Fossil Alpinism

Being a bit of a bumpkin, I thought J.M. Turner on painted oil seascapes. Little did I know; a short and delightful article from the 1979 Al...

https://www.uphillathlete.com/max-vo2-myth/

Heading home from NYC ... had some extra time to see a great exhibit on the sixties at the NY public library. However, even though only mid-...

A wonderful book review of Steve Swenson's Karakoram, on one of my favorite websites ... Footless Crow.  Another destination that will p...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKry2_qh71PKKnNgbwLr_2z7u7mvIkx4IcZXZDUJuOi2qbj9d_4tJctvGRk0LamqXjpjGwXEY1M6rw0XzAs4t0QFR0FQDQ&time_...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/climate/glacier-collapse-avalanche.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/FZ...

An important essay in the Mountain Journal which begins with a Teddy Roosevelt quote ... " When they call the roll in the Senate, the ...

A hilly, out-and-back, 2-3k run on the dirt Old Mountain Road, that I often do just as it is getting dark, with our puppy Stash. It is just ...

This short, and quite funny, piece comes from one of my favorite rags, Mountain Journal.  I have read Gretel Ehrlich's stuff ...

Obviously the Alps are an option, but Canada, Colorado, Washington, heck maybe even the Andes are options too. https://www.rei.com/blog/snow...

Today Lucy raced a 5k classic and finished 27th out of a field of 83. She was the top St. Lawrence skier, and she earned 7 points toward an ...

Unfortunately, I have my college ski mountaineering buddies coming up to the "dacks that weekend to ski Marcy and the toll road. I also...

https://www.uphillathlete.com/hut-to-hut-ski-touring-gear-list/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/opinion/sunday/keep-our-mountains-free-and-dangerous.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fsunday

I read this terrific Ed Abbey book many years ago.  Given what the new administration is doing in the southwest, this short essay remarks th...

I think not!  I will try and cover news and views more faithfully in this blog moving forward. It seems that these groups should be in the f...

Many thanks to the Mountaineer store in Keene Valley for bringing back Steve House. His Saturday slide show was awesome, and although I have...

Well below freezing when we started, it was probably a balmy 3 degrees when we headed back down.

Yesterday's 5k classic was cancelled, as the temperatures in Maine did not drop until late in the day, and so it was not firm enough for...

What else can you say about our first trip to Alaska in 1979 except it was a debacle: Don (NPS mandated foursome) was a whimp and slow so th...

A fun little video; it reminds me that you do not need a permit to Nepal, a flight to Patagonia, or Alaska to go on an expedition ... hop ...

Blow my mind, a few days ago it was -29 degrees and today it is 47 degrees! Please, please, please let's not lose all our snow.

In the mountains they are often dangerous, a pain in the ass, and something to be avoided, definitely not admired. However, this short video...

http://mountainjournal.org/montanans-central-to-radical-trump-agenda

Google books has many years worth of this magazine online. Well worth a look.

"All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create." I found this gem in FREED...

Gary and his son James skinned up this trail built in the 1930s by the CCC. It was one of the Class A race trails on par with the Nosedive ...

Read the full article ... https://books.google.com/books?id=SlgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=Nansen&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis1Jfxt...

One race was cancelled because the high temperature of that day was -15 degrees. She made the team, and the day this picture was taken, th...

however it is going up to a balmy +6 degrees this afternoon so I may take a sauna then.

Fifty minutes breaking trail in wind blown snow using AT gear.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKrs8Xrbom3OWGn1roCgneqvxCnf-uKcKl16f-QPgelQSy4u6gODgjzKSK2MbnlEGHkAmEjHiD0ZaIqmSrDfYE8CNA3M8Q&v=5RK...

As a slightly fanatic climber in the 1970s and 1980s I certainly followed some of the exploits of these top Polish Climbers. I also heard s...

Larry, our earth science teacher, is starting his first day of the snow physics unit. Essentially this six week course is the equivalent o...

Elizabeth Coxhead's rationale for climbing: " A sport is advanced by the handful of people who do it brilliantly, but it is kept sw...

An engaging essay, although how many people can manage the epiphany of a retreat in the Pyrenees, to manage this insight?  It does make me w...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bbB3dKUqK4Q

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?