Fossil Alpinism

Guatemalan friends - NCS alumni - were visiting and wanted to ski despite the chill in the air. So, we headed out the back pasture of the ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JmVP1DcLrK0

Skiing 1k laps in our pasture at -9 degrees with our dog Stash. I was wearing an expedition parka I got at the big yearly EMS sale in 1972. ...

Does that make me a whimp?

http://mountainjournal.org/trading-away-wildness-for-tax-breaks

Burr, burr, burr ... -5 degrees but thankfully no wind. After Gary's lead, we did multiple laps. He likes his new cassin tools, but he ...

A beautiful line; a beautiful short video, but an attempt that despite helicoptering (?) to basecamp did not get too far.  https://m.youtube...

Showing little Jon my biathlon rifle, in our house on Spruce Hill in Keene.

This year we have a Charlie Brown tree from our farm. Lucy seems to have gotten over the flu, tonight it's going to be brutally cold, an...

I am always willing to take a look at what alpinists and ski mountaineers put in their repair or first aid kit. Here are the latest suggesti...

I skied for just over an hour on wet, slow snow. Nevertheless great to get out on the Ladies Five. Still scratchy on the holler sections.

No problem if you are one of Selden's clun forest sheep. 

1k laps in the pasture for Stash to get some exercise. The fat boards make a nice trench for him to run in.

I did some laps on Main Street, Flatland, Campground loop, and beginnings of the Ladies Five. The stadium is well covered with man-made sno...

https://player.vimeo.com/video/246815128

A particularly tough race in 1983, having missed the wax, I struggled mightily. Maybe when I retire I will grow that bushy bear again!

Amanda and Jon had a beautiful baby girl. Amelie is 7 pounds, 10 ounces.

Thus far, Lucy has had a couple of excellent time trial results with peer colleges. However, today's 1.3k skate sprint was the official ...

Those that have ice climbed, gone to Alaska, or done a ski mountaineering trip with me know the answer is FRUITCAKE.  This article excerpt l...

An engaging short essay, and a reminder that climate change is not a hoax. http://mountainjournal.org/eyeing-glory-in-a-time-of-climate-chan...

https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/top-5-takeaways-from-accidents-in-north-american-climbing-2017

since Friday, in Manhattan and D.C. I am looking forward to getting home tonight but it is snowing hard, so I may have a heck of a drive fr...

https://www.outsideonline.com/2201581/big-business-resist

This vast film archive takes your breath away! https://trailrunningnordwand.blogspot.de/p/the-trail-running-film-archive.html?m=1

Over the years, I have done less climbing and hiking in the canyon lands than anywhere else in the continental U.S.  The splitter cracks and...

Amazing steep skiing in the Alps. Jeremie Heitz goes big!  https://www.adventure-journal.com/2017/12/jeremie-heitz-goes-mental-steeps/

However, after realizing we would have to wade, swim, or canoe to the base as Chapel Pond has not iced over, Mickey led the Crystal Ic...

A great short video. I would go back to Chamonix even if I wasn't doing any big routes, hell as you can see,  just go to boulder!   The ...

https://vimeo.com/234772972 Come watch the Backcountry Film Festival, Saturday at 7 pm ... BYOB and its free!

I am often reminded here in the Adirondacks that our mountain landscape is not just beautiful but sublime.  A quick bit of history from W...

Hard to imagine not tossing them out of the upcoming Olympics.  Also hard to imagine that Putin did not know.  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/...

Taking advantage of terrific snow conditions, I did an all double pole workout which was wicked fast. Of course, lest my vanity get the be...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/world/americas/peru-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-hea...

Gary and his son James, chowing down after skinning up Whiteface.

http://mountainjournal.org/when-peter-pan-reaches-middle-age