Short Reports 2024
TODO: missing a nice ski day with Josef and Kyrille. Zischgeles March 3, 2024 Standing on Zischgeles, looking across to Schöntalspitze. A scene at the ...
TODO: missing a nice ski day with Josef and Kyrille. Zischgeles March 3, 2024 Standing on Zischgeles, looking across to Schöntalspitze. A scene at the ...
Timo had a day to climb, and me too! The only climbing I did this year, before the CDT hike, was on the Kopfkraxen in ...
To go back to days 150 and before, click here . 86.5 miles, 12,570 feet elevation gain for the New Mexico section. I didn't create ...
To go back to days 144 and before, click here . 102.3 miles, 13,700 feet elevation gain for the section. The text below refers to ...
To go back to days 139 and before, click here . 131 miles, 8,500 feet elevation gain in total. After our dinner at the Miner's ...
To go back to days 128 and before, click here . 154 miles, 25,100 feet elevation gain in total. 62 miles and 10,415 feet elevation ...
To go back to days 116 and before, click here . 205 miles, 28,600 feet elevation gain in total. First 50 miles and almost 11,000 ...
To go back to days 104 and before, click here . First, 65 miles from the CDT detour (trail was closed for the summer) to ...
To go back to days 90 and before, click here . 228 miles, 38,600 feet elevation gain. The short discontinuity is because of a hitch ...
To go back to days 82 and before (from 2022), click here . 108 miles, 25,000 feet elevation gain (Google is reporting less than my ...
Many of these pictures are from Timo. If the filename begins with timo then it is his! After the great climb of Opa Highway , ...
Helmut suggested a climb of "Opa Highway" on the Kopfkraxen (link to the always good Bergsteiger.at topo ). We were driving south of Munich by ...
Really nice hike up the Seinskopf. I tried this hike a few years ago but got a terrible headache on the way up and returned ...
A nice hike from a parking lot a bit above Partschins. It was raining lightly at the start, but amazingly, the day turned out fine. ...
Here are reports of two more long weekend trips to Bolzano in February and March. I kind of went there a lot! The greatest thing ...
Weather was terrible for the weekend in Germany. And I just couldn't get excited about the snow conditions in the mountains. I guess they were ...
Hohe Asten December 30, 2023 Hike with Barbara and Sammy up the Hohe Asten. Sammys first mountain day. The car suffered for it...! Wildbarren and ...
Ilmspitze Klettersteig (August 3) The glorious Ilmspitze, my route right on the ridgeline. On the Ilmspitze, looking back towards Habicht. Habicht from the summit of ...
To go back to days 79 and before, click here . 40.7 miles, 6292 feet elevation gain. July 9, Day 80 First a walk on ...
To go back to days 69 and before, click here . 69.2 miles, 13193 feet elevation gain. The text for this section is quite similar ...
To go back to days 57 and before, click here . June 17, Day 58, 21 miles 20 miles, 7175 feet elevation gain. Day 58, ...
To go back to days 53 and before, click here . 68.5 miles, 16363 feet elevation gain. This entry includes lots of text verbatim from ...
To go back to days 45 and before, click here . 126 miles, 23271 feet elevation gain. June 5, Day 46, 8.5 miles Escape from ...
To go back to days 39 and before, click here . 78.9 miles, 18968 feet elevation gain. May 30th, day 40, 9 miles With the ...
The slope was covered with flowers which shook continually in a light breeze. It went down a long way and ended in a winding and ...
To go back to days 21 and before, click here . This section had 1 food resupply in Cuba, all sleeping on the ground. 154 ...
To go back to days 8 and before, click here . This section had 2 food resupplies, but I never slept in a bed. I ...
To go back to days 4 and before, click here . 52.5 miles, 7371 feet elevation gain. The text below covers the same events as ...
83 miles, 4595 feet elevation gain. The text below refers to the same events as the blog entries " end of day three " and ...
I wrote more about this trip on my CDT blog , but here are the pictures: ...
Thursday After sleeping in the van, I drove another hour to Obergurgl for my goal for the day: Hochfirst. I skied up through the ski ...
Friday We skied up the Kreuzjoch from the road just before the Kühtai skiing area. I mistakenly thought we were at the saddle near the ...
Friday There was an unsually warm day, so of course we went climbing! Parking at the Martinswand, we headed up for "Rucola," a great 7 ...
I did four great days in the mountains, first two alone, then two with Barbara. The avalanche conditions in Tyrol were quite bad. All the ...
Wildbarren December 31, 2022 I hiked up Wildbarren on a fine day, certainly too warm for the season. I met an amazing couple on top, ...
A great climb of Hochnissl in new hiking boots! With new poles, and a new pack too! Wow. Very fun. Looking to the north and ...
As snow begins to blanket the mountains, I'm on the lookout for remaining snow-free south faces that conserve precious sunlight and allow me to pretend ...
Fresh off the trip to the Garda Lake with Barbara, I headed back out to the Loferer Mountains for a day trip. Bad weather would ...
Barbara and I drove down Thursday evening. We had two terrible traffic jams, uff! But we enjoyed talking so it was okay. Friday morning we ...
After a great conversation with Danno, I quickly drove home and packed the van for a short adventure. I drove down to a rest stop ...
Barbara and I climbined "Sommer, Sonne, Sonnenschein," which we'd done before in 2017 . It would be my first multipitch climb since the accident in ...
The day after the Schladminger High Route , I had just enough energy to consider a climb of the Dachstein. As it turned out, it ...
3 weeks post-surgery, I was ready to try out a multi-day hike. I also felt the end of summer approaching. The Schladminger High Route was ...
I bought a used mountainbike for 170 euros. The man selling it had done a great job restoring it. I think the frame is from ...
I spent a couple nights in Bad Gastein, managing one pretty big hike. I had fantastic weather, and it's a beautiful place. I stayed at ...
Timo and I had a fantastic day in the Zillertal, hiking up the Rastkogel and down a meandering ridge. We had about a dozen different ...
With a day of good weather, and newly lasered eyes , it was time for a hike. I wanted to get up high in Austria, ...
Day One I took Mantra out for a couple of days of vanlife and hiking, as the weather was just too good. I had an ...
I borrowed Barbara's bike "Red" (her fathers bike) and pushed and pedeled up the steep gravel road leading to the Vereiner Alm and the Krinner-Kofler-Hütte ...
I made a long hike starting from Oberaudorf, travelling west over the Großer Traithen, thence down and back up to the Soinsee and the Rotwand ...
Wendelstein December 31, 2021 Last day of the year! Barbara and I enjoyed hiking up Wendelstein from Bayrischzell. Wet, rotten snow higher up. On the ...
Post accident, I'm starting to feel like it's possible to hike for a bit. This time I made it rather too easy on us! By ...
Well. It's been tough to write about this. It's been almost half a year since it happened. I wondered why it's taken this long. I ...
Update: I noticed that on hikr.org there are several great reports on the Strahlkogel written in German. For example here and here . I added ...
Rowan, Barbara and I hiked up from the parking lot at the Rofan Seilbahn. Soon we were at the Mauritzalm. Rowan went to get a ...
Jong and I were both beat from the previous days activities, but with a decent chance at a good full day before the rain started, ...
Georg and I drove to Italy, hoping to climb in Arco. Day one was rainy, so we gingerly stepped out of the car on the ...
Barbara and I changed our goal at the last minute from something in the Dammkar to the Alpspitze when we saw the lift was open. ...
Jong and I went to the Buchstein and climbed this old favorite route. I guess it's the third time for me! Jong climbing the second ...
Jong and I climbed the MaMa-Kante (V+) on the Kreuzwandspitze above the Dammkarhütte today. Our peak, the Kreuzwandspitze is on the right. Our climb. Note ...
Jong and I climbed " Logic Line " on the Schärtenspitze (2153 m).. The conditions were cold and cloudy, but happily it didn't rain! The ...
