Old Snowy
A Love Letter to the Deltas
Tag Archives: Alaska Alpine Club
Institute Peak
Good weather! Sun! Anxiety!
What else does a good trip need?
Item Peak
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.
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
Wayne's Rangings 