Our home wall overhangs at thirty degrees. After graduating from jugs, the boys wanted a challenge and so asked for me to set a route on twenty millimeter edges. When the route proved too difficult for them to make easy progress, rather than ask me to change it, they asked for a training plan and expressed a desire to learn how to project a route. Eventually, they were able to climb the route on lead. This short movie documents the eight months they spent training and working the route.

The boys wanted to go on a "mini" expedition, complete with backpacking, camping, moving camps, and a mildly technical climb to a summit. But as the trip started, I received notice that one of my climbing friends and mentors was succumbing to cancer. As My trip ended, I received notice that she was gone. It struck me as fitting that, while all of this was happening, the lessons she taught me were being passed on to my boys. I dedicate this short film to Deb as a testament to a life well lived, full of impact which will carry on.

One half of our seven-year-old twins, Connor, and I went on a winter training hike as he progresses towards his first winter ascent of a Colorado 14er and starts to ready himself for true mountaineering. Hiking and scrambling on snow makes everything just a little bit harder, so it was nice to see his determination and sense of accomplishment. Unlike most of our videos, this one isn't instructional, it's just a short film to celebrate the joy my family and I find in the outdoors.

I took one my twin boys on a snow-filled, winter day hike. I helped him take the next step in his progression by showing him how to use some new winter hiking gear. We went over the basics of using an ice axe, which he has been itching to do!

Well, we've been in the COVID-19 "lifestyle" for about a year, now, and it's been trying on all of us... to deal with the work uncertainty, homeschooling, being on top of one another for so long... But it's also been a time of immense joy and profound connection with the family. When we start getting in our own way, my family heads into nature to rediscover ourselves and a sense of hopefulness. Come along with me and my twin, six-year-old boys as we take a winter camping trip to slow down, get some father-son time, and let go of some of the day-to-day stresses of life during these crazy times.