Day One Saturday, Jong and I snowshoed most of the way up the Vorderes Sonnwendjoch (2224 m), making our high point 100 meters below the ...
Osterfelderkopf, ~1400 meters up and down on skis Georg and I set off in light rain/snow mix from the Garmisch ski area. Almost immediately, snow ...
Barbara and I set out on snowshoes just above the parking lot. It was a first for her, and that was fun. She started laughing ...
Thursday We drove away from Munich, hoping to find a ski tour on the way down to Sand in Taufers. We were: Georg, long known ...
Buchstein (partial) December 30, 2020 Hiked up to the ridge crest at the Buchstein. About 700 meters up and down. Wildbarren December 23, 2020 Hiking ...
Somehow I forgot to write this up, and remembered it in 2021. Anyway, on this tour I met my buddy Jong for the first time. ...
We hike up to the Buchstein on a nice Sunday, setting a fantastic pace. We passed lots of folks, only Rowan seemed a bit tired ...
I also posted this at Summitpost An early start Funny thing was, my backpack custom loaded with just the right gear was already in the ...
Saturday Barbara and I drive down in the afternoon, taking the way through Kitzbühel and the tunnel to Lienz in order to see more scenery ...
I hiked up the Birnhorn, having never visited the Leogang Mountains. 1800 meters up and down. I quite liked the steep trail up the south ...
We drove down to Susch and stayed in a little hotel where we each had a bed. We ate dinner in the hotel to keep ...
In 24 hours of hiking, we cover 70 kilometers and 2000 meters up and down. "That's a really moderate pace -- 3 kilometers an hour?" ...
I slept at the car and started walking at about 4:30 am from the Oberissalm (~1740 m). Wonderful and lonely climb up a beautiful valley ...
Großer Bettelwurf I hiked up from Hall, following the klettersteig on the west ridge to the summit, then coming down the (normal) south ridge. What ...
Sunday Barbara, Mara and I hiked up the Spieljoch from Maurach. It was good fun, though we were both tired. She had a headache all ...
Gab arrived from Montreal to do some work in V8. We spent the night at my place and started early for the Martinswand Saturday morning. ...
Since moving out of the city I'd wanted to walk through the local forest, which impressed me very much. I've since learned it's the largest ...
Lämpersberg December 29, 2019 Extremely beautiful out here. Gorgeous powder snow. One annoying fall where my ski came off and slid about 50 meters down ...
Hochiss Saturday I drove to the mountains, intending to hike up the Sonnjoch, but the road from Pertisau was closed. So I made do with ...
Barbara and I finally fulfilled a long-time dream to hike up the Rettenstein together. Her grandfather had been up here many many years before, and ...
Orizzonti Dolomitici , 5+, 10 pitches Silas and I got up rather late, being tired from the drive the night before, though we had a ...
The Dibona Route, Grosser Falzaregoturm, 10 pitches, V+ We decided to climb the "Dibona Route" on the Grosser Falzaregoturm. At 10 pitches it was of ...
Update : Uli added his own thoughts on the climb below, too. Only a day after Vaclav and I climbed the Riegelekante I was back ...
Update: Vaclav offers a report in Czech at the end of my description below, and just for fun, a hilarious translation of the Czech back ...
Introduction I had about two weeks, and having already done the whole Green Via Alpina trail in 2017, I decided to get some portion of ...
We drove down Friday morning and decided to do some sport climbing on the slabs under the Hexenstein. Really fun! But it seemed we had ...
This was a really enjoyable weekend. I hiked up from Flirsch, gambling that I wouldn't really have to deal with snow on the North Ridge ...
I hiked up the Geigelstein, and then went back down to the saddle between the Geigelstein and the Breitenstein. Then I went up the Breitenstein, ...
NOW are we there? Barbara, Chris and I climbed the Anfaenger Freude route (5+) that we'd done 2 years before, this time with Chris. Barbara ...
Timo and I suddenly had the day to climb! So we did. First up was " Maxl's Gamsrevier (7-) ." I'd never managed to get ...
Vaclav is a funny guy, though alarmingly conscientious. "Let's climb outside Saturday, on the Martinswand!" I said. The weather forecast was finally good, after a ...
Peter and I snowshoed up the Hoher Fricken. Man, it was not easy! The snow was very warm, so we sank extremely deep. The final ...
Lampsenspitz It turns out I really enjoy winter these days! Lots of snowshoeing and skiing, and today just continues the trend. I skinned up from ...
It had been a long time since I'd done a good old fashioned ski-tour in my old stomping grounds, the Sellrain. But now was the ...
Stanser Joch I took the train to Jenbach Friday night, where I stayed at the Gasthof Rieder . It's on a hill about 25 minutes ...
A lonely hike in a quiet forest...so quiet my ears hurt. I had snowshoes, and from the town of Eschenlohe I thought about taking a ...
Lamsenspitze December 29, 2018 I made a quick ski tour up the Lampsenspitze (2876 m). It's probably my fifth time up there! It's just a ...
Playing around In the car, Barbara laughed, which surprised her. She'd felt really down the whole week without knowing why. I don't remember what I ...
We are pretty eager Kannst Du Barbara finden? Rare and wonderful event: Barbara and I both had a full weekend, and good, dry weather was ...
A long weekend in the Cinque Torri Barbara, Chris and I went to Cortina to climb. The weather forecast was rather depressing. We arrived Friday ...
Just walk. Then keep walking. Accept the stupidity of this. Sleep and do it again. You may find a kind of heaven on earth. Three ...
The Narrenkopf I had a day free to hike, and wanted to do something pretty long. I decided to start from the town of Rietz ...
The boys and I stayed in the Westfalenhaus Saturday night and climbed the Schöntalspitze Sunday. On the way down, we followed a trail to Praxmar ...
Dristner from a distance Me and the boys stayed in Dornauberg for 5 days in a Ferienwohnung . Mostly I let them take it easy, ...
Barbara and I took the lift up (free for me on Father's Day!), then abseiled down to the start of the route. Seven fun pitches ...
A view to the still-snowy Wilder Kaiser. We had some really cold and snowy weather here at the end of April, and it's stayed unseasonably ...
On the first pitch It was time to hit the rock again! Barbara and I had one day before the rain started everywhere, and the ...
I hiked up Wendelstein. The last part to the summit was tedious, but all good. Then I drove over to Fischbachau and hiked up to ...
Hoher Fricken December 26, 2017 I had the day free to hike, so I took the train to Eschenlohe with my snowshoes strapped to my ...
Elijah and I spent 5 days in the Seiser Alm. It was a fantastic trip! Langkofel from our place Spaghetti for dinner Near the Hexenbänke ...
Cloud Sea at the Ackerlhütte Here she comes Between light and shade Girl working Above the lower cliffs Another great day with Barbara. We left ...
Barbara and I did a really, really big hike, up the Grosses Ochsenhorn. One of the highest peaks of the Leoganger Steingebirge, it required a ...
The great slabs of the Alpspitze Barbara and I had the day off and the weather was great. I recommended we climb the "KG Weg" ...
Steve, Ever and I climbed the Kasnapoff Route on the Second Sella Tower. I drove down to their campground on the south side of the ...
Our first climb What the hell was it like here in WWI? Speaking with the Gods We are having fun Thursday Barbara and I went ...
The boys and I completed an amazing 6 day traverse of the Ankogel Mountains at the start of their school vacation. We had a lot ...
It was time for Barbara and I to do a big, big alpine climbing day together. W00t! I wrote about the trip on Medium here ...
I decided to hike up the Bettelwurf on this fine day. On the way, I wasn't sure how to reach the Bettelwurfhütte, but I knew ...
I was looking for a good first alpine climb to take Barbara on. She's super eager to climb, but she doesn't have technical skills yet. ...
Into the Soierngruppe Me and the boys spent the weekend at the Soiernhaus. I'd never been into this group, and was a bit daunted by ...
