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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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- Paths Of Glory
- Shieldmaiden
- The Mountaineer’s Companion
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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 ... -
Another book - well thumbed - which I recently pulled off the Fossil Cabin shelf. In this fifty year old guidebook, there were more th...
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Actually, Mark picked me up in Reno at 3pm, and we were sitting on his deck in Squaw Valley by 4:30pm. A long - but not too difficult - trav...
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The week was marked by a change of weather, with almost every afternoon bringing us a thunderstorm. Still, there was plenty of sun - time to...
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A beautiful Lake Tahoe day, overnight low of 40 degrees, clear sky, sunny, and a high of 70 degrees go. Much of the day revolved around chec...
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Halfway through this training week, and have logged good cycling miles (just under 100k) and good vertical (over 3100'). Feeling good, a...
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A great time with Danny and Mark. They fished at Twin Lakes, while I logged 12.5 hours of exercise on 119k (84k bike, 30k run, and 3.5k ski)...
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- Tahoe Rim Trail ...
- Rainbow over our farm ...
- Rest In Peace Brian
- Full Moon Rising
- I was a chouinard guy; a piolet and ice hammer all...
- Getting used to the altitude
- Rory Bosio and the GR 20
- More beta about the ski descent of K2
- Accidents In North American Climbing ... a summary
- Skiing K2
- No details yet BUT skiing down K2 seems incomprehe...
- Book excerpt from the REI website
- Lucy and U.S. Biathlon Team
- Reading this blew my mind ... North Ridge of Latok...
- A red-eye and back in the ‘Dacks
- Alex Honnold's Brain
- Lily Barstow a pioneering women climber
- A small but active volcano in Guatemala
- Alpine oil paintings
- Fascinating spreadsheet ... going fast in the moun...
- Turning 66 ...
- QUOTE OF THE WEEK: from Anatoli Boukreev
- Back in the Adirondacks
- Lucy working on her biathlon
- Riccardo Cassin ... a hard man if there ever was one
- Medals for the Zermatt marathon
- Epic travel day
- Spectacular morning flying home ...
- Zermatt Half Marathon
- Sub alpine flowers of Zermatt
- Zermatt is flooding with trail runners
- QUOTE OF THE WEEK ... in Zermatt it’s wise to rem...
- Zermatt: what was I thinking?
- Running laps on the Riffelhorn
- Blatten
- The alps are rich in Christian imagery ...
- The Zermatt goat herd
- Fortifying the body for the 6000 foot descent ...
- Another long day
- OMG ... biking the Trift Gorge!
- Back at the Trift Hotel
- Not as scary as ...
- Zermatt: An easy day
- The Gandegg Hutte ... our favorite
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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')