Fossil Alpinism

She scored big time on this birthday ... Three books, a tractor hitch, and sawzall blades ... no dresses, jewelry, or fancy shoes for this ...

After the morning faculty meetings, but before the planting of the flower garden, I grabbed a couple of quick laps (5.6) on the NCS crag wit...

Back from my quick trip to DC, we were stuck inside all day with end- of-school meetings. I did sneak in a quick hike up Owl's Head befo...

A video of Salt Lake City nordic racers doing some skating workouts in the Wasatch during the last week in May, on the terrific Spring crust...

Check out the first on-snow camp of the new training year!

Here is another video to get you psyched for the upcoming alpine adventure. This summer is the time to build the training base, secure fam...

This last few days have passed in a flurry of very late nights, over-scheduled days, high emotion, and far too-litle exercise. In particula...

Any Fossil could have guessed the answer ... Single malt! Now an archaeological dig has confirmed what every Fossil surmised, the success o...

Two well-known Japanese alpinists climbed one of the unclimbed plums of North America. The South Face of Mount Logan in the Yukon is well o...

Despite a busy school schedule and lots of travel, I did manage to keep reasonably fit. For instance, I did some kind of exercise on 25 day...

Alex and Uli speed climbing The Nose on 5.20.10 from Chris Falkenstein on Vimeo . Uli Steck and Alex Honnold are in Yosemite Valley traini...

A recent new York Times article explored the significant growth in yoga facilities in Pokhara, as many travelers look to continue their yoga...

In this short video - slightly more than four minutes - Matthew Childs shares 9 Lessons about rock climbing that are also applicable to lif...

In the entire six million acre Adirondack Park there are only two women working as full-time rock and ice climbing guides. Nationally - and...

This short piece catches Gary climbing the face holds on the bottom section of "Unexpected." A dozen feet above Gary the nature o...

At 5.7 and overhanging, six consecutive laps certainly got me pumped and blowing off carbon dioxide! We also did laps on "Hock's B...

A quick break from work, as Gary was hanging out at his lean to for Memorial Day. We did 12 laps of easy and moderate routes.

Rarely do I include news from the business pages, however when two critical outdoor gear companies get bought out, that is news for Fossil a...

A bit out dated, and in need of tighter editing, this is still an interesting and valuable article for those who want to take their boards t...

While I lament what the retreat of glaciers in the Andes, Himalayas, and African mountains mean in terms of climbing, the real issue is that...

It's not set in stone, however Matt and I are closing in on some mutually agreeable dates in the Cordillera Blanca. This is a relativel...

Last evening I read a sample of "The Fatal Mountaineer," a biography of Willi Unsoeld. Much of this 30 page snippet was about the...

If you are not familiar with it, the website "Top 100 Climbing Sites," ranks all the climbing, and mountaineering related sites in...

It is hard to believe but the temperatures the past several days in the Adirondacks have gone above 80 degrees - unheard of really. Quirk of...

A former student of mine - NCS '84 - Charles and his family getting ready for him to ride off on a century charity ride, raising money f...

Lucy - along with all the other instrumentalists at school - had a recital last evening. She played a minuet from Mozart's "Don Gio...

I took another break from paper work, and this time I brought a rope and self-belayed laps on the crag. The 5.5 route, "One Taste,...

Just another plug for this great cultural resource. Enclosed is a link to a scholarly article about Tibetan buddhist thangkas, or pictorial...

This ten minute video follows Peter Croft and Conrad Anker as they climb "Solar Flare" on the Incredible Hulk. The Sawtooths are ...

I took a break from paper work this Saturday afternoon and hiked up to the NCS crag. I did ten laps of an easy 35 foot high problem called ...

I was reading the blog "Faster Skier" and I came across a pithy review of this book. A bit of research and it was immediately put ...

Now that Selden has cleared the rest of our property, the Fossil Cabin will be moved down hill and away from the other buildings so we can h...

After skking the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt next March, I am also hoping to do a climb in the Pennine Alps. My routes of choice a...

A couple of days ago, as Stegs and I were trading war stories, watching the sunset to the background music of ten bleeting lambs.

The weather was terrific, and just before dinner I did an hour of bouldering and yoga out by our yurt in the NCS sugarbush. This short vide...

This short video is to help you stay motivated through the summer, the 2011 Haute Route trip is going to happen. Stegs was sitting on my de...

Click here to access the article It is hard to get worked up about this, of course from the kid's point of view, it is probably easy to ...

"It's always further than it looks. It's always taller than it looks. And it's always harder than it looks."

Well, my summer schedule already seems pretty jammed with development office travel, and so I am not 100% sure that I can actually carve ou...

Not quite the revolution that Steve Jobs promised but pretty darn slick. I downloaded the Netflix app and before I could click my heels thr...

Larry has collected all the photographs from our alumni and put together a great Alta video. I uploaded a few pictures from my time out on ...

The weather is going to be gorgeous this week, and I hope to do a bit of climbing on the NCS crag every day. Yesterday I did three laps on ...

I have been talking to Matt - who has almost attained Fossil age and stature - about heading to the Cordillera Blanca. As always such conve...

On May 15, 2010 Jon graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh with a degree in journalism (a minor in literature). During his time at college he may ...

This is another French video of one of the routes that Larry and I climbed in 2008, the Traverse of Crochues. This is an easy rock ridge tr...

No doubt all of the Fossils have put their skis away for the season, everyone that is except Tori and Greg down in the Southern Alps of New ...

Have you gotten your custom-made 333 skis yet? I don't know how I got here, but I watched Michael Lisch's "How We Make Your Sk...

Due this summer, the full-length motion picture that features Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding recreating some of the climbing scenes of Mallor...

Steve House's blog entry about how he trains for his big alpine climbs. Not many fossils can keep up a regimen like this, but it is wor...