Bayreuther-Hütte I wanted to introduce Barbara to a longer hike, so we headed to the Brandenburger Alps to climb some south slopes above the Inn. ...
Barbara and I looked at the weather and Zams was our best bet. We drove down Wednesday night, and hiked over for a look at ...
Markt Schwaben November, 2016 I decided to make the 27 kilometer (~17 miles) walk out to Markt Schwaben. What an adventure...I'm back home now, my ...
I did a solo hike up the Zugspitze via the Höllental Klettersteig path. I had full mountaineering gear, because it had recently snowed a tremendous ...
Riki, Claus and I hiked up the Ackerlspitze one fine October morning. It was beautiful and much fun. ...
Rowan and I hiked up Olomana on a very hot day. My gosh, it was fun. What a wonderful son. We had ice and water. ...
Ben and I hiked up the Hochkalter on the first day of August. I remember we talked about esoteric philosophy and mysticism, topics that within ...
I decided to try and repeat my long multi-day in one day hike in the Stubaier Höhenweg from that cold summer day in 2006. However, ...
Voldöpper Spitze panorama Jakob and I are planning a long hike for later in the summer, and figured we'd better do some hiking now to ...
Timo and I drove to the Allgäu Mountains, and the town of Oberstdorf. We would climb the North Face of the Rubihorn by the "classic" ...
Josef, Benoit and I headed to the mountains for a ski tour. It would be my first since getting new skis and skins. I'd tried ...
25 miles on snowy roads... I was keen to walk to Bad Tölz, but I wasn't sure if I could handle the enormous distance. It ...
Wallberg March, 2015 I snowshoed up the ski trail of Wallberg in fresh snow. That was fun, but I wish I had skis for the ...
Danno on approach The Innsbrucker Huette Looking down on the hut On Habicht's flanks On the summit scramble Danno and I had a day to ...
Long ridgetop traverse I wanted to go out for a father son day just with Rowan, and chose the Innsbrucker Klettersteig as something to do. ...
Pitch one Thomas and Julia, old friends of Georg, came visiting from the north country. We decided to climb Octowasunn (7-) on the Vorderer Karlsspize. ...
Looking up at the route Elijah hikes to the wall Rowan is whistling! Elijah with Smarties Here is my troop The view to the east ...
I made a small movie about the hike too: Day begins in rain The Kogelsee Flo near the Kogelsee Studying the Kogelseescharte One of the ...
The line of Jubilaeumsweg 2000 Georg and I had a rather disappointing time in the Western Alps, making due with an attempt on La Meije, ...
Le Meije looking wintry Georg ready to climb! Enjoyable but exacting scrambling Wet rock didn't help Michael and glacier Careful routefinding required! Georg on the ...
Aussois Girls hiking Lac de Plan d'Amont I was tired of waiting around for good weather to climb, and was ready to surrender to the ...
It was great to see Pete again! I drove to Geneva, a little worn out by heavy traffic around Zurich, but my spirits were restored ...
Elijah walking Below the Lappacher Joechl Unsettled weather Kris hiking to the pass Steep hike to the pass Looking to the Weissenbachtal At the Lappacher ...
Below the Kaindlhuette Georg and I planned to go climbing for the weekend but the weather forecast didn't support it. Drat! It hasn't been a ...
Change of plan The weather was amazing, and somehow I couldn't find a partner for the mountains. Also, Kris needed the car to take the ...
The Sonnjoch Kris, the boys and I planned a weekend stay in a hut. The weather was not great Saturday, so we took umbrellas and ...
Lane, a friend of Wayne's on sabbatical in Europe, and very keen to go climbing, came by for a couple days. It was great to ...
Update : Riki wrote a very nice report of her own with all kinds of climbery feelings and stuff, see inline! Update: I discovered that ...
Robert and Goran came to the Dolomites with that sage of the mountains, Fred Beckey. We did a family trip in the Selva Gardena valley ...
Here is a little video : It was strange to be back in the Pfitscher Valley for the second time in less than three months. ...
Here is a little video : Benoit and I had been planning to go on a climb for quite a while, finally the opportunity arose ...
Georg was looking at the weather for the weekend, and saw that our long run of sun would end everywhere by Saturday afternoon. Thinking quickly, ...
Hoher Fricken December 28, 2014 Nice snowshoe hike up the Kühflucht. Near the top, I met another party and I helped them out by making ...
Danno and I had the day free, which was cool, despite a somewhat miserable forecast. "Be prepared to hike in drizzle!" we told ourselves. Among ...
Hannes and I had planned to get in some rock climbing on the last day of good weather before a storm system arrived. We changed ...
Also posted to Summitpost.org here The day before Something neat about the Watzmann Ostwand ("east wall") is that it starts at the same elevation as ...
Also posted to Summitpost.org here . Recovery from defeat A day after an attempt on the Peterey Ridge, we tried to figure out what to ...
After the climb of Mount Maudit with Peter, Georg and I drove back east to climb the Lagginhorn by the North Ridge (AD, III) , ...
Also posted to Summitpost.org here . West to Chamonix Georg and I crammed my car full of gear and set off for the western alps. ...
Also posted on CascadeClimbers here The Dolomites - Three fun climbs with Steph TLDR; Me and Steph Abegg climb the Comici on the Salamiturm (5.9, ...
We'd been hiking for more than an hour when it became obvious we were on the wrong trail. Our objective, a shining white cliff high ...
Ever since reading some billowing prose about the beauty of this climb, Hans Duelfers Meisterstuck, I wanted to climb it. In 2006 Josef and I ...
I had to use up some vacation days from 2012, and a bigger plan fell through, so I ended up with 5 "loose" days. The ...
Saturday the boys and Sergiu and I went to the Wilder Kaiser "Skiwelt" for a day of downhill skiing. This was great fun, especially because ...
Georg and I got to spend the weekend climbing ice in Val Gardena. I'd always wondered about ice climbing in the Dolomites, and apparently they've ...
It's been a rough winter. I had a cold at least 4 times since October, but finally seem to have worked through it. My new ...
Kramerspitz December 8, 2013 A snowshow trip up Kramerspitz, going the easy way past the meadow up and down. I had to break trail from ...
My former neighbor Riki had been trying to climb up the Elmauer Halt for more than a year, enduring bad weather, trips with folks who ...
I had a bit of time to go for a hike before picking up Kris and the boys at the airport. I had to get ...
PART II. Part I is here Also posted to Summitpost.org here What next? Georg approaches the Valsorey Hut I took a different approach with this ...
Also posted to Summitpost.org here Magnesium "Do you know how much money you will save?" she said again, waving the jar of Magnesium crystals at ...
Georg and I planned an ambitious day, hoping to use every ounce of daylight for a big climb! Alas, just like the previous weekend, a ...
Georg and I were planning a weekend o' fun mountain climbing, but the weather turned out to be rainy everywhere in the alps. We decided ...
My old friend Aidan was in town for an interesting filming project. We went to the Dolomites and had time in between work on the ...
Kris, the boys, Cesar and I drove down to Val Gardena for a short June vacation. Cesar would stay for a few days to finally ...
Also posted on cascadeclimbers.com here . Hi all, some of youse may remember me from the old days! I try to come around when I ...
The day after climbing Hochferner, there was a change of weather that meant it wouldn't be good to climb ice faces. So we diverted to ...
Basti, Georg and I drove down to the Pfitschtal in Südtirol Friday evening. We got some pizza for dinner in Sterzing, then drove up to ...
Danno and I had a full day to go hiking, which is unusual for both of us. It's been an unusual spring, with lots of ...
March, 2012 I skied up the Leutascher Dreitorspitze on this great-weather day. First I struggled a bit in the forest on rough ski paths that ...
Timo and I on the wall Introduction Timo, Georg and I had been itching to get out for a weekend trip and climb some Nordwände ...
Sorry this is a bit late. A few weeks ago in the incredible European cold-snap Georg and I got into the Pitztal for some ice ...
