Blog Posts for 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I woke up on the morning of June 14th to temperatures well below zero, with frost caked around the hood of my sleeping bag and a layer of the stuff coating the inside of the tent walls. Every move brought a shower down from the ceiling. I could hear Jaime firing up the stoves in [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · July 31st, 2008 · · Read 13 Comments
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
On June 26th my bud Grayson and I decided to go search for some snow and landed on climbing the main chute in Gold King Basin. The main “problem” we ran into actually accrued the night before when at around 1:00 in the morning we decided to go the next day. We were [...]
Posted by Woody Smith · June 29th, 2008 · · Read 1 Comment
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
So I’m just back from guiding a successful Denali climb with a great friend of mine, recuperating and trying to regain some of the weight that I lost while we were stuck in a storm at high camp for a week. (17,200′) Hanging around in Palmer at the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · June 1st, 2008 · · Read 5 Comments
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Skinning away from the truck at 4:30 in the morning can be rough. It’s dark. It’s cold. And it’s 4:30 for god’s sake. Doubts creep in, and I find it easy to invent reasons we should turn around, get back in the truck, and make the hour drive back to my warm bed where my [...]
Posted by AJ Linnell · April 30th, 2008 · · No comments yet
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Posted by Pete Wagner · April 7th, 2008 · · Read 1 Comment