Alyssa and I had one of our best nights of sleep, next to the Wood River in southern Oregon.  We had both taken a few days off of work and decided to head… Read More →

I was 7 years old when my Mom married my Stepdad.  Combining their resources, as all couples do, I found myself surrounded by what at the time was approximately 20 years worth of… Read More →

The hills around Smith Rock are lined with boulders and empty forgotten crags with routes waiting to be discovered or rediscovered.   The new 300 page Smith Rock Watts climbing guide has one sentence… Read More →

Both north and south of highway 22, just west of Sisters, OR, lies a patch of forest scorched by fire within the Mt. Jefferson and Mt. Washington Wilderness areas.  At the foot of… Read More →

Falling off the side of the earth, a couple hundred feet down in the central Oregon desert, flows the Crooked River. Eventually running into Lake Billy Chinook and meeting up with the Metolious… Read More →