Last weekend Kris and I took the boys skiing, they hadn't been in a year and it would be their first time at a "real ...
Georg and I were hoping for some ice climbing, but the conditions just continue to crumple our cropes! Oh well, skiing it is then. We ...
Josef and I had the day to ski. But I never saw Josef! A series of mishaps prevented us from making our rondesvous at 5:30 ...
Gilfert ski December 31, 2012 Josef and I drove to Weer and then Innerst in the Tuxer Alps for a bit of exercise. We skinned ...
I knew Wayne Wallace by reputation before moving away from Seattle, and met him when he came to see the Picket Range slideshow Theron, Aidan ...
I left Munich at 5:30 am, with my bike, boots, crampons and ice axe. I planned to climb the Wilde Leck by the Ostgrat (East ...
Alas, no pictures! I forgot the camera at home! But I do have some iPod Nano footage (shaky) Adrian and I made a weekend trip ...
Adrian and I took a day off work to go do a climb that he'd had his eye on for months. A 21 pitch monster ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here Obergabelhorn Arbengrat (AD) and Zinalrothorn SE Ridge (AD-) Pete and I got our gear together in the Randa parking lot. ...
David and Mike were going to fly into Munich to visit the Eastern Alps and Eastern Europe more generally. As it turned out, I could ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here A fellow American, Pete, and I visited the Rosengarten area of the Dolomites for a quick introduction to that beautiful ...
Sometime around 5:30 in the evening I left Munich for the mountains. I wasn't completely sure where to go for a hike, but when I ...
A morning hike in foggy weather with Brecht, who I just met. He studies Ornithology (birds, to the layman) and had some neat stories. He ...
Uli and I took the lift up to the Kampenwand on Sunday. We knew it would start raining eventually, hence the laziness! Right away, we ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here A happy meeting and good rock On a family trip to Lake Bled in Slovenia, I had the opportunity to ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here A few partial climbs Sebastian and I hadn't gotten together to climb in almost 4 years . Where did the ...
Saturday morning I was skiing up from Galtür at 7:30. I made it to just below the Jamtalhütte at 9:45, had some tea and cookies ...
Christian, Adrian and I had a day for some ice climbing. I chose the destination, the Luisbodenfall in the Pitztal valley. Pretty far for a ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here In the Stubai and Pitztal... Dan and I went looking for ice, and set out for the Grawa Eiswand in ...
Christian and I climbed the Jochberg Right Gully (WI3), an entertaining set of N pitches (N=6? something like that), on a mountain I'd wanted to ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here Introduction I was looking forward to a solo trip to the mountains to get some exercise and make friendships with ...
Zwieselbacher Rosskogel Eight o'clock on New Year's morning, I was alone in the parking lot, getting ready. A man shoveled snow at a nearby inn ...
Hirschberg December 30, 2011 I skied up Hirschberg, an old favorite. It was snowing hard, and I was there in the middle of the day ...
I met up with local hiker Alex ( Alika on Summitpost) for a quick hike up Pu'u Konahuanui. We had a great time hiking up ...
I enjoyed a great hike yesterday, getting the idea from Summitpost here . I headed out in tennis shoes, confident that the recent foehn wind ...
Danno, Kris, the boys and I hiked up the Kranzhorn, maybe the last chance to do so before snow embraces it's summit and the little ...
October 31, 2010. I went for a hike near Pertisau. I wanted to hike above the Achensee, but when I saw the sun hitting the ...
Josef had an idea for a hike that pieced together bits of trail and ridge crest in the northern "pre-Karwendel" part of the range. We ...
Uli asked if I wanted to go climbing on the weekend, and we thought we'd climb the Watzmann. But the route had become snowy in ...
Kris, Rowan, Elijah and I headed to the mountains at 8 am Saturday morning. We had no traffic and got to the little town of ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here The "Rampenführer", IV+, 17 pitches (attempt) It was the most relaxed of trips. I guess that makes sense. When you ...
I'd threatened to take the family for an overnight trip to a hut for at least a year, and finally the stars lined up. Kris ...
The morning after our big adventure in the Wilder Kaiser we were tired and dehydrated. It looked like the day would be another scorcher in ...
"Casara" Route (IV+, 7 pitches) In the morning it was raining. So much for one of the hard routes. It was also very cold. Finally, ...
Kleine Zinne, "Yellow Edge" (VI+, 14 pitches) We slept in the Trevisio Hut and hiked down in the morning. Suddenly it was Thursday. We were ...
We decided to head down to the Pala Dolomites. We had time because Tuesday was predicted to be bad weather everywhere. Actually it wasn't bad ...
We slept in Saturday, somehow unable to get up and do some harder climbing. We had either the "Kleine Cassin" on the Pruessturm on the ...
Totenkirchl Westwand (VI+, 24 pitches) I'd been looking forward to climbing with Jesse for months, and I knew we'd immediately hit it off. His previous ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here Introduction I like big days. When you start walking at dawn, the first on the trail breaking all the spiderwebs. ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here Introduction My wife was getting right tired of me moping around the house complaining about the weather. Family camping trips ...
On the spur of the moment, Stephan and I were able to get out for a day. Friday was expected to be nice until the ...
I had a day free but no partners. After much hemming and hawing to myself, I decided on the Lüsenser Fernerkogel, which dominates the view ...
March 20, 2010. Alexander and I spent the day snowshoeing up to the Buchstein and doing some nice rock climbs. We did "Südwandschmannkerl" (VI-) first. ...
Also posted on Summitpost.org here Just a nice ski tour On the approach . It had been almost 2 years since I got to do ...
Der Wank hike December 6, 2010 Hiked up Der Wank in the morning before work. The mountains have snow! This morning on the summit of ...
Also posted at Summitpost here "Via Romantica" (VI+, 12 pitches) As luck would have it, a week of unusually warm and sunny weather held winter ...
Also posted at Summitpost here Winter is coming... Dan Protz and I had the first weekend of November free to climb. We went to the ...
Also posted at Summitpost here The Joy of Hiking... Clouds burning off of the beautiful Pfelderer Valley. I always return to hiking. There is nothing ...
Innominata Ridge, D+ Rahel was in the back of my mind through this whole experience. All the foibles and hi-jinks Dan and I got ourselves ...
Also posted at Summitpost here NW Face "Fedele" Route with Dibona Finish (800 m, IV+, 26 pitches) The route follows the striking black (intermittent) water ...
A jealous lover Dan is so lucky. Having an extremely flexible schedule at this point, he could stay in the Dolomiti all week while I ...
Also posted at Summitpost here Third Sella Tower, "Vinatzer" (V+ or VI-), 10 pitches The best photos in the TR are from Daniel Clifford (Danno)...especially ...
I didn't write a TR for this one, but I made a Summitpost "Route Page" here . ...
North Wall (D+, 1200 meters, ice to 70 degrees) Dan and I were hoping to go rock climbing for a couple of days in the ...
Also posted at Summitpost here Day 1: Best intro ever -> Cosmique Arete Dan and I drove down to Chamonix Thursday afternoon. There was pretty ...
Uli, Dan and I had a plan to climb the Gerberkreuz above Mittenwald. We worried about snow on the approach, but the rock looked dry ...
Kris, the boys and I packed up early Friday morning and drove down to Riva del Garda, a great little town on the north end ...
Der Wank November 15, 2009 A quick morning hike up the Wank from the parking area at Mat's old house. I like this way much ...
La Grave climbing (More pictures to come for the climbing on day 1 and day 5, hopefully!). Dan P. and I scheduled to climb in ...
Also posted on Summitpost here Go home, get yer stuff Hmm, what to work on today? Maybe I should refactor that test code from last ...
In the last week I went on two great hikes with the boys. First was on Breitenstein, with Angie, Josef, Felix, Helga and Evelyn. We ...
Dan P. and I had the day to climb. With recent snowfall, we needed to stay at lower elevations, preferably south facing. I chose the ...
