Fossil Alpinism

Selden and I went out with Alison to New Vida Preserve; great food and great views. On a different note, heading to Killington tomorrow ...

Selden and I are going to Chamonix in the fall for our 40th anniversary, so I will get a chance to do a few of the easy runs. https://alpsi...

 https://explorersweb.com/gunther-messners-second-boot-returns-to-reinhold/

   https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=xG4zAPpcpchhdcO7&v=gB7L97axQYE&feature=youtu.be

It won't last too much longer, but this was hard to beat!

Unfortunately, warming trend will quickly dispatch the recent foot of new snow. As a matter of fact, at 6am this morning it was 41 degrees.

TRAINING FOR THE UPHILL ATHLETE has a terrific amount of useful information for trail runners, alpinists, and skimo racers.  Of course, it ...

The return to winter brought another good training week. I logged just under 16 hours, on 124k (80k bike, 32k ski, 12k run), with 3750' ...

Well, it's 2 degrees this morning; with a big bright full moon, and despite the storm underperforming, it looks and feels like mid-winte...

A great organization to belong too, with a superb digital archive, and a magazine you look forward to every other month. The cover art is f...

I just did my PT and two sessions on the exercise bike before and after several hours watching these folks cruise down at 80+ mph. I had a g...

This is an ad from Mountain #27 (May 1973); I still have two of these packs, the expedition model with beefy snap on side pockets, and the ...

In addition to the 3-4 inches we got in the past few days, more is coming.

Terrific conditions; hard pack base with two inches of powder on top … it was glorious. Today will be my 100th day on snow this season, and...

 https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/the-end-of-ice-climbing

Last week I logged over 16 hours, and just under 4400' vertical, on 127k (91k bike, 20k ski, and 16k run). I also managed four PT stretc...

The next is from my hour-long workout on Sunday, at the Mount Van Hoevenberg World Cup competition trails, next door to our farm.

The first is my 1.25k warmup on Sunday with Stash, around the perimeter of our farm's pasture.

 Fantastic 20k race, with a dominant performance going wire to wire!

 https://runthealps.com/blog/best-ski-mountaineering-boots-pierre-gignoux

 

This video will help you get back into the swing of things after a long winter of skiing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=eSD3TleoK45EZ2Ec...

A backcountry skier died in a fall this week in Tuckermans Ravine, and then this death out west. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/oreg...

Ski tour on the Whiteface toll road.

Snow accumulation continues to underperform; although it certainly looks and feels like winter. With Mount Van Hoevenberg off limits due to...

However, the storm has underperformed so far, hoping to pick up a few more inches tonight. 

I continue to add some transition activities into my training. Although I hope the potential winter storm this weekend out performs expecta...

A cultural history of the changing way humans have viewed mountain landscapes over the past 300+ years.  It was shortlisted for both the Bo...

It's early March and there are not even patches of snow in our cow pasture!

 This of course has promoted new marketing opportunities in terms of "last chance tourism." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/tr...

The ski season is not over, but the collegiate clubs are having their nordic ski championships at Mount Van Hoevenberg, and so exercise opti...

Yesterday's data point was about precipitation - basically rain - and todays data point is for warmer than normal temperatures. So, we a...

My soft tissue, foot injury - from last week's race - is slowly getting better, and I was able to do a 50 minute ski session without i...

A short overview by George Pokorny found while perusing some old issues of the British Alpine Club Journal. (I have many of the volumes cite...

This is a multi-generational saga, starting with "Sir A" one of the founding members of the British Alpine Club; over the next 10...

A postcard from Chamonix, depicting guides and clients heading to the Col de Geant. I am looking forward to my trip to Chamonix with Selde...

I am reading a few chapters of this - quite academic - book  by Arnold Lunn on the internet, but mostly just enjoying the reproductions of ...

The Glass Summit, is the newest edition - autographed - to my alpine library.

Any time the evening before a race, you get an email suggesting race volunteers wear nanospikes, and racers go into their basement and dig o...

A Herculean effort by the staff to pull this race off. With three straight days of temperatures in the 40s and then two nights of zero ...

Some great photos from Jimmy Chin on Everest, and a gripping account of skiing down the Lhotse face of Everest. (This is the face that the ...

I grabbed the first lift, and had wonderful corn snow for an hour, which rapidly turned to slush in the next half hour. Still, the best mor...

 A wonderful ski but suffering these past few days of sun and mid-40 degree temperatures.  

I think it's been a couple of seasons since I skied this iconic 1980 Olympic race course.

Of course, hopefully the forecasted warm weather, will still allow this race to proceed.

I had a good time last year. 

 Now streaming on Prime Video and AppleTV following its theatrical release, follows three Lake Tahoe-based women on a hilarious quest to wi...