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Big Sur

By Andy Wickstrom
November 24, 2014
Travel and Adventure

Monterey, CA—Jess and I have been offline a bit the last few days, forced by geography to unplug a little and enjoy the beautiful, majestic scenery that is Big Sur. Big Sur is located just south of the city of Monterey, CA. Yep, that Monterey. (Think: Jimi Hendrix, circa 1967, starting his guitar on fire on stage and you’ll probably recall.)

Our first stop in Los Padres National Forest, was just a few miles south of Monterey off Hwy 1. It was very difficult to keep the Egg on the road AND look at the amazing coastline just to our right, so we pulled over at the first coastline access we came to and spent the better half of the afternoon there. I shot a bunch of photos while Jess read Moby Dick while listening to the thundering and erratic waves. To add to this, we brought some low-end Trader Joe’s port and watched the sun set. We had arrived in Big Sur, and it felt glorious.

Tour de Monolith

By Andy Wickstrom
November 3, 2014
Travel and Adventure

Saint George, UT—After leaving Cedar City, we decided that our next stop would have to be Saint George, Utah. The second largest city in Utah (next to Salt Lake City), Saint George has a population of 77,000 people and is located amongst ridges and foothills of deep red sandstone blocks and cliffs. The city also happens to be located 45 minutes from Zion, the 229-square mile national park—Utah’s first, which is filled with mind-blowing sandstone monoliths and other geologic wonders too numerous to name. To us, the grandeur we felt seemed in equal measure to the feelings we had rolling into Yosemite Valley on our honeymoon six years ago. Jaw. Dropping.

Cobble, Cobble: Two Weeks in Maple

By Andy Wickstrom
October 12, 2014
Climbing,Travel and Adventure

Maple Canyon, UT—We’ve had a fun, if a bit chilly, experience camping and climbing in Maple Canyon, one of the more unique rock climbing destinations in the US and one we’d never visited before. The rock here is known as “conglomerate” because it actually consists of many different rock types embedded together in a range of sizes from large cobbles to tiny pebbles. It was a little hard to get used to at first—as I pulled rock after rock loose from the wall—but in the end we grew to love the challenge of discovering the line and trusting the holds.

We met some great people at Maple and experienced Fall as it came into full swing in the canyon. The day after leaves first starting hitting the roof of the Egg we decided to roll out in search of warmer temps. We look forward to coming back perhaps next summer when the shade at areas like Box Canyon and Pipe Dream are more than welcome all day long.

Three Weeks In Rifle

By Andy Wickstrom
September 23, 2014
Climbing,Travel and Adventure

Rifle, CO—The Egg has been in this bustling little ranch community (pop. 9,260) on the western slope of the Rockies since August 23rd. We typically come here over our Fourth of July vacations because it offers hard-to-find, cool-weather climbing during the stifling summer heat.