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Let me first state the obvious: last year’s winter (2013/2014) in the Pacific Northwest was a bizarre one. In December..
Stop going cragging. It’s an inefficient and overly-elaborate process if your primary goal when heading to the cliff is to..
Have you ever come up short on a rappel when you remember that you’d managed to make it before? How..
As climbers and climbing-gear buyers, we are accustomed to wading through marketing claims, weeding out hearsay, and determining the facts..
The Patagonia M10 jacket is their lightest waterproof/breathable hardshell. My production version of the jacket, in size Medium, weighs in..
The moment I picked up the Arc’teryx Nuclei hoody, I realized that Arcteryx had made my other belay jackets obsolete...
The La Sportiva Spantik is one of the very best cold weather technical climbing boots currently made. It is built..
The typical question: “I will climb Rainer this summer…next Orizaba, Kili, then Aconcagua! What do I need for clothes?” Here..
When I first saw these screws I remember thinking that their design intuitively made sense. Where other screws use a..
- [TR] Dhaulagiri - Life and Death on the 7th tallest peak in the world - Normal Route 05/20/2018 May 4, 2021Trip: Dhaulagiri - Life and Death on the 7th tallest peak in the world - Normal Route Trip Date: 05/20/2018 Trip Report: Intro This write up is my personal experience of our attempt to climb the 7th tallest peak in the world, Dhaulagiri. I brought my iPad along on the trip with the intent to […]
- [TR] Mt Hood - Elliot Cirque, The Raven - FA 05/02/2021 May 3, 2021Trip: Mt Hood - Elliot Cirque- FA- The Raven Trip Date: 05/02/2021 Trip Report: A claim of a first ascent on a mountain as popular as Hood must be precluded with the fact that it’s always very possible that a line has been done by a pre-internet team, or a team not seeking interweb plaudits... […]
- Spring Access - White River May 1, 2021The road status page for the park says that the White River Road to the campground is scheduled to open May 28th. I'm hoping to do a climb about a week or so prior to that date. What's the approach beta when the road is closed? Does it usually open open up at the scheduled […]
- [TR] Mt Hood Sunrise 4/18/21 - Pearly Gates Right Gully up, Left Gully Down 04/18/2021 April 29, 2021Trip: Mt Hood Sunrise 4/18/21 - Pearly Gates Right Gully up, Left Gully Down Trip Date: 04/18/2021 Trip Report: A couple weeks late but grabbed my second summit of Mt Hood! Good snow and ice with an ice axe and one tool I felt comfortable. The staircase with our warm April weather helped a bunch! […]
- [TR] Mt Shasta - Hotlum Glacier & subsequent ice gully, descent via Hotlum-Bolam ridge. 04/18/2021 April 26, 2021Trip: Mt Shasta - Hotlum Glacier & subsequent ice gully, descent via Hotlum-Bolam ridge. Trip Date: 04/18/2021 Trip Report: This was both mine and Jamie’s first climb in the Cascades Range, hence also our first glaciated volcano. We were stoked. It was an opportunity to test the skills and fitness accrued from recent training for, […]