We went to Gardasee for 3 days, for our first camping trip with the boys. It was great! We stayed at a campground right on ...
Also posted on Summitpost here Great to see an old friend Our friend Nancy came to visit from the U.S.. Actually she was over here ...
Also posted on Summitpost here Hochwiesler "Via Anita" (V+/A0) Josef and I were tired of the cold, rainy weather hanging over the northern alps for ...
During our 5 day stay in Bad Hindelang, one day was pretty cloudy. Nearby, the Breitachklamm advertised itself as being perfect for a rainy day. ...
On the first weekend Mom came, I took her and the boys to Tegernsee, where we rode the Wallbergbahn up that mountain to a restaurant. ...
Mom, Kris, the boys and I stayed in Bad Hindelang for 5 days. This is in the Allgäu Mountains of Germany/Austria. We were just on ...
On the way home from Florence, the weather was too good to miss a driving trip to the Dolomites. Just north of Bolzano we turned ...
Also posted on Summitpost here Herzogkante, V-, 18 pitches I first saw the northern Karwendel walls in November, 2005. Mat, Ari and I made a ...
Posted at Summitpost here The Matterhorn Via the Hoernli Ridge (AD-) July, 2008 Motivations Sadly, when I thought about climbing the Matterhorn, I pictured crowds ...
Posted on Summitpost here Let's go! (Gran Pilaster, UIAA IV, YDS 5.6, 20 pitches) Panoramas This is part of a week-long trip Carlos, Theron ("OZNID") ...
Monte Colàc - "Via Ferrata Dei Finanzieri" A bit south of Canazei, we picked out a via ferrata that would be fun to do. We ...
Also posted on Summitpost here Reunion We traversed the peak from right to left. July, 2008. Many/most of the pictures were taken by Carlos or ...
We had an awesome trip! We stayed in the Haus Ascott, had a nice apartment where, shocked by the high prices in Switzerland, we resolved ...
Alte Nordwand (UIAA V) June, 2008 There is something special about the Geiselstein. It's a "front range" mountain, rising up quickly from the gentle green ...
Hexenstein South Ridge (IV+) Dan and I had been hoping to hook up for a rock climbing trip for a long time. The weather was ...
Also posted on Summitpost here Similaun normal ski route Christian and I had an ambitious plan for the North Face of Similaun, but our eyes ...
Terrible weather forecast (but good weather!) The weather forecast was not good, but when we drove away in the morning, the sky was amazingly clear. ...
Silas Wild and his daughter Jen were coming to Austria for weeks of skiing. I knew Silas from slide shows back in Seattle, and from ...
Also posted on Summitpost here Three Peaks from the Bielerhoehe Christian and I left Munich at 6:30 am, then got stuck in a terrible traffic ...
No big adventures here! Just a meandering account of an enriching weekend of snowshoeing in the friendly parts of the Allgäu Mountains... Over the last ...
Right when I got back from Hawaii, I slept a while then set out at 3 am, pointing the car towards the Stubai Mountains. I ...
Heimgarten December 6, 2008 Hiked up Heimgarten from the town of Ohlstadt. Some beautiful views, especially looking towards the Zugspitze. 1100 meters, 4 hours car ...
Josef and I wanted to go climbing, and supposedly had a decent forecast. I was eager to explore the Verwall Range, south of St. Anton, ...
I'm trying to finally write up the rest of the climbs that Aidan and I did when he came to visit last month. It's been ...
I also wrote this trip report at Summitpost . p1 - michael lead up the intial ramp IV p2 - micahel continue up the intial ...
All that remains of this trip is this recovered image: Somehow, 13 years ago I forgot to write it up. I think we had a ...
Posted at Summitpost here Tickets pleez...(18 pitches, VI (5.10a)) The mighty Totenkirchl I was happy to get the chance to show my friend from Seattle ...
I wrote this in a kind of guidebook style for Summitpost . Overview The Bernadeinwand (Bernadein Wall) is a steep north-facing cliff with more gentle ...
Also posted at Summitpost here Off to the mountains... Disclaimer: very little actual "Hell" was encountered, my title is purely for whimsical purposes. Actually it ...
Also posted at Summitpost here Climbing the Stüdlgrat Hiking up to the ridge Daniel and I climbed the Grossglockner via the Stüdlgrat. This is a ...
Also posted at Summitpost here A plan gels from a vague stew I'd wanted to climb the Ortler for a long time via the "Hintergrat," ...
Also posted at Summitpost here Via Classica, 15 pitches, UIAA V (YDS 5.7/58) The snow was melting and it was time to visit the Wilder ...
Four sunny climbs April, 2007 It was great to climb with {% image https://www.summitpost.org/user_page.php?user_id=27310">Sebastian . For a year I've admired his photos and trip reports ...
Also posted at Summitpost here North Face and ski descent April, 2007 After seeing Sebastian's excellent report on a ski and climb of the Hintere ...
Suedostkamin (Southeast Chimney) Route Have you ever sat in the office, when it's sunny outside, dreaming of climbing warm rock in the sun? Great weather ...
Winter climb between the Zugspitze and Alpspitze February, 2007 All photos by Daniel Arndt. Details below the pics. Also posted at Summitpost here Daniel casts ...
Snow hike with Steve Steve K. and I went for a morning hike on the Kramerspitz. Steve lived in Portland before Munich, and we had ...
I hadn't gotten much exercise in a while, so when Daniel suggested doing something Saturday I jumped at the idea. We had more ambitious plans, ...
Pu'u Manamana December, 2007 I went on this intriguing hike on Oahu. It gains a knife-edged ridge, even features some rock climbing on the very ...
Also posted to Summitpost here I drove to Garmisch with a light pack. I brought hiking boots, aluminum crampons and an ice axe. In retrospect, ...
From the Likelike highway to the Pali Kris's dad Kwansei recommended the Likeke Trail as an interesting short hike. We read a review of the ...
An unusual trail on Oahu I really wanted to climb the Haiku Stairs, aka the "Stairway to Heaven". I like unusual mountain ascents, and this ...
West Ridge Via Ferrata Here I set some video footage to music. Enjoy! After a few gray days made it clear that winter was coming, ...
South Face (UIAA Grade IV, 13 pitches) Daniel wrote about the trip here ... Daniel Arndt and I had a last weekend to do some ...
Arwin and Joey were visiting us from Los Angeles for just a few days. They had a great time at the Oktoberfest and exploring Munich. ...
Northeast Ridge (Grade IV) "Did you get that memo?" --Office Space Here is a little video of a helicopter that flew by below us while ...
South Ridge (UIAA V-, 20 pitches) Josef suggested a climb of the Grunduebelhorn for a day trip on the last day of September. Reeling somewhat ...
forward to part two or part three ... Saturday After an all night drive (from 12:30 am to 7:00 am), I staggered onto the small ...
back to part two or part one ... Friday I left the town, again with some pilfered bread and butter for lunch. I walked along ...
back to part one or forward to part three ... Tuesday I had my usual breakfast of cereal, bread and butter. I also took some ...
Saturday Mat and I left Garmisch hoping to do an alpine climb. But the Engadin valley, our hopeful destination, was wrapped in clouds. Mat was ...
"3 days in 1 day" Sometimes circumstances conspire to send you out into the hills despite the rain. The Alps are in the midst of ...
Also posted to Summitpost here North Ridge, IV+, 16 pitches In June I was pretty busy showing parents around the nearby mountains, going to the ...
KG Weg rock climb (IV+) We decided to go for a day of rock climbing despite a stormy weather forecast. Two destinations seemed attractive. The ...
Arco climbing June 3-4, 2006 Cyrille and I met online as we were both interested in climbing on the weekend. The weather was terrible in ...
Daniel Arndt is a local climber who spent a few years in Washington State. On his web site he details several interesting trips he's made ...
Glacier ascent on skis Thanks to the holiday on May 1st (go Germany! - we don't have that one in the U.S.), and the better-than-expected ...
