Tillman and exploratory mountaineering

Footless Crow is an amazing website ... Take a look ...

http://footlesscrow.blogspot.com/2016/12/bill-tilman-turning-page-once-again-on.html

Three days in Manhattan

1. A generous gift of theater tickets to see Hamilton which was awesome.   2. A long series of trustee and committee meetings on Friday.   3. An important and very productive board meeting on Saturday, followed by a goodbye dinner for Kurt and then a Camp/School reunion ... aka the Gowanus Getdown in Brooklyn.

Not much sleep, and I was glad to get home for a long nap on Sunday afternoon.

Athlete Of The Week

Hopefully Lucy will have a good 15k skate race tomorrow.

Trump and Climate Change

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2017/01/trump-orders-epa-delete-climate-change-website/

Blast from the Past ... 2004 ice climbing trip

Adirondack Backcountry Ski Festival ... put it on your calendar

March 3-5; thanks to the Mountaineer!

Harry K. Eldridge Memorial Race

Lucy will get her name inscribed on the cup for the best junior performance in the two day race series. The award is being presented by Betty Eldridge former co-Director of NCS with her husband Harry. Betty is also the daughter of our school's founders.

SLU College Carnival ... just a short section with Lucy

This is the Friday 1.3K classic sprint.  Lucy qualified in tenth, and then was knocked out in the quarterfinals.

If your car is buried in an avalanche take a selfie!

http://www.tetongravity.com/story/news/avalanche-buries-car-on-highway-89-in-ca-men-post-buried-alive-selfies

Skining up Whiteface

On both Saturday and Sunday we did Dawn Patrol trips up Whiteface.

An excellent start to the carnival season

Hoping Lucy has another strong race!

The college carnival season kicks off at 9:30 am with the 1.3k Classic sprint qualifier. Lucy is seeded 21st and goes off just after 9:35 am.

Lucy's first college carnival starts tomorrow!

Beautiful footage of the Grand Teton in Winter

http://www.tetongravity.com/video/adventure/grand-teton-national-park-aerial-reel

Lucy crushes the skate sprint

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rYVlbBAis-o

College Carnival Season Coming Up!

After today they will start to arrange the Olympic Stadium for the first college carnival race of the season. Saint Lawrence university is the host, and Lucy seems ready to go.

South Korea getting ready for World Cups to test the 2018 Nordic Olympic venues

One of my former students is over there and reports a light winter like much of the Alps ... as we know here in the East snow making has become a must.

Dawn Patrol and Sunrise on the Whiteface Slides

El Presidente send us some pictures of Snowmageddon!

http://www.tetongravity.com/story/news/snowmageddon-2017-whats-happening

Pushing papers at my desk ... this is looking pretty attractive right now

So Brian, have you bumped into this guy yet?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wn9umlQMbU&ebc=ANyPxKqxbdS9ZWRbP6PiuiUgJWYlNSTO9xdrjUqsw9yASLliXnsMy-tcGWFEFLkSY-rVwVXanmjadqywZRDMDsl4O0ils96E1g&time_continue=113

ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST ...

A long day in the mountains, about 6-8 years ago on a Fossil Ice Climbing Weekend. Let's do it again; maybe Brian will invite us all out and we can climb in Ouray!

Lucy punched her ticket ...

She won both Mid-Atlantic junior national qualifiers pretty handily this past weekend. Lucy and her buddy St. Lawrence buddy, Jackie went 1-2. The Junior Nationals are in Lake Placid from March 3-11.

BLAST FROM THE PAST ... fossil ice climbing a decade ago

Brian is always well prepared.

Dog sledding on Mirror Lake

Brrr ... its cold

I went for a short easy jog on old Mountain Road this morning; beautiful day but pretty chilly.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"A lot of people from big cities are moving into spiritual towns like Sedona and Telluride, where they can be Themself and get in touch with the Earth. A good spiritual town should have some Indians within 100 miles and good skiing or mountain biking within ten. The stores should sell turquoise bracelets and cappuccino, and there has to be a place to hook up a modem."

I THINK LAKE PLACID QUALIFIES IN EVERY RESPECT EXCEPT SELLING TURQUOISE BRACELETS!

Great day for American Nordic skiing

Jessie wins and Sadie gets third ... Check out the Ski Vinnie website, Stage 5 of the TdS ...


https://m.youtube.com/user/ClassicSkiTrack

Brian, if I come out can we plan a trip here?

https://www.wildsnow.com/21424/opus-hut-review-ski-touring-colorado/#more-21424

The Gunde Hat

Just in from an easy run, and Selden yelled, "you are wearing your Gunde hat." Swix just released a retro version of the hat that the Swede Gunde Svan wore in the 1980s. During our early years I never went anywhere without it. I also jokingly suggested that we name our first child – if it was a boy – Gunde.

Walking the dog!

BLAST FROM THE PAST ...

Doing a very early repeat on Mount Katahdin with Jon Waterman. Colder than any day I had in Denali, with old school gear ... Carmen super gaiters, double leather boots, Chouinard piolet and alpine hammer, as well as first generation gore-tex and pile clothing.

Fossil Climbing History ... Chapter Two

Many of the slides did not transfer to digital very well, so the image quality is not as good as we would want. Nevertheless, Alaska has been an important stomping ground for the Fossil Club.

https://vimeo.com/198057023

Chapter Three will be out soon, and it will cover Fossil Ice Climbing trips in the Northeast. HAPPY NEW YEAR.