Fossil Alpinism

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A spectacular event, and I plan to ski 100K with some of the NCS students. Stegs is thinking about it ... who else?

After the New Year's thaw we have had seasonably cold temperatures and a little bit of snow every night. As the screen capture shows, we...

Given her enormous lead from her incredibly even performance in every stage, Justyna Kowalcyzk won the Tour handily and became the first fem...

Norwegian nordic legend - Vegard Ulvang - does a video course inspection of this final stage of the Tour de Ski. The climbing speed, streng...

Think you are a stud, pride yourself on your fitness, think you are a good climber on skis ... check in tomorrow morning (link enclosed) to ...

Author Jon Karkauer may be best known for INTO THIN AIR, however EIGER DREAMS is my personal favorite. In this collection of short stories ...

Its time to step up the training. Make sure that on every weekend, at least one of your days is a long one ... 2-3 hours of aerobic enduran...

In the mid-1800s William Blake wrote: Great things are done when Men and Mountains meet, This is not done by Jostling in the Street. The enc...

A view from early this morning in Chamonix, at the Balmat square which celebrates the first climb of Mount Blanc. I suggest you bookmark th...

It seems that the West coast is being hammered by storms, and that the snow depths are astronomical. CLICK HERE TO READ AN INTERESTING ARTIC...

2008 Teams World Championship from skimountaineering.org on Vimeo . A short video to keep you motivated on your Haute Route training sched...

On the first day of winter term, while I was taking the Nordic team out on the Olympic trails, a bunch of our students were shoveling off on...

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First completed as a walking route, the High Level Route (HLR) was often done in the mid to late 19th century by members of British Alpine C...

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After a late afternoon sauna with Brian, Santa gave me the Black Diamond ATC Guide. Pretty exciting, and this video covers the all importan...

While there is no substitute for the real thing, and while I certainly do not feel weightless moving from hold to hold, and while I would su...

How have I missed this 2001 Boardman-Tasker prize winner? By Roger Hubank, the author of NORTH FACE, this historical novel of the Golden Ag...

Stegs and I had a great training day for the Haute Route on AT gear, which ended with gorgeous alpenglow on Cascade.

Excellent and very fast conditions out on the Olympic trails. This is the first iPhone picture I have taken wearing gloves, which as you may...

If you have never visited the Pimpin and Crimpin hysterically funny climbing site, it is worth a visit. Photo essays like "Twelve Climb...

Fueled by Selden's pecan pie I headed out for many laps on - and around - our ski hill. I was using mountaineering skis, lots of good ve...

I always wanted to do an expedition to the Himalayas. My goals were always two-fold, first to climb an 8000 meter peak and second to do a l...

I went out for a short ski with Brian and Holly before I headed into the office.

However, it was pretty chilly when Lucy and I went out on our skate skis ... About 5 degrees. Tonight we are supposed to get 5-7 more inches...

Barry Blanchard's list of his top ten favorite moderate routes ... Of course his idea of moderate may be a bit different from most. CLIC...

MERRY CHRISTMAS. I just finished an hour of laps up and down the NCS ski hill. Notice my special Santa visor hat!

In our house the best Christmas presents are always books. And while I always get some serious literature, if truth be told, it is the addit...

I saw this T-shirt while looking for last minute stocking stuffers ... HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

> As my college buddies - the D Phi Haute Route expedition - get ready to head into the mountains with our guides, gore-tex, hi tech AT g...

We got another five inches of snow today and Lucy and I toured around the sugarbush and ski hill just before dark. (She is standing in front...

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No doubt Santa is going to bring each fossil some more gear in the next 36 hours. Never forget, it was our antiquated gear that gave us the ...

As we gear ourselves up physically for the Haute Route, so too is there a need for mental preparation ... Glacier travel, rescue procedures,...

If you are looking for a last minute holiday gift from Amazon.com, try one of these three. A MEDAL OF HONOR by Olympian John Morton captures...

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During the Fossil Fest, the following routes were climbed: Pitchoff Right (multiple laps), Buster (multiple laps), Chouinard's Gully, Gr...

The fossils are headed home, although it was a nice morning to finish on. BD climbed leashless ... He's the man!

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I came back from climbing a bit early so I could fire up the sauna.

Another day with moderate temperatures and superb ice climbing. Of course with overnight lows around -10 degrees, the ice was pretty brittle...

Keeping the fossil anatomy running requires a delicate balance between sipping single malt in the cabin and massaging spastic muscles in Hoc...