Mountains

Most of these excellent photos are from Theron Theron was coming to town!

Kevin and I had talked about meeting up to climb Church and Donaldson this summer.

Day One, August 7 After a night sleeping near the trailhead, we hiked in with good weather.

I hiked up Table Mountain by the Face Trail from Teton Campground in Teton Canyon.

Well this was a really special trip.

Arjun had recommended a hike up White Mountain, one of the high peaks of California, near the famous bristlecone pine trees in the White Mountains. ...

Arjun and I met on a Facebook group for people looking for partners in the Sierras.

Rainier was an odd mountain for me, years ago living in Washington.

Years ago, Steve, Dudley, Joey and Joe and I tried this climb.

For my second hike in the Leavenworth area, I decided on Cannon Mountain , getting the idea from Jeff Smoot's book.

I had a few days in the Leavenworth area, and right away decided to do an old favorite hike: Icicle Ridge from town all the ...

It had been a big day on Leatherman, and so I hopped in the shower, then headed to bed.

Josh suggested a climb of Leatherman soon, and I said "why not tomorrow?"

I was a bit casual about the road navigation to the trailhead, and ended up beyond signal range and a bit mystified on how to ...

This is a climb of "The Moat", also known as Peak 11497 Sean had a peak in mind for Sunday.

A little video of the eventful day: Sean joined me for a climb of Mount Idaho.

Friday, May 8: Borah Peak with Sean Here is a little video of the day: Sean drove up to the trailhead at 6, where I ...

Day One - The Fins Kevin and family met me around noon at Mortal Earth, the Fins crag for mere mortals!

Video of the trip: Peakbagger Link - I'm really enjoying PeakBagger.

With recent snow, a planned trip to Leatherman Peak had to be postponed.

The weather this weekend wasn't predicted to be great, but it seemed that Friday would be good until late in the day.

I live near the Lemhi and Lost River Ranges, and have been driving by Saddle Mountain a lot.

Arco Peak (2000 feet up/down) I didn't leave town until early afternoon, and decided on a whim to climb the peak above the town of ...

I parked in Eightmile Canyon, a little ways up from the Left Fork where there was room for a couple of cars by an unnamed ...

I wore my ice boots and carried snowshoes and spikes, along with an ice ax for this hike up Baldy Mountain in the Snake River ...

I drove down to Pocatello and parked at the City Creek trailhead at about 4820 feet.

Robert suggested another day of ice cragging -- sure!

Robert and I hiked up Pine Creek in the Absoroka Mountains to reach some waterfalls, Green Gully (WI4) and Blue Gully (WI3).

Robert and I made the very short hike to some ice climbs in the Amphitheater area of Hyalite.

Day One: Climbing above Bozen Michael and I met at the Brenner Pass, drinking a coffee at a little shop before setting out in my ...

Not used to steep Alps, I took the lift up to hike the Zielspitze.

September 17 Steve and I hiked with Dotti up to the east side of the Breadloves and climbed two delightful sport climbs: DaBoyz 5.7 Wind ...

Approach Day After driving down from Boise and sleeping in Pinedale, we hiked up into the Cirque, meeting many parties.

Steve introduced me to the interesting Leslie Gulch in remote eastern Oregon.

I walked from Steve's place south into Caldwell and thence down to the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge.

Steve and I explored a rocky gully on the north side of Iron Creek on the approach to Sawtooth Lake.

Part the First - bad weather...

After running an errand with Tamara in the morning, I had some time for a hike.

MountainProject link to the route Since our first hike in the range 3 weeks before, Steve and I had been impressed by Mt.

With one day to do something big for the three of us, Steve and Ever opted to climb Thompson Peak, partly because of my urgent ...

This approximately 75 mile-long trail is based on the Grand Loop, starting from Grandjean, however, I exit down and north at Sawtooth Lake, traverse the ...

MountainProject link to the route We hiked in to Alpine Lake, and set up our camp.

Note : After publishing this, Steve checked his rope and noticed that it was considerably less than 60 meters!

More details to follow, for now here are some pictures.

For our first hike in the Sawtooths, Steve and I chose Observation Peak, reachable by good trail from the Grandjean Campground.

Time for a long climbing vacation...

Thursday After sleeping in Mantra nearby, I decided to scramble up a peak I could see from the parking lot called Rautispitz via a route ...

I had a funny conversation at McDonalds at 5:58 in the morning.

Day One People descending from Ritzlar to the Schutzhaus Latzfonser Kreuz Ritzlar summit panorama, Kassianspitz in the background A stormy look off to the northwest ...

A fun hike up the steep way from the road.