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Dropping Below the Rim: Backpacking in the Grand Canyon
Mid-March 2025: There are places on the planet that have a mythical feel to each of us; which places have that feel are different for you...

charlesjromeo
Apr 206 min read
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Attempting Longs Peak: A Birthday I Won’t Soon Forget
Kiener's Route on Longs Peak in red; Green dot is our perch: picture courtesy of Summit Post September 2nd, 2010: It was getting late. ...

charlesjromeo
Mar 1311 min read
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Rethinking my Relationship with Yellowstone
The title at the top was my name for the article. The article, as it appears in Outside Bozeman, has a different title, "Where the Wild...

charlesjromeo
Jan 231 min read
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Into the Beartooth
This is an old story, both because it took place more than 40 years ago and because I wrote it more than 20 years ago. It's also the...

charlesjromeo
Jan 1214 min read
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Ella Climbs the Grand
“Two beers please Jake,” Ella said to the bartender while holding up two fingers to make her order clear in case he couldn’t quite hear...

charlesjromeo
Oct 17, 202420 min read
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For Want of a Sandwich: Backpacking in the Tetons with Josh
Josh standing at the edge of Death Canyon near Pass Lake “So wait, you’re telling me that the only things on this sandwich are breaded...

charlesjromeo
Sep 2, 20245 min read
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Enchaining the Bridgers: An old guy’s epic adventure
Enchaining: def , to bind or hold as if with chains. Ever since I moved to Bozeman in June 2020, I have found the prospect of enchaining...

charlesjromeo
Jul 9, 202412 min read
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Rethinking My Relationship with Yellowstone
When I first ventured into the Yellowstone backcountry, I found it threatening. It was in June in the early 1980s when Terry and I...

charlesjromeo
Jun 3, 20246 min read
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Traversing Zion
Altitude trumps latitude. It’s something we all know to be true. ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ which coat the mountain’s high altitudes in...

charlesjromeo
May 6, 20246 min read
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The Individuation of Adventure on the Teton Crest
Phelps Lake BEAR! Bear in the brush! I had been hiking along blurting out my usual chorus of “Koo-Ka-Doo,” and “Human in the Forest,”...

charlesjromeo
Sep 11, 202312 min read
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Sunburn: Getting Huk out of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
Early July, 1983: We awoke to brilliant blue skies on the third morning of our journey. The first two days had been stormy. First came...

charlesjromeo
Jul 20, 202315 min read
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The Evolution of Adventure
When we are out on adventures, we no longer talk to the folks we meet about the Great White Father in the East, nor do we hunt and trap...

charlesjromeo
Jun 6, 20234 min read
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Much to Learn: Wilderness first aid training (3 min read)
As of Spring 2023, my medical training had been limited to watching the occasional hospital show that I am certain provides an entirely...

charlesjromeo
May 11, 20233 min read
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The Last Hike: A dystopian fantasy
As we drove along Spanish Creek I found myself saying aloud, “Wow, they paved this all the way in.” Terry replied, “You knew that, are...

charlesjromeo
Apr 13, 20237 min read
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Four Bath Towels and an Axe: Greenhorns in the Tetons
It was late July in the Summer of 1977. I was living at my parents’ house in New Jersey at the time, and Marty, a friend that I had made...

charlesjromeo
Mar 16, 202312 min read
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Finding Josh: The Hyalites suddenly feel extremely remote
July 7, 2022. The rivers were swollen, the waterfalls were spectacular. This hadn’t presented a problem until now. We were about 4...

charlesjromeo
Mar 2, 202310 min read
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Climbing Granite: a successful series of misadventures
In early August 1984, Rune and I along with George and Al, two of Rune’s friends made a successful attempt on Montana’s tallest mountain:...

charlesjromeo
Feb 27, 202325 min read
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