A Winter of Obsession Filled a Spring with Summits: Part 2
Still basking in the bliss of my March trip to the Deltas, I felt desire to go into the big mountains wane and fade. I entertained myself by crust skiing […]
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A Winter of Obsession Filled a Spring with Summits: Part 1
I’ve never been able to leave town to climb in the big mountains without more than a few day’s notice. The process of divining good weather, coordinating/coercing climbing partners, finding […]
Pioneer Peak
Vulture alpinism is the art of taking advantage snow conditions that are made good by another party. A hard bootpack is difficult to turn down.
Lucky Charms
I arrived in Valdez following a brief recovery break from my trip to Tolovana Hot Springs. Not knowing what exactly this trip to Valdez would entail, I brought everything, including […]
A Tour of the Eastern AK Range, Labor Day 2016
After finishing the last (night) shift of the project “Repave Denali Park Road”, my ladyfriend Phoenix drove my car north to meet me. I transitioned to day shift without sleep […]
Denali National Park, Summer 2016
I spent the summer of 2016 living at Grizzly Bear Resort on night shift for the project Repave Denali Park Road. There was not much to photograph at night, but […]
New Year’s Bomber Traverse
It seems like every time my group of friends has mutual time off, the weather turns to shit. This trip was no exception. Christmas was done for and New Years […]
Three Days, Three Mountain Ranges, 42x Zoom
I convinced a couple of Fairbanks AK Alpine Club members to slog up the Castner Glacier for a weekend. We woke up in a ping-pong ball and didn’t attempt any mountain, but the trip offered gorgeous views of the Matanuska area Chugach peaks, the Wrangells, the Alaska Subranges: Hayes and Deltas
The Nature of Success in the Mountains.
The Alaska Alpine Club holds a yearly tradition that serves as a graduation course of sorts for the spring mountaineering class. The students meet at 7AM sharp in front of […]
Gettin’ high in the Deltas: 4/20 Silvertip
Spring was once again upon the Alaska Range; school was winding up before the finals blow. I was to lead a mountaineering trip to Silvertip as it’s the only Delta […]
Journey to the Base of the Summit of Blackcap
Spring Break was upon us UAF folk. Galen had been playing the role of homeless climbing bum for a few months down in the warmer part of the US, but […]
RE-Forgiveness
The ice formation that lives far up Bear Creek, known as “Forgiveness”, is somewhat of a legend in the Fairbanks climbing community. In the unlikely year it forms, the line drips […]
A Typical Eastern Alaska Range Trip
Finals week in Fairbanks was filled with blue skies, sun, pollen, and little wind. Mount Hayes was visible every day that week. We planned to fly to that mountain the weekend immediately following […]
Silvertip in 23 hours
After seeing a slideshow put on by the Alaska Alpine Club Wednesday, Grant postulated the idea of doing Silvertip, a 9400′ peak, in a day on Friday. This particular Friday happened to […]
The Weekend after the FE Exam: Skiing Michael’s Creek and Attempting Item Peak
So, it’s been one week since I took the FE exam, an 8 hour intensive exam that is more important to engineers than their degree, and totally unknown to non-engineers. You […]
