I added a new Winter Routes page. This is a work in progress but it’ll eventually list lots of the better winter lines in the Cascades. If you think I’ve missed something then add a comment to the page or chime in on the CC.com thread about the [...]
The tape starts…
“Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to climb the Improbable Traverse route on the west face of Guye Peak. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds…”
But that’s messed up, it’s the middle of winter. Why would anyone want [...]
Bent forward, far back on the seat, and a rigid grip on the handlebars as the bike starts jumping and wavering in the wind… But with the throttle screwed on, there is only the barest margin and no room at all for mistakes… and [...]
So Mark Bunker and I decided to have a go at The Pineapple Express (Cauthorn-Strong 2005, IV M6 5.8 WI3+) on the north face of Snoqualmie Mountain on Sunday. As far as I know this route has seen few if [...]
Some thoughts on success factors when climbing alpine routes in winter…
Know the approach and descent. With short days you may have to get to the base of the route in the dark or descend after sunset. Knowing where you’re [...]
John wrote up his account of our climb on Wenatchee Outdoors along with some more of his pictures. Check it out!
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On Friday John Plotz and I finally made it up Dragontail’s Backbone Ridge in winter. I’ve put photos and a full account of the ascent in the gallery. This has taken a ton of attempts, mostly with Al Turner, and “rehearsals” in the summer [...]
On Friday John Plotz and I finally made it up Dragontail’s Backbone Ridge in winter. I’ve put photos and a full account of the ascent in the gallery. This has taken a ton of attempts, mostly with Al Turner, and “rehearsals” in the summer with [...]
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[...]The Susan and I made another trip to Exit 38 yesterday and climbed Here Today Gone Tomorrow. This route isn’t in the Washington State Ice Guide but it’s fairly easy to find if you know where you’re going.
Things are starting to get soggier and the new snow has made [...]
The weirdest weather ever in Puget Sound this past week has actually brought some of the lowland ice ice routes into condition. The Deception crags at Exit 38 on I-90 froze up and gave some of the best ice I’ve ever seen in Washington.
Usually I’m [...]
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I found a few spare minutes at the end of a busy weekend to get some pictures of the Cosley-Houston route on Colfax Peak on to the Web. On the right you can see my partner for the trip, Bill, on [...]
I actually found a Piranha Alpine Knife while climbing the Kain route on Bugaboo Spire and ended up using it for the rest of the trip. Previously I’d used a very small Gerber knife with a 2.5″ locking blade. The Trango is [...]
My pictures from the Bugaboos are now online in the picture gallery.
There isn’t a full write up yet but the short story is…
Simeon and I drove to Roger’s pass and had bad weather for an attempt on Mount Sir Donald. Went [...]
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Looks like nobody is going to be heading to Squamish any time soon.
Read the full story on KOMO News, Seattle.
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Ended up road tripping the Selkirks, Bugaboos and Skaha in two weeks.
Photos will be up later this week…
A while back someone dumped a weight vest in one corner of the gym at CrossFit. If sort of lurks behind the dumbbells tempting you to pick it up. Of course getting 50lbs over your head turns out to be awkward [...]
So I finally crumbled and signed up for Twitter. You can follow me at:
Lots of cool people in the blogosphere use Twitter. Maybe if I use Twitter I’ll become cooler by association. Yeah right… There’s no hope for me until I get my teeth whitened.
I’m really just trying to [...]
The clocks went back last week so it’s time for those of us who live in Puget Sound to hit the trails after work. The inaugural meeting of the 2008 Hike Club convened this week on Tiger Mountain (2,557′).
Now you could [...]
Some good things just aren’t supposed to go together…
An afternoon snack of herring in canola oil. Good! Way better than coffee and donuts.
CrossFit. Also Good! More fun than running and a better way to burn off the donut I didn’t eat. Fight Gone Bad even better.
Fight Gone Bad and hour after [...]
Snake oil? It sort of sounds a bit like it… part with hard earned cash for…
“Calibrate your display–just like professionals. Spyder2express calibrates monitors in three easy steps–simply plug it in, specify your display type, and it does the rest, automatically calibrating your monitor or laptop. Check the before-and-after. You’ll see [...]
If you subscribed to my Stories blog the content has been merged into my Alpine Climbing blog. It still lives in a separate “Stories” category. I’ve also added a new page of photography gear I’d recommend.
Hopefully that’s pretty much it in terms of site upgrades and I can [...]
So it’s been a long time in coming but there’s finally a new guidebook to the Adirondack’s. My friend Jim Lawyer has been working on this in his “spare” time. With nearly two thousand routes covered that’s a lot of [...]
So I put together a web search engine based on Google’s custom search that should give better results for climbing related searches. For example if you search for “Omega” the first results returned will be fore the Omega Pacific climbing gear company not Omega watches.
Let me know if [...]
So it’s a wet Friday night and I finally got around to some site updating. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while and I finally got around to some of it. I now have pages for gear and books I’ve been using for a long while and really [...]
And if NOAA making up new bad weather colors for their map wasn’t enough the woman who reads the weather on KUOW seems to be called Rainy Cohen.
I swear the weather people are having to make up new colors for all their different warnings. yesterday's map had even more pretty colors on it than this one! A different pretty color for each warning, how sweet.
On a slightly different note I'd like to [...]
I swear the weather people are having to make up new colors for all their different warnings. yesterday’s map had even more pretty colors on it than this one! A different pretty color for each warning, how sweet.
On a slightly different note I’d [...]
What's a real shame is most people seem to want to buy more lightweight "stuff" rather than work at what [...]
There are several of ways to do this…
What’s a real shame is most people seem to want to buy more lightweight “stuff” rather than work at what they [...]
So I have a new favorite CF workout, a variant on Helen. Four or five rounds for time of:
We’ve done this at CrossFit Eastside a couple of times and I’ve always liked it. Running and pull ups are fun and [...]
Is it me or is the MSR Reactor actually no lighter than an XGK-EX? I did the math and got the scales out and it sure seems that way to me. I’ll be posting more on this later.
On the twelth day of Christmas CrossFit gave to me.
One tough workout and pullups two hundred and fifty.
Christmas Eve workout, it just seemed like a good idea at the time…
On the twelth day of Christmas CrossFit gave to me.
One tough workout and pullups two hundred and fifty.
Have fun out there.
I bought a Black Diamond Firstlight tent for my Peru trip. We ended up using it for all our overnight ventures, logging about ten nights in it. Previously I've also used a friend's Firstlight for weekends in the North [...] 
More updates to the Peru gallery. I've added pictures of our climb of Pisco Oeste and a somewhat less successful visit to the Ishinca area. That's pretty much all the pictures online now.Something I've been meaning to play with for a while. Just because they sound messed up. Or more to the point seem to offer be mess me up potential.
Breathing Ladders...
Two things really interest me about this [...]
Rock climbing makes bad TV. The huge popularity of televised climbing competitions proves it. Some skinny guy or girl in the latest cragging "fashions" clipping bolts or attempting some plastic boulder problem. It's like juggling, doing it is fine but nobody should have to watch. So [...] 
It's that time of year again. Winter is over and the snow has melted in Icicle Canyon so it's time to commute to the "Bavarian Pillage" of Leavenworth and go cragging. Soon it'll be time to sneak out of work early to go play at [...] 
