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Category Archives: Climbing
Ricochet
Gallatin Canyon, June 16, 2013 Time is running out. I’m getting married in five days. The summer solstice is near. We’re about to close on a house. The deadline for this story looms. The morning light is dropping quickly down the … Continue reading
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Leaving Argentina
I’m looking out the window on the flight from Houston to Denver, the second-to-last leg of our return trip from Patagonia. Soaring over what I think are the hills of West Texas, I reflect back on my time in Argentina. … Continue reading
Patagonia
It’s 5 a.m., and rain is slathering lo de Guille, our hostel in El Chaltén, Argentina, drumming on the roof and hammering the cement outside the window. We woke at 4, already packed for the all-day hike to Paso Superior where … Continue reading
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Mount Cowen, Hollywood
Last summer Fats horsepacked Justin, Pat and me nine miles into the Absaroka Mountains, to Mount Cowen. Justin and I did a new 600-foot route on Eenie, a sub-peak of Cowen, and named it after a runaway packhorse. Here’s the … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Montana, Mountains
Tagged absaroka mountains, Hollywood, Montana horse packing, Mount Cowen
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The crew
Felicia sent me a few photos this week from one of our spring climbing missions to the Clarky, and I liked this one. With that pose, Rose (left) looks like she’s straight out of some 1950s climbing scene, a prophet … Continue reading
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Snow and sun
If you were wondering how snowy Memorial Day weekend was in Yellowstone, the first few photos here will give you an idea. The chocolate river is the Gallatin from Squaw Creek/Storm Castle. It peaked for the season on Tuesday afternoon … Continue reading
The buzz
I’ve lived in a few houses that, to outsiders, just looked dirty. But the sense of community—family, I suppose—has made up for all the lack of cleanliness. Nick is cleaning our wonderful house now, and it made me think back on … Continue reading
Skyline
I went climbing yesterday in Gallatin Canyon with photographer Jason Thompson and his awesome girlfriend Anne. He shot most of the afternoon, and then in the evening we ran up Skyline Ridge together during the magical sending light. I stayed ahead with … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Montana, Mountains, Work
Tagged Gallatin Canyon, Jason Thompson photography, Skyline Ridge
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Genesis II reenactment (video)
A few weeks ago, Pat did a reenactment of the first ice climb in Hyalite, Genesis II. He used all same the vintage gear and clothing that Pat Callis did in 1971, including the wool turtleneck knit by Callis’s mother-in-law, … Continue reading
Posted in Back in the day, Climbing, Montana, Mountains, Videos/sound
Tagged Genesis II, Hyalite Canyon, Hyalite Ice, ice climbing, Pat Callis
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