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SummitPost is a collaborative content community focused on climbing, mountaineering, hiking and other outdoor activities. This site is built by its members, and we welcome you to contribute:
(1) Post photos, trip reports, events, logs, and albums.
(2) Share your expertise by submitting how-to articles and informational pages.
(3) Shape the content of the site by voting on other people's work. The bad submissions get buried, and the good stuff rises to the top.
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Masherbrum as seen from Baltoro Glacier May 21, 2012 4:38 AM by Afzal
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Cucù....hello! May 31, 2012 4:02 AM by chaberton
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Featured Trip Reports
Southwest Ridge in Lean Spring Snow
by Sarah Simon
Springtime in the Rockies!
This phrase is usually summoned for the purpose of dry sarcasm for events such as:
- Mother's Day getting soaked in cold snowshowers.
- Your garden getting frozen solid the first week of June.
- Memorial Day flight cancellations due to snow storms.
- Freezing your hiney off in alpine winter conditions despite the calendar telling you summer is just around the corner. [more]
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A Hiker's Foray Into Alpine Ice: Mendel Right
by MooseTracks
“Oh, SHIT! ROCK! ROCK! ROCK!”
Kevin’s voice echoed from the anchor above me. Pat stood at his side, tucked in tight to the wall. I struggled to lean back and look up against my pack, my arms extended above on my tools. All I saw was Kevin ducking a bit as the snow started to roar down the chute. I had nowhere to go, so I pulled in tight, shrugged my shoulders to lift the pack against the back of my neck, and gripped my tools as tightly as I could. I think I remember a few cracks against my helmet, but mostly the world around me just melted into the mottled sugar of snow and rock. [more]
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Scrambling Around on Hawksbill Mountain
by MarkDidier
I recently made a quick weekend trip to Linville Gorge with my brother Jim and my nephew Dave. One of the main things I wanted to accomplish on this trip was to get in some scrambling somewhere on the cliffs of the Gorge. Fortunately Dave and I were able to get in about a good hour of scrambling on the cliffs of Hawksbill Mountain, and what follows is essentially a photo trip report of us having a great time on Hawksbill on a beautiful North Carolina Saturday morning. Happy Trails! [more]
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Featured Articles
The Fly and the Climber
by ericvola
The Groupe des Grimpeurs Marseillais was created by 'The Greek', Georges Livanos following the example of the G.H.M.
The poem was published in the 1961 G.G.M. bulletin. Its author, André Tête, was a climber with whom I did in 1960, at 18, the North face of the Vignemale in the Pyrenees in a week-end. We left Marseille early Saturday morning, on a small motorbike (mine. My mother bitterly regretted to having let my father buy it for me and sold it off when I went studying in the UK the following year!), drove the 650 km to the foot of the face, reached late afternoon, bivouacked at the foot, climbed the route on the Sunday and were back in Marseille late the same day. Quite a trip, particularly since André was a very tall fellow, near 6 feet 4 and not that light. With our climbing gear, it was quite a test for my small motorbike and our maximum speed never exceeded 90/Km an hour!. [more]
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Xaver Imfeld (1853 - 1909) and Zermatt
by Zermattfan
Xaver Imfeld from Sarnen was an extraordinarily talented and innovative engineer and topographer. He was leading in the fields of cartography, panorama drawing, construction of mountain railways, and terrain modelling. He created several terrain models, at least 11 models at the scale of 1:25,000 of parts of the Swiss Alps, but also technical and scientific models in very large scales of 1:500 to 1:2,000. He also sold paperweight models of different mountains. His two masterpieces, however, were the best models made until then: In 1896 he showed at the Swiss national exhibition in Geneva the “most beautiful model of the most beautiful mountain of the world”, a model of the Matterhorn in the large scale of 1:5,000 with an extent of 96 x 140 cm. Several casts of this model exist in different museums. They are on display at the Alpine Museum in Bern, Zermatt and Munich as well as ETH Zurich, at the Museum of Natural History in Lausanne and at the Municipal Museum in
Winterthur [more]
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Drinking Water in the Backcountry
by whitetail
Travel in remote areas can often present hydration challenges that are often compounded by weather, elevation and exertion. Often times the only water available is from the nearest lake/stream or snow/ice. In certain instances these sources can be used successfully without any treatment. In other cases successful use requires some form of treatment.
Success in terms of drinking water can be defined as follows:
The quantity of water available is sufficient to prevent dehydration and the quality of the water is such that the health risk from consumption of the water is acceptable. [more]
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