun, scenic, straightforward ‘beginner’ canyon when accessed from the Weeping Rock Shuttle stop. That trail has been closed for a while, and will for another long while. Middle Echo is now accessed from the top, from Stave Springs trailhead, and should not Tom’s beta reflect this reality? Tom (uh, me) had been through upper Middle Echo a decade ago and did not remember much in the way of nice canyon nor difficulties. A recent post disagreed. Hank Moon pointed out the obvious - my beta really oughta be accurate, so…

I rounded up Tim and Marco for a note-taking trip. I had not been in Middle Echo is quite some time (10 years?) and had placed some bolts in there BITD, some of the first bolts I placed in Zion - I wonder how they are doing? The crux anticipated was the big hike out during the heat of the day, which it was.

The RESULT: more fun canyon. Was a half-day canyon, now a 3/4 day canyon. One new bolt placed.

I had set up a trip for Sunday, for Lodge Canyon, to look at the Direct Exit and thinking about replacing some of the many bolts I had placed in this canyon over the last 20 years with more-reliable Glue Ins. And then got a call from friends to do it on the Friday before, as they wanted to do something, not too big, before a Full Imlay on Saturday. Well… yeah, why not?

Fun to do this canyon with the “A Team”, and see a few downclimbing options I had not previously considered. New logs had washed into the canyon since the last time I ran through it - maybe 8 years prior? Anthony and (??) downclimbed the second part of the first rappel and declared it not too hard. So Braxton gave me a meat anchor and downclimbed after.