Before the snow flies get one more good mountain run in!

Watch this short video, to get you out the door.

http://youtu.be/-lZwXiy4OR8

Hock on Halloween

At school we always celebrate special events on Wednesday - no after school sports and no homework - so homemade costumes, spook house, carnival games, and of course candy, are the focus of the evening.

I came as a rainbow, featuring all the colors of the visible spectrum ... Mr. ROY G BIV.

28°F and still paddling

Fatigue, performance, and perceived effort

The Mystery of "Nonlocal" Fatigue

Runner's World

SWEAT SCIENCE Why does arm exercise make your legs feel tired? By alex hutchinson October 24, 2015 "Nonlocal fatigue" is one of those phenomena that seem either completely obvious or totally mystifying, depending on how you look at it. Consider, for example, a recent experiment by Michael Johnson and his colleagues at Nottingham Trent University, whose results appear in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The basic task in the experiment was simple: a cycling test to exhaustion at fixed power, Read the full story

Quote of the week – William Blake

From my ongoing tour through my climbing library ...

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;

This is not done by jostling in the street.

Black Dike climbed las week

October 19 ... ice climbing has started ...

http://neice.com/featured-stories/burhardt-and-siegel-start-off-the-ice-season-in-style/

Lucy turns 18

Mountain Running

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=YMq4wE6KxmQ

When fossils were young and roamed the earth

Pictures from two different trips to Denali

El Niño is coming!

http://adventure-journal.com/2015/10/maps-show-why-el-nino-is-too-big-to-fail/

Guatemalan Volcanoes

We were supposed to climb one of the big three, however the weather was too wet to get the four wheel drive vehicle to the trailhead, so we hiked for a couple of hours in the rainforest at the base of Volcan Agua.

Cardio App

It won't be long now ... winter is coming!

The Great Leap Forward ... ice climbing in the 1960s and 1970s

A MUST WATCH ...

https://vimeo.com/36113029

Heading home

A very hectic 72 hours in Guatemala, with massive amounts of schmoozing and food. I did get to do a 150 minute hike in tropical ecosystem complete with spider monkeys and very large spiders.

Heading home to the snow in the Adirondacks.

Snowing on Whiteface

Winter and the start of ski season is on the way

Two fastest men in the mountains

http://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/article/mountain-climbing-racing-2015-10

A fossil telling tales

Reel Rock 2015 was terrific. If you ever get the opportunity to see the video of Honnold and Caldwell climbing the Fitzroy traverse – it's pretty amazing.

During intermission Gary was lecturing my young staff about how life was in the old days!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK ... jeff long

A gripping historical novel that tells the tale of the plane that went down in the Sierras full of marijuana and cocaine, and the climbers that recovered the stash. As I continue to peruse the mountain library I read the first five chapters of thus gem; very entertaining, but maybe a little overwritten ...

"It's easy for climbers to confuse the wild surge of biochemicals, tape deck tunes, and naked risk with the song of being."

The word on the street about Brian ...

Is that he has just added not one, but two of these mega-cams to his rack!

178 summits ... Black Diamond TV

http://blackdiamondequipment.com/en/bdtv-episode-1.html

NCS chicken harvest

Most of the day was occupied by the harvesting of our flock of "old layers" After a great life as free range birds, their low egg production means it is time to put them in the freezer. Hard work. The kids did really well.

No running, hiking, climbing, or kayaking on the agenda yesterday.

The Runner's High ... great article in the Times

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2015/10/07/homing-in-on-the-source-of-runners-high/?_r=0&referer=

Cal Topo ... amazing map for backcountry users

Incredible tool. Unbelievably powerful. It gives you a line sketch view of the mountains visible from any spot in America. Aerial views with topo line overlays. Measurement tools. Toggling between a vast array of map types. JUST TYPE IN CAL TOPO IN YOUR BROWSER.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK ... Eric Shipton

Perusing my recently unpacked mountaineering library I came across this gem, a book of essays by Galen Rowell. The book was bracketed - front and back - by two quotes from Eric Shipton's THAT UNTRAVELLED WORLD..

" I became less and less concerned with the mastery of technical difficulty, or even the ascent of individual peaks, but more and more absorbed in the problems and delights of movement over wide areas of mountain country."

Dolomites 2016

Dawn coming to Round Lake

Reel Rocks coming to the Adirondacks

Saturday, October 10 ...

http://youtu.be/mXNOTJFEBsQ

The 4k campus loop

Demise of summer skiing on Mt. Hood

Click here to read the article

Another great paddle on the lake