April 10, 2010 Jerry, Alex and Carrie attempt Granite Mountain A spur of the moment ski tour. Weather was supposed to be warm with “filtered sunlight.” There’d been a couple feet of snow at pass level during the last week. The avalanche center was saying considerable danger over 5,000 ft. on Friday going …
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I started snowboarding on a used Rosignol with strap bindings. I was looking for a backcountry tool and before I could even really ride I started experimenting with plate bindings and plastic ski-mountaineering and climbing boots. I eventually learned to make turns in my Scarpas, but they were never really satisfactory. I couldn’t get around …
I don’t have very many good ski stories. I skied a couple of times at Anthony Lakes while growing up in Baker, but it was expensive and I had a job on weekends. (I remember going to Little Alps once – a lost area in the same basin as Anthony Lakes.) I did some winter …
Washington’s 100 highest In Search of Higher Ground – Washington’s Top 100 by John Lixvar (Lizard) This essay, reprinted from an earlier Echo, is an excerpt from John Lixvar’s forthcoming book on "Climbing Washington’s 100 Highest Peaks". In order to appease the impatient publishers at Mountaineer Books, Lizard is looking for contributions and/or volunteers to …
KEY WORD SEARCHES. climbing – all books about getting to the top of stuff climb guide – "where to" guides climb technique – "how to" books climb gear – small number of books about hardware climb literature – literature (mainly climbing narratives) about climbing, much of it away from the Cascades hiking – all books …
