Fossil Alpinism

  https://www.adventure-journal.com/2021/08/south-lake-tahoe-under-evac-warning-as-caldor-fire-marches-closer/ The small town of Strawberry...

Another good training week. With just three weeks until the 12 hour Pawling Train Run, I have only 2-3 more big days. This past week I logge...

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I bought a used copy - almost mint condition for $7.51 - with wonderful pictures, and a text that goes from Otzi the 5000 year old iceman to...

Francois approaching the finish line, running down the Main Street in Chamonix.  His time of 20:45:59 was blistering!

Well, the TDS, OCC, and MCC are in the books. Live coverage of the CCC (100k) is on my screen now. (The streaming link is below.) The first ...

I drove south four hours to do a workout on the September race course. The loop is about 1.7 miles, with one hill to climb with 160...

The MCC race (40k) for chamonix residents and volunteers has finished. The PTL has been going for 30 hours, and the lead team has already co...

I knew of his battle with cancer from reading Limits Of The Known.  As this essay enumerates, he was a prolific author and climber, as well ...

In between schmoozing with camp and school alumni (reunion), I did a three hour jog in the Moosalamoo Recreation Area (near Middlebury) on S...

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 Looks like it's made for old guys like me … https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXEgxsVb6o&feature=youtu.be

The Heroes Of Telemark is a WW II drama - relatively true to life - about Norwegian partisans, who sabotage and slow down the Nazi develop...

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2021/08/5-award-winning-outdoor-books-for-your-end-of-summer-reading-pleasure/

Sunday was a five hour workout: 60 min exercise bike warmup; a three hour hike; finishing with a 60 minute exercise bike cool down. As for ...

 Sitting down on the deck of the Fossil Cabin, I was sipping bourbon and browsing through my Alpinist collection.  The article in Alpinist ...

Well the US Biathlon Team has finished their summer trials, but in Cross Country and. Biathlon, no summer rollerski races matches the field...

Well Anton is back on the starting line next week. He has spent the last decade fighting injuries, and moving towards being a multi-sport m...

Amazon Prime has this excellent freebie … https://www.amazon.com/Steep-Bill-Briggs/dp/B001B7VUN2

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Nice weather, but a bit too hot and humid for my liking. Lucy had one good race at the biathlon summer nationals, and one abysmal shooting d...

This weekend I am heading over to Vermont to watch my daughter compete in, what functions as, an Olympic qualifier. She is currently ranked ...

 Well, some friends of mine have just spent some time in the Tetons. Not only am I jealous, but I am realizing it has been ages since my la...

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Sauna … the cool down… tai chi (parting horse's mane) … and a towel off with a souvenir from the Rally To Restore Sanity (organized by ...

Lucy had a wonderful few days re-connecting with college buddies. She had four great years … summa cum laude, phi beta kappa, ski team capta...

Starting to gear up for the September 12 hour event, so I am going shift to three long workouts a week. This week I managed three workouts, ...

The movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and it's sequel Sword of Destiny were based on the  Crane Iron  Pentalogy , written by  Wang D...

Coming to American theaters on September 10th … https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpVyzagXLQ

Over 40 years ago, I slept on the floor of this tiny refugio, before Richard Wilmot and I got up at 1am to solo the Sentinelle Rouge on Mou...

An excellent political thriller; and he quotes W.C.Fields as Congressmen and Senators are drinking during the day in their offices …. ...

She arrived from Bozeman this past Saturday. Lucy is here to attend her postponed 2020 college graduation, and to ski in the first of a seri...

Gearing up to run a 50k in mid-September.  I logged 16.6 hours and 3000 vertical this week.  I am trimming back vertical and increasing hour...

 If all works out, just 8.5 months before I do some Pacific Ring Of Fire skiing!  I am certainly not thinking of anything crazy like these ...

It's Owls Head, so a very short jaunt, but good to be on top of something, if only a small summit! For the past two weeks, I have ke...



 Well, as on the World Cup circuit, anticipate they will come from the Alpine countries … Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Germany.  Ho...