Also posted to Summitpost here We started walking up the road from St. Sigmund at 7:30 am, and soon reached the Gleirschhoefe. It was a ...
As a wanna-be backcountry skier, I was really excited when a friend from work told me about a ski ascent of the Roter Kogel from ...
Olomana Scramble December 26, 2006 Rode a rusty bike from the parents house out there, and had to leave it at the country club gate. ...
A ski tour in the Kitzbuehler Alps (Photos by Josef Goebel) I was eager to try out my new touring skis. They are a pretty ...
Hiking the Arlberger Klettersteig After the long climb of the previous day, and hassles driving around Innsbruck, I got a late start, staying for the ...
Via ferrata on the Grosse Ochsenwand I rented a car Friday night at the central train station so I could have some unrestricted hiking over ...
It took quite a while the night before to try and match up a hike that might be doable in bad weather, had maximum views, ...
Kindy Ridge This was a super fun day with Theron and Aidan - it was my last chance to climb with them before I moved! ...
Grade III, 5.7 As part of our stay at Cathedral Lakes Lodge, Kris graciously allowed me to take a "3/4 day" for a climb. So ...
Northeast Buttress, Grade V, 5.9 August 6-8, 2005 The Northeast Buttress of Sleese Mountain is one of those climbs I read about soon after I ...
Northeast Face, Snow/Ice, III, 5.2 July 16-18, 2005 The Northeast Face of Redoubt had been on our list for a while, and I always thought ...
Northeast Buttress, IV, 5.8 Theron and I expected the NE Buttress of Colchuck Peak to be similar to the Serpentine Arete on Dragontail Peak just ...
May 30-31, 2005 Carlos and I went on a special trip to Rainier together. It was very exciting seeing the mountain come into view, and ...
East Face Couloir I had Friday off of work and was able to convince Alex to join me for a fun day climb. He wanted ...
The babies were sleeping semi-soundly, but too much fumbling in the dark would alert them. I must forgo the headlamp near the nightstand, as clumsy ...
Wank, October 2005 After a great day of bike riding, rock climbing (very poorly on my part), and eating Indian food with Ari and Matt, ...
West Arete (5.6) September 26-27, 2004 It seemed like a good time to go visit Mount Constance, one of the large and steep peaks in ...
(and Yellow Aster Butte) September, 2004 Theron and I hiked up Tomyhoi and Yellow Aster Butte in good weather Sunday. Theron's more detailed report is ...
Patrick and I had promised to find time and go hiking in the fall, and our chance finally arose. The weather was grim through most ...
Northern Traverse August, 2004 Kris and I went on a short "get away from it all" vacation to Scotland and England. We had a great ...
back to Picket Range Traverse ... Here is a detail of the lower section of Mt. Fury's North Buttress. It can be approached from the ...
back to Picket Range Traverse ... The Players Here are Aidan, Theron and Michael on Wiley Ridge, happy to be finished with bushwhacking and yellowjacket ...
back to Picket Range Traverse ... The first map is an overview of the whole trip, which started from Ross Lake and ended at the ...
Maps Route topos The Players Equipment Quick Version: Three of us made a 6 day traverse of the Picket Range, blessed by good weather in ...
back to Picket Range Traverse The Equipment Just for future reference, I thought I'd record what I brought along on the trip, and what our ...
Everyone has a climb that represents a milestone to them. Enhanced emotion, amazement, fear, or just long planning can give an ascent a mythic quality. ...
Northeast Rib, Western Variation (5.7, IV) July 24-25, 2004 Johannesburg Mountain's north face looks very intimidating from Boston Basin and other points to the north. ...
With Richard and Christina! July, 2004 Christina and her dad Richard were able to come up for a week or so, and we went on ...
via Paisano Pinnacle and North Face (5.8) Robert and I engaged in a frenzy of planning, moving days here and there to accomodate our voracious ...
I decided to get up early on July 4th and climb Monte Cristo Peak. I was excited to see Glacier Basin for the first time. ...
Southwest Gully June 19, 2004 It was time to climb Merchant Peak. While I grilled a steak Friday night, our cat Quincy zoomed out of ...
Serpentine Arete (5.8, III) Theron Welch and I had a great time climbing Dragontail Peak last Saturday. Friday afternoon we eagerly read some trip reports ...
Darn! There is nothing like driving for three hours, getting excited about the objective, then you get out of the car on dry pavement and ...
May 1-2, 2004 We engaged in a whirlwind of planning for the weekend, first wondering about climbing Mt. Shuksan via the North Face, then thinking ...
Remorse/Outer Space (5.9, III) April, 2004 "Watch me here, Peter," I said. I had clipped a well-fixed Red Alien cam about 7 feet down and ...
Condorphamine Addiction (5.10a) and others March 27-28, 2004 News flash: We've made a video from the footage Theron took that fine Sunday. Here are the ...
Whitehorse Glacier Robert and I turned right onto Mine Road and bumped our way to near the end. As we got ready for the climb, ...
West Fork Foss River, 12/23/04} There are only trace amounts of snow to Trout Lake, and increasing snow to Copper Lake, although a boot track ...
Carlos and I set off early Sunday morning for a climb of Ruth Mountain. I had always wanted to climb it for the great view ...
West McMillan Spire West Ridge October 4-5, 2003 Theron Welch's account is here Theron and I finally made a first visit into the Pickett Range! ...
Northeast Arete (5.5) August, 2003 Robert, Mark, Michael The three of us drove to Roger's Pass, and went into a park service building. Conditions on ...
Theron Welch's account is here Scratch that -- the site is down. I've archived it here . Monday - Car shuttle, hike to Red Ledge ...
Theron's old site is off-line. I wrested this beautiful account from the Wayback Machine. Day One This weeklong trip into the Cascades was indeed a ...
You can jump from day to day using the table below, or just read in order. Friday - travel afternoon Saturday - we reach the ...
West Face (5.7) August 3, 2003 Theron wrote about the adventure here . I saw the West Face of Sloan Peak on one of my ...
Northeast Ridge (5.7) July 19-20, 2003 I had long wanted to climb the Northeast Ridge of Mt. Triumph, which had all the elements of a ...
Guye Peak Improbable Traverse (5.8) July, 2003 Theron and I had the morning free, as Kris wanted to practice the piano at his house. We ...
South Crack, Grade II, 5.8 R June 22, 2003 back to Sierras ... Well, it was our last day for climbing, sigh. We'd had such ...
West Crack (5.9, II) June 21, 2003 back to Sierras ... Here's another 5 star Toulumne route to spoil you for rock elsewhere. We made ...
Great White Books (5.6 R, Grade II) June 21, 2003 back to Sierras ... After climbing Daff Dome, we still had the afternoon free. We ...
Southeast Buttress (5.6), also Eichorn Pinnacle June 20, 2003 back to Sierras ... From the guidebook, "Cathedral Peak is not only the most striking peak ...
North Face (Regular Route) (5.9, IV) June 18, 2003 back to Sierras ... Text by Aidan Haley Still off the natural high from the Matthes ...
Full South to North Traverse (5.8, IV) June 17, 2003 back to Sierras ... Text by Aidan Haley The moment I heard of the Matthes ...
Northwest Books (5.6) June 16, 2003 back to Sierras ... This climb was very short (two pitches) but enjoyable too. It's right across the street ...
North Arete (5.8, Grade III) June 15, 2003 back to Sierras ... We got up at dawn and starting walking in to one of the ...
Various Routes June 15-23, 2003 Aidan Haley and I took a week to go climbing in the Sierras. We had such a fun time on ...
I'll cut to the chase. This is an amazing climb. Maximize your window and get a refreshing beverage of your choice while the page loads. ...
Cashmere Mountain Regular Route May 25, 2003 I had my Rio MP3 player with me today to make any boring forests go more quickly. The ...
Castle Rock and Icicle Ridge May 24-26, 2003 Theron's account of the trip is here . Our plans to climb Mt. Rainier began to seem ...
