Simply, Up a mountain Down a beer. This site serves as a means to bring people together in a celebration of like minded folks. The focus of this blog is to allow a doorway into the hills by providing information on backpacking, hiking, camping, cycling, climbing, bouldering, wilderness survival, skiing, snowboarding, and beer!!!

There are going to be deviations to the theme brought about by the adventures we take but all postings will be be based on enjoyment of the outdoors. Here is a place to come and learn about the great outdoors!

Yeti is an all around outdoor adventurer, enjoying everything from mountain and road biking, climbing and bouldering, orienteering, skiing, surfing, backpacking, trail running and exploring. Yeti is proud to make his home in the Colorado Mountains with his wife and son. With no borders that can hold Yeti down he has explored the US from Alaska to Florida and most places in between as well as such places as Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Iraq, Qatar and Costa Rica.

Yeti’s love of the outdoors and extensive training both military and civilian as well as vast experience in the backcountry has allowed him to guide backcountry trips as well as teach at the college level as an Adventure Guide in such subjects as Desert Field Studies, Environmental Issues and Ethics, Land Navigation, Nordic Skiing, Winter Wilderness Survival, Wilderness Survival, Mountain Biking, and Leave No Trace.  And how could we ever forget to mention his unwavering devotion to beer!!

Juice Box is undeniably the mastermind behind this site. His strong graphic design background coupled with his love of all things outdoors have allowed this site to be what it is today. When not plugging away on the computer Juice Box loves to get out into the wilds and explore every chance he gets. Juice Box is another all around outdoor enthusiast that rips up the backcountry on his snowboard, and loves great hikes, especially when they lead to hidden water holes or epic cliff dives. Juice Box is also quite the photographer and may be the only man out there to give Yeti a run for his money when it comes to his love of cold microbrews.

For questions please email us at upadowna@gmail.com or send a letter to:

UpaDowna

POB 161

Green Mountain Falls, CO

80819