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First big multi-pitch climb in the Cathedral Spires in South Dakota ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

The Black Hills have a mystical otherworldly quality. Where cellphones get no reception and the individual is submerged in the raw natural beauty all around. The one catch is, you must travel deeper in,

Good evening, Steemit and friends in the crypto-shere. Coming to you from a rainy, humid Twin Cities night, I’m finally sitting down to write and share new photography. I’ve been struggling with a Magic:

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Wilderness contains over a million acres of unspoiled forest and waterways you can travel through. Here's a New York Times Article for your reading pleasure: In August

(Picture taken by my sister - Mihaela Valceanu) Today's post is nothing else than a continuation of the last day post, reaching another a masterpiece called Beuşniţa Waterfall. I feel like I need to remember

Good morning, Steemit! It feels so good to fall back in to my regular blogging routine. I’m here at @caffetto with a cup of coffee catching up on UFC fights, casually browsing Magic: The Gathering cards

My climbing crew and I hit up Peterfest 7 in Sandstone, Minnesota. I learned that ice climbing is still fucking really hard for me , you guys. The difference this time is that I actually made it up a fucking

Pt3 Log Book: A hungry bird hops around our tent searching for a nibble at ten thousand feet. An avalanche rumbles uphill. Tumbling rocks echo off cliff faces rolling down through the valley. Blinding

Yo. So today I'd like to share with you all two more great platforms that I discovered today. Well, technically that's a lie. Source You may have seen me mention either of these two before, as I have known

Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður - Vatnajökull National Park. This was a brutal 16-mile (almost 26 kilometers) round trip hike to the remote Kjós campsite. We were the only intrepid ones, willing to deal with the

Log Book: Step, Left foot. Right. Plunge ice ax. Darkness all around. Find the rhythm. Left foot, Right. Step. Follow the rope. Crevasse on the left. One hundred feet below. 3am Darkness on the ridge Darkness

Share with me your sexy times playlist! Here's mine: 1.) Portishead - Glory Box 2.) Portishead - Western Eyes 3.) Christian Rich feat. Angela McCluskey - Real Love 4.) Gabriel Garzón- Montano - Six Eight

Ya girl got qualified on Monday! It's not the biggest deal to long-time climbers, but I've overcome the biggest barrier in one of my hobbies. I can finally belay my friends at the gym! Haha. I have yet

Pt1: "Her Mighty Hump in my Sights" July, 2013, Seattle vacation, I saw her. I floated on an inner tube along the shores of Lake Washington. A dock jutted out like the capital letter ‘T’ slammed

I heard stories of this working. We had to try it out. Last fall Dim Media artist member Joe got married. As part of his wedding décor we sculpted animal heads to be hung on the gallery walls (he got married

I'm fucking BUSY. All the time! This is about as far as I went. My weekend was crammed full and I didn't have any time to sit down and paint: I had to go to the gym went bowling with @ghostfish and

I’m burning the midnight oil tonight! I just finished these delightful goldfish studies and I couldn’t resist sharing them! I’m going to try to do at least one animal study every other day.  It took

A new day, a new trip, a new amazing place in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania. 🗾 This time, we continue our story with another waterfall discovered in this part of Romania, called Pătrăhăițești Waterfall.

Over the years I return to a motif: bone fish, dead fish, ghost fish This painting was the first using drowning bone fish for subject matter. I really enjoy building up the background texture and color

Adventures in climbing don’t always involve going up (and back down). Some of the best areas are off the beaten path for the casual hiker and more extreme measures must be taken to reach the desired crags.