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Mountaineers + Reading Glaciers: Our Connection to Climate
Mountaineers see climate change. It’s shoved in our face as an observable fact. On approaches to mountains we deal with miles of moraine where maps show glacier. Once on route, we find that steep...
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Eliminate the World’s Most Annoying Knot (aka the Double Fisherman’s Knot)
The double fisherman’s knot has plagued me for years. For climbers, this bomb-proof knot was traditionally used to tie ropes together for rappelling. Now most climbers use the flat overhand (aka the...
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Seasons Changing in Telluride: Dreaming of October Powder
I was just sitting on the ski area in Telluride watching the leaves change today in a drizzly meadow. I love living in the mountains in the fall. There is snow on the ground in the high country and...
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Ski The Himalayas Season 3: Episode 1
This week was pretty awesome. Snow is falling and the trees still bear the last colors of summer. Jon Miller and I found ourselves atop a crag in the desert and it was nothing short of Alpine...
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Climbing Chimborazo in Ecuador with Friends and Getting Closer to the Sun
Five paces from the best sunrise of my 30s, a nearly 60-year-old Ecuadorian man with wrought fists and more than 300 summits of Cotopaxi, the mountain we stood on, Marcello Puruncajas let out a roar...
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Video: Ski Tibet with Kim Havell
Osprey athlete Kim Havell sent this video to us this morning and it’s a perfect mental health break to kickstart your day. This beautiful short from Fisher Creative captures the beauty and the reality...
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Great Deeds… Great Risk? Knowing When To Turn Around in the Mountains
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk. — Herodutus This has been a tough season and the losses are overwhelming. Because so many friends died in the backcountry this year, it is in the spirit...
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Taking It To Another Level: Skiing The Himalaya to Trail Running in the Rockies
These tracks are the first ever skied on Nepal's 21,607' Chulu West, a route that has 5.4 alpine climbing to reach this broad basin that is the lower portion of a 3,000-foot ski descent in one of the...
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Guiding in Chamonix
With Chris and Gavin from the UK on the summit of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps at 15,782 feet, a couple weeks ago. Guiding in the Alps surrounding Chamonix is the norm for American...
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Next Time Bring Your Goggles
Danny Uhlmann and I thought a couple pitches of ice climbing would be fun during our day off. The weather forecast seemed fine: no precip forecasted and low winds. We took the 9,000-foot Midi lift up...
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High in Bolivia
In 1999 I guided in Bolivia’s Cordillera Real mountains for two months. I’ve wanted to go back ever since. This year I was lucky to return with Glenn, Paul and James. We’ve been on many trips together...
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Climbing with Eric
Eric Larson lives in Telluride, Colorado. But not very much. During the few winter months he works snow safety for Telluride Ski Resort. Then he ski guides in the Alps, guides expeditions on Denali...
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The Story of a Backcountry Underdog: Ski Blades
Here in Colorado the snow has been hit or miss, with heavy storms in December and basically non-existent snowfall in January for much of the west. As a result of the poor to mediocre skiing a dialogue...
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Norway Skibuskineering
Known as the birthplace of skiing, Norway has probably been the subject of most backcountry skiers’ dreams. It has always been on my radar after watching the Norwegians dominate the Olympic Cross...
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Mountaineering in the Arctic Refuge with Osprey Athlete Joe Stock
Osprey Packs Athlete Joe Stock is an internationally certified IFMGA mountain guide based in Anchorage, Alaska. He has been climbing and skiing around the world for 25 years with extensive time in the...
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Video: Ski Tibet with Kim Havell
Osprey athlete Kim Havell sent this video to us this morning and it’s a perfect mental health break to kickstart your day. This beautiful short from Fisher Creative captures the beauty and the reality...
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Great Deeds… Great Risk? Knowing When To Turn Around in the Mountains
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk. — Herodutus This has been a tough season and the losses are overwhelming. Because so many friends died in the backcountry this year, it is in the spirit...
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Taking It To Another Level: Skiing The Himalaya to Trail Running in the Rockies
These tracks are the first ever skied on Nepal's 21,607' Chulu West, a route that has 5.4 alpine climbing to reach this broad basin that is the lower portion of a 3,000-foot ski descent in one of the...
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Guiding in Chamonix
With Chris and Gavin from the UK on the summit of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps at 15,782 feet, a couple weeks ago. Guiding in the Alps surrounding Chamonix is the norm for American...
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Next Time Bring Your Goggles
Danny Uhlmann and I thought a couple pitches of ice climbing would be fun during our day off. The weather forecast seemed fine: no precip forecasted and low winds. We took the 9,000-foot Midi lift up...
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