Trying Newer Smaller Things

Too often we chase big adventures, long trips away to exotic places, alone or with one or two friends at the expense of more and smaller adventures, micro-adventures if you will. A couple hours after work, a quick morning session before sunrise, stretch those schedules to try new stuff, re-connect with old friends, invite new ones. I’m making an effort to do that this year and in the years ahead. With that in mind I give you the micro-adventure of the week.

Micro-Adventure of the week

I’m pretty fortunate to have a circle of friends that enjoy doing random things outside. I’ve been watching lots of wild ice skating footage from Maine and New Hampshire lately. Now, I’m not a good skater, I don’t even own skates, so I reached out to Jeff, Erik and Michael to see if they’d be game for fat biking across Conway Lake some evening. They all sign-up immediately, I didn’t even have a fat bike…. but Ed Roy was happy to lend his while he worked. It was windy as hell all week until Friday when the temps rose and the wind dropped just in time for our spin around the lake. So I stretched a bit, fat biking on a big frozen lake seemed like a newish thing. I felt like a bit of a kid again just rolling around, in lazy circles enjoying the wide open ice and good company. Jump into the link for more images of our evening out here: www.klementovichphoto.com

An Org Worth Checking Out

Farm to Crag. I missed their latest event this past autumn here in North Conway. I won’t miss it next time around. A gathering of local climbing community, chefs, farmers, and locals looking to learn about food, cooking, growing, all the good stuff that comes with gathering people together around the table or the crag. I’ve already ready met a handful of great folks through this event and I didn’t even go!

People

Dusting One Off - Into the Archive

I’ll always have a connection between climbing and photography. I first got interested in photography through climbing. Climbing gets you out into these amazing landscapes, and gets you into spots with different perspectives a perfect paring with photography. I’ve also met some of my favorite people through climbing and also photography and if I feel like wrangling a group to go do something out of the ordinary after work I can usually count on a few climbers being in the mix. Erik Nelson and Jeff Lougee, both long time climbing partners and were both on the fat biking adventure to start this email, lucky to have known those cats for more than 20 years.

Thanks to everyone that has sent me notes with feedback and suggestions. I’m enjoying the evolution of this little piece of my world. If you’ve got a micro-adventure in the future let me know, or if you want to join along on the next one of mine give a shout!