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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
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- 1970 Massive Avalanche
- Next Stop The Llanganuco Valley
- Heading back into the mountains
- The valley of the condors
- Andean Adventure Run
- More pictures from Ishinca
- "Cordillera Blanca - First week"
- It's Not The Avalanches I Am Worried About
- Heading Back To Huaraz
- Ishinca Climb
- Ishinca valley rest day
- Urus este
- Heading up Urus but what a great sunset!
- Cordillera Blanca rest day
- Ishinca Base Camp
- Loading up Rosita
- Heading to the Ishinca Valley
- Day hike in the Churup drainage
- A Great First Day
- Cordillera Blanca - Day 1
- Lunch stop
- Sunset on Huascaran
- Andean Altiplano
- Cresting the 4100 meter pass
- The bus to Huaraz leaves in 45 minutes
- Landed in Peru
- Huaraz here I come
- My Adventure Goals
- A Great Father's Day!
- Mountain running ... Kilian Jornet ... Inspiration...
- Last Big Workout Before The Cordillera Blanca
- Trail Building Trends
- Denali Speed Ascent ... Kilian Jornet
- Chamonix ... Mountain running ... Get off the couch!
- Something to keep in mind in the Cordillera Blanca...
- Tune-up for the Cordillera Blanca
- Fitz Roy ... An Epic ... The Dark Hours
- Mountain running ... 2014 Zegama race
- Biathlon Clinic
- Less than ten days until the Cordillera Blanca
- Summer Grand Traverse ... Crested Butte to Aspen
- The Matterhorn ... it's not always a piece of cake
- More laps on the snowbowl
- Hiking Middlebury Snow Bowl and Picking Up Lucy
- Yvon Chouinard Turns 75
- Getting ready for the Cordillera Blanca
- A Big Weekend ...
- The Two Cordillera Blanca Prizes
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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')