Jordan has crawled up the ranks. Last meet he was #2 kid on the Big Bear Team, and his form and strength and form is top notch. It’s FINALS Saturday, temps will be near 100 degrees on the desert course, and he’ll leave it all out there. Stay tuned!!

Unbelieveable. Jordan has Conquered the Bear. Jordan has conquered the Bear!! It was a 5 event challenge, that began in February, and JUST ended September 12, it’s called Conquer the Bear. First it was a 10km Snow Shoe Race. onto the 15 mile Mountain Bike race, then it was 10km Kayak race in Fawnskin. 30

THIS is what it took for ME to climb Carstensz Pyramid- If it’s highlighted, it’s because it’s one of my COOL sponsors. Visit them please Nutrition- In the bladder- Nuun Hammer Nutrition Bars FRS Chews- Pomegranate Sumatra Indonesia Coffee- with one lump From the Feet up New FIVE TEN Guide Tennies- WOW SOLE Custom Footbeds,

The team spent about 4 days getting back from our climb in Papua, east Indonesia….ALL the way back to our home in Big Bear. 2 flights just to get off Papua, including an overnight layover, 1.5 day in Bali, perhaps the most contrasting place ever compared to Papua. Bali is a place everybody should visit.

Quick update 12 hour lay over in HK turns into Kayak adventure. Nice beaches, warm waters, life is good for Jordan today. Flight from Bali to HK was smooth, but overnighter with no sleep. all good photos coming soon

What a day!  After a breakfast by the pool we headed to the beach – that’s what’s expected here in Bali!  Well first (while Paul was updating the site and finishing his book about our trip) Jordan and I headed to town to find some new swim trunks.  Here they have EVERYTHING…every California surf brand

MORE ON THE CLIMB: Things just went smooth. P and K would take turns leading, Jordan constandtly reminding us to drink and eat. This kind of effort and this rapid a pace at altitude can cripple even the best of climbers. It’s late morning and the ridge behind us sudenly presents very dark and fast

Apologies for the radio silence. Upon our return from the climb-, we made immediate attempt to return to Bali, and has been stalled in another part of Papua, in the opposite/wrong direction called Timika. Seems we lost our seats on a connecting flight here. So, we treated Jordan to a 5 star type place called

Hi, This is to all the person who’s waiting for the story from Indonesia, all the families, friends, lovers. This is the update about this smart kid Jordan Romero and his team Karen and Paul Romero. My name is Patrick, I am a person from Adventure Indonesia who arrange their accommodation in Nabire, last post

We have light sprinkles on the coast, but mountains look clear for the moment. Cross fingers for us. Jordan is going a bit stir crazy, getting used to the food though. He got to pick a movie today, it was HOT ROD, from the DVD rental store. very fitting story if you know it.