COLUMBUS — No matter what you do, happiness is the ultimate goal. Were the two neck-bearded gentlemen in the medical tent at Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival having fun? […]
Adam Doc Fox
Digital Marketing Director for Source Brand Solutions / Source Media. Also I write and climb mountains. Wine is cool.
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A Rockefeller, headhunters & cannibals makes for one of the most bizarre cold cases ever
Have you ever heard of Michael Rockefeller? Yes, Rockefeller was from that famous, incredibly rich family with Ohio roots. He was also the subject of a massive manhunt when he […]
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Alone in Badlands National Park and other highpointing tales
March 18, 2018: Very rarely do my journalism assignments geographically coincide with highpoint opportunities. But the women’s Division II college basketball Final Four was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and […]
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Winter above the 45th parallel — climbing in the true white north
Dec. 28, 2016: “Dad is leaving on his own vacation, again. Kids, come say bye,” my wife said before I left for Montana this past summer. My cellmate was right, […]
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Mt. Rainier — climbing above clouds
Mt. Rainier was such a brutal climb that I was in the emergency room four days after leaving the mountain. Sacrificing acclimation for safety was something that had to be […]
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Winter hike in -3F to the top of Illinois
Feb. 11, 2016: The elderly man working the toll booth outside of Chicago wasn’t sure what to make of me. It was the dead of winter, just hovering around zero, and […]
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From Mansfield to the top of Mt. Mansfield
Dec. 30, 2015: Originally, I was going to solo Mt. Mansfield in Vermont. Heading into the climb, I felt generally optimistic, overconfident and borderline apathetic. Any one of many routes to the […]
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Fox travels 1,250 miles in 2 days to nab 3 East Coast highpoints
March 8, 2014: Starting in Ashland, I drove to the East Coast and in one day, grabbed the winter highpoints of Massachusetts (Mt. Greylock), Connecticut (Mt. Frissell-South Slope) and High […]
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Climbing origins: Mt. Davis & Backbone Mountain
March 3, 2013: One could argue chasing peaks isn’t really going after something, but running away. I left work early and headed to my gear stash, to my atlas, to […]
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Ashland climber beats some of the strongest winds on Earth
A month had passed since my first summit and state highpoint and I was busy researching and reading and thinking way outside my skill level. My buddy Tony in Oregon […]