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✈️ The Cirque Chronicles: Arrival Day ✈️We loaded our *under 1200lbs* of gear into the float plane, climbing into a fade...
08/26/2026

✈️ The Cirque Chronicles: Arrival Day ✈️

We loaded our *under 1200lbs* of gear into the float plane, climbing into a faded but stylish blue leather interior complete with retro headsets. 🎧

Our pilot Warren pointed out swimming moose and huge glaciers as we flew over the Yukon wilderness, glued to the windows in our precarious yellow bucket of bolts and steel, bumping and buzzing through the cloudy sky. 🫎

We landed on Glacier Lake in the smoothest plane landing I’ve ever experienced, and after tossing all our bags onto the beach, Warren left us to the many thousands of mosquitos who immediately descended upon our flesh. 🥴

After stashing food and supplies in bear boxes, we hefted our 70-80 # backpacks and began the hike toward the cirque. We had varying reports of the distance and elevation from past parties, but thanks to COROS this is no longer a mystery for y’all (see flyover). 🤠🗺️

I was extremely stoked to have trained with a heavy backpack as this was an absolute SLOG. But even fending off hundreds of bugs, sweat, heat, and heinous loads, our stoke was unleashed upon arrival. 😆🔥

We set up camp under a lovely overhanging boulder the size of a house, complete with a built out cooking table and marmot roommates. 🐻

We had finally ARRIVED! 🤩✨🏔️

✨Cirque of the Unclimbables: The Prologue ✨Our journey started with some strange and quirky days. Traveling with friends...
08/25/2026

✨Cirque of the Unclimbables: The Prologue ✨

Our journey started with some strange and quirky days. Traveling with friends is always extra fun, and we had an 11 hour layover with a lovely guest appearance from the one and only Danford Jooste 😍

After reading some truly unhinged and horrific reviews of the hotel we had booked for a night in Whitehorse, we pivoted to the last air bnb in town: an RV in someone’s driveway (See Eddie and Michael fitting into the tiny bunk beds) 😆🛏️ for our last night in real “beds” for weeks!

We loaded into a rental and drove 6 hours into the wilderness to Finlayson lake, where the float plane would pick us up. The outpost gave abandoned summer camp vibes 👻 scattered with mysterious flotsam and jetsam. 🐻

Unfortunately due to other fishing clients and a rescue call, Warren (our pilot) couldn’t fly us in that day, so we ended up spending the day entertaining ourselves with the things we found around camp... 😅🫪

A full day of being stuck at camp while the weather was splitter in the Cirque made the energy somewhat frenetic, but luckily it wouldn’t last long.

The sound of the plane echoed in the sky and we all flung ourselves to the dock, eager as ever to GET there, chomping at the bit to set our eyes on the walls we had been dreaming about for months. 🤩✈️

Even if the plane did seem like an archaic machine from the 50’s, I gladly put my life in Warren’s hands as we left behind the summer camp purgatory. The adventure started to feel real!!! 🥹

…to be continued!

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✨THE CIRQUE OF THE UNCLIMBABLES✨✈️ 🏔️ We climbed into a 1950’s yellow float plane and hiked through apocalyptic mosquito...
08/18/2026

✨THE CIRQUE OF THE UNCLIMBABLES✨

✈️ 🏔️ We climbed into a 1950’s yellow float plane and hiked through apocalyptic mosquitos to spend two weeks in fairy meadows, climbing big walls and splitter cracks, frolicking amongst marmots and wolverines, hunkering under a boulder in the pouring rain for days, playing ukelele and doing art, making new friends and lifelong memories. 🥹

Stay tuned for a story of snapshots and snippets over the next few weeks featuring the dream squad of Eddie Taylor Miya Tsudome Michael LaDue 😎💕

So much thanks to Patagonia Patagonia Climbing COROS for helping to make this dream happen 🙌

05/14/2026

Alex Honnold skipped this move on his free solo of Freerider and you can see why.

This singular move might be one of the most mentally difficult moves I’ve ever done, even though it only clocks in at 11c. You just gotta step on the peanut with no handholds and BELIEVE ✨

Superb day on freeblast with the boiz, I didn’t send the slab but did the peanut move first go and honestly I’ll take that as a bigger win 😌🥜

02/24/2026

It’s been a while since I’ve been motivated to post as the current state of our country is completely unhinged and terrifying, but I have been re-inspired by small bits of comedic relief along the way.

Things aren’t always going to be bomber, and sometimes you just gotta clip the tat and hope for the best 🤷🏻‍♀️🤞🏻

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