CLICK HERE TO READ A SHORT ESSAY WHERE CHOUINARD WEIGHS IN ON THE RECENT CERRO TORRE BROUHAHA.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Skiing to the South Pole
One of the greatest ski racers of all time - Vergard Ulvang - skis 1300 kilometers to the South Pole to commerate the 100th anniversary of Amundsen's expedition.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
A fossil feeling his age
Just a comparative photographic record. After skiing 68 hard kilometers last Saturday, Lucy and her ski buddy Hannah, look like they just came from a walk in the park. I on the other hand, look like I have just survived Napolean's retreat from Moascow!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Training for ice climbing
Eisprinz - Chapter one (with Markus Bendler) from Berni Kogler on Vimeo.
This guy is a serious stud ... Trying to remember ... Back in the day did we ever work out that hard?
The Western States 100
My knees are shot, my belt size is too big, and I am not really running anymore ... when I was marathoning this was always on my hit list ... guess it will have to wait until my next life!
2012 Canadian Ski Marathon
Good conditions, sunny but very chilly weather (lows went from below zero to a high of 12 degrees), enabled us to ski 100k in six sections. The girls tied the 1989 NCS record for the most sections, however they broke the record for a single day ... 68K in four sections! Let it be known, that the coach, the Hockmeister, the coureur de bois was dragging by the end of Saturday's tour. Hannah and Lucy are clearly way stronger, fitter, and more technically proficient than last year. I recovered well, and thoroughly enjoyed the 30K tour that we did on Sunday.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
How to sharpen Ice Screws ... and I thought there were only two options send them out to a professional or buy new screws!
As most of my buddies, climbing partners, spouse, kids, and students will attest ... I am hopeless with mechanical objects. With the possible exception of working on my nordic racing skis, there is very little that I can do with hand tools. No doubt, with this "how to" video even I could manage to get tHe job done.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Self Belaying Essentials
Even though I use a soloist system when I self belay a top-roped rock climb, Petzl has performed a very useful service with their analytical essay. CLCIK HERE TO READ THE ESSAY, AND BE SURE TO WATCH THE SOBERING VIDEO AT THE END.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
My 50th Day On Snow This Season
I took some NCS students to race a paintball biathlon, and manged to ski about 10k while coaching. Lucy skied fast, however one of our students Sam cleaned all 20 targets, and came away with the best overall time. DESPITE THE CRUMMY WINTER I HAVE BEEN GETTING OUT.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Tuning up for the Canadian Ski Marathon
A nice 15k ski, including a lap on the Ladies 5k race course, and a trip up Harry's Hill in the picture. Hoping to log 100-120k next weekend.
Friday, February 3, 2012
American nordic women continue their fine season
All bundled up after the sprint in Moscow where the temperatures were just barely above the legal racing minimums. The gals finished 6-7-12-39th. Next up two World Cup races in Rybinsk. GOOD LUCK.
Avalanche airbag deployed
A PRETTY GOOD REMINDER THAT THIS MIGHT BE A GREAT NEXT PURCHASE FOR AN AVID SKI MOUNTAINEER.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
What a difference 24 hours makes!
Yesterday was superb Nordic and alpine skiing. I had a wonderful time with students at Whiteface, last night a chinook wind moved in, and as you can see we have standing water in the Olympic Nordic stadium at Mount Van Hoevenberg. UGH.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
High avalanche danger on Mount Washington
The enclosed photographs of Left, Odell's, and Yale gullies, as well as the Headwall are looking pretty alpine. It got me psyched to start thinking about a New Hampshire road trip.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Just back from Manhattan, and still skiing on the lake
A brutally long day that started with a 3:30 AM prep session for my board meeting, followed by 8 hours of meetings, a train ride home, and then a horrific car ride through a blizzard at exits 27-28-29, and an arrival home at 1:30 AM on Sunday. A snowstorm tonight means we will be back skiing hilly terrain tomorrow on the Olympic trails.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Winter Alpinism in Chamonix
Lesueur - Les Drus in winter (with variation exit) from Jonathan Griffith on Vimeo.
Climbing the Lesuer route on the North Face of the Dru. Ueli Steck is doing a "tune-up" for another Himalayan trip.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
January Thaw
To call it a January thaw is really a gross understatement, it has been just a crummy winter. Anyway, I am back out Nordic skiing on our lake ... Better than nothing but still a great disappointment.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Loppet training
With only two training weekends before the Lake Placid Loppet, which is then followed by the Canadian Ski Marathon, we tried to log a lot of kilometers the past few days. Conditions are hard and fast, with shallow squirrelly tracks ... You need to keep your wits about you on the big downhills.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
20K, 1000', and a great sauna afterwards
About skiing Fridtjof Nansen wrote:
I know of no form of sport which so evenly develops the muscles, which renders the body so strong and elastic, which teaches so well the qualities of dexterity and resource, which in an equal degree calls for decision and resolution, and which gives the same vigor and exhilaration to mind and body alike. Where can one find a healthier and purer delight than when on a brilliant winter day one binds one's ski to one's feet and takes one's way out into the forest?"
THE FIRST CROSSING OF GREENLAND
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