Northwest Buttress (attempt) May 3-4, 2003 Somewhat edited from the original post on cascadeclimbers.com. Theron and I hiked to the Argonaut-Colchuck col via the Colchuck ...
Leavenworth Climbing And Birthday Party for Kris! April 25-27, 2003 Kris and I drove to Leavenworth Friday evening. We rented a cabin and were joined ...
Dragontail Peak Triple Couloirs April 5-6, 2003 Aidan, Chris K., Steve and myself drove to Leaventown for a worthy goal - The Classic Triple Couloirs!! ...
Various Climbs March 15, 22-23, 2003 Three great March days at Vantage are recorded here. March 15 Chris Koziarz and I wanted some rock climbing. ...
South Face January 18, 2003 Theron and I had a good time climbing the Tooth. We also climbed the little tower next door, naming it ...
Chair Peak Northeast Buttress January 11, 2003 This report was written while in a groggy-eyed state, high on pain killers. I'd also been reading "The ...
I have to keep a list of the Index climbs I've done. Godzilla (5.9) Princely Ambitions p1 5.9+, p2 5.8 G.M. p1 5.8, p2 5.9 ...
Silent Running (5.10b) December 1, 2002 Peter and I had a day to go climbing, and due to the recent incredible weather, our thoughts strayed ...
I'd hoped to do this climb before work one morning with all the good weather we'd had, but there was far too much to do ...
I had most of a day recently and had to take advantage of a spell of great weather so late in October. I thought about ...
Cutthroat Peak, South Buttress (5.8) Chris and I had a nice Sunday climb of this peak. We reached the trail-head around 8 am, and were ...
South Early Winter's Spire and Concord Tower Southwest Rib (5.8) and the Cave Route (5.7+) September, 2002 Chris and I were keen for some rock ...
North Ridge (5.6, 20+ pitches) August, 2002 The Sassolungo is the longest climb in our guidebook about the Italian Dolomites. It climbs 3000 feet directly ...
North Ridge, III, 5.6 August 11, 2002 Summary: Dan and I got a 3 am start at the trail-head, climbed the excellent North Ridge, descended ...
Mt. Goode, Northeast Buttress (5.5, IV) July 27-29, 2002 Saturday morning Chris Koziarz and I hiked in from Rainy Pass. We took a 8.5 mm ...
Glacier Peak, Frostbite Ridge July 13-14, 2002 I'd been looking forward to a solitary weekend in the mountains for a while, especially after a series ...
with Kris and Steve Allain June, 2002 Our good friend Steve was visiting from St. Louis. A staunch hiker and lover of mountains, he had ...
Mount Stuart, Ice Cliff Glacier June, 2002 Text by Daniel Smith Michael has kindly allowed me to write this trip report. I won't promise you ...
Dreamer w/Safe Sex start (5.9) June, 2002 Text by Aidan Haley Well I was free at last. School had finished and I was looking ahead ...
Liberty Crack (A3, 5.9) June, 2002 Dan and I drove up Saturday night, slept by the truck, and got an early start Sunday on Liberty ...
The Tooth (Peter's Birthday) Jeff Witt was in town, and Peter set up a chance for us to go climbing together. The total group was ...
Gunn Peak had been on my mind for a few years. On many trips to Leavenworth and elsewhere, I'd been impressed by the set of ...
Saturday night we went to see the comedian Steven Wright, and I really like his old joke: Did you sleep good? No, I made a ...
It was Friday morning; time to decide where to climb over the weekend. Huge, gloomy clouds were rolling in over Washington and Canada, putting an ...
Dan and I were going to do something this weekend. My time got shortened to one day due to long-overdue house chores and some relatives ...
Ingraham Glacier Direct February 12, 2002 This is a letter I sent to friends Steve and Josh. Some trips feel too big to write in ...
Elevation gain: 3500 feet Miles: 6 round trip Total time: 7 hours round trip Peter and I decided to take a morning hike to look ...
Green Mountain, 12/24/2002 I'd wanted to hike up Green Mountain for years, but the opportunity always eluded me. Why not on Christmas Eve morning? I ...
Elevation gain: 3000 feet Miles: 6 round trip Total time: 5 hours round trip Jake and I planned to climb Mt. St. Helens today but ...
Marek and I made plans to climb the South Face of the Tooth, what with all the great weather since before Christmas. But Friday morning ...
November 22, 2001 Kris's family and friends had warned me about hiking on the leeward side of the island, expecting that murderous gangs of pakalolo ...
Kris and I hiked up Olomana Peak on a very hot day. Kris descending exposed terrain from the main summit. The 3rd, and most difficult ...
Well, this was to be our last overnight trip of the season, and we wanted it to be a fun one. The nights are getting ...
September 27, 2001 Peter and I had a few hours before work, so we met at a park-n-ride around 4 am. Bleary-eyed, and wondering what ...
September 15-16, 2001 Ptarmigan Ridge Kris and I spent the weekend hiking at Mt. Baker in beautiful weather. We arrived at Artists Point in late ...
Goat Wall Methow Inspiration Route (5.9+) September, 2001 A year ago, Bob and I had heard of a multipitch climb near Mazama called the Methow ...
This climb, with it's fabled beautiful long slab, and tricky route-finding above the Vesper Glacier has been on my list a long time. Steve was ...
Sloan Peak Corkscrew Route August 25, 2001 Phil Fortier and I each had a day available to do something in the mountains. The weather forecast ...
Steve and Josh came up from Portland and attempted the East Face of Chair Peak. Steve ended up a rope length out searching for any ...
August 19, 2001 The idea to climb Mesahchie came from Darin Berdinka's web site (Long since disappeared), where he describes the Mesahchie Glacier Icefall and ...
Mt. Index, North Peak August 11, 2001 It's the forced bivy season again. The time when good weather and a lack of good excuses forces ...
Marek, Jake and I were dreaming about Mt. Challenger. The big gentle glacier. The beautiful rock pyramid. The piton in the one place you need ...
June/July, 2001 Kris and I were very happy that we could fit all of our clothes and climbing gear into 2 full size carry ons ...
June 15, 2001 A handful of pictures from a really long day trip. Chris, Jake and I climbed well over 8000 feet in a day, ...
"On belay, Peter!" I was standing in front of a wall of mud, with Peter gingerly crabbing up to a grassy ledge. He had taken ...
Steve, Chris and I hiked up to Colchuck Lake, thinking to climb the North Buttress Colouir route on Colchuck Peak. But Steve's ankle was injured, ...
Orbit (Grade III, 5.8, 6 pitches) April, 2001 Daniel Smith and I planned this climb a few weeks before. Amazingly, nothing came up to knock ...
April 9, 2001 Elevation gain: 6000+ feet Miles: approx. 11 or 12 Total time: 6:00 am to 3:15 pm Friday night found me trying to ...
Guye Peak has been a popular climb for a long time. It rises only 2000 feet above Snoqualmie Pass, but has a very dramatic West ...
In the pre-dawn, Steve and I hiked from the upper Alpental parking lot towards Source Lake on a well-defined cat track, then ski/snowshoe trail. From ...
Peter and I had a day to spend in the mountains, so we looked for something fun to do. Thursday night, it had snowed in ...
Christos and I hiked up, using snowshoes for the last mile. After an aborted visit in December, it was nice to reach the summit. Views ...
Devil's Punch Bowl (WI 2-3) January 20, 2001 Photographs by Dennis King. Steve drove up for an ice climbing trip to Banks Lake, in Central ...
January 6, 2001 Jake had emailed me, saying he wanted to do a trip this weekend. By the time Thursday rolled around, I was pretty ...
Alpental Parking Lot, 12/21/2001 Alex, Peter, Kim and I snowshoed from the parking lot towards Source Lake. We came back shortly before the lake, and ...
Friday afternoon, a friend called to talk about Colchuck Peak, saying "The glacier should have hard water ice, and slopes about 40 to 45 degrees ...
