Tag: Peter Bakwin

This book is a celebration of the joys that come from moving over easy rock. The Flatirons above Boulder, Colorado offer one of the finest arrays of easy rock climbs anywhere in the world. This guide reports on more than 20 miles of routes – not 20 miles along the base of the range, but 20 miles as measured with a rope!  –Gerry Roach, Flatirons…

The Mosquito-Tenmile Range Traverse has been in the "Incredible Things to Attempt" queue of my head since I've read (and reread) Peter Bakwin's own attempts at the line. Starting from Weston Pass at the southern end of the range, the goal is to make it to Frisco, Colorado following the very prominent ridgeline that continues unbroken until its terminus, around 37 miles from where you start.…

On April 10, Peter Bakwin and I ran from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon to the South Rim. “R2R" of course is now quite normal; a bucket-list route for many. But this took us 11.5 hours. Why so long? Because we started on the North Rim of the Little Colorado River, descended the fabled Hopi Salt Trail, ran and thrashed down the LCR…

By Peter Bakwin Living in Boulder, as I have for most of my life, can be strange. Nearly everyone here, young and old alike, is insanely fit. Everyone has set some outlandish running or climbing goal for themselves, something to keep the sense of adventure alive and to expand their skills and experience. I myself have set many, and even achieved some, and this has…

With Stephanie Ehret and Peter Bakwin "I think we met while drinking whisky out of a bottle and wrestling on the couch. I accidentally poured some in Peters eye.” “It stung.” That was in the 10th grade - 37 years ago - and this ultra couple has been together ever since, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this last December. Peter Bakwin is of course, the…

I pushed through the Tamarisk thicket on my hands and knees, being careful to avoid puncturing my air mattress, then waded out up to my waist in the cold, brown, swirling water, my shoes sticking in the mucky bottom, and while wearing a backpack, tried to get on my yellow inflatable mattress. It was an awkward moment. Peter and I had discussed practicing the technique…

On a crisp early fall day Stephanie said, "Let's go someplace warm this winter and do a long hike." This seemed like a good idea, but didn't take root until a while later when I got the flu for 2 weeks, giving me nothing to do but dig into the details of a trip plan. I could think of only one thing that interested me:…

R2R2R is a world-class route, staring on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, running 5,000' down to the Colorado River, across a bridge, then 6,000'' up to the North Rim. Then back again - "Rim to Rim to Rim". I first ran it sometime in the 80's, and it was quite the thing back then, but in the last few years this route has…

The Wind River High Route is possibly one of the best backpacking routes in the world. It runs along the spine of the Wind River Range in northern Wyoming, probably the most wild and remote range in the Lower 48, is modeled after the famed Sierra High Route, and thus is mostly off-trail and above timberline.  I put together the great team of Andrew Skurka…