Fossil Alpinism

Took Stash out on the 8k section of trail on the biathlon side of Mount Van Hoevenberg. Incredibly warm, and so I have started carrying this...

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From the webcam at Sunnegga, it looks like there is snow down to about the 8000 foot level in Zermatt. 

I got out in my big mountain boots, and went hiking around our crag loop.  On the back side of the loop I stopped at our crag and did some ...

Get psyched for your next trail run! https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=q8aPPOciosg

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Helping Lenny get ready for Zermatt, and I am trying to get him outside and off the treadmill. A bit over a thousand feet vertical and almo...

Top: View from Marcy Dam.  Middle: tired and back at the trailhead.  Bottom: View from the Plains of Abraham.

I would have loved to read something like this, back in the day, when the route was on my mind. Great article from the Uphill Athlete websi...

The Riffelsee, is a small lake at just over 9000'.  On the left edge of the enclosed picture you see the Riffelberg, the crag traditiona...

The director Werner Herzog is not everyone's cup of tea.  This 1991 film has English subtitles and originated in a suggestion from Messn...

With Lucy home, and me having made the transition from skis to trail running, Stash is getting a ton of exercise. Today he did a 6k run with...

Forty years ago last week, this dynamic alpine duo, were the first to climb Everest without oxygen.  This proved to be the literal and metap...

"You know you're in a Latte Town,"  Brooks observed,  "when you can hop right off a bike path, browse in a used bookstore...

A grand total of 63.6 miles, as you are biking from town, swimming across Jenny Lake, and running up Teewinot.  You have to eat a donut on t...

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At some point during your career as an alpinist it always involves some running for the aerobic base. During my years, I have run road marat...

Ever since I started to climb in the early 1970s, this route has been on my bucket list. After reading a story about the Schmidt brothers cl...

Except at higher elevations, the snow is gone, and spring has come to the Adirondacks. The crags are wet, streams are swollen, but some of t...

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/snowman-trek-movie-bhutan-culture-spd/

About every other week, the Adventure Journal website profiles an explorer/adventurer ... often people like this whom you have never heard o...

I think this may be the first link ever on this blog for Gentleman's Quarterly.  https://www.gq.com/story/patagonia-versus-donald-trump

I have grown accustomed to the reality, that I am not going to visit the Himalayan mountains in this life-time.  Given that, this short vide...

A great blog to follow ... the link below to a March entry mentions everything that ought to be in a coach's library. https://www.highpe...

https://gripped.com/news/ueli-swiss-machine-steck-died-one-year-ago-today/

I got home too late to ski today; but we got a foot of heavy wet snow yesterday and they rolled about 15k. I will be out there tomorrow.

Coming home from the board meeting in Manhattan, I stopped off at Glens Falls for a little exercise.

I just re-read Alpinist #16 in which there was an extended essay about the history of climbing on the Matterhorn. Now it's on to this fa...

How about a summer or winter climbing trip combined with some distillery visits on rest days? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/travel/isla...

A great day in the mountains! I skied to Indian Falls, while buddies skinned up Marcy ... I had to get back to work.

This upcoming trip reminded me of a Disney movie as a kid. The movie is based on the book BANNER IN THE SKY by James Ramsey Ullman. It is ...

Easy hike with Stash and a nice view of Cascade.

As always Uphill Athlete is a go-to website for training ideas if you rock climb, ice climb, alpine climb, ski, or trail run in the mountain...

This movie has not had its American premiere, although I am sure a screening will happen soon.  The movie can be streamed from Amazon UK. Pl...

This is the time of year for eastern die-hards to strap their skis on the pack and hike up to Tuckerman's Ravine.  It is also the time t...

A wonderful essay by Kelly Cordes, which reminded me of my winter trip to Scotland in the late 1970s with Jon Waterman and Jim Balog.