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What else does a good trip need?
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FOUR YEARS LATER
White Princess (Finally!)
I’ve been throwing myself at this peak for four years. This is the first time I’ve made it out of camp and onto the mountain.
Triangle Peak
Because why not?
Pioneer Peak North Face
Vulture alpinism is the art of taking advantage snow conditions that are made good by another party. A hard bootpack is difficult to turn down.
“Lucky Charms”
I arrived in Valdez following a brief recovery break from my trip to Tolovana Hot Springs. Not knowing what exactly this trip to Valdez would entail, I brought everything, including […]
Against Fiction
This Christmas Sunday I had the pleasure of attending my family’s church as an atheist. It was a pleasure because I got to see the religion I once knew as […]
Thayer Hut: Labor Day 2016
After finishing the last (night) shift of the project “Repave Denali Park Road”, my ladyfriend Phoenix drove my car north to meet me. I transitioned to day shift without sleep […]
Denali National Park, Summer 2016
I spent the summer of 2016 living at Grizzly Bear Resort on night shift for the project Repave Denali Park Road. There was not much to photograph at night, but […]
New Year’s Bomber Traverse
It seems like every time my group of friends has mutual time off, the weather turns to shit. This trip was no exception. Christmas was done for and New Years […]
Three Days, Three Mountain Ranges, 42x Zoom
I convinced a couple of Fairbanks AK Alpine Club members to slog up the Castner Glacier for a weekend. We woke up in a ping-pong ball and didn’t attempt any mountain, but the trip offered gorgeous views of the Matanuska area Chugach peaks, the Wrangells, the Alaska Subranges: Hayes and Deltas
Triangle: The Nature of Success in the Mountains.
The Alaska Alpine Club holds a yearly tradition that serves as a graduation course of sorts for the spring mountaineering class. The students meet at 7AM sharp in front of […]
Silvertip: Gettin’ high in the Deltas on 4/20
An Alaska Alpine Club trip up Silvertip!
Blackcap: Journey to the Base of the Summit
In the Deltas, the mighty Deltas
Wayne and Galen ski
To the back of the Castner Glacier
Wayne and Galen ski
ooooweeeeeeeeeeee
Wayne and Galen ski
RE-Forgiveness
The ice formation that lives far up Bear Creek, known as “Forgiveness”, is somewhat of a legend in the Fairbanks climbing community. In the unlikely year it forms, the line drips […]
Mt. Hayes: A Typical Eastern Alaska Range Trip
Finals week in Fairbanks was filled with blue skies, sun, pollen, and little wind. Mount Hayes was visible every day that week. We planned to fly to that mountain the weekend immediately following […]
Silvertip in 23 hours
Winter camping sucks
Alpinism is awesome
Climb peaks in a day
The Weekend after the FE Exam: Skiing Michael’s Creek and Attempting Item Peak
So, it’s been one week since I took the FE exam, an 8 hour intensive exam that is more important to engineers than their degree, and totally unknown to non-engineers. You […]
Introdution to wayne
As I sit here in my dry cabin, covered in flannel, dog hair, mud, I listen to the sound of quinoa cooking on a hot plate and wonder how to […]
Wayne's Rangings 