Fossil Alpinism

We ended with a day at Eldorado Canyon doing the classic Bastille Crack (III 5.7), and afterwards we did the 5.10+ Northcutt start. After t...

We finished up in the park with a pre-dawn start to do the Kiener's Route on Long's Peak. Danny bailed at Chasm Lake, and the rest o...

After a day of climbing at Lumpy Ridge we headed off to the backcountry, with the first stop being the North Ridge of Spearhead. Brian and ...

After hiking out in the pouring rain from Spearhead, we dried out and spent another day top roping 5.9 - 5.11 routes at Lumpy, and then got ...

Great rock, great setting, and a great day for our two fossils. (Click on the picture to enlarge the photo.)

The Dana Pillar which includes the "best 5.9 pitch in the universe" high up on the route. (Click on the picture to enlarge the ima...

This superb route (#33 of Gaston Rebuffat's 100 finest) is best started from the Torino Hut. Back in the mid-1970s our South African fri...

Over 30 years ago, Hock, Mark, and Danny met in the Municipal pool in Chamonix. The Aiguille du Geant is a 4,000 meter peak within spitting...

NCS kids are all climbing leashless with hot new Black Diamond gear!

Hock giving the rock a shot.

Hock and Larry running laps on "Buster" and the rock slab to its left.

Our horse packer and his daughter. Peru is an amazing place to climb. The weather is fantastic, the ice routes of staggering beauty, only a...

The day started out like a blizzardy day on Ben Nevis in Scotland.

Gary and Larry putting trim on. Almost ready for the fossils to move in.

An article related to all the research he was doing at the Palamino Club (Click here)

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About 14 months ago Hock and Brian spent a great day of moderate climbing in the Gunks. We did "Junior" (5.9 top rope), "Laur...

Hock and Brian - at last year's Fossil gathering - finally finding some ice, high up on the side of Mount Washington, in Huntington Ravi...

The Nordic skiing is great and the ice routes are even better.

Gary and Selden started the day at -5 degrees, with the a high today reaching a balmy 13 degrees. For the discerning Fossil you might reco...

This is going to be a great place for Fossils to hang out ... comfy chairs, climbing mags, sleeping loft, single malt, wood stove, excellent...

Mark, Michael, and Hock leaving their Yosemite campsite to head up the South Face of Washington Column (V 5.9 A2). Check out the high-tech, ...

Several summers ago, Mark, Danny, Hock, and Kevin (an inductee in the Order of the Friends of Fossils) climbed the West Ridge in a 16 hour d...

I am not dead, I have only become inhuman: That is to say, Undressed myself of laughable prides and infirmities, But not as a man Undresses ...

Fossils sharpen those tools and give Danny one more call.

This a picture of the Kor roof on the South Face of Washington Column. It was the scene of Franklin's freakout in the 1970s, as well as...

This past summer Ewing bagged the Northeast Ridge of Bear Creek Spire again. In the 1990s this was the scene of a fossil outing starring Da...

Brian - Doctor D - hosted us at his house in Provo, and among other things we did The Great White Icicle

Hock clipping bolts in the Gorge, on the way to his first place finish in the Spring Fossil competition.  Who will score the most points in ...

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Selden is painting the door as I write this posting!

This is my proudest moment, the Sentinelle Rouge on the Brenva face of Mount Blanc. I did this route in 1977, over 5,000' vertical (righ...

The first Fossil Icefest was held back in our youth. In 1979 Mike Brochu, Michael Franklin, and Hock climbed this classic New England test p...

An unknown and unpublished fact ... Michael and I did a new route on the face just above the "W" in west buttress! (To make the pi...

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