As a transplant from Buffalo, NY, I received my first big taste of the great outdoors of the West after a pair of cross country road trips in 2009 and 2010. After moving to Los Angeles for medical school, I started to explore my interest in hiking, and ultimately spent way too much time planning my next adventures into the Sierras, San Gabriels, and beyond.

When I learned I would be moving to Phoenix for residency at the Mayo Clinic, my first reaction (literally) was to start looking at the next set of outdoor adventures. However unlike Southern California, where you can find 50 write ups on an obscure peak in the San Gabriels, Arizona (aside from a few notable exceptions) was a bit more sparse. Thus led to the creation of this website.

Now 5 years later and back living in California in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the website has gone from a smattering of random trip reports to over 200 trips, with information on obscure summits and technical climbs, some of which have seen only a handful of summits in the past few decades, particularly the various buttes and spires throughout the Grand Canyon. I hope that this site will continue to serve as a resource for those looking to get off the beaten path and explore the various remote summits in the Western United States.

As always, I’m open to any comments and suggestions on any way I can improve this site. Thank you for reading!

-Christopher Czaplicki

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