Fossil Alpinism

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RayznZfgDp8  

However, it was another good training week: 17 training hours, 4800' vertical ascent, 133k (93 exercise bike, 40k run), 2 strength and 2...

If you listen to podcasts, this series is awesome. It will eventually encompass 18 episodes and a book release.  I have listened to the fi...

Maybe if the storm over performs, I'll be able to ski the upper 3-4K of the toll road tomorrow. 

Good race footage, humorous cameos with Kilian, and of course, spectacular scenery. https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=nB5JPh5yja0c3W61&v=I...

Next week temperatures will drop to more seasonable levels, but it has made for good hiking weather.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/well/move/skiing-injuries-workouts.html

I have two novels by Roger Frison-Roche, and North Face In Winter by Toni Hiebler, about his first winter ascent of the 1938 north face rout...

Needless to say, I am looking forward to getting back to the Alps. Selden and I just made reservations for a week in Chamonix next fall for...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=G_aNuzAi8ioalFco&v=O2Uc4o8y2Ng&feature=youtu.be

Looking like the next ten days will bring below normal temperatures; so I assume snow making will begin, and if we get precipitation at lea...

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Selden has our car to make a trip to see grandkids, and then do some historical research in southern Connecticut.  So, it looks like I will ...

On December second will host the Mountaineer Backcountry Ski Film evening.

On the drive towards Jay Mountain Road, where a did a couple of laps with a 15 pound pack for a muscular endurance workout.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=ajHc8Al5F_gGuYJm&v=SDWeKa-VKEQ&feature=youtu.be

Lucy and her Pine Tree Power Campaign are entering the final weeks before the election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/19/m...

Great photos and interesting stories, especially concerning hiking and climbing. Also, some great photos of mountain landscapes by female ar...

 https://www.climbing.com/people/stonemasters/

TACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS: Given that we are old geezers, I would argue two old farts, out for a long day in the mountains do not really have...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/well/move/shoulder-injury-prevention.html

The foliage is well past its prime; chilly and raining mornings the norm, with occasional dustings of snow above 4200'. Likely, I'll...

 https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/limits-of-ultrarunning-research/

 The season starts for the big boys and girls in just over one month.  This weekend the U.S. team finishes a two week camp, with a couple o...

 Well earlier this week I joined the club - I was a member back in the late 1970s and early 1980s - but it seems that in my sunset years I ...

A reminder that while climate change creates huge long term issues for civilization in the coming decades, it creates risk assessment issue...



Hard to imagine anyone trying to break this record.  However, the video has some nice scenery and it gets you psyched for the winter to come...

when I climbed the Black Dike with Mike Brochu and Michael Franklin eight years after the first ascent, it was still considered a hard test...

This morning, on the summit of Whiteface.

This important article, by Yvon Chouinard, was also reprinted in his seminal book CLIMBING ICE a decade later. It recounts the first Americ...

From Monday through Friday, the warm fall weather continued, and then on Friday evening came the downpour. My training got back on track af...

 https://youtu.be/iG_VOlgeksM?si=6s7orTUm8MGDL-OZ

Seems like bull crap to me! https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/everest/guinness-revoked-reinhold-messners-8000er-record-that-w...

Given our age and relative decrepitude, we will be certainly be looking at less technical routes. I suspect this probably means third and f...

Since late May I have had two delightful trips to the Sierras. Obviously on both trips, the main focus is spending time with Mark (also dr...

 http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12197129900/Coming-of-Age-Ice-Climbing-Developments-in-North-America

I logged 11.5 hours, with 85k (60k bike and 25k run), 3400' vertical, five yoga and single strength session. Another nice week coming up...

 It's been too many years since my membership has lapsed, but I am realizing the benefits are well worth it now: library privileges, re...

Sam, Lenny, and Hock along with two other guys from the wedding party took a 90 minute stroll on the new Mount Van Hoevenberg competition tr...

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/climate/arrow-glacier-melting-norway.html

 A fantastic podcast. https://m.soundcloud.com/americanalpineclub/climb-the-10th-mountain-division-and-the-evolution-of-climbing-after-wwii

The "Dog Bone Hill" on the 1980 Olympic biathlon trails is in full of color.

I logged just under 11 hours this week, on 59k (30k run and 29k bike), with 6650' vertical ascent. My body seems to be recovery nicely f...

The picture was taken 250 meters from my finish, having tagged the summit four times. I managed just under 5000' vertical feet of ascent...

And the leaves are turning here in Lake Placid.