Fossil Alpinism

Well it seems that sunny weather, Mexican food, hotsprings, clipping bolts, acres of V5 problems, and long distance tours on nordic gear jus...

I was perusing my personal archival photos, and found this image from my first climbing trip to the Alps (click on the image to enlarge it)....

Brian and High Peaks Cyclery are sponsoring a Fall Adirondack Climbing Festival. (Click on the image to enlarge the font.) There will be ev...

Doing an easy bouldering session at the end of the day ... fantastic view of Hurricane.

One of things we are tossing around NCS - at the moment - is a 10 day March trip to the East side of the Sierras. The standard fun package ...

Click on the text to access a New York Times editorial about the continued evidence that tropical, and sub-tropical mountain glaciers are sh...

I only spent about 90 minutes at the crag, cheering on my students - alpinists in the making - as they cranked off lap after lap. I did fou...

Click on this text to access a superb collection of 1950s Teton mountaineering photographs, featuring: Chouinard, Lev, Gill, Read, Dornan, ...

It is not even October and our foliage is almost at its height, and the leaves are starting to fall. Morning temperatures have already fall...

No crag routes today. No grand alpinism, no summits, no red-points, and no third classing ... Instead today was chicken harvest. We had a ...

Click on this text to access this 15 minute video which has Steve House sharing his thoughts on all the gear he took up the Rupal Face. Some...

Very cool, a must do for Fossils and Fossils in the making. ... click on this link to access a couple of audio presentations of the dirtbag ...

Click on this text to access a link to an amazing 8 minute video of Steph Davis soloing Castleton Tower and the Diamond. Spectacular photog...

Today was the first weekend of the term and we had a dozen students spend a day cragging. In one of the photographs you can see Lucy workin...

Click on the text to access Patagonia's Recommended Book List ... it sure is a different kind of list ... very interesting. I have only...

Click on the text to read a review of Steve House's new book from the Boulder newspaper. I am only a couple of chapters into the book -...

This is Charles Bronson. He was born yesterday. Charlie is a 7/8 Jersey bull calf. His mother was 3/4 Jersey, 1/4 Holstein, but looked en...

A sad day for me, as I am hanging up the compass and straightedge for geometry class! I anticipate an even busier travel schedule this year...

Our children are arriving from the four corners of the globe. As you can see from the enclosed picture, it is September 13th, leaves have s...

Greg continues to mix work in the Arctic (notice the polar bear) with some climbing in the Canadian Rockies. The word on the street is that...

Out for drinks at the Lake Placid Lodge and a movie at the Palace. We are both cheap dates. Not that it comes as a surprise to me, but my ...

Former US Ski team nordic member, an early female member of The Ski To Die Club, and NCS Spanish teacher and ski coach - Lindsay - hangs it ...

Jake - a recent NCS alum - who is living the life, climbing and skiing full time, in between guiding gigs, has turned us on to righteous ski...

A short two minute video, set to the soundtrack from "The English Patient." The story line is simple ... Lucy is afraid of height...

Work continues round the clock to make sure that all is in readiness for when the Fossils converge for the Icefest. The garage is almost cl...

Click on the image to enlarge the photograph. A project at the crag with the working name of "Antiguan Liar" has NCS alum - Jake ...

As you can see from the photo (click to enlarge it), Adirondack temperatures are getting down into the low 30s. Before we know it, ice will...

A short (80 second) video with some Mozart in the background. A fabulous day was had by all ... MANY THANKS!

Hannah is on the 5.10 "Splitting Hairs," while Katie is leading the 5.6 "Hock's Blessing," and Greg is doing the TR ...

Today during staff orientation today we focused on our outdoor program. The faculty chose one of four trips to attend, and I spent a couple...

Enjoy this three minute video, with a soundtrack by Hot Tuna. Mostly I am just playing around, trying to learn how to edit things in iMovie.

Danny, your old buddies from Denali Matt H. and "Bear" said hello. I saw them at our recent school and camp reunion. Matt is jus...

Taken thirty years ago, the picture shows Hock and Michael at the stance above the Kor Roof on the Grade V, South Face of Washington Column....

Click on this text to access the link to a New York Times article which reports the results of a new study (British Journal of Sports Medici...

Perusing the Fossil library, I sat with Andy Goldsworthy's book - A Collaboration With Nature - a brilliant and engaging collections of ...

Since NCS will start school in two weeks, Lucy has started her training for the crag-a-thon. Here she is starting up on our indoor climbing...

Click on the text to access a link to an excellent five part series from the British magazine "Climber." The series covers the A-...

A major rock avalanche coming off Royal Arches in Yosemite has forced the temporary closure of this historic hotel. Click on the is text to ...

In the 1920s and 1930s German film producers began setting stories in the Alps with mountaineering themes, much as in America we developed a...

After work - having missed the fun with Larry and Dave - I spent 70 minutes bouldering and going through my yoga poses out by the yurt. Bac...

Dave and Larry had a great day on the Washbowl and King Cliffs. They did the two pitch "Partition" (a classic 5.8 corner), and th...

Gary was up again to help with the garage construction after which we went up to the crag. I did four laps on "Gynandamorph" (5.6...

All the NCS and CTT staff that are around have spent time in the garden these past two days, cutting tops off potato plants, in an effort to...

This short video captures Dave on the crux of a 5.10a at the crag during the NCS reunion. Beware the ratings at NCS are often a bit underst...

The NCS reunion closed with our hosting a small "thank you" reception for major donors at the prestigious Ausable Club. This priva...

As part of our five-day NCS reunion, I took Matt and Frank to Owl's Head to do a few short rock routes. This crag has a bald summit wit...

Click on this text to access an article in the New York Times about climbing the Dana Couloir in Yosemite. A pretty good article and an eve...