Via the full Exum Ridge.
We tried this route two years ago and had to bail due to an overnight storm. It was warmer this time (and not icy!), but we still climbed the first six pitches in our puffys.
Very satisfying weekend.
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“Designing and building hardware is easy. That is, easy relative to SELLING hardware.”
http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/07/25/a-mouse-and-keyboard-dont-make-a-hardware-company/
I think this could be extrapolated past just computer hardware.
Mountaineers Route on the Elephants Perch /
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Polly following a fantastic splitter on Flickr.
The Mountaineers Route on the Elephant’s Perch is just plain fun.
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Machine Lines on Flickr.
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History of Canadian mountaineering by Andrew Querner.
"Its about style. Its not about getting to the top of a mountain, its about how you got there"
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"We carefully inspected the face knowing the reality of blue ice below the surface. Staring it down. Weighing the risk. Keeping all the good men, all the mothers, the fathers, the sons and daughters in mind. We knew. We couldn’t go. Its a decision we’ll always second-guess."
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Production is always harder than development & prototyping (Taken with Instagram)
A year later /
June 29, 2012
Same spot, June 11, 2011. Last years photos here.
The top of the Pfiefferhorn looks a lot different without snow. Fun to be up there with Polly.
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IMG_3325 by gnorrander on Flickr.
The top of my head. One of the down-scrambles along the crags at Black Peak during the Wahsatch Steeplechase.
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Flame on Flickr.
Wasatch Steeplechase: /
Set this race as a goal after the Powderkeg with the hope that it would provide to be a sharp enough stick to motivate me add a real and significant amount of running/cardio to make longer/bigger ski tours more possible. Along the way I’ve learned that I really like the empty headspace of a trail run about 30 to 45 minutes into things, and now the running is something to look forward to rather than just part of “training.” This race became less of a sharp-stick type motivator and more of an actual “fun” goal. Best part of the whole thing was seeing friends surpass themselves and finish better than they expected.
This scrambly section is the bottleneck of the course, some patience required.
However, the bottleneck is followed by a fast, fun run through pine trees that spread things back out.
Will run it again next year.
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“Like all great lines, after you’ve skied it and someone asks how the skiing was, it almost seems like a trick question… “Well, there were a few good turns”
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From last weekend’s run along the Wasatch Crest trail.
Digging through the archives /
Chamonix on the mind today, so I went back through the photos from last summer and found a few more.
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“”the first question I ask myself about any camera is “How can it help me translate my consciousness into images?”
Nii Obodai: Ghana, Who Knows Tomorrow
http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/nii-obodai-ghana-who-knows-tomorrow/
I wish I would/could have found this perspective when I first got a camera.
Saturday's climbing: /
Catching up. /
Last Saturday we got to climb a short route on the Mule Hollow Wall before it rained.
Polly finding the holds that aren’t polished.
Hanging belays are so much fun.
Topping out.
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“As the proverbial design adage goes, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.”