Fossil Alpinism

After a late-1970s winter trip to Scotland with Jon Waterman and Jim Balog, I have never been back.  It was a memorable, even dazzling trip,...

Read the short essay, watch the trailer, and see the schedule of showtimes at your local Patagonia store. https://www.adventure-journal.com/...

Back in my relatively youthful days (35-40) I helped coach for the U.S. Disabled Ski Team, which is now called the Para-Olympic Team. I m...

A mixture of ultrarunning and mountaineering. I have done the Anaoch Eagach Ridge in winter, and it is quite exposed, and of course the ridg...

https://elevation.alpsinsight.com/

Good general advice on overuse and trauma injuries, on one of my favorite websites.  https://www.uphillathlete.com/dealing-with-injury/

Sam gave me two tickets to the premier of Free Solo, which I then passed along to Manhattan Trustees.  (Unfortunately I had to head...

This short video about three mountain mamas spending the summer trail running in Chamonix is sure to get you fired up. Amazing scenery.  htt...

This past weekend hiking up Mount Van Hoevenberg, I snapped this picture of Whiteface with the leaves starting to change on the last officia...

ONLY IN SWITZERLAND DO YOU SEE GRAPHIC NOVELS ABOUT SKI MOUNTAINEERING!   The  Patrouille des Glaciers  (PDG) is a  ski mountaineering  race...

Well our Fossil Club numbers are dwindling, and over the next few months I will try and post some memories of our time together with L...

It was thirty degrees this morning and they have fired up the snow factory to get it ready for the upcoming season. Stash and I ran a lap of...

Stash and I ran on the Olympic trails to a wooded spot on Dave Steckler's property where the students teamed up to build a variety of st...

http://footlesscrow.blogspot.com/2016/11/mountain-painters-and-shan-shui.html

https://americanalpineclub.org/library-blog/2018/3/27/the-ice-axe

A spectacularly beautiful little video. https://vimeo.com/289341363

A good and well balanced article; it is particularly good in reminding us how to be safe vis a vis heuristic mental traps.   https://www.out...

Stash and I got out and about before it was too hot. We hiked from our back pasture over to the Ladies 5k and to the summit of Mount V...

Thinking of climbing ice this winter drove me to read four chapters in the definitive northeastern climbing history - YANKEE ROCK & ICE ...

A wonderful, and quite literate, British blog about all things connected to the mountains ... adventure, history, art, literature, and the e...

https://www.outsideonline.com/2342051/how-i-learned-to-care-about-ultrarunning-utmb?utm_content=buffer0f3d0&utm_medium=social&utm_so...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7VIirVTLz9g&time_continue=93

Well at 66, I think the bigger dangers are strokes, heart attacks, cancer and turning into a couch potato!  

Next week I will start from our farm, which will make it an even 15k and 1500' vertical. The route is: biathlon trails to the stadium, f...