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Anyone got any trips or goals for the summer season? Let's share and get stoked!

I'm going to spend a week 2nd half of June with a good partner. We're going to see what the weather does before we pick a location... Rogers Pass, Canadian Rockies, Tetons, Cascades are all on the radar.

Then hoping to either go to the Sierra or Darrington for some (very different) granite climbing later in the summer. Hopefully a couple family trips with at least some scrambling, kid TRing, and hiking too.

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Other than something @JasonG and I are gonna do I’m just planning on repeating some classic scrambles/ridge hikes in the cascades and Olympics.  Probably do some bike packing if I can get to it, and canoe the Bowron in October and hunting in AK in November. 

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I didn't end up having the budget for my plans in Alaska this year, so I'll be spending more time in the PNW and Canada. I'll be in the PNW starting mid-May hoping to climb whatever subset of Curtis/Ptarmigan/Liberty ridge I could fit in/would be in acceptable condition, and then will spend early August in Squamish before heading to the Canadian rockies and hopefully climb the Kain face on Robson.

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On 4/9/2025 at 6:18 PM, olyclimber said:

Other than something @JasonG and I are gonna do I’m just planning on repeating some classic scrambles/ridge hikes in the cascades and Olympics.  Probably do some bike packing if I can get to it, and canoe the Bowron in October and hunting in AK in November. 

The Bowron looks cool! Where and what are you hunting in AK?

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On 4/12/2025 at 6:44 AM, mammothclimbs said:

I didn't end up having the budget for my plans in Alaska this year, so I'll be spending more time in the PNW and Canada. I'll be in the PNW starting mid-May hoping to climb whatever subset of Curtis/Ptarmigan/Liberty ridge I could fit in/would be in acceptable condition, and then will spend early August in Squamish before heading to the Canadian rockies and hopefully climb the Kain face on Robson.

What are you doing between the volcano alpinism season and Squamish?

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18 hours ago, bedellympian said:

What are you doing between the volcano alpinism season and Squamish?

I got a scholarship so I'm actually going to be headed to Norway for a few weeks to take a course in Norwegian. Past that, I'll be back home working and hoping to get in a lot of harder (for me) dry tooling in this summer.

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9 hours ago, mammothclimbs said:

I got a scholarship so I'm actually going to be headed to Norway for a few weeks to take a course in Norwegian. Past that, I'll be back home working and hoping to get in a lot of harder (for me) dry tooling in this summer.

Holy crap dude, congrats! That is cool I want to learn Norwegian in Norway!  Where do I apply? 
im seriously curious, though I’m past doing anything like that. What a cool opportunity for you though!

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On 4/14/2025 at 9:18 AM, mammothclimbs said:

I got a scholarship so I'm actually going to be headed to Norway for a few weeks to take a course in Norwegian. Past that, I'll be back home working and hoping to get in a lot of harder (for me) dry tooling in this summer.

So you're sending the Troll Wall on a weekend right?

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On 4/14/2025 at 8:39 PM, olyclimber said:

Holy crap dude, congrats! That is cool I want to learn Norwegian in Norway!  Where do I apply? 
im seriously curious, though I’m past doing anything like that. What a cool opportunity for you though!

Haha, thanks. There are summer programs at a few of the major universities in Norway, and then there are a few folkehøgskoler (sort of adult education programs, usually taken following "high school" level) which offer language programs if one has a longer period. A lot of the major universities have scholarships, and then past that there's scholarships through different Norwegian culture institutions in the US that have some scholarships. The subset of people in the US learning Norwegian is quite small, so a lot of these scholarships don't seem to be too difficult to get as long as one can demonstrate a fairly dedicated effort towards learning the language.

On 4/15/2025 at 1:34 PM, bedellympian said:

So you're sending the Troll Wall on a weekend right?

Haha, I wish. I will definitely be trying to take advantage of the beautiful nature as much as possible while there.

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