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Jan 16, 2012 9:39 AM by Bob Sihler
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Featured Trip Reports
The Grand Tour: A 15 Day Mountaineering Road Trip
by Josh Lewis
This was the greatest adventure of the year and is the longest road trip I have ever been on. We traveled from Mount Hood, Mount Whitney, Golden Canyon, and ended with Wheeler Peak in Nevada. There could not have been better timing to push for winter ascents of these peaks with amazing success rates and wonderful conditions. I felt as though this was a new experience that made me feel like we were on the far edges of the Earth.
Michael Blake originally met me though SummitPost, mistakenly contacted me as a Josh who wanted to climb Denali. At first the plan was to climb the Mountaineers Route until secretly both of us wanted to go on a Grand Tour and climb other great peaks along the way. Michael asked me about avalanche training which I told him I had the perfect partner to invite who is known as Gimpilator. We now had a solid team for our grand adventure.
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Wild Gran Canaria
by Gangolf Haub
It is December 23rd and we have just gone through the routine of exchanging Christmas presents. Tomorrow on Christmas Eve we’ll fly down to the Canaries and we simply decided not to lug everything to the islands and back. Suitcases are packed, we are already checked in via web and tomorrow before 6 we’ll have to get up and going. Now we both are filing through our guidebooks of Gran Canaria, every now and then consulting our maps.
Gran Canaria – somehow I’m only lukewarm about spending two weeks there. We already visited the island eight years ago and there’s little I remember about it: bad weather in San Matteo, where we had rented a finca, an island highpoint off limits due to a military radar installation and dry and dusty areas in the south. I don’t have any recollections of mountains on the island but our first hike had been fabulous – a big tour around the central range, the Cumbre Central with impressive rock formations and huge basalt walls. I’m sure we both want to repeat this.
Still I’m lukewarm. I know Judith is happy – she liked it back in 2003 – and she can be sure weather will be warmer than the crap we have been having here in Germany for the last weeks. Maybe I should also concentrate on the escape aspect of the vacation. This last weeks have been tough on the little company I work for since we lost 6 employees. More than 10%. My whole team has left and I had plenty of chances to see the downsides of a management position. I want to get out. Why not Gran Canaria?
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A month in Ecuador
by Inday
I got off the plan at Quito's international airport after a calm flight from Miami. Though I had thought up this trip only two months prior and had no plans for how to spend the first two weeks, there was little apprehension. With my travel experience, I didn't expect any problems, even with a complete lack of planning.
When I boarded the plane, all I knew was that I had 23 days in Quito for climbing. After two weeks alone, I would meet up with Earth Treks, the climbing company I work for, and accompany them on an 8 day climbing trip in country before having 4 more days alone. I had no hotel reservations, no local contacts, and only the names of a few mountains in my head. But what followed was a great adventure, one that cemented my love for the mountains and South America.
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Featured Articles
Crack Climbing Basics
by Legpowered
One of the great things about modern rock climbing is its many facets. I know plenty of very good climbers who are happy doing nothing other than boulder problems and hard limestone sport climbs. Some of these climbers are content to never face the burden of learning to climb cracks, much less venture up one while placing their own gear on lead. I am sure there are very good, perhaps even great, climbers like this out there who are sadly deficient when it comes to true crack climbing. A better, more rounded climber will master both crack and face climbing, and without question learning and/or improving your crack I.Q. can do nothing but good for your overall climbing ability. Your performance on boulders and faces only stands to improve also.
Crack climbing is completely different than face climbing; their respective techniques only vaguely resemble each other. While face climbers talk about crimpers, slopers, jugs, and dynos, crack climbers talk about jams, ringlocks, ratchets, and off-widths. The good news about climbing cracks is that once you have learned the sizes and mastered their respective jams, there is very little holding you back from being able to climb difficult, amazing routes.
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Alpine Speed
by ExcitableBoy
Alpine climbing exposes the climber to numerous objective hazards. Be it weather, seracs, unstable snow conditions, rock fall, ice fall, or thunderstorms; mountains have plenty of ways to ruin your day. The best way to avoid becoming an entry in ‘Accidents in North American Mountaineering’ is to limit your time spent in the danger zone.
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Lichens: ecosystem's sentinels.
by chaberton
On the plain, are natural markers that are able to highlight the pollution of our habitat. Their mere presence may partially reassure us about the state of our land, water and air. These natural markers are: frogs, snails and bees. In the high mountains, the clearness of the sky, the purity of water and especially the absence of that horrible black cloak that covers our cities, it is usually sufficient to reassure us!
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