Fossil Alpinism

A rare moment indeed!  Jack young and Ben Ogden finished fourth and fifth.

I remember reading the 1978 Outside magazine, and saying "HOLY SHIT."  Over the years, I read all of the books cited, as well as a...

 https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/2025-sweat-science-holiday-book-list/

This started as a military patrol race in the 1930s between alpine troops.  It was revived after World War II, and eventually became one of ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rzlLT-je9jg

I logged 15.5 hours, on 134k (93k bike, 30k ski, 7k run, and 4k row), with just under 3000' vertical gain. I also managed 3 stretching...

We had snow flurries all day, which filled in the classic tracks in the morning, but yielded a couple of inches of powder, by the time I wa...

The tracks were a bit scruffy in places, but quite nice for early December, and the views were spectacular.

Doesn't get much better than this: some good tracks, bluebird sky, 21 degrees, and they continue to make tons of snow.

 Well, my doctor says that 48 hours after my knee injections - tomorrow morning - I can resume full training load … yahoo!  I was skiing at...

It's in German, but the story of the attempt to climb the Matterhorn is so well known you get the gist.  The story covers the race to...

Yahoo … looking forward to another great adventure with Lenny. The mid-week rainstorm was a bit of a bummer, however cold, snowy weather...

We were logging more kilometers on our two ski sessions. The big things we worked on were: getting up when you fall, and lots of step turn...

After sledding for 30+ minutes, it was time for his very first nordic ski lesson. He was psyched.

Warm temperatures and rain in the past 36 hours decimated the snowpack. However, there is enough coverage for some sledding on the small hil...

Lenny had a break from classes in Belgium, so he tracked me down in Zermatt.  I was living the true Dirtbag existence, bivying on a farmers ...

So I took this off the library shelf, because it's never raining in these vintage posters.

As per the last week of training, I logged 14:40 hours, on 149k (100k bike, 22k ski, 21k ergometer, 6k run), with a bit over 2300' verti...

I was away for a few days for the funeral for Sue Klinkow. She was a wonderful person, and long time spouse to "Klink" one of my c...

Yesterday I skied on the Whiteface toll road for 90 minutes. It was covered and skiable from the bottom gate … but it was pretty darn icy....

I have three types of warmups I do before I go skiing in the winter: 20-30 minutes on the exercise bike or ergometer, or 20-30 minutes with ...



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I logged 14 hours, on 146k (99k bike, 32k ski, 14k row, 1k run), with 3300' vertical, and one strength workout. On a different note,...

However, later in the day temperatures rose through much of the night, and rain diminished the snowpack. But, by this morning temperatures ...

This weekend, Finland is hosting a classic sprint, an individual start 10k classic, and a 10k freestyle. (The only two Americans I saw were...

A critically important World Cup in Park City the first weekend in December, will be one of the final deciding factors for Olympic slots.

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Between last night when the snow started, and dinner time on Tuesday we have gotten 5-7 inches of snow. We will probably get another few inc...

After reading this article, I am giving some serious thought to going to Canmore for Frozen Thunder, or maybe to Italy next year!   But, ...

Three days on snow this past week, although yesterday was just barely skiable, but I was out long enough for it to count in my official tal...