The Skiing-Climbing Conundrum

A great posting on the Cold Thistle blog, wish we had chatted about this in the Cosmique Hut!  Dane tells it like it is, and clearly talks about the dynamic tension between having your climbing gear dialed in, and the inadvertent trade-offs you probably made getting to the route on skis.  His objective was the North Face of Les Droites, the tone and tenor of the article is summed up by this quote: "That morning I came to the conclusion one could be easily killed just getting to a climb in Chamonix.


CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE ON COLD THISTLE.