A couple days ago Alex and I set off on what I think is likely to become our biggest adventure (at least in terms of calorie expenditure) to date. We are biking, climbing and sailing our way from my home in Colorado to Alaska. We have some ambitious climbing objectives, and we’ll be passing through a bunch of environmentally sensitive areas. I figure if you want to learn to love the planet enough to find ways to protect it, sometimes you need to immerse yourself in it as deeply as possible. I just met some bikers going the other direction that had to run from a tornado, had a rattle snake strike at me, and apparently apocalyptic mosquitos are in our future, too. This trip has all the makings of a real life experience! Photos: @taylor._shaffer
A couple days ago Alex and I set off on what I think is likely to become our biggest adventure (at least in terms of calorie expenditure) to date. We are biking, climbing and sailing our way from my home in Colorado to Alaska. We have some ambitious climbing objectives, and we’ll be passing through a bunch of environmentally sensitive areas. I figure if you want to learn to love the planet enough to find ways to protect it, sometimes you need to immerse yourself in it as deeply as possible. I just met some bikers going the other direction that had to run from a tornado, had a rattle snake strike at me, and apparently apocalyptic mosquitos are in our future, too. This trip has all the makings of a real life experience! Photos: @taylor._shaffer
A couple days ago Alex and I set off on what I think is likely to become our biggest adventure (at least in terms of calorie expenditure) to date. We are biking, climbing and sailing our way from my home in Colorado to Alaska. We have some ambitious climbing objectives, and we’ll be passing through a bunch of environmentally sensitive areas. I figure if you want to learn to love the planet enough to find ways to protect it, sometimes you need to immerse yourself in it as deeply as possible. I just met some bikers going the other direction that had to run from a tornado, had a rattle snake strike at me, and apparently apocalyptic mosquitos are in our future, too. This trip has all the makings of a real life experience! Photos: @taylor._shaffer
A couple days ago Alex and I set off on what I think is likely to become our biggest adventure (at least in terms of calorie expenditure) to date. We are biking, climbing and sailing our way from my home in Colorado to Alaska. We have some ambitious climbing objectives, and we’ll be passing through a bunch of environmentally sensitive areas. I figure if you want to learn to love the planet enough to find ways to protect it, sometimes you need to immerse yourself in it as deeply as possible. I just met some bikers going the other direction that had to run from a tornado, had a rattle snake strike at me, and apparently apocalyptic mosquitos are in our future, too. This trip has all the makings of a real life experience! Photos: @taylor._shaffer
A couple days ago Alex and I set off on what I think is likely to become our biggest adventure (at least in terms of calorie expenditure) to date. We are biking, climbing and sailing our way from my home in Colorado to Alaska. We have some ambitious climbing objectives, and we’ll be passing through a bunch of environmentally sensitive areas. I figure if you want to learn to love the planet enough to find ways to protect it, sometimes you need to immerse yourself in it as deeply as possible. I just met some bikers going the other direction that had to run from a tornado, had a rattle snake strike at me, and apparently apocalyptic mosquitos are in our future, too. This trip has all the makings of a real life experience! Photos: @taylor._shaffer
On our rest days from sport climbing we climb big walls. On our rest days from big walling we sport climb. Our one actual rest day in 9 days we did a 1.5 hr bike ride, hangboard sesh and super heinous lock-off. workout. Honnold boot camp is full on. But surprisingly I feel younger and more energetic than I have since getting injured. If that wasn’t a good test of the Achilles, I don’t know what is! This was a great reminder that I need a extreme amount of movement in my life to feel my best. Thanks @alexhonnold and @sannimccandless. For being the greatest friends anyone could ask for. I can’t wait for a summer of life experiences with you!
On our rest days from sport climbing we climb big walls. On our rest days from big walling we sport climb. Our one actual rest day in 9 days we did a 1.5 hr bike ride, hangboard sesh and super heinous lock-off. workout. Honnold boot camp is full on. But surprisingly I feel younger and more energetic than I have since getting injured. If that wasn’t a good test of the Achilles, I don’t know what is! This was a great reminder that I need a extreme amount of movement in my life to feel my best. Thanks @alexhonnold and @sannimccandless. For being the greatest friends anyone could ask for. I can’t wait for a summer of life experiences with you!
On our rest days from sport climbing we climb big walls. On our rest days from big walling we sport climb. Our one actual rest day in 9 days we did a 1.5 hr bike ride, hangboard sesh and super heinous lock-off. workout. Honnold boot camp is full on. But surprisingly I feel younger and more energetic than I have since getting injured. If that wasn’t a good test of the Achilles, I don’t know what is! This was a great reminder that I need a extreme amount of movement in my life to feel my best. Thanks @alexhonnold and @sannimccandless. For being the greatest friends anyone could ask for. I can’t wait for a summer of life experiences with you!
On our rest days from sport climbing we climb big walls. On our rest days from big walling we sport climb. Our one actual rest day in 9 days we did a 1.5 hr bike ride, hangboard sesh and super heinous lock-off. workout. Honnold boot camp is full on. But surprisingly I feel younger and more energetic than I have since getting injured. If that wasn’t a good test of the Achilles, I don’t know what is! This was a great reminder that I need a extreme amount of movement in my life to feel my best. Thanks @alexhonnold and @sannimccandless. For being the greatest friends anyone could ask for. I can’t wait for a summer of life experiences with you!
This is my first big trip in 3 years. Until now I’ve managed to never be away from my kids for more than 19 days in a row. There are so many reasons to do this trip. But there is a big reason not to. Being away from Becca and the kids for 2 months is hard for everyone. I am incredibly lucky to be married to a woman that supports my crazy ideas, gracefully handles home life when I am away, and makes me feel wanted just the right amount. @beccajcaldwell also encourages me to do the things that make me an individual. Things like brotherhood and adventure sometimes need to be discovered and rediscovered outside of the family. This trip is lighting up a side of me that hasn’t been fed for a while, and it feels good. But I still miss my family a ton. I was scrolling through some photos from early this summer and thought I’d post a few. On this trip we road tripped to Mazama Washington for a friends wedding and some climbing in Washington pass, then we rafted the Green River on our way home. It’s been quite the summer so far.
We persevered through some frigid temps on our first climb of the trip, a route up the central part of Mount Hooker called All Hooked Up. The climb was established over the last couple years by our good friends @Jessie Huey and @Matt Segal. MT Hooker was the first grade 6 to be climbed outside of Yosemite and the route itself is spectacular! Despite the caloric magnitude of our days team morale is high. All the little aches and pains (including my still healing Achilles) that I started the trip with seem to be resolving themselves. For me, this trip is a bit of a curiosity to see if we can make a journey starting from my home feel like a proper expedition experience that normally takes flying around the world. We want an experience that brings us outside of our comfort zone, makes us question societal norms, and hopefully brings us closer to people and the Earth. The most moving part of the trip so far was finding a Hayden Kennedy Memorial Journal stashed under a Boulder. I miss you so much Hayden! 📸 me and @taylor._shaffer
We persevered through some frigid temps on our first climb of the trip, a route up the central part of Mount Hooker called All Hooked Up. The climb was established over the last couple years by our good friends @Jessie Huey and @Matt Segal. MT Hooker was the first grade 6 to be climbed outside of Yosemite and the route itself is spectacular! Despite the caloric magnitude of our days team morale is high. All the little aches and pains (including my still healing Achilles) that I started the trip with seem to be resolving themselves. For me, this trip is a bit of a curiosity to see if we can make a journey starting from my home feel like a proper expedition experience that normally takes flying around the world. We want an experience that brings us outside of our comfort zone, makes us question societal norms, and hopefully brings us closer to people and the Earth. The most moving part of the trip so far was finding a Hayden Kennedy Memorial Journal stashed under a Boulder. I miss you so much Hayden! 📸 me and @taylor._shaffer
We persevered through some frigid temps on our first climb of the trip, a route up the central part of Mount Hooker called All Hooked Up. The climb was established over the last couple years by our good friends @Jessie Huey and @Matt Segal. MT Hooker was the first grade 6 to be climbed outside of Yosemite and the route itself is spectacular! Despite the caloric magnitude of our days team morale is high. All the little aches and pains (including my still healing Achilles) that I started the trip with seem to be resolving themselves. For me, this trip is a bit of a curiosity to see if we can make a journey starting from my home feel like a proper expedition experience that normally takes flying around the world. We want an experience that brings us outside of our comfort zone, makes us question societal norms, and hopefully brings us closer to people and the Earth. The most moving part of the trip so far was finding a Hayden Kennedy Memorial Journal stashed under a Boulder. I miss you so much Hayden! 📸 me and @taylor._shaffer
We persevered through some frigid temps on our first climb of the trip, a route up the central part of Mount Hooker called All Hooked Up. The climb was established over the last couple years by our good friends @Jessie Huey and @Matt Segal. MT Hooker was the first grade 6 to be climbed outside of Yosemite and the route itself is spectacular! Despite the caloric magnitude of our days team morale is high. All the little aches and pains (including my still healing Achilles) that I started the trip with seem to be resolving themselves. For me, this trip is a bit of a curiosity to see if we can make a journey starting from my home feel like a proper expedition experience that normally takes flying around the world. We want an experience that brings us outside of our comfort zone, makes us question societal norms, and hopefully brings us closer to people and the Earth. The most moving part of the trip so far was finding a Hayden Kennedy Memorial Journal stashed under a Boulder. I miss you so much Hayden! 📸 me and @taylor._shaffer
Connecting climbing objectives by bike is so different than touring on proven routes. We decided to cross the southern Wyoming desert (red desert, link in bio to watch Patagonia’s film about protecting this place) via dirt roads that sometimes turned into nothing more than cattle tails. When you drive I-80 you miss so much. Wild horses, countless pronghorn. Rainbows, and epic sand dunes. We felt we were about as remote as you can get in North America. The pain of 10 hours a day of bone rattling biking has a way of warping time. Only 4 days in I felt like we had been moving for weeks. My heart already aches for my family but am grateful to be on a grand adventure with Alex. 📸and🎥by @taylor._shaffer
Connecting climbing objectives by bike is so different than touring on proven routes. We decided to cross the southern Wyoming desert (red desert, link in bio to watch Patagonia’s film about protecting this place) via dirt roads that sometimes turned into nothing more than cattle tails. When you drive I-80 you miss so much. Wild horses, countless pronghorn. Rainbows, and epic sand dunes. We felt we were about as remote as you can get in North America. The pain of 10 hours a day of bone rattling biking has a way of warping time. Only 4 days in I felt like we had been moving for weeks. My heart already aches for my family but am grateful to be on a grand adventure with Alex. 📸and🎥by @taylor._shaffer
Connecting climbing objectives by bike is so different than touring on proven routes. We decided to cross the southern Wyoming desert (red desert, link in bio to watch Patagonia’s film about protecting this place) via dirt roads that sometimes turned into nothing more than cattle tails. When you drive I-80 you miss so much. Wild horses, countless pronghorn. Rainbows, and epic sand dunes. We felt we were about as remote as you can get in North America. The pain of 10 hours a day of bone rattling biking has a way of warping time. Only 4 days in I felt like we had been moving for weeks. My heart already aches for my family but am grateful to be on a grand adventure with Alex. 📸and🎥by @taylor._shaffer
My kids love dirt bagging it in Yosemite. Heck, everyone loves dirtbagging it in Yosemite. But let’s be honest, many of us are not dirtbags any more. So we should all think about giving something to this place we love so much. The silent auction for this years Yosemite Climbers Association fundraiser just went live. There is tons of great stuff to bid on. I’m donating a “Edelrid diamond ascent day package. A day climbing with me and a Air BNB rental in Estes Park. And I’ve rallied @team_edelrid to donate all their best gear And @lasportivana to throw in some shoes. If you throw down huge I am willing to climb the Diamond with you. @yosemiteclimbingassociation Link in bio.
My kids love dirt bagging it in Yosemite. Heck, everyone loves dirtbagging it in Yosemite. But let’s be honest, many of us are not dirtbags any more. So we should all think about giving something to this place we love so much. The silent auction for this years Yosemite Climbers Association fundraiser just went live. There is tons of great stuff to bid on. I’m donating a “Edelrid diamond ascent day package. A day climbing with me and a Air BNB rental in Estes Park. And I’ve rallied @team_edelrid to donate all their best gear And @lasportivana to throw in some shoes. If you throw down huge I am willing to climb the Diamond with you. @yosemiteclimbingassociation Link in bio.
My kids love dirt bagging it in Yosemite. Heck, everyone loves dirtbagging it in Yosemite. But let’s be honest, many of us are not dirtbags any more. So we should all think about giving something to this place we love so much. The silent auction for this years Yosemite Climbers Association fundraiser just went live. There is tons of great stuff to bid on. I’m donating a “Edelrid diamond ascent day package. A day climbing with me and a Air BNB rental in Estes Park. And I’ve rallied @team_edelrid to donate all their best gear And @lasportivana to throw in some shoes. If you throw down huge I am willing to climb the Diamond with you. @yosemiteclimbingassociation Link in bio.
“I’ve been digging into the science of training lately and how it relates to things like zeal and life force. I’m planning to talk about this more in subsequent posts but for now I want to show some love for the tool that is making so much of this knowledge possible. My @corosglobal VERTIX 2 secured now to the 2nd generation VERTIX 2 Carabiner. Historically, climbers have found GPS Watches to be of limited use due to various factors. It’s not exactly ideal to crack climb with a watch on, and GPS tracking often fell short when faced with towering cliffs. However, COROS has risen to the challenge and truly understood the needs of climbers, investing significant time in discovering what’s required to elevate performance to new heights. Their dedication is a testament to their commitment to the climbing community. With the launch of the 2nd Generation Carabiner paired with my VERTIX 2, I can now climb freely outdoors and train as hard as I can indoor using the COROS Outdoor and Indoor Climb modes. The coolest thing is the COROS Indoor Climb mode can even measure the height of the lead falls so I can really call out when I take a 11 ft whipper. After putting in the hard work, both indoors and outdoors, I gain valuable insights into my strengths and areas that require more training. I’m determined to keep pushing my boundaries, and I genuinely believe there’s no other product out there that can guide me better” @tommycaldwell #trainwithCOROS #exploreperfection
“I’ve been digging into the science of training lately and how it relates to things like zeal and life force. I’m planning to talk about this more in subsequent posts but for now I want to show some love for the tool that is making so much of this knowledge possible. My @corosglobal VERTIX 2 secured now to the 2nd generation VERTIX 2 Carabiner. Historically, climbers have found GPS Watches to be of limited use due to various factors. It’s not exactly ideal to crack climb with a watch on, and GPS tracking often fell short when faced with towering cliffs. However, COROS has risen to the challenge and truly understood the needs of climbers, investing significant time in discovering what’s required to elevate performance to new heights. Their dedication is a testament to their commitment to the climbing community. With the launch of the 2nd Generation Carabiner paired with my VERTIX 2, I can now climb freely outdoors and train as hard as I can indoor using the COROS Outdoor and Indoor Climb modes. The coolest thing is the COROS Indoor Climb mode can even measure the height of the lead falls so I can really call out when I take a 11 ft whipper. After putting in the hard work, both indoors and outdoors, I gain valuable insights into my strengths and areas that require more training. I’m determined to keep pushing my boundaries, and I genuinely believe there’s no other product out there that can guide me better” @tommycaldwell #trainwithCOROS #exploreperfection
“I’ve been digging into the science of training lately and how it relates to things like zeal and life force. I’m planning to talk about this more in subsequent posts but for now I want to show some love for the tool that is making so much of this knowledge possible. My @corosglobal VERTIX 2 secured now to the 2nd generation VERTIX 2 Carabiner. Historically, climbers have found GPS Watches to be of limited use due to various factors. It’s not exactly ideal to crack climb with a watch on, and GPS tracking often fell short when faced with towering cliffs. However, COROS has risen to the challenge and truly understood the needs of climbers, investing significant time in discovering what’s required to elevate performance to new heights. Their dedication is a testament to their commitment to the climbing community. With the launch of the 2nd Generation Carabiner paired with my VERTIX 2, I can now climb freely outdoors and train as hard as I can indoor using the COROS Outdoor and Indoor Climb modes. The coolest thing is the COROS Indoor Climb mode can even measure the height of the lead falls so I can really call out when I take a 11 ft whipper. After putting in the hard work, both indoors and outdoors, I gain valuable insights into my strengths and areas that require more training. I’m determined to keep pushing my boundaries, and I genuinely believe there’s no other product out there that can guide me better” @tommycaldwell #trainwithCOROS #exploreperfection
It’s hard to believe I’ve been fueling my adventures with @clifbar for over 15 years. For me that kind of allegiance comes down to being values driven, making great products, and doing their part to make a healthier planet for my kids and future generations. Now they are stepping up their sustainability efforts by going Climate Neutral Certified with CLIF KID. I’m so proud to be part of the athlete family with this enduring, great company.
