Fossil Alpinism

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Hock and Lucy with skins and ski mo gear doing the 3k, 300' loop around our ski hill ... Great for practice laps and training.

A must watch video, Werner Herzog's documentary about Messner and his traverse of Gasherbrum I & II. This was from back in the day,...

Lucy has just finished up her 8the grade earth science unit on the mechanics of snow. This course taught by Larry is equivalent to a Level ...

I took out the ski mountaineering gear to get first tracks on our ski hill ... Conditions were perfect as it snowed all night. Later in the ...

UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup in Champagny en Vanoise 2012 | Official Movie from UIAA - Mountaineering & Climbing on Vimeo .

Given the spate of avalanche deaths, and the knowledge that there is deep instability in the western snowpack, it is imperative that we refr...

It snowed most of the day, so after work I spent an hour skiing laps up and down our ski hill. Tomorrow we have another 6-10 inches expected...

From the time of Great Pacific Ironworks, on to the 1972 Chouinard mail order catalog (I still have a copy on my bookshelf), and now The Bl...

Gary was up to do some work on his cabin, so I left work earlier, and we did laps for a couple of hours ... No wind, warm, and soft plastic ...

Tracking the white reinder from hamid sardar on Vimeo .

2/20/2012 from ADKBCSKI on Vimeo .

Last night I just finished reading a early 1950s murder mystery/spy thriller. Many of you may know M.M. Kaye and her delightful novel Far P...

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State of the art mixed climbing on the Ben. Don't Die Of Ignorance, Ben Nevis, Greg Boswell on the second ascent from James Dunn Visual...

Nine births so far, and maybe 8-10 still to come.

CLICK HERE TO SEE HIS CARDIO WORKOUT ON THE NORTH FACE OF THE AIGUILLE DU PLAN ... BACK FOR LUNCH ... WHAT DID HE DO IN THE AFTERNOON?

Given that these are the worst avalanche conditions in the Rockies in over 30 years, there has been a significant amount of journalism devot...

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CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE SHORT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE LEGENDARY CLIMBING (AND SURFING) ROAD TRIP TO PATAGONIA IN THE LATE 1960s.THE FUN HOGS I...

In the 1970s, I broke countless pairs of First generation Chouinard rigid crampons. Stress fractures, but luckily no devastating consequence...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ... A must see video, about the revolution in the 1960s and 70s in the sport, through the eyes of Rick Wilcox, one of th...

CLICK HERE TO READ A SHORT ESSAY WHERE CHOUINARD WEIGHS IN ON THE RECENT CERRO TORRE BROUHAHA.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE NEW YORK TIMES SUMMARY OF RECENT STUDIES THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION: HOW LITTLE AND HOW EFFICIENTLY CAN YOU EXERCISE?

One of the greatest ski racers of all time - Vergard Ulvang - skis 1300 kilometers to the South Pole to commerate the 100th anniversary of A...

Just a comparative photographic record. After skiing 68 hard kilometers last Saturday, Lucy and her ski buddy Hannah, look like they just c...

Eisprinz - Chapter one (with Markus Bendler) from Berni Kogler on Vimeo . This guy is a serious stud ... Trying to remember ... Back in th...

My knees are shot, my belt size is too big, and I am not really running anymore ... when I was marathoning this was always on my hit list .....

Good conditions, sunny but very chilly weather (lows went from below zero to a high of 12 degrees), enabled us to ski 100k in six sections. ...

UKC/UKH at ISPO 2012 - Ueli Steck and Mountain Hardwear from UKClimbing.com TV on Vimeo .

THIS GUYS ARE FLYING UP AND DOWN THE HILL.

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The stuff we climbers do not talk about so much, click here to read "The Grand Delusion."

Click here to watch this short NBC video about Nordic endurance athletes and VO2 Max.

As most of my buddies, climbing partners, spouse, kids, and students will attest ... I am hopeless with mechanical objects. With the possib...

Even though I use a soloist system when I self belay a top-roped rock climb, Petzl has performed a very useful service with their analytical...

Should have known they had a Facebook page ... who is on for a summer Andean trip?

CLICK HERE TO SEE A RECENT CHAMONIX TRIP REPORT. NOTICE THE SHORTIES FOR THE DESCENT OFF THE BACKSIDE .... EVERY ALPINIST SHOULD HAVE A PAI...

I took some NCS students to race a paintball biathlon, and manged to ski about 10k while coaching. Lucy skied fast, however one of our stud...

Endangered Species OR from Bayard Russell on Vimeo .

Ice Climbing World Cup in Saas Fee 2012 | Official Movie from UIAA - Mountaineering & Climbing on Vimeo .