maxneale

Hi all, I wrote up some ideas for the best gear for Alaska's environment and climate and wanted to share it with you. The laying system may be of greatest interest. https://maxneale.blogspot.com/2018/11/ultimate-alaska-backpacking-gear-list-part-one-clothing.html Cheers, Max

If you're in the market for the best ultralight tent for alpine rock climbing, mountaineering, and backpacking, consider the Hyperlite Mountain Gear UltaMid 4. I've tested close to 70 different tents and this is my most-used favorite. Here's a detailed review.

Trip: 5-Weeks in the Brooks Range, Alaska - Date: 11/21/2015 Trip Report: Over the summer I was fortunate to spend five weeks on a hiking and packrafting traverse of the Brooks Range. 524 miles without roads or trails. Through some of the wildest country on the planet. Here's the trip report and short video.

Trip: Alaska - Cassin Ridge Date: 6/14/2014 Trip Report: My partner and I benefited tremendously from other people's Cassin trip reports. Partly in an effort to give back, I wrote up a report from our ascent this year. We found the route to be much more challenging than expected. When we got down Lisa, the basecamp manager, told us we were the only Americans to get up a technical route on Denali this year. Several of the more "exciting" parts of the trip were: when we dropped a tent pole into a crevasse, when my partner got hit in the arm with ice and had to climb the first and second rock bands with largely one arm, and when we he woke himself up from farting. (I'm sure his list of "exciting" highlights would be different.) The write up describes our time on the mountain and my difficulty exploring questions like "why climb?" Here's the trip report.