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Featured Trip Reports
Desolation in the Whites: A White Mountain Traverse
by Daria
White Mountain had defeated us the week prior, it was a tantalizing affair having gained 9,000 ft. from Highway 264, just 3 miles north of Dyer, Nevada only to be turned back because of an enormous hail and snow storm that forcefully slithered and sliced through us on September 24th, 2011. Defeat. Chilled to the bone. An exercise in futility is the pathetic froth that keeps building up and keeps bringing us back. This defeat was of the especially bitter variety, since I had attempted White Mountain from the east in June 2009, only to turn back with heads turned low and my sights set high for a White Mountain-Boundary-Montgomery range traverse for the future.
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Weekend on the Mittellegi
by alpenkalb
Everybody called my climbing partner Sherpa: he was one head smaller than I, he usually walked behind me, carried a heavier rucksack and was unusually strong. Every weekend we went climbing. Even after 15 hours of climbing, I have never seen him being tired. I was more fragile, was the decision maker, who had to say NO and sometimes "let's get back". "Do you know that Kurt wants to do the Eiger north-face? Would that be something for us?", he asked me and I started studying the Eiger. I finally decided not to do it, since rocks on the head may not be healthy. But I was attracted to another wall that is said to be more difficult but less dangerous than the famous north face: Eiger's NE-face! Lauper opened it in 1932.
We had never been on the Eiger before, but I knew that its problem was the weather. A cold wall north face near lovely Interlaken. A small wind carrying moist air to the ice wall was enough to raise hell within minutes. I proposed: let us climb it first on the easier Mittellegi ridge with the following objectives: a) climb the first part of the wall from Alpiglen and find out about bivouaking and then traverse to the Mittellegihut; b) climb the Mittellegi ridge and observe from there all the details of the Lauper route; c) study the descent of the Eiger, so we could find the way also at night. He agreed and off we went.
As usual, the friends at my office asked me where I was headed for and wished me good luck.
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Red Mountain, Ragged Ridge snowshoe
by StephAbegg
There are a number of Red Mountains in Washington. The Red Mountain of this adventure is essentially the high point on the NW portion of the extensive Ragged Ridge. From Red Mountain, Ragged Ridge extends SE to include Cosho, Kimtah, Katsuk, and Mesahchie. The ridge leading up to Red Mountain is 4.5 miles long. Four point five miles might not sound like much, but when it involves about 7500 feet of cumulative gain, steep timber, snow slogging, and tricky ridges maneuvers, it's a long way. But in this case it is a beautiful long way, surrounded by glimpses of seemingly every peak in the park; views are dominated by Colonial, Snowfield, Primus, Torment, Forbidden, Ripsaw Ridge, Buckner, Logan, the rest of the peaks of Ragged RIdge, and much much more. It's quite a spectacular location.
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Featured Articles
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.
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Anaerobic conditions and muscle pain in the mountains.
by chaberton
Now in my fiftieth birthday (it lacks only one more year) and after a life of debauchery (Bacchus, Tobacco and Venus), I came to an awareness, i have to face the mountain and hiking, not only with due more than ever, but also with a renewed respect for my body, its limitations, its potential.
Some small alarm bells, dizziness, muscle cramps and small (but many) pains, that occur the day after a hike in the mountains, made me realize that my body is no longer that of a twenty year old and requires more care and attention.
With all this, I certainly do not say that I feel like Methuselah, but one thing is for sure, half a century of life takes its toll on joints, muscles and cardiovascular system.
So, to continue to do my favorite activity (as usual) in the mountains, enjoying myself like a madman, would rather try to better understand my limits, not to overcome them and have bad surprises.
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Raffaele Carlesso
by rampini
Comici-Dimai on Cima Grande di Lavaredo North face at the age of seventy-one and the overhanging Scoiattoli Direct on Torre Grande d’Averau at
the age of eighty: these are Raffaele Carlesso’s incredible last
enterprises. Truthfully awesome! A French mountaineer,
having found his signature on Hasse-Brandler’s route-book at Cima Grande di Lavaredo in 1960s,
asked if this signature was affixed by a son or by a namesake: he couldn’t believe that the matter in hand was the same famous Raffaele Carlesso climbing in 1930s!
Sixty years of climbs and about two thousands ascents represent his unique “curriculum”; self-trust, moral and physical strength, agility, deep self-esteem, steady training and high reliability, either in mountaineering or in life, were “his bow’s arrows”.
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Route: Innerkofler Route (Cima Ovest di Lavaredo)
Route: Wilson Mountain North Trail
Mountain: Torre Wundt
Route: Many Pools (Root Canal)
Area: Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Mountain: Pacific Peak
