Embedded into the backcountry areas of Zion National Park, the Sierra Nevada, Death Valley National Park, and the Mojave Desert, Courtney Purcell's ramblings have also taken him all across the country and the world. From hiking, climbing and peakbagging in the Rockies, the Andes, the high volcanoes of Washington and Mexico, into the depths explored in spelunking, and the canyoneering of the Colorado Plateau, here you'll find trip reports, route beta and "stuff" relevant to the world of...
Saturday in Otavalo, Ecuador is a colorful affair. That day, hundreds of vendors come out of the woodwork to sell their wares. The intrepid explorer can find everything from cobs and stalks of corn, live pigs, dead pigs, lambs, chickens, blankets, shawls, jade statues of Inca deities, painted gourds, beaded necklaces, lapis lazuli rings and even those silly fedoras everyone wears down there. 
