Fossil Alpinism

Another quote from HOW THE ENGLISH MADE THE ALPS. After the golden age of mountaineering, when all the major peaks were climbed Mummery set...

Any time a 19 year old gets individual coaching from a two-time Olympic, and eight-time World Championship, gold medalist you give her your ...

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2017/09/east-coast-isnt-just-place-mountainfolk-leave/

Lucy was sick all week, and while I urged her to scratch, she went out with the big dogs. Although she got dropped, she set a PR and finishe...

More than seven hundred million people get their water from 3 Himalayan rivers ( Ganges, the Indus, and Brahmaputra)  which are fed by snow ...

The Climb to the Castle ... 8k and 2500' ... Lucy was sick all week but we could not convince her to skip it. Similar time and...

This ten minute video drama packs a surprising punch!  Well worth a view.  https://vimeo.com/234677070

"Men lifted their eyes up to the hills to rediscover the the spiritual values which were clouded by the smoke and grime of the industri...

https://www.outsideonline.com/2199646/ten-types-people-you-meet-trail?utm_content=buffer861a2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter...

I am not much of a mountain biker - occasionally I ride the one mile to work - but I am a huge fan of SKIDA hats and headbands locally sourc...

This weekend 75-85 nordic fanatics - Olympic hopefuls, collegians, club and master skiers - will gather for a five mile roller ski race up t...

I will have to wait for my next reincarnation to run this event.  However, I would like to crew or volunteer, and so someday soon I am going...

Wow ... history of the parks, history of America, and the history of conservation and preservation, all rolled into four minutes. https://vi...

On Friday I had twelve hours in the car driving to, and from, a visit with major donors. I listened to some great podcasts from Alpinist an...

The leaves are turning colors and dropping; hard to believe given that we have not reached the autumnal equinox yet!

No doubt most of you fossil alpinists have smartphones in your pockets, and my daughter Lucy has turned me on to a variety of political podc...

With half of my climbing library in boxes for the past two years it was great to start unpacking them in our new home.

Now this is a truly novel idea, use a porta-ledge to open a cliff side shop, which raises awareness of critical issues ... Bravo!  https://w...

Always looking for new pearls of training wisdom; I visit this site regularly.  Having just done mountain races the past two weekends I was ...

Gold medalist in last year's World Championships (Lowell Bailey) and three gals on the US biathlon team.

When I was 16 I won a wrestling match, a week after my cast came off from torn ligaments. A recent study concludes that no doubt this early ...

So, sometime soon it will be time to take out your ski mountaineering gear and do some work to get everything ready for the season.  This li...

Excerpts from remarks delivered at the annual Guide's Festival in Courmayeur, Italy ... https://www.uphillathlete.com/the-future-of-alpi...

On a sunnier day, I might have changed shoes, put on dry socks, taken a few ibuprofen, guzzled and chomped some calories and kept going. Wit...

It doesn't get much better than this ... Smith Rocks in Oregon.

Given predictions for awful weather - 38° pouring rain and windy on the summit - I opted for the shorter distance. Good thing! A very techni...

I started heating up the sauna at 6:20 am, and came out gasping for air, just as the sun was coming up over the mountains. Sublime!

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Well there are four biathletes (two freshman who could not come today) on the St. Lawrence ski team. The US coach has agreed to work w...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rSX3mZ-NT0

Every runner, climber, and ski mountaineer has a spouse or girlfriend that has justifiable complained. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/we...

A large poster the college put up in the hallway at the athletic center.

Yesterday, 116 teams started the PTL,  a 6.5 day, 300k trek around Chamonix that includes almost 27,000 meters of elevation gain.  Four othe...