Mount Thomson, West Ridge (5.6) October, 2000 Well, the weekend began with major confusion and plan changing. Originally, we were heading for the West Face ...
I was changing jobs at work, and had the opportunity to use a vacation day. As usual, my eyes glazed over with happiness! I looked ...
October 1,22,24, 2000 Peter and I needed some aid climbing practice, and we knew we could do this in the rain. We headed to Index ...
Mike Adamson and I hiked to Gothic Basin and scrambled up Del Campo Peak. The way was gloomy and foggy for miles, but we had ...
September, 2000 It was a beautiful day. I tried to figure out where to go for a hike, and suddenly remembered Mt. Rainier: "The place ...
Jeff S. and I took a day off for a climb of Sahale Mountain via Cascade Pass and Sahale Arm. The weather hasn't been great ...
August 11-13, 2000 Steve Nesland and I enjoyed 3 days of multipitch climbing. 2 climbs are marked in red The left tower was a 5.7 ...
The alarm was loud, almost horrifying. Not that we slept much. But we were going to do this. As much apprehensive as excited? Yes. We ...
Southwest Ridge (5.7) August 8, 2000 Steve had picked out the Southwest Ridge, a historic climb with 6 or 7 pitches of 5.7 climbing. The ...
Mt. Teewinot, East Face August 7, 2000 I did a lot of stopping and thinking on this climb. Once the 3000 feet of hiking up ...
August 6, 2000 Jeff, Steve and I climbed a 5.9 version of the Guide's Wall, which was great fun. We climbed a great 5.9 route ...
June 10-11, 2000 "Ow!" In a flash of unpleasant clarity, I'd had an idea. Let's climb Prusik Peak before overnight permits are required. Sure we'll ...
May 20-21, 2000 Steve and I climbed the route White Slabs (5.7, 4 pitches) on the Snow Creek Wall. We wanted to continue to the ...
Silver Star Glacier May 15, 2000 Our plans were falling apart! At a rousing reunion dinner with Jeff Thursday night, I waxed on about the ...
May 13 - 14, 2000 One day at work, Kris sent some email, suggesting we spend the weekend climbing at Leavenworth. Boy, was I excited! ...
May 6-7, 2000 Jake and I were pretty fired up about a climb this weekend, once again praying to the weather gods for a chance ...
April 29 - May 1, 2000 Kris and I made a short trip to Las Vegas for two reasons. One, to visit her parents and ...
April 8-9, 2000 Kris has been getting tired of seeing me jump in the car and zoom off to various rock climbs around the west, ...
Peter and I had discussed climbing Whitehorse, a 6500 foot high mountain that watches over Darrington. The mountain had been in the news over the ...
I discovered Mt. Persis the week before on a solo hike. It was cold, clear and very windy, but I had such an awesome time ...
Mount Dickerman (partial), 12/26/2000 Is it unusual to be able to drive to the trail-head after Christmas? The trail is free of snow, but a ...
Grade III, 5.6+, 8 pitches October, 1999 These bushes have a sick sense of humor, I thought. My cherished black climbing pants were in tatters. ...
Grade II-III, 5.6+, 5 pitches October, 1999 After the airport and a stop by Jim's apartment on Saturday, Steve and I raced out to Red ...
With the good weather forecast, I was hoping for a weekend bursting with mountain climbs! Sadly, Steve was detained at work, so our planned climb ...
September 4-5, 1999 Dudley and Joe, two friends from Texas were visiting, and wanted to get onto a high mountain out here. Their mountains are ...
West Ridge (5.6, III) July 24-26, 1999 Clouds were zooming past the West Ridge as Saturday afternoon waned. Eventually, we couldn't see the mountain at ...
Sulphide Glacier, oh, also The Tooth July 10-11, 1999 Steve and I set ourselves a blistering pace this weekend, and actually came through without being ...
The East Buttress (5.9, A0) June 20-21, 1999 Tom Cormons and I got an early start on the route, we never saw anyone else all ...
The Snake Dike (5.7, III) June 18-19, 1999 Still dirty and tired from the Nutcracker, we raided the supply shop, and fumbled for bivy gear ...
The Nutcracker (5.8) June 18, 1999 In the morning Jeff got in line to secure a campsite for the next few days. He had a ...
The Royal Arches (5.7, A0, III) June 17, 1999 16 Pitches! Wow! I lay in the dark, too excited to sleep before our first climb ...
June 12-13, 1999 The sun was still hidden behind the mountain when we exchanged the heavy boots and crampons for rock shoes. The steep snow ...
South Early Winter Spire and others May 8-9, 1999 As we roped up at the base of the colouir, the steep hard snow above was ...
May 1-2, 1999 The Castle Not that Steve and I don't like rock climbing, but we'd hoped for a real mountain this weekend. Sloan Peak ...
March 20-21, 1999 With special thanks to Kris for the pictures! That's Steve, Jeff and I descending Monkey Face after climbing the Pioneer Route. The ...
Great Northern Slab (5.7) March 7, 1999 Me starting the 2nd pitch, see John below Kris and I ran errands on Saturday, and the beautiful ...
Silver Peak Skiing, 12/30/1999 I skied up FS Road 9070, reaching Nordic Pass around 10:30 am. At the pass, the fog cleared, and I had ...
John Bennett and I had planed a hike several weeks before and were both too stubborn to cancel in the face of ridiculous weather. A ...
I set out at 5:30 am from Redmond with a very light pack and my ice ax, determined to do something interesting around Sloan and ...
October 10-11, 1998 By 10 am Saturday Steve and I were top-roping on Duty Dome in Leavenworth. The first route was Bohemian Blowfish (5.8). It ...
September 19-20, 1998 Saturday Steve and I climbed 5 routes at the Swauk Pinnacles near Swauk Pass.We had a great time and climbed non-stop, quitting ...
The steep slopes below the lookout building The weather was just too good to miss, so I took a day off to hike up to ...
"A Walrus by Any Other Name" The main peak is the hump on the right This was probably the best trip of the summer, and ...
August 15-16, 1998 After the climb up the Hyak drainage This was supposed to be a report about Steve and I triumphantly scaling Clark Mountain, ...
Stephen and Sam flew in Wednesday night, and we prepared to leave for the mountains the next day. We bought a smaller sleeping bag for ...
July, 1998 Lunch in the beautiful basin Intrigued by Beckey's "Clark Mountain Walrus Glacier" route in the trusty Green Book, Steve and I readied for ...
Forbidden and Sahale Peaks The Eldorado summit ridge is legendary for it's pure line of snow arching away and up from the climber. To traverse ...
Allow me to introduce Steve, a great guy who heads up the server-side QA team in Intel's AnswerExpress division. Kris and I worked with him ...
Summit Nordic Center, 12/23/1998 It was so much fun before, I had to go back! I got in a strenuous 5 hours here, and took ...
A few days before Christmas I walked the Eagle Creek trail past Tunnel Falls, where trail builders blasted a tunnel behind a raging waterfall. There ...
Utah Friday November 7th, 1997 Kris needed to go to American Fork, Utah for a business trip, and suggested that I come along for fun. ...
This climb was my favorite wilderness event so far. Beautiful weather, sleeping under the stars, and the excitement of traveling solo made up for the ...
7/6/97 to 7/11/97 Cast of Characters Paul: of two guides, former elite soldier, highly experienced climber and backcountry traveller. I shared a tent with him ...
I had wanted to visit Ruckle Ridge in the Columbia Gorge for some time, since being told about it on a Mazama hike two months ...
May 17th-18th, 1997 Mount Saint Helens represents several firsts for me. My first real mountain climb, my first use of plastic boots, my first camp ...
Inspired by the view in my hiking guidebook, and by Mazama member's assertions that Mount Defiance offers one of the most difficult hikes in Oregon, ...
This day hike provided an opportunity to use my new shoe-shoes for the first time. The MSR Denali Llama is one of the cheapest shoes ...