I like sailing, volleyball, snowboarding, rock-climbing, hiking, and backpacking, SCUBA diving and snorkeling/free-diving (lightly).

New Mexico was a pretty good place to be for snowboarding (with a driving into southern Colorado. Likewise, Albuquerque is poised in the dead center of New Mexico's abundant outdoor climbing opportunities, not to mention housing a really fantastic climbing gym, Stone Age Climbing Gym, where I work as a route-setter.

I have also been snorkeling/freediving and SCUBA diving (since 2003) in Mexico (east side), Belize, Providencia, the Bahamas, Egypt, and Hawaii.

In 2025 I won the coveted (and nearly unwinnable) Enchantments Core Permit Lottery, enabling me to backpack for severals days in September.

Rock climbing pics

Backpacking in the Enchantments