The Lake Placid Loppet is fast approaching. Gary is definitely coming up ... Brian? Mark? The painting is a historic one, of an artist rendition of the original birkebeiner skiers taking the baby prince to safety a 1000 years ago in Norway.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Hock on the 5.7 "Razor" Pitch
Selden and Gary getting ready to frame the cabin
Fossils on Ishinca (18,500')
A bunch of old guys still enjoying the mountains, and the training they need to do to get off the couch
Books I Am Reading
- Alpine Rising
- The Chalet
- Cham
Total Pageviews
Popular Posts
-
We came from nowhere towns like Upland, Cucamonga, Ontario, and Montclair. None of us had done anything more distinguished than chase down... -
KURTYKA WAS A LEADING PROPONENT OF FAST AND LIGHT IN THE 1970s and 1980s. This is a historically important essay written in 1988. The Art ... -
The spectacular fall weather continued, and I logged just under 15 hours, on 136k (113k bike and 23k run), with 3250' vertical. I also d...
-
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/opinion/body-muscles-40s-aging.html
-
I ran into Pete Metcalf in the Tetons a couple of years before he did this groundbreaking alpine style route, and maybe a decade before he s... -
It started with a very chilly but quite nice mountain biking excursion on the rail trail. The middle of the day had me start to re-read A Me...
-
Last week I re-read A Medal Of Honor, a novel about an Olympic biathlete, this week it's The God Of Skiing. A novel about a fictional T...
Posts
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(472)
-
▼
January
(37)
- Loppet Training
- Inca Mummies
- Lake Placid Loppet
- Nordic Ski Racing
- NCS Crag ... icing up
- Africa: fossil friends
- Telemark Tips
- NCS ski hill
- Tele-turns
- Video: Pathfinder
- The Mountain Library
- A Banner Year
- Chessler's 100 Best Books
- Video: Nordic Pre-Olympics
- Video: Outside magazine's profile of Messner
- Video: The Nose speed record
- Video: American Alpine Club Trailer
- Dean of Students
- More Humor
- Video: UIAA gear testing
- Feb 8 ... Best of Banff Film Festival ... Shikashika
- Out for Another Ski
- -20 Last Night
- Who Is Coming?
- 30 Years Ago: still on the agenda?
- Le Beatnik: a video
- Video Trailer
- A Little Humor
- Amazing Alpine Feat
- Pinnacle Gully
- Evening Chores
- A Card From Santa
- Larry Gearing Up
- Cascade Ice Dance
- Michael Franklin: 30 years ago
- Happy New Year
- Yoga
-
▼
January
(37)
Important Climbing And Skiing Website Links
Aiguille de Gliere
Hock on the 5.7 "Razor" Pitch
Hock's best. What were your Five biggest and best routes?
- South Ridge of the Gliere
- North Ridge of the Grand Teton
- North Buttress of Middle Cathedral
- Sentinel Rouge on Mount Blanc
- Black Dike on Cannon
Hock's handful of could have, would have, wished I had, and still hope to do routes!
- West Face Tocllaraju
- North Face of the Matterhorn
- Black Ice Colouir on the Grand Teton
- Cassin Ridge on Denali
Fossil Clubhouse
Selden and Gary getting ready to frame the cabin
Cordillera Blanca
Fossils on Ishinca (18,500')