Jessica Olson - Jo

Pretty excited for this next life update.

I’m moving to Colorado.

Catch me in Boulder & Denver for the next few months as I figure out what this next chapter of life looks like.

I’m excited to embrace a change of scenery for a bit and to see where this next adventure takes me.

📸 - thanks for capturing so many moments laughing and dancing with the friends under the amazing fall colors this past fall in the Eastern Sierra. I won’t ever tire of these photos and the amazing feelings they bring back to my soul.

Harnessing this energy and working towards bringing it with me everywhere I continue to go. 💃🏼 🕺🏼

11:11 make a wish…

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Album dropping soon.

Thanks for a magical stroll amongst the colors, belly laughs, catching up on life and moments captured by

October is full of ups and downs - decades of memories, celebrations of life and death, lessons, hardship and growth.

These highlighted moments helped bring so much joy into my life, and create memories that I will surely hold onto for a lifetime ahead.

My dad and uncle came to visit and celebrate the memory of my mom, who hasn’t been with us now for 20 years, two decades. In moments, it still doesn’t feel real that it’s been so long. Other days, I’m upset knowing memories of her are fading without the opportunity for new ones to be created. So for that, I’m grateful to create new memories, with the people I love who have also known the power of loving her.

This month I celebrated my birthday as much as I possibly could. Each celebration helped boost my moral more than I could even begin to explain, as the world feels heavy in the bigger picture of things, and with everything else I’m currently trying to sort out.

When moments have felt heavy, I think about these moments to bring me back to the moment being lived, understanding that it either goes well, or it passes.

Thanks for being a part of my life. I love you all so much.

Enjoying the fall colors. 🍂

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Birthday Celebrations.

This year has been one for the books.
In challenges
Struggles
Finding myself
My people
Figuring out how to be
What to do
What not to do
And questioning a lot.
Staying curious
Trying to let go of what isn’t serving
To make room…
To follow the flow.

This past month I set out
To set intentions
To find love
Be loved
And surround myself -
With the people I am able to feel most,
like Me.

I’m happy to say I succeeded.
I smiled so much
Felt the love so deeply
And feel seen for the things
I hold passions around
And the things
I wish to pursue.

I’m beyond grateful.
Cup overfilling
Blissful
Hopeful
and trying my best
To hold onto these feelings
No matter where the next rollercoaster ride takes me.

For the up and downs
They allow for contrast,
Allow for appreciation
The highs and lows
Sometimes complimenting each other
And sometimes,
Allowing for perspective.
While moments are fleeting
Memories are created
Tools are developed
Helping to make it through
Some of those not so good days.

I love you all so much.
I’m so incredibly grateful
For the life I live
For the life I’ve chosen
For adventure
For friends
For my chosen family
And the parts of my real family
That show up
That share the love
Share the space
And are part of this life we’ve chosen
With each other.

Thank you to all of these magical beings for making me feel so loved and cherished during the past month. I’m excited for what this next year might bring.

Seasons are changing…
and it feels like so much more than that.

The tides feel drastic,
as if the battles are slipping just out of reach,
teetering on the edge of reality itself.

I’m ready for fall.
I’m ready to stay grounded here for a while
(after these next two weeks, I promise).

Being here stirs up a lot
emotions, challenges, lessons I’ve been circling through all year.
But I feel ready to sit with them now,
to face them one by one, as they arrive.

Go with grace.
Be impeccable with words and intentions.
Don’t take things personally.

These are the mantras I’m working to embody,
reminding myself that progress is a process—
and staying open to whatever might come.

Everything is made better with friends.

First time up in Mainline in almost a year - what a year it’s been.

August 2025 - friends and family highlights of the month as summer flys by.

Grateful for these moments.

Sometimes, you just have to dive in and trust the process.

Or ask for an outside perspective and slowly wade in so the ripples don’t impact the broader picture…literally.

Thanks for the adventures and possibly my favorite photo ever taken of me and a very magical place.

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Climbing hasn’t been the same for me this year, and honestly, I’m really struggling with it.

Being a guide, and identifying deep as a climber for the past decade just doesn’t feel the same as it has in the past. I find myself struggling to find the joy in the sport, in the community and lack the desire to get out to push myself, or even to seek out new things to climb.

Programs have been down this year, and there seems to be a shift in guiding that makes it even more challenging to be motivated in cultivating everything I’ve grown within the programs and dreams I was so excited to create at the start of this year.

I’m struggling, maybe it’s the constant movement from place to place, the lack of inspiration to post things to social media, the other things in life weighing on me in ways I don’t care to share on here, or the desire to try and do it all while feeling as though I’m simply falling short and just not able to hold up my end of things.

I share these feelings in hopes to get some inspiration, along with a photo from one of my favorite (and only) big adventures this year climbing north peak and the north ridge of conness at the start of summer with a good friend.

Reflecting back on the simple, when we’re able to tune out the chatter and be present in the moments happening before our eyes. Turning the phone on airplane mode and dreaming without a sky and reaching to the farthest star.

So tell me, what are you looking forward to? What dreams are you inspired to chase after? What is your next step for the day ahead?

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Mentally trying to be here for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for the chats and moments captured of me embracing my mountain mermaid life