World renowned alpine climber Colin Haley will be in Portland on Thursday, September 30th at 7pm at the Mazama Mountaineering Center to present a new route put up by himself and Norwegian climber Bjørn-Eivind Årtun called "Dracula" on the SE face of Alaska's Mount Foraker earlier this year. On this trip Colin and Bjorn spent the first 3 weeks acclimating and attempting to break the speed record for climbing the Cassin Ridge on Denali. After reaching the summit of Denali they headed for Mount Foraker and waited for a weather window. When a small window opened up they headed out with day packs on what turned out to be a 72 hour push. Read Colin's blog about the climb and come see and hear his presentation of the climb. Tickets are $10 at the door and proceeds will benefit the Mazama Expedition Grants Fund.

At a young age Colin has established himself among the top alpine climbers of the world. He is a Patagonia Ambassador and just a nice, humble guy to listen and talk to. Last year he gave a very well received slide show for the Mazamas and it sounds like this one is not to be missed.

Is this shown elsewhere in Washington? Schedule found??

Last time he was down in Portland, I don't believe he made it up here either. Bummer, too.

Rumor has it he likes the beer better in Pdx.

What a year!!!

Check out Colin's blog:

Foraker new route, Denali 3x (Cassin, Messner Couloir, W. Buttress)
http://colinhaley.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html


Devils’s Thumb:
http://colinhaley.blogspot.com/2010/08/ ... verse.html

And then there was that traverse thing in Patagonia (don't have the link).

Wow!

Just a reminder this is tonight and is going to be a great show!