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 […]
Tag Archives: Castner Glacier
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 […]
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 […]
