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Hock on the 5.7 "Razor" Pitch
Selden and Gary getting ready to frame the cabin
Fossils on Ishinca (18,500')
A bunch of old guys still enjoying the mountains, and the training they need to do to get off the couch
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- Paths Of Glory
- Shieldmaiden
- The Mountaineer’s Companion
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Another book - well thumbed - which I recently pulled off the Fossil Cabin shelf. In this fifty year old guidebook, there were more th...
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Given my background as a nordic racer, as tradition demands, yesterday was my first day of the 2025-2026 training and racing season. I had...
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I had a good chat with Dr. Byrne, who 15 years ago 'scoped my right knee. After checking me out, looking at the pictures, and hearing ho...
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I just pulled this interesting anthology off my shelf; published in 1966, I opened it to one of the final essays, written in 1928 by Kather...
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Last week was a wet one, and while I made the best of it, I was disappointed to only get out on the MTB twice. That said, it was a producti...
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YAHOO … finally a spectacularly beautiful day. I took Selden and Alison out to the Grand Adirondack Hotel for a big breakfast. Then came ...
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Selden and I drove just east of Glens Falls - about two hours away - to look at, and test drive several lightly used Subaru cars. Many hour...
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- Leaves are turning
- The Next Generation
- Chongo and Yosemite Valley
- Adapting the Stove for Winter Conditions
- Laps on the crag
- Article: Fossils on Denali
- A Quote from BD
- Loading Up
- The Fossils in the Palisades
- Surveying the Glacier and Moraine
- More Trail Work
- Hock Weekly Totals:
- Working the land!
- Trail Work
- Tenya Peak
- Leaving the Mountains
- Comparative Grades:
- NCS Crag: comparative Routes
- Top of Crag
- The Rumor:
- Next Summer?
- Dreaming of Peru ...
- The project
- Tori again
- Did You Know?
- Alpinist 25
- Friend of Fossils
- Peru: Ishinca Valley
- Another 30 year-old shot
- Almost Thirty Years Ago Today
- Getting Ready for Ice Climbing
- Hock's weekly totals:
- Friends' Weekend
- Lucy's new horse
- The man, the myth, the legend!
- Three Years Ago
- Alpine Art
- New Route: "Buried Treasure"
- Donkey for sale: $500
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Important Climbing And Skiing Website Links
Aiguille de Gliere
Hock on the 5.7 "Razor" Pitch
Hock's best. What were your Five biggest and best routes?
- South Ridge of the Gliere
- North Ridge of the Grand Teton
- North Buttress of Middle Cathedral
- Sentinel Rouge on Mount Blanc
- Black Dike on Cannon
Hock's handful of could have, would have, wished I had, and still hope to do routes!
- West Face Tocllaraju
- North Face of the Matterhorn
- Black Ice Colouir on the Grand Teton
- Cassin Ridge on Denali
Fossil Clubhouse
Selden and Gary getting ready to frame the cabin
Cordillera Blanca
Fossils on Ishinca (18,500')