Institute Peak
Good weather! Sun! Anxiety!
What else does a good trip need?
Good weather! Sun! Anxiety!
What else does a good trip need?
FOUR YEARS LATER
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.
Because why not?
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 […]
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
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 […]
An Alaska Alpine Club trip up Silvertip!
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
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 […]
Winter camping sucks
Alpinism is awesome
Climb peaks in